GRASSMARKET COMMUNITY PROJECT

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 - TASK to Grassmarket Community Project
£10,000	04/06/2024	TASK fund donation towards general funds
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Grassmarket Community Project
£9,922	04/09/2023	GCP SKiFF - SKills For the Future
National Lottery Community Fund - COVER (COmmunity Volunteering supporting Edinburgh's Resilience)
£79,471	07/10/2022 24	This organisation will support people who are vulnerable disadvantaged and isolated in creating opportunities for building friendships and personal growth. They will provide a programme of activity to encourage people to enhance their skills and ....more This organisation will support people who are vulnerable disadvantaged and isolated in creating opportunities for building friendships and personal growth. They will provide a programme of activity to encourage people to enhance their skills and make local connections from their community hub in the centre of Edinburgh. The project will work with around 400 people and involve 133 volunteers over two years.
National Lottery Community Fund - Spring Swatch [Sampling Workshops - getting people back together]
£6,205	29/03/2022	This group will use the funding to provide sewing and creative activities for people affected by homelessness mental health issues trauma and addictions in Edinburgh.
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£20,000	16/07/2021	Community Members Activity Programme
Scottish Government - Grassmarket Community Project
£25,000	16/12/2020	Detailed description not provided.
Foundation Scotland - Grant to Grassmarket Community Project
£4,816	21/10/2020 8	Grassmarket Community Project will provide a hybrid of in person activities to vulnerable people across Edinburgh. This will include: cooking classes (online but interactive), winter walking groups and community catch ups.
National Lottery Community Fund - COVID - Opening Opportunties
£10,000	06/08/2020 3	This group will use the funding to transition from a food delivery model through lock-down to providing a community meal in their centre three times a week.
Scottish Government - Grassmarket Community Project
£11,000	01/07/2020	Detailed description not provided.
Scottish Government - Grassmarket Community Project
£26,605	26/05/2020	Detailed description not provided.
Scottish Government - Grassmarket Community Project
£33,498	21/05/2020	Detailed description not provided.
Scottish Government - Grassmarket Community Project
£24,869	28/04/2020	Detailed description not provided.
Wolfson Foundation - Grant to Grassmarket Community Project
£40,000	05/12/2019	Reconfiguration and extension of premises to create a café and flexible meeting space supporting adults with complex needs
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Grassmarket Community Project (GCP)
£6,000	15/11/2019	We want to buy equipment and hire a trainer to deliver exercise sessions - the most effective treatment for mental and physical ill health.
William Grant Foundation - Courtyard extension building project (Step Change Award)
£89,145	27/03/2019 36	Towards the capital costs of creating an extension to the Grassmarket Project's premises in central Edinburgh, creating greater capacity for activities and for generating income from rentals.
Women's Fund for Scotland - Celebrating Diversity: Scottish Women's Voices project
£3,652	15/06/2018 8	to contribute towards the cost of room hire, materials, volunteer training and the three events only in the Celebrating Diversity: Scottish Women's Voices project.
Robertson Trust - Grassmarket Inclusion Project (GRIP) - financial inclusion and training programme
£30,000	31/08/2016	Grassmarket Inclusion Project (GRIP) - financial inclusion and training programme
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Grassmarket Community Project
£85,400	03/12/2015 36	towards three years' salary of a Members Manager at a project providing a community hub, training and employment opportunities and meals to homeless people in Edinburgh
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Grassmarket Community Project
£119,610	08/10/2014	Towards the salary of the chief executive to enable the delivery of work benefiting vulnerable adults to regain control over their lives and to enhance the financial security of the organisation.

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Directors (9)

Legal constitution

• Charity registered in Scotland on 30/07/2010, number: SC041674
• Registered at Companies House on 16/11/2009, number: SC368576

Filing Record

Main office

Grassmarket Centre, 86 Candlemaker Row, Edinburgh, EH1 2QA

Objectives

4.1. the prevention and relief of poverty and disadvantage in Edinburgh and the Lothians (the Operating Area). 4.2. the advancement of education within the Operating Area in such ways as may be thought fit, including the creation of training or retraining , work experience and employment opportunities particularly amongst unemployed and socially disadvantaged people. 4.3. to help people resident in the Operating Area to develop their physical, mental and spiritual capacity so that they may grow to full maturity as individuals and as members of society. 4.4. the advancement of arts and culture within the Operating Area for the benefit of the public at large and/or those who, by reasons of their youth, age, infirmity or disablement, poverty or social and economic circumstances, have need of such facilities. 4.5. to relieve unemployment within the Operating Area in such ways as may be thought fit, including the creation of training, work experience and employment opportunities. 4.6. the advancement of health in the Operating Area in such ways as may be thought fit, including the promotion of healthy eating and healthy lifestyles particularly amongst unemployed and socially disadvantaged people. 4.7. to promote, establish, operate and/or support other schemes of a charitable nature for the benefit of the residents of the Operating Area .