How are cuts affecting your volunteers?

Will the EIJB Health & Social Care funding decisions affect your projects’ volunteers? Volunteer Edinburgh is keen to hear from you …

Following the announcement of the successful applicants to the Health and Social Care Grants programme in December, we know that a number of previously funded projects were not successful.

While we totally understand the current pressures that these project are under at the moment, we are very keen to try and quantify the impact on volunteering following the loss of these valued and important services.

If your project is impacted by the decisions of the EIJB and your project currently involves volunteers we would really like to hear from you.

Please contact Paul Wilson by email here.

Edinburgh food charity urgently needs food drive volunteers

Help local people get through Christmas

FareShare Central and SE Scotland needs volunteers to help collect donations for local charities as part of the Tesco Food Collection from  Thursday 29 November to Saturday 1 December 2018. Continue reading Edinburgh food charity urgently needs food drive volunteers

Fet Lor Youth Club garden tidy this Saturday

We are having a garden tidy this Saturday at FetLor in order to improve the area at the front of the building! All are welcome to join us, hot drinks and snacks provided. 

As well as this, a very kind member of the local community is aiming to raise £2000 by Christmas to create a lovely garden space and the JustGiving page can be found here: https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/fetlorcommunitygardeningproject

New Chairperson for Circle

Grant Sugden has been appointed Chair of the Board of Trustees at Circle. Grant previously worked at Circle as a Senior Manager before leaving in 2011 to take up his current full-time role as Chief Executive of Waverley Care, Scotland’s HIV and Hepatitis C Charity. Continue reading New Chairperson for Circle