What Matters To You is a collaborative initiative focused on amplifying the voices of families and shifting power in two communities in Scotland. Check out Lynn Hendry's blog on behalf of its funders, sharing what's being learned re the components making positive change possible.

Great to see the Wyllieum open in Greenock, bringing George Wyllie's playful and provocative art to wider attention. heraldscotland.com/life_style/art…

Rousing blog by 𝐅𝐫𝐚𝐬𝐞𝐫 𝐒𝐭𝐞𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐭 🌻 '...the idea that #NetZero will automatically make all of us worse off or must inevitably penalise the working classes might just be the most arse-achingly infuriating myth we tell ourselves today.'
#Economy #ElectionYear
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At William Grant Foundation, we support prizes and awards through our Scottish Culture and Heritage theme, incl. Highland Book Prize and Scottish Portrait & Landscape Awards. Good blog here from Paul Ramsbottom on the value of prizes, especially in the arts & humanities.

Congratulations to our friends on the Isle of Kerrera on the opening of their community hub in the old school. Pleased that William Grant Foundation was able to play a small part in supporting this amazing effort by the island's residents. Isle of Kerrera Development Trust #CommunityAssets westcoasttoday.co.uk/news/final-pup…

Funding opportunity for ethnic minority-led third-sector orgs in Scotland, via CEMVO Scotland - with funding from The National Lottery Community Fund Scotland. Grants up to £15K for wide range of community projects. Faith groups, CICs and non-charities eligible. Deadline 15 April. cemvoscotland.org.uk/emdf/

These had been on my list for a long time. Finally got the opportunity to go find them on a sunny day last weekend. (I post occasional threads about monuments and curiosities like these over on my other account Hilltop Monuments.)

Good advice here for charities to get on the front foot and engage with their funders about how to make reporting work better for both parties.

If you've got the Overhead Blues and wish that funder would just Cut the Check, you'll enjoy this.
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Really interesting datasets and tools being developed by MyCake. Lots of potential for #OpenData to help build evidence base about third sector, better understand financial models, risks and vulnerabilities and to help inform efforts to promote resilience and development.

Christmas is a time for giving, but heed the message of
John Finnemore's Good King Wenceslas sketch lest yr gifts bring less cheer than you intend. Brilliant illustration of risks of charity based on donor's assumptions & why giving £ is better than stuff!youtu.be/-ZjtdudO6dU?si…

In these challenging times, it might be useful for orgs to have someone to talk to when things get serious. So sharing this again:
Scottish charities & social enterprises can get advice quickly via the 'crisis recovery' button on the Social Enterprise Map's website. ⬇️

For those of us anticipating the outcome of Creative Scotland current shake-up of its RFO portfolio, this thread looking at data on how Arts Council England 'National Portfolio Organisations' fared when their funding ended makes interesting reading.

Useful podcast unpicking forecasts of climate migration. Yes, ppl will have to move, but most displacement will be *within* affected countries, while financial impact on the most vulnerable will actually *reduce* their ability to migrate. #LossAndDamage
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Many congratulations to Annan Harbour Action Group Annan Harbour Action Group - Charity on landing this huge investment. Delighted that William Grant Foundation funds contributed to work developing their plans via our partnership with The Architectural Heritage Fund (Scotland).

Always happy to feature brilliant Scottish projects in our @archhfund Annual Review:
New Galloway Town Hall, West Boathouse in Glasgow, & Dunoon Burgh Hall!
Many thanks to our key Scottish funders Historic Environment Scotland & William Grant Foundation
Read more about 2022-23 👇
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