VOLUNTARY ACTION ORKNEY

Donations from Grant Makers ?

We have details on the following donations. Multi-year donations are allocated to the years for which they are earmarked.

Major supporters in last 5 years

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Voluntary Action Orkney
£20,000	13/02/2023	Towards unrestricted core costs as a Cost of Living Uplift
Co-Operative Group - Grant to The Connect Project
£6,477	22/10/2022	We would like to offer an informal learning programme for young people who have left school and may face barriers in moving on. It will help build confidence, wellbeing and life skills.
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Voluntary Action Orkney (VAO)
£500	20/10/2022 0	‘Cost of Living uplift: £500 to help projects meet their rising costs and respond to increased demand 31/10/2022’
National Lottery Community Fund - Young People's Befriending Project (YPBP)
£65,117	21/06/2022	This group will use funding to continue their young person’s befriending project which will now be expanded to include children aged 5 years and upwards. Volunteer befrienders will be given bespoke training to support their children and young ....more This group will use funding to continue their young person’s befriending project which will now be expanded to include children aged 5 years and upwards. Volunteer befrienders will be given bespoke training to support their children and young people (5-24 years old) with tailored support enable greater participation and independence. This three-year project will work with 35 children and young people (YP) and 35 befrienders employing a ‘goal-orientated’ approach where participants will work towards self-designed personal achievements.
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Voluntary Action Orkney
£200,000	23/02/2022 36	Towards project costs for Island Wellbeing Project, a community-led partnership which works to improve the health, economic and social wellbeing of residents across Orkney's ferry-linked isles.
Tudor Trust - Grant to Voluntary Action Orkney
£120,000	18/02/2022 24	over two years towards salaries and other core costs of the Island Wellbeing Project, supporting people living on Orkney's islands
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Voluntary Action Orkney (VAO)
£92,000	03/02/2022	This project will provide tailored guidance and support to 60 young people with a range of support needs in the period of transition from high school. They will be more confident, build relationships and develop life skills.
Scottish Government - Voluntary Action Orkney
£95,500	09/09/2021	Detailed description not provided.
Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations - Digital Confidence
£10,000	01/07/2021	Detailed information not yet available.
National Lottery Community Fund - Adult Befriending Service
£230,000	27/01/2021 23	This group will use the funding to deliver their Adult Befriending Service across the Orkney Isles. The project will provide one to one befriending telephone befriending group befriending activity groups and lunch clubs for people aged 60 and over. ....more This group will use the funding to deliver their Adult Befriending Service across the Orkney Isles. The project will provide one to one befriending telephone befriending group befriending activity groups and lunch clubs for people aged 60 and over. In year 2 facilitated friendships will be offered to people under 60 experiencing isolation and loneliness. This two-year grant will support 220 people and 60 volunteers.
Charles Hayward Foundation - Grant to Volunteer Action Orkney (VAO)
£7,000	02/12/2020	Connect Project - early intervention support for vulnerable young adults
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Young People's Befriending Project Orkney
£8,043	24/10/2020	We help vulnerable young people by matching them to a Befriender, to support and encourage them with friendship and one-on-one activities.
Scottish Government - Voluntary Action Orkney
£2,000	08/07/2020	Detailed description not provided.
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Voluntary Action Orkney (VAO)
£2,800	17/06/2020 6	COVID19 - This grant will contribute to staff training, rent for extra space required and resources for young people with a variety of learning difficulties who are facing multiple challenges due to Covid19. They will gain essential skills and ....more COVID19 - This grant will contribute to staff training, rent for extra space required and resources for young people with a variety of learning difficulties who are facing multiple challenges due to Covid19. They will gain essential skills and become more confident
DCMS - VSCE CMC Fund
£2,800	01/06/2020	NET, Comic Relief and Children in Need will use this funding to provide: increased support to vulnerable people and hidden groups, thus reducing the burden on public services; reach local grassroots and small organisations who can provide an ....more NET, Comic Relief and Children in Need will use this funding to provide: increased support to vulnerable people and hidden groups, thus reducing the burden on public services; reach local grassroots and small organisations who can provide an on-the-ground community response to the crisis; and, support local charitable organisations to mobilise volunteers to enable better targeted support in communities through empowered local groups.
Scottish Government - Voluntary Action Orkney (TSI)
£48,245	28/04/2020	Detailed description not provided.
Scottish Government - Voluntary Action Orkney
£48,853	15/04/2020	Detailed description not provided.
National Lottery Community Fund - Young People's Befriending Project Orkney
£57,107	25/10/2019 24	This group will use the funding to continue their befriending activity for young people aged between eight and 18 years old across Orkney. Voluntary Action Orkney has been delivering this activity for over 11 years and will use this funding to ....more This group will use the funding to continue their befriending activity for young people aged between eight and 18 years old across Orkney. Voluntary Action Orkney has been delivering this activity for over 11 years and will use this funding to continue for another two years. The project will support, empower and champion young people by encouraging them to take steps towards independence, to develop new skills and to grasp the opportunities before them.
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Voluntary Action Orkney (VAO)
£23,082	28/02/2019 12	Support for autistic or learning disabled young people living in remote islands. Individually tailored support will help them to identify and achieve personal goals, be included, develop life and work skills, be more confident and less isolated.
Robertson Trust - The salary costs of the Connect Plus Support Worker
£40,500	13/03/2018	The salary costs of the Connect Plus Support Worker
National Lottery Community Fund - Connect Project
£298,585	03/02/2017 35	Connect Project
National Lottery Community Fund - Young Person's Befriending Project
£150,000	18/02/2016 48	Young Person's Befriending Project
Corra Foundation - PDI-15/376
£13,000	08/10/2015	to continue to support the salaries and running costs of the Young Person's Befriending Service, conditional upon confirmation of matched funding
National Lottery Community Fund - Adult Befriending Service
£502,273	23/06/2015 61	This five year Adult Befriending Service project aims to continue and expand an existing befriending service in order to meet an increasing demand. Befriending will be offered on a one-to-one basis to people their own home and out and about in their ....more This five year Adult Befriending Service project aims to continue and expand an existing befriending service in order to meet an increasing demand. Befriending will be offered on a one-to-one basis to people their own home and out and about in their community.
National Lottery Community Fund - Connect Project
£182,254	11/05/2011 48	The project will provide young people aged 16 to 19 years, who are care leavers, with the skills to enable them to progress towards accessing job seeking services, employment, training and further education. This grant will fund salaries, management ....more The project will provide young people aged 16 to 19 years, who are care leavers, with the skills to enable them to progress towards accessing job seeking services, employment, training and further education. This grant will fund salaries, management costs, staff travel, staff training, training materials, advertising, beneficiary training and travel, stationery, IT consumables, IT maintenance and repair, cleaning, rent, insurance, office furniture, PCs and associated running costs.

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Directors (8)

Legal constitution

• Charity registered in Scotland on 25/05/1967, number: SC010691
• Registered at Companies House on 12/03/1993, number: SC143208

Filing Record

Main office

6 Bridge St, Kirkwall, Orkney, KW15 1HR

Objectives

The Company's objects are: (a) to advance throughout Orkney, citizenship, community development, rural regeneration and the promotion of civic responsibility through volunteering and the voluntary sector. (b) to advance the effectiveness and efficiency of charities and voluntary organisations throughout Orkney including those that are engaged in advancing education, furthering health and protecting and promoting Orkney's arts and heritage in order to relieve poverty, sickness and distress.