LIVING MEMORY ASSOCIATION 

Donations from Grant Makers ?

We have details on the following significant 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
National Lottery Community Fund - The Wee Museum of Memory
£74,820	19/06/2023	This group will use the funding to continue to run it’s Wee Museum of Memory in Ocean Terminal Edinburgh. The project aims to support older people through friendship activities and reminiscence. ....more This group will use the funding to continue to run it’s Wee Museum of Memory in Ocean Terminal Edinburgh. The project aims to support older people through friendship activities and reminiscence. Older people including those with dementia and their carers will make new positive connections lessening loneliness and isolation. They will also target 10 new people living with dementia and undertake home visits to those that are housebound.
National Lottery Community Fund - Sikh Stories
£9,640	16/06/2023	This group will use the funding to run a community history project with the Sikh community in Edinburgh.
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Living Memory Association
£108,184	31/01/2023	'Away for the Messages' - Memories of Shops and Shopping
National Lottery Community Fund - The Wee Hub - Where Big Things Happen
£9,700	17/06/2022	This group will use the funding to develop and coordinate a range of community activities working with a variety of different local groups and charities within their Community hub located in Ocean ....more This group will use the funding to develop and coordinate a range of community activities working with a variety of different local groups and charities within their Community hub located in Ocean Terminal in Edinburgh.
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to The Living Memory Association
£90,100	05/08/2021	Old Leith Rediscovered
National Lottery Community Fund - The Wee Museum of Memory - Bringing People Together
£69,952	15/04/2021	This group will use the funding to work with older people across Edinburgh to tackle loss isolation and loneliness. They will do this through person-centred reminiscence work which celebrates older ....more This group will use the funding to work with older people across Edinburgh to tackle loss isolation and loneliness. They will do this through person-centred reminiscence work which celebrates older people’s strengths including their memories experience and knowledge. Participants will build up long term relationships and make links to other services.
Scottish Government - Living Memory Association
£26,507	24/02/2021	Detailed description not provided.
Scottish Government - Living Memory Association
£23,671	18/01/2021	Detailed description not provided.
DCMS - VSCE CMC Fund
£4,000	21/08/2020	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 ....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.
Foundation Scotland - Grant to Living Memory Association
£4,000	21/08/2020	To make their 2 heritage reminiscence centres as safe as possible for staff and visitors and to develop new ways of involving people in sharing their memories who may be unable to visit the centres ....more To make their 2 heritage reminiscence centres as safe as possible for staff and visitors and to develop new ways of involving people in sharing their memories who may be unable to visit the centres in person.
Scottish Government - Living Memory Association
£5,301	15/06/2020	Detailed description not provided.
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to The Living Memory Association
£13,300	27/05/2020	COVID19 : The Living Memory Association
Robertson Trust - The Little Shop of Memory
£26,000	25/10/2018	The Little Shop of Memory
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to The Living Memory Association
£9,000	30/04/2018	Our Families in World War One
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to The Living Memory Association
£81,600	26/03/2018	Strike up the Band' - Memories West Lothian Bands
Corra Foundation - HDA-17/329
£6,000	03/08/2017	towards the salary of the 15hr/wk Volunteer Co-ordinator, conditional upon written confirmation that the appointment has been made
National Lottery Community Fund - The Little Shop of Memory
£383,229	17/12/2015 48	This group will use the funding to develop and expand on their existing successful reminiscence work which aims to reduce the isolation of older people and enhance their ability to live an ....more This group will use the funding to develop and expand on their existing successful reminiscence work which aims to reduce the isolation of older people and enhance their ability to live an independent and fulfilled life.
Robertson Trust - The Little Shop of Memory
£37,500	30/04/2015	The Little Shop of Memory
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to The Living Memory Association
£86,700	24/11/2014	Our Gala Days' Memories of West Lothian Gala Days
National Lottery Community Fund - The Memory Exchange
£372,314	09/03/2011 48	This four year project will focus on older people living in their own homes and experiencing social isolation. The project will enrich lives and keep minds active. The project will initially host ....more This four year project will focus on older people living in their own homes and experiencing social isolation. The project will enrich lives and keep minds active. The project will initially host three groups of seven older people once a fortnight and visit eight older people in their own homes to conduct reminiscence work. The grant will pay the salaries of existing staff, cover material, website development, transport for beneficiaries, sessional fees, overheads, volunteer expenses and staff expenses.

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Directors (4)

Legal constitution

• Charity registered in Scotland on 14/06/2000, number: SC030234
• Registered at Companies House on 14/04/2003, number: SC247744

Filing Record

Main office

25, Piershill Terrace, Edinburgh, Lothian, Lothian, EH8 7EY

Objectives

The objects for which the Company is established are to advance the education of the public on the oral history of the people in the Edinburgh area by promoting, generating and fostering interest in oral history in its broadest sense, including without prejudice to the generality reminiscence work, living memory projects, community history and oral history groups. to organise, promote, generate and foster individual and group work on life experiences and history in the Edinburgh area as people remember it. to give individuals, groups and communities confidence, abilities and facilities to relate, write and present their own history for the benefit and education of the public generally. and to involve individuals, groups and communities in new educational opportunities