Local Projects

Locate projects under themes listed below or listed alphabetically in left hand menu. Click on links to go direct to individual project page.

Community Safety

Aberdeen Street Mediation: (Consiliation and Advisory Service)

Cromdale Road Pods: Port Glasgow (Community Cohesion)

Risk Factory: Edinburgh (Personal safety in the environment)

Violence is Preventable: Dundee. (Mediation Service)

Community/Volunteering

Befriending, Orkney: Get together for a yarn (Volunteering)

Bonnets and Baseball Caps: Stewarton, Ayrshire (Community Cohesion)

Club H2O: Oban, Argyll (Frail elderly, young-old and school pupils)

Connecting Generations (Playbusters): Glasgow East End (Community Cohesion)

Cumnock and Doon Valley Credit Union: Ayrshire (Community and financial inclusion)

Doors Open: Greater Pollok, Glasgow (Integrating asylum-seekers)

Edinburgh Garden Share Scheme (EGSS): (Community cohesion)

En-R-G: Encouraging Relations across Generations, N. Ayrshire (Community broadcasting)

Eyemouth Rowing Project: Community (Scottish Borders)

Football Reminiscence: Edinburgh-based national project (Alzheimer Society)

Gardening Project: Ayr (Community cohesion)

Gen-Up: Befriending Project (Frail elderly and school pupils)

Happy2Help: Blairgowrie (Community and Volunteering)

Hug (Help Unite Generations): S.Ayrshire (Sheltered housing integration)

Kibble Volunteering: Paisley (Community cohesion)

Intergenerational North Lanarkshire Projects: (Community and Volunteering)

N. Edinburgh Intergenerational Project: (Conflict Resolution)

New Spin: Leith (Community cohesion)

Powis Gardeners: Aberdeen (Community Cohesion)

Ralston IG Project:  Paisley (Outdoor space volunteering)

Renfrew Gala Day: (Community Cohesion)

Schools Volunteer Programme: RSVP Edinburgh (Community volunteering)

Supported Befriending, Midlothian: (Community volunteering)

SWAYED_ECO Project: Glasgow (Community cohesion)

Tea Dances (Festival of the Imagination) Springburn : Toonspeak

WOOPI: (Wider Opportunities for Older People in Inverclyde)

YOBS (Youths on Bikes Scheme): Drongan, E-Ayrshire (Community Cohesion)

xl Club (Prince's Trust) Kilmarnock: (Sheltered housing integration)

Enterprise/Employment

Cities in Balance: Edinburgh City (Promoting the senior economy)

Helm's Herbaceous: Dundee (Enterprise project)

‘Not-So-Secret Garden': Stornoway, Isle of Lewis (Sharing skills)

Past, Present and Future: Inverclyde (Heritage and skills)

Family/Personal Development

BAAGS Borders Asperger and Autism Group Support: (Scottish Borders)

Carr-Gomm Creative Writing: Edinburgh

Carrickvale Family Projects: Saughton Mains, Edinburgh (Communication)

Connecting Generations: South Lanarkshire (Grandparents)

'Doo the right thing': Maybole (Integration and local tradition)

Foxbar Angling: Paisley (Integration and sport)

Home-Start: Orkney (Parenting)

Kinship Care Project: Dundee (Emotional support)

Outrage: Renfrewshire Women's Association (Family and personal development)

Tourette Scotland, Bridge Project: Scotland-wide (Emotional support)

Tullibody Garden Project: Clackmannanshire (Action for Children)

Young Carers: Dundee (Emotional support)

Health & Wellbeing

Billie's Playpark: Aberdeen City (Promoting exercise)

Clark Community Choir: Musselburgh, Edinburgh (Promoting wellbeing)

Community Project: Denny, Bonnybridge, Banknock Community Project

Contact the Elderly Volunteering: Scotland-wide (Health and Wellbeing)

Cooking Bus: Pilmeny Project, Leith (Food)

Falls Prevention: Islay (Health and Wellbeing)

Fitness Challenge: Playbusters East End (Health and fitness)

Fruity Express: Knightswood, Glasgow (Healthy eating)

Food Project: James Hamilton, Kilmarnock (Nutrition and Community Learning)

Intergenerational Kitchen: East Lothian (Nutrition)

Just Say No: James Hamilton, Kilmarnock (Drugs, alcohol and smoking)

SCOPe Project: Glasgow Wide (Befriending)

Learning & Teaching

ab-IT: Auchencairn and Bishopbriggs IT Project: (Computer Training)

Andover Primary School and Angus Gold project: (Expressive Arts)

Common Ground: Dunoon (Digital Photography and the environment)

Computer Buddies: North Ayrshire Libraries (Computer Teaching and Volunteering)

Contrasting Cultures: Kilsyth Academy (Community & Internationalism)

Dornoch Bridge IG Project: Highlands (Learning and Teaching)

Fishwives and School Lives: Edinburgh 

Forward IT Project: Dundee (Making use of Information Technology)

Free To Be Your Age: Westerhailes, Edinburgh (Anti-ageism website)

Generational Arts: Howden and district, West Lothian (Creative Arts)

Glasgow stories and the arts: East End (Creative Arts)

In My Day: North Glasgow (Dance)

Journeys in Nature: Highlands (Learning and Teaching)

Kingsland History project: Peebles (Reminiscence and history)

Lasting Legacy: Kibble Centre, Paisley. (Archival and oral history research)

Libertus - Connecting Generations: Edinburgh (Festival Drama/Arts - shared learning)

Living Memory Project: Edinburgh (Reminiscence and Drama - shared learning)

Oor Torry Arts Project: Aberdeen (Cultural heritage  and the arts)

Paisley Abbey Archaeology Project: (History and discovery)

Peace In Our Time: Glasgow and Coatbridge (Dance)

Saltire Sky: Edinburgh (Performing arts)

Seaton History Group: Aberdeen (Cultural heritage and art)

Sparr: Govan, Glasgow (Heritage/drama and the community)

TAG at Dalbeattie: (Drama and stagecraft)

Taigh Chearsabhag: Portmaddy (Heritage and the Arts - shared learning)

Technology Project: James Hamilton, Kilmarnock (Information & Communication Technology)

Times of our Lives: Glasgow (Community Cohesion)

TrashArts: Borders (Learning and Teaching)

Tynecastle High School IG EventEdinburgh (Promoting benefit of IG activities)

Weaving Yarns: Calton, Glasgow (Heritage and community - shared learning)

Wigtown 'Her-story' Workshop (Women in the community)

Wii project, Big Result: Dundee (Entertainment technology)

Regeneration

Enviro-mentors: Kinghorn, Fife (Environmental work/mentoring)

Persevere: Leith, Edinburgh (Community regeneration)