Our projectsWho we’ve helped across Scotland in 2014/15
Supporting Scotland’s Children
One in fi ve children in Scotland lives in poverty.
The STV Children’s Appeal was launched in 2011 by STV and The Hunter Foundation.
To date, the appeal has raised an amazing £8.2 million, generating 297 grants to projects across Scotland. This means we’ve been able to help over 37,000 children.
STV Children’s Appeal promises to:
Give every penny of every pound that you fundraise to the children who need it most
Keep all of the money raised within Scotland
Invest every penny into projects that will make a real difference to the lives of children affected by poverty
Give a voice to children who can’t be heard
Support at least one community project in every single local authority in Scotland
STV Children’s Appeal is committed to helping children affected by poverty right here in Scotland.
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Printfield Community ProjectAberdeenChoice Aberdeen Youth Football/ Community Assets (Street Soccer)Printfield Community Project
AberdeenshireHome Start DeveronCornerstone
AngusAngus RDABoomerangThe Pit Stop Angus Carers AssociationFriockheim Drop in CentreVoluntary Action Angus Healthy Start ProjectArbroath Sea Cadets
Argyll and ButeBute Advice Centre Kintyre Six CircleHope Kitchen
ClackmannanshireSauchie Community GroupThe Buzz Project
Dumfries and GallowaySHAXVP Project
DundeeBridge Project (Aberlour Bridges)Dundee Family Support ServiceYouth Football/ Community AssetsStreet Soccer Scotland
East AyrshireEast Ayrshire Holiday ProjectHillhouse SCIO
Printfield Community Project was established in 1989 to develop support services which meet the needs of local families. These services include a crèche for children under the age of three, out of school care for primary aged children whose parents or carers are in employment or education, as well as youth services and an after school club. The project also provides a drop-in for one-to-one support for young people.
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“The £2,000 grant from the STV Appeal is being used to fund a drumming group for children and young people to learn how to read music
and play the drums. Drumming gives the young people confidence and helps them
with concentration, written work and numeracy. Several of them are also
taking music at school, so we are also supporting their school
education too.”
– Kit Trail, coordinator, Printfield Community Project
“We’re excited that the STV Children’s Appeal has given us the opportunity to turn our idea into reality. Working with local people we’ll build on the excellent local leadership that exists and take it to thenext level.”- Julie Crawford, Link Up Muirhouse
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East DunbartonshireEDICTMilngavie Youth Centre
East Lothian Care Free KidsDads Work MusselburghFirst Step Community Project
East Renfrewshire East Renfrewshire Carers CentreFerguslie Cafe
EdinburghFresh Start CrossReach Total Craigroyston Edinburgh Young CarersChangeworks Resource for LifeOxgangs Neighbourhood CentreYouth Football/ Community AssetsPilton Youth and Children’s Project
FalkirkBraes Children and Families CentreFalkirk Autistic BairnsFalkirk Homeless Project
FifeEast Neuk Recovery Group Initiative
GlasgowSouth Camlachie Youth ProjectFuse Youth Cafe The Bridges Partnership Govan HELPWith KidsStarter PacksBarnardo’s CHIPShettleston Community Growing ProjectSidekixYouth Football/ Community AssetsPartnership for Young ParentsChildren 1st Early YearsFASS
HighlandsElgin Youth Development GroupOrmlie Community Association
An Edinburgh based initiative working with Circle Scotland and Link Up Muirhouse. Improving outcomes for children and families in the neighbourhood around Craigroyston, the project takes a three-pronged approach:
Strengthening links to services that are open to all like health, early years and schools.
Supporting local people to organise their own activities.
Supporting families.
“We’re so thankful that STV Children’s Appeal is supporting our work with the community of Ardeer. This award will help us to support
those who need it most and will form even stronger
bonds with our Centrestage community.”
- Fiona McKenzie, CEO Centrestage
Communities
CentrestageThe Catalyst Community, run by Centrestage, provides music, dance, art and enterprise workshops. All of the activities are inspired by the power of the arts to create meaningful change, resilience and self-belief in communities.
Community outings provide a unique response to the social inequalities in the area, helping to broaden horizons and increase opportunities for local people. They hope to identify and train new leaders to develop the community’s aspirations for the future.
InverclydeAutism InverclydeMoving On InverclydePhoenix Community Health ProjectStarter Packs
MidlothianGrandparents Parenting Again & Kinship CarersTranent Youth and Community Facility
Moray Lossie Youth CafeOutfit MorayWomen’s Aid
North AyrshireNorth Ayrshire Women’s AidYouth Foundations (Arran)Centrestage
North LanarkshirePartnership for Young Parents
OrkneyEmployability Orkney Orkney Supported Employment ProjectOrkney Youth CafeVoluntary Action Orkney Connect ProjectWomen’s Aid Orkney
Perth and KinrossPKAVS
RenfrewshireShelter Scotland
Shettleston Community Growing Project
The Smelly Welly Club reconnects children and their families in a variety of ways. The children are part of every element of cultivation from sowing, growing, nurturing and harvesting, to cooking and eating their own fruit and vegetables directly from the plot to the pot. This is done in a fun and informal environment, building confidence, new friendships and skills for life. Members also learn about the importance of attracting bees and butterflies by planting attractive flowers including sunflowers.
Our aim is to successfully connect the young people with the food they grow. In order to do this we decided to hold cooking workshops. The workshops involve making soup with vegetables and herbs grown at the plots available in the
Smelly Welly allotment. The donation from the STV Children’s Appeal is gratefully received and will help to
buy seeds, plants and other resources when the project restarts in a few
weeks’ time.”
- Jenny O’Boyle, youth worker at Shettleston Community Growing Project
Scottish BordersBorders Children’s CharityScottish Borders, Aberdeenshire, Midlothian & Glasgow – Transitions
ShetlandOpen Peer Education ProjectYoung Mums Group
Skye and LochlashSOAR Youth projectThe Leira TrustYMCA TainNew Start Highland
South AyrshireAyrshire Disability Sport
South Lanarkshire Community LinksPartnership for Young ParentsFX Youth Trust Regen
StirlingStirling Family Support Centre
West Dunbartonshire TullochanY Sort It
Western IslesBarra Children’s Centre
West LothianCarers of West LothianFamily and Community DevelopmentRiver Kids
Scotland-wide Scottish Kinship AllianceFISCA
Let’s help even more children in our communities across Scotland.
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