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💻 Interested in applying? Find out more and apply here:
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⭐Boosting community-led efforts, ensuring that people with ideas for positive change are supported.
⭐Delivered by Corra Foundation and a partnership programme between the STV Children’s Appeal, Comic Relief, Foundation Scotland, Corra and supported by players of People’s Postcode Lottery.
Boost Fund is back!📣
Now open to community-led organisations across Scotland supporting local people affected by poverty or disadvantage.
✨£500 - £3,000 to constituted groups and charities with an annual income of £50,000 or less.
✨£250 - £1,500 available to unconstituted groups
Graphic of a figure kneeling to help another person up on top of two large books stacked like steps suggesting support and collaboration. Above is a quote from Rowan Anderson, Programme Lead at Corra and commissioner and co-collaborator on the My Care Record project that reads "How we shift the power is vital. How we can create the conditions where someone can be the voice of their own story and that's valued and impactful and not tokenistic."
This story highlights the My Care Record project & the digital tool they designed with young people to allow them to access their information, own their stories, & have their experiences accurately reflected when interacting with services.
Read more: ow.ly/6kLx50XW4vX
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When booking, please tick to confirm if you meet the criteria and a member of the SCVO team will be in touch.
Head over to the SCVO website to book to attend:https://scvo.scot/the-gathering/events
Bursaries are limited to two people per Black and racially minoritised led organisation on a first-come, first-served basis.
SCVO has reserved spaces for Black and racially minoritised led organisations across all sessions and workshops.
This year, we are pleased to be supporting the Gathering by offering to fund travel and subsistence bursaries to support staff, volunteers, and community members from Black and racially minoritised-led organisations.
Head over to the SCVO website to book to attend the Catalysing Community Leadership Workshop: scvo.scot/the-gatherin...
We hope to see you there!
Accompanied by community leaders and Corra staff for a lively session that will shine a light on community organisations making a difference in their community and shares long-term learning from the Getting Alongside Communities programme, including what helps and hinders community leadership.
We'll be exhibiting at the hashtag#SCVOGathering on 10 & 11th February 2026!🎉📣
This year come join us at the Catalysing Community Leadership workshop on Wednesday 11th February 2026 in Moorfoot Room from 13:30-14:30pm!
@corra.scot very good memories from the SHAAP/Scottish Families event today… and a call to action. (Part 1/3)
Very happy to be here representing @corra.scot at the SHAAP/Scottish Families event today: Cultivating Cultural Recovery Pathways for Black and Asian Communities in Scotland.
The survey closes on Friday 16th January 2026.
If you are interested in participating in the Applicant and Grant Holder Survey 2025, please complete this form: ow.ly/9XHK50Xpn5F
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We value all feedback and regularly report back on the actions we take.
You can read about our commitments on the Open and Trusting Grant Making webpage: lnkd.in/eJZs6bVe
If you have a spare ten minutes, we would love to hear from you!
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It allows us to turn your experiences and ideas into meaningful actions that make sure our processes are accessible.
The short survey is designed for all our grant holders and applicants to share their views and thoughts.
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Our Applicant and Grant Holder Survey 2025 is now open!🎉
Listening is key to Corra’s work, and we strive to ensure that applicants are heard, supported and well connected. Our Applicant and Grant Holder survey is central to this.
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Today is Carbon Literacy Action Day. Coinciding with the COP30 conference in Brazil, today is all about putting our carbon literacy awareness into practice.
I’m so proud that over 80% of staff members at Corra are trained in carbon literacy.
carbonliteracy.com/carbon-liter...
Claire has been an incredible addition to the board at Corra, using her expertise and knowledge to shape Corra's work and focus throughout the last nine years.
Have a read of the full blog on our website: lnkd.in/ejjB26WQ
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"Joining the board at Corra nine years ago gave me a different perspective into the challenge and responsibility of being a funder in Scotland."
We can think of no better way to celebrate Trustee Week than with this brilliant blog written by Corra's trustee Claire Gibson.
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The March For all of Us on the 25th October 2025 in Edinburgh is a great way to use your voice to evoke change.
Head over to Scotland Demands Better's website for everything you need to know about the upcoming rally: www.scotland-demands...
📣We hope to see you there!
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With this focus, we look ahead to continue to come together to Challenge Poverty through continuing to amplify community voices through listening to those with lived experience and the promotion of meaningful participation.
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🚩Challenge Poverty Week: Some final reflections
As we reflect on the themes of this year's Challenge Poverty Week, we see just how important collective action based on justice and compassion is in creating solutions to reduce the affects of poverty.
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Corra's Chief Executive, Carolyn Sawyers considers the importance of better investment in our communities and the role of adequate and accessible funding as a step to reduce the impact of poverty and raise community voices.
📑Read the full blog on our website: www.corra.scot/chall...
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✨Thursday was day 4 of Challenge Poverty Week!✨
👨🏽👩🏼👧🏻👦🏽Better Investment In Our Communities
"Communities can hold and heal us, they can build and renew, they can weave bonds and bridges between us. And they can challenge poverty."
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These projects recognise that to tackle the issues of substance use, wider health and social care needs must be addressed.
For more detail, please read The National Drugs Mission Report 2024-25:
www.corra.scot/wp-co...
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Insights from the Improvement Fund progress reports tell us that:
➡️60% of projects were responding to housing/benefits issues
➡️ 58% were working with people who have a mental health diagnosis
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🌟It's Day 3 of Challenge Poverty Week!
Today we are thinking about better Investment in Life's Essentials.
We recently published The National Drugs Mission Funds Impact report 2024-25 that highlights the role of multiple disadvantages on an individuals quality of life.
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In this blog, Corra's Cath breaks down the definition of 'Adequate Income', looking at what they are, why they're important and how they can be achieved.
📚Head over to the Corra webpage to have a read:
www.corra.scot/adequ...
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📣Challenge Poverty Week
🚩Day 2 - Better Jobs, Pay, Hours, Conditions & Worker Voice
"Adequate incomes are key to challenging poverty because they provide a foundational level for people and families to achieve a sense of stability and not have their dignity eroded..."
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We will be sharing a range of stories and blogs produced by the team at Corra that highlight the injustice of poverty in Scotland, and to show that collective action based on justice and compassion can create solutions.
Be be sure to get involved!
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