CAB, Home Start and Town Break also get share
Other organisations receiving grants include Clackmannanshire Citizens Advice Bureau Limited, which receives £128,366 to continue to deliver their outreach service offering free in person independent and confidential advice on issues such as welfare benefits, debt, and housing in community venues and people’s homes. The service will benefit 1,100 people with 20 volunteers providing assistance over three years.
•Callander Youth Project Trust receives £10,000 to provide after school and summer youth club activities in a number of schools in the Mclaren High catchment area.
•Coorie Creative CIC gets £10,000 to provide therapeutic weaving activity for people who are socially isolated and to cover the costs of electricity for their Stirling city centre premises due to the cost-of-living crisis.
•Gartmore Community Trust receives £9,270 to carry out interior decoration of their community hall.
•Home-start Stirling gets £8,502 to enable an existing member of staff to undertake CAB training so they can support families affected by cost-of-living crisis pressures.
•HSTAR Scotland receives £9,500 to engage a part time bookkeeper, cover the costs of sessional Mental Health Nurses, and purchase some IT software and hardware for their Stirling based female counselling service.
•Scottish Fair Trade Forum gets £10,000 to produce promotional videos, collaboratively partnering with local community groups in five areas to highlight the importance of local, national, and international issues.
•Stirling County Cricket Club receives £8,750 for improvements to the exterior of their clubhouse building plus £10,000 to meet cost-of-living crisis increases in respect of utilities for their clubhouse building which is used by a number of community groups.
•Town Break SCIO gets £10,000 to provide a range of support services to people living with dementia and employ an admin worker at their Stirling office premises, while Trossachs and Teith Community Sport and Social Hub SCIO receives £10,000 towards a Callander-based Community and Sports Hub.