Volunteer Groups Supported
30 April 2009
CSFT's new £10,000 Community Volunteer Fund awards grants to support eligible volunteering projects within the Central Scotland Forest area.
The Fund, which this year is supported by Scottish Natural Heritage, is open to registered charities and not-for-profit organisations with experience of delivering volunteering projects. It is directed to new or increased volunteering activity in the Forest area and applicants need to show real willingness to get local communities involved in projects.
The Fund particularly aims to support volunteering projects which offer potential for creating a better environment, enhancing quality of life, conserving and contributing to cultural heritage and contemporary culture and tackling disadvantage and exclusion in the Forest.
In 2009, the Fund will be supporting two projects:
Scottish Wildlife Trust which will run a Central Scotland Volunteer Project to deliver over 500 volunteering days and 20 training days through practical conservation projects in South Lanarkshire and West Lothian.
Law Community Trust will be delivering the Law Village Improvement Project which aims to engage and train local volunteers to improve the environment in and around Law through a range of hard and soft landscaping projects. If the Trust is successful in securing all the funding it requires, it will deliver 700 volunteering days and outcomes include enhanced civic pride, improved health and well being and employment skills in South Lanarkshire.
Applications for the 2010 Community Volunteer Fund will open in the autumn. Look out for details nearer the time!
