Grant recipients 2008-2009

Last year our small grant scheme attracted 209 applications, of which 56 were successful.

Details of successful applications are given below, organised by Health Board area or you can download the list from the link below.

Download a list of grant recipients 2008-09 (64 kb PDF)

Ayrshire and Arran NHS Board Area

Age Concern Broomlands & Bourtreehill

Irvine
Grant awarded: £1220.45
Purpose: crockery, cutlery and kitchen utensils for elderly lunch club

Ayrshire Initiatives

Ayr
Grant awarded: £3000.00
Purpose: healthy eating initiatives for 16+ homeless

East Ayrshire Council

Kilmarnock
Grant awarded: £500.00
Purpose: equipment and ingredients for cookery skills programme for young people

East Ayrshire Women's Aid

Kilmarnock
Grant awarded: £1571.24
Purpose: training and education on healthy eating on a budget (Oh So Good food sessions)

Kilbirnie Youth Project

Kilbirnie
Grant awarded: £873.50
Purpose: ingredients and equipment for after-school healthy eating activities

NHS Ayrshire & Arran

Girvan
Grant awarded: £2620.00
Purpose: cookery sessions at home for participants in the Best Fed Babies scheme

Scottish Association for Mental Health

Stevenson
Grant awarded: £603.50
Purpose: equipment for gardening project

Sorn Educational Trust

Sorn
Grant awarded: £965.58
Purpose: equipment and food for healthy snack provision

Borders NHS Board Area

Burnfoot Community School

Hawick
Grant awarded: £910
Purpose: ingredients and resources for 8 week project for parents and carers (Tots to the Table project)

Ishuze Youth Action Project 

Peebles
Grant awarded: £491.00
Purpose: provisions and quipment for youth soup and smoothie project

Lanark Lodge Day Service

Duns
Grant awarded: £1635.90
Purpose: to start and sustain a vegetable garden

Dumfries and Galloway NHS Board

'The Base' Summerhill Senior Youth Group

Dumfries
Grant awarded: £2000.00
Purpose: provisions and equipment for cooking activity group

Fife NHS Board Area

ENERGI

St Monans
Grant awarded: £3000.00
Purpose: weekly shopping trips and cooking classes for groups

Gourment Gannet

Leven
Grant awarded: £2980.95
Purpose: equipment for community cafe

Scottish Christian Alliance

Glenrothes
Grant awarded: £1110.00
Purpose: to run cookery classes based in established homeless projects

St Ninians Church Homelessness Awareness Group

Leven
Grant awarded: £1500.00
Purpose: healthy food on a budget cooking classes providing kitchen starter pack on completion

Forth Valley NHS Board Area

Active Forth

Grangemouth
Grant awarded: £675.00
Purpose: Active Forth weight management programme

Alloa Family Centre

Alloa
Grant awarded: £1368.00
Purpose: cooking group for young carers/parents/parents to be

Bannockburn Health Visiting Team

Bannockburn
Grant awarded: £900.00
Purpose: equipment, creche and hall hire for family cooking group

Camelon Community Project

Falkirk
Grant awarded: £2984.90
Purpose: equipment and taster sessions in community cafe

Carmuirs Primary School Parent Council

Falkirk
Grant awarded: £703.58
Purpose: equipment and food hygiene training for healthy tuckshop

Claremont Primary School

Alloa
Grant awarded: £1998.98
Purpose: growing project to provide produce for healthy tuck shop

Let's Make It Better

Stirling
Grant awarded: £2300.00
Purpose: food activity workshops at Sunlite cafe

Scottish Society for Autism

Alloa
Grant awarded: £1818.00
Purpose: development of allotment and greenhouse for William Simpson vegetable garden

Secondary Schools Support Service

Alloa
Grant awarded: £1912.00
Purpose: to run sessions for pupils and carers to be and prepare healthy meals (Cooking with Confidence project)

Westfield Park Community Centre Management Committee

Falkirk
Grant awarded: £2062.00
Purpose: equipment and training for cooking classes

Grampian NHS Board Area

Cults Primary School

Aberdeen
Grant awarded: £1980.00
Purpose: workstations for cooking classes

Harvest Community Church

Peterhead
Grant awarded: £2300.02
Purpose: cooking club for adults (Taste and See project)

St Machar Academy

Aberdeen
Grant awarded: £1700.00
Purpose: set up of health promoting tuck shop for S1 and S2 pupils

Sunnybank Community Centre

Aberdeen
Grant awarded: £2270.00
Purpose: cooking classes for young mums and dads

Greater Glasgow and Clyde NHS Board Area

East End Kids and Co

Glasgow
Grant awarded: £2898.00
Purpose: Get Cooking, Get Shopping workshops

Glenburn School

Greenock
Grant awarded: £1310.00
Purpose: cooking classes (Back to Basics for Parents)

Home Start Glasgow South

Glasgow
Grant awarded: £2014.00
Purpose: ingredients and resources for Healthy Home-Start Kick Start programme

Jogging Buddies

Paisley
Grant awarded: £1150.00
Purpose: resources for 8 week healthy eating, active living programme

Knowetop Community Farm

Dumbarton
Grant awarded: £2950.00
Purpose: equipment for Knowetop Cafe

Lodging House Mission

Glasgow
Grant awarded: £1820.00
Purpose: heatlhy eating and life skills project

North Glasgow Community Food Initiative

Glasgow
Grant awarded: £1260.00
Purpose: small scale food production and cookery skills project (the Green Food Hit Squad)

Preparation for Life (NCH Scotland)

Alexandria
Grant awarded: £2650.05
Purpose: cooking sessions for homeless young people

Women Moving On

Alexandria
Grant awarded: £300.30
Purpose: equipment and ingredients for cooking sessions

Highland NHS Board Area 

Achahoish Primary School

Lochgilphead
Grant awarded: £150.00
Purpose: food and equipment for cooking project

Mid Argyll Cancer Care Support Group

Ardrishaig
Grant awarded: £2189.00
Purpose: programme promoting healthy eating before, during and after cancer care

Quarriers Oban Rooftops

Oban
Grant awarded: £608.50
Purpose: 10 week cookery programme for young single homeless mums

Lanarkshire NHS Board Area

Sikeside Primary and Nursery School

Coatbridge
Grant awarded: £616.00
Purpose: healthy eating project for parents and children

St Brendan's Primary School

Motherwell
Grant awarded: £2998.29
Purpose: the Clever Cooks Club - cooking programme for children and parents

Townhead Primary and Nursery School

Coatbridge
Grant awarded: £900.00
Purpose: healthy eating and living programme - provisions and equipment for cooking classes

Toss Theatre/Youth Group

Bellshill
Grant awarded: £1932.00
Purpose: to develop a piece of dram on eating disorders and diet and health

The Haven Caring Counselling Communication Centre

Blantyre
Grant awarded: £2275.00
Purpose: healthy eating workshops (Food for Thought project)

Lothian NHS Board Area

Black Community Development Project

Edinburgh
Grant awarded: £2847.00
Purpose: the World Cafe - training for volunteers

Blackburn Early Years Action Group

Livingston
Grant awarded: £1634.76
Purpose: cooking equipment and ingredients for healthy weaning and early feeding activities (Wean the Weans project)

Pilton Community Health Project

Edinburgh
Grant awarded: £2920.00
Purpose: development of healthy tuck shops in 4 primary schools

Randolph Crescent Hostel

Edinburgh
Grant awarded: £1062.00
Purpose: start up of fruit and veg garden for residents

Tayside NHS Board Area

Cair Scotland

Dundee
Grant awarded: £2676.00
Purpose: healthy eating programme for young people

Gowans Child and Family Centre

Perth
Grant awarded: £630.00
Purpose: Lifeskills cookery group for parents and children under 5

Southton Smallholding

Perth
Grant awarded: £2197.00
Purpose: set up and fit out of a second polytunnel and repair of existing

Western Isles NHS Board Area

Barra Pre School

Barra
Grant awarded: £1949.96
Purpose: equipment for healthy meal provision, and plants for community garden (Good 4U project)