REACH Community Health Group
Now working out even better Over the last two years Glasgow has seen an explosion in the number of female refugees and asylum seekers, and many of them have very specific health needs. The same is true for the Black and Ethnic Minority (BME) community. REACH provides culturally sensitive clinical health services and information to […]
Roots and Fruits
East Lothian Roots & Fruits – Nourishing a community Maintaining a healthy diet can be difficult on a low income, but in Tranent it’s becoming a lot easier. Roots & Fruits is a community garden enterprise where members learn all about organic gardening and horticulture. The produce from the garden is sold from a mobile […]
Tayside Ritual Abuse Support & Help (TRASH)
Poetry Helps Survivors in Dundee Therapy through poetry writing is how survivors of abuse in Dundee are helping rebuild their lives. Tayside Ritual Abuse Support and Help, (TRASH), was set up as a result of requests to a local children’s charity, 18 and Under, from adults wanting support as survivors of ritual abuse. Providing support […]
YWCA Coupar Angus
Women Working to Raise Community Spirit in Coupar Angus The YWCA opened in Coupar Angus in 1999 and has been a multi recipient of grants from the Women’s Fund for Scotland. Funding has contributed to a number of projects including purchasing computers, funding an IT tutor, running an exhibition showing members artwork from workshops and […]
Pink Ladies, Midlothian
Our grant provided training and tutors for workshops held in a safe environment aimed at vulnerable Midlothian women. This project is such a success that there is now a waiting list for membership to the group. Two recently widowed ladies felt deflated and isolated at the beginning of the project. By the end of the […]
Muslim Women’s Association of Edinburgh
Our grant supported a multicultural fashion show enabling women from various cultures to display and inform people of their traditional dress. Alisha, 23, co-ordinated the fashion show from start to finish, including organising the clothes, models, music and the lists of sequences: “I had not done anything like this before and I’m now very confident […]
Renfrewshire Women’s Association (RWA)
Our grant helped organizers run a local workshop event in Paisley Town Hall to raise awareness across Renfrewshire of the sensitive issues surrounding gender violence. One woman who attended gives her account of how the workshops and conference have helped her move forward with her life, including becoming a member of the RWA: “I feel […]
Acharacle Community Company
Our grant supported training sessions for women to develop their IT skills to increase their employability. Heather Findlay: “For the last year I have been attending a computer course in my village of Acharacle, which has been of much benefit to me…being able to ask for help makes such a difference. I am most grateful […]
The Hidden Gardens Trust
Our grant supported the running costs of a Mother and Toddler Group Of the 33 who attended regularly 45% were BME. One of these regular BME attendees was Samina, a local mum with triplets who was finding it difficult to meet new people having just recently moved to the city and then falling pregnant. She […]
Partick Community Association, The Annexe
Our grant was applied towards the cost of an International Women’s Day (IWD) event. Tracy Galloway was one of the women who went along to the IWD event and enjoyed an Indian head massage as one of the activities on offer that day. After enjoying it so much she decided she would like to learn […]