Two city-based projects are celebrating news this morning that they have received a National Lottery cash boost. Multi-Cultural Family Base and Libertus are among nine projects sharing in £881,000 Community Fund cash. Continue reading Brothers and sisters to reunite thanks to Lottery funding
Tag: MCFB
News from Multi-Cultural Family Base
Leith-based project Multi-Cultural Family Base marked its 20th anniversary with an event at the Scottish Parliament named Transitions into Primary School last month.
The event, hosted by Angela Constance MSP, was an opportunity to hear about the experiences of migrant and refugee children starting school as well as showcase MCFB’s work in a new documentary film called “Dreaming, Perseverance, Resilience – the story of Multi-Cultural Family Base”, created by film company duo, Written In Film. Continue reading News from Multi-Cultural Family Base
Children’s Lottery grant for MCFB
Edinburgh charity Multi-Cultural Family Base has been awarded a £20,000 grant from the Scottish Children’s Lottery. Continue reading Children’s Lottery grant for MCFB
Lottery success for MCFB
Multi-Cultural Family Base Awarded National Lottery Funding
Children between the ages of four and seven from mostly Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) families are set to benefit from a Lottery award of £204,660 made to the 4-2-7 project at Leith-based Multi-Cultural Family Base (MCFB). Continue reading Lottery success for MCFB
Bright Choices training opportunity
Dear All,
Bright Choices training Wednesday 28th September 10-12 at Pilton Community Health Project
Honour abuse or Honour-Based Violence (HBV) is any kind of abusive or violent behaviour against an individual by a member of their family or their community, when the individual is perceived to have ‘transgressed’ the family’s and/or the community’s acceptable codes of behaviour. This training from Bright Choices aims to increase the capacity of professionals in responding to cases and issues of honour based violence within their particular field. Participants will explore the issues of recognising the risks of HBV and how to effectively respond to these. Please see attached leaflets for more information. If you would like to attend the free training please contact Hannah on 0131 5511671 or by emailing hannahkitchen@pchp.org.uk
Next Forum: Understanding Hate Crime Thursday 13th October 10-12
The next forum will include a session on understanding hate crime from PC Prince Durant. There will be an opportunity to sign up for more in depth training if your organisation wants to become a Third Party Reporting Centre. Venue to be confirmed.
Hate Crime Survey
As part of a project with the other RECs in Scotland ELREC are launching a survey addressed to people who have been victims of hate crime about the kind of support they have received and what additional support they could have benefitted from. This is the link to the survey https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/whymesurvey
Kind regards
Hannah
BrightChoices general leaflet-email
BC-HBV awareness training brief
Hannah Kitchen
Development Worker, Living in Harmony,
Pilton Community Health Project
73 Boswall Parkway, Edinburgh, EH5 2PW
0131 551 1671
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£20 million to support equality initiatives
A total of 224 projects from across the country will benefit from more than £20 million in funding to drive forward Scotland’s equality agenda in 2016-17. The projects will work with individuals, families, children and communities to address inequality and discrimination. Continue reading £20 million to support equality initiatives
Oh, Danny Bhoy – the staff and kids are grateful!
Twelve Nights, Twelve Charities raises over £75,000
It seems like Danny Bhoy’s been a regular at Edinburgh’s Fringe since Nicholas Parsons was a boy – he’s performed here since 2001 – but this year the popular Scottish stand up did things a little differently. All proceeds from Danny’s Assembly Rooms show – Twelve Nights, Twelve Charities – was donated to local charities.
Danny explained: “All charities are deserving, but I have chosen twelve perhaps lesser well-known organisations that do terrific work in and around Edinburgh mainly with young people and children.”
The punchline? Sellout gigs and the twelve local charities are laughing all the way to the bank – Danny’s sell-out shows raised an incredible £75, 240.61p!
Among those charities were Leith-based Multicultural Family Base (MCFB), The Yard in Stockbridge and Pilton Youth and Childrens Project, and Danny and his sister Bina have just completed a wee mini-tour, delivering the goods news to the projects!
For Pilton Youth and Children’s Project,there was a cheque for over £5600 and a ‘bucket shake’ at the Assembly Rooms raised another £600 – lots to smile about when money is so tight!
PYCP’s chairperson Clare Halliday said yesterday: “This is really amazing, absolutely brilliant. Support like this makes a huge difference and Danny’s generosity will be used toward our holiday provision and residentials. We can’t thank him enough.”
