Date: 21st July 2010
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3H Fund has a grant programme to assist disabled people (whether physically or mentally) their families and carers, on low income, to organise a modest holiday for themselves. Grants are given for the accommodation part of a holiday and the holiday must be taken in the UK.

Date: 21st July 2010
Category: Disability, Basic Health and Welfare

The fund offers small-scale financial help for physically disabled young people in Scotland. It will fund anything that is not provided by statutory sources - so that could mean expenditure such as a washing machine, holiday expenses, clothing, computer hardware or specialised adapted equipment.

Date: 19th July 2010
Category: Disabled children

LTCAS is working with for Scotland's Disabled Children to gather the views and experiences of children and young people living with a disability and/or long term condition.

Date: 14th July 2010
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BBC Children in Need are inviting not-for-profit organisations working with disadvantaged children and youg people 18 years and under to apply for grants of up to £10,000 through their small grants scheme.

Date: 12th July 2010
Category: Family Environment and Alternative Care, Disability, Basic Health and Welfare

The FNP programme is now being tested in Scotland and is open to all pregnant teenagers (aged 19 and under) having their first baby and living in Edinburgh.

Date: 12th July 2010
Category: Respect for the views of the child

The Scottish Youth Parliament (SYP) has just launched its biggest EVER youth consultation 'Picture the Change' and over the next 3 months are seeking to engage with a whopping 15,000 young people on the issues most important to them to create a brand new youth manifesto.

Date: 12th July 2010
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The aim of the Youth Activities Small Grants Fund is to support children and young people by enabling them to apply for a small amount of funding to help them develop and to take part in activities that might not otherwise be available for them.

Date: 12th July 2010
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The James Caan Foundation was set up by Dragon's Den investor James Caan in 2006, and supports UK charities as well as education initiatives in Pakistan.

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.

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?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Date: 30th June 2010
Category: Education, Leisure and Cultural Activities, Disabled children

This guide will tell you more about what Easy Read means, give you some top tips on how to do it and provide links to other useful publications which will give you more detailed information. The guide also lists some organisations who can produce your documents in an easy read format.

Date: 30th June 2010
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The UNLtd Sport Relief 'Do It' Award provides opportunities for young people (18 - 21 years old) to bring communities together, to help promote understanding and solve problems through sport, arts and recreational activities. The fund will be giving away of up to £10,000 plus more intensive support directly to young people. Do It Awards will be made every 3 months.