Voluntary Health Scotland Manifesto - Help Us Shape the Agenda

Date: 12th July 2010
Category: Disability, Basic Health and Welfare

Voluntary Health Scotland plans to distil the broad aspirations and concerns of the sector into a Manifesto for Health to influence Scotland's political party health agendas in the run-up to the Scottish Elections in May 2011.

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Scottish Human Rights Commission Survey

Date: 12th July 2010
Category: Civil Rights and Freedoms

The Scottish Human Rights Commission are compiling a new database of organisations which help, campaign for, or support vulnerable people in all parts of the country. Can you help them complete the database by telling them about your organisation? Can you help them map the human rights third sector in Scotland?

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Golsoncott Foundation

Date: 9th July 2010
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The Golsoncott Foundation aims to promote, maintain, improve and advance the education of the public in the arts generally and in particular the fine arts and music. This includes providing access to the arts for young people and developing new audiences.

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The Hedley Foundation

Date: 9th July 2010
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The Hedley Foundation is a charitable organisation which supports young people, the disabled and the terminally ill.

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Investing in Communities fund opens for business

Date: 9th July 2010
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The BIG Lottery Fund has launched its new Investing in Communities funding programme which aims to bring real improvements to communities, tackling need and addressing inequality.

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Protecting Vulnerable Groups Scheme Goes Ahead in Scotland

Date: 8th July 2010
Category: Disability, Basic Health and Welfare

The Scottish Government has announced that it is going ahead with the Protecting Vulnerable Groups Scheme, its equivalent of the Vetting and Barring Scheme recently put on ice elsewhere in the UK.

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Consultation on the Equality Act 2010

Date: 2nd July 2010
Category: Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities, Disabled children

The Scottish Government is launching a consultation to seek your views on secondary legislation that will enable the Additional Support Needs Tribunals for Scotland (ASNTS) to hear disability claims (harassment, victimisation and discrimination) cases in school education.

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Engage for Education

Date: 1st July 2010
Category: Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities, Respect for the views of the child

Are you a parent, child, young person, pupil, student, teacher or educator? Do you work in a school, nursery, college or university? Are you interested in early years or school education, further and higher education, or adult learning and skills? Do you have views and suggestions about how Scottish education could be even better? Have your say on the Scottish Government's new "Engage for Education" website.

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Four Acre Trust - Supporting children's and young people's activities

Date: 30th June 2010
Category: Disability, Basic Health and Welfare

The Four Acre Trust is inviting registered charities to apply for funding to support activities that give individuals - mainly children and young people - help in making the most of their lives. Eligible activities include: mentoring schemes; youth work in local communities; breaks and holidays for young people; school holiday activity schemes; adventure and other activity/training centres.

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The Birnie Trust funding for young athletes

Date: 30th June 2010
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The Trust supports young athletes (13-18) from a wide variety of sports across Scotland. Preference is given to top junior level athletes competing in minority sports. The following sports are not eligible: football, cricket, rugby, golf, tennis.

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