The William Grant Foundation's vision is a Scotland where everyone has the opportunity to thrive.
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Great spotlight story from @DewarAwards
So good to see how nurturing & encouraging young people and their talents can foster creativity in contemporary Scotland.
✨ Awardee Spotlight: Tessa Mackenzie
A Dewar Awardee in 2023, glassworker and illustrator Tessa Mackenzie has recently opened The Glaziers Arms in Glasgow’s East End.
🔗 Read more: dewarawards.org/news/awardee…
📢Invitation to tender
Did you know @WmGrantFound is in its tenth year of grant-making? We're looking for a consultant to help us reflect on our first decade & look ahead to the next one.
🗣️Please share with your networks
⬇️Download details on our website williamgrantfoundation.org.u…
🌍 How can funders use their influence to respond to a changing climate?
We've been working with @CCScotland as we try to apply a 'climate and nature lens' to our work. In this blog on their website, we share reflections from our work together.
creativecarbonscotland.com/t…
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We're pleased to be supporting today's #HTNConf2024, welcoming @HTNmembers from across the UK to Dunfermline, to share experience and inspiration about community-led initiatives that ensure our built heritage is part of a thriving future.
'Small but mighty' 👍 A good read highlighting importance of small grants, loans & non-financial support through AHF. @WmGrantFound really values our relationship with @ArchHFundScot to support communities to make good use of historic buildings that matter to them. @ArchHFund
Official: In Scotland we are ‘small but mighty’; our funding is ‘very carefully targeted’ & ‘grows this really big scale impact’ all thanks to our key Scotland funders @HistEnvScot & @WmGrantFound !
Read our new Scottish programmes 5-year evaluation here:
ahfund.org.uk/news/latest/ah…
Looking up and ahead is important if we want to contribute to big change. Our latest blog explains how we’re thinking about our role as a funder in the present and the future with the Three Horizons model.
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We've recently published details of grants we've awarded in the first 6 months of 2024. You'll find the list on @360Giving's GrantNav website, where you can also explore over a million grants made by 292 funders.
See our latest grants here ⬇️
#OpenData
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We've recently published details of grants we've awarded in the first 6 months of 2024. You'll find the list on @360Giving's GrantNav website, where you can also explore over a million grants made by 292 funders.
See our latest grants here ⬇️
#OpenData
grantnav.threesixtygiving.or…
📖 Congrats to Shetland-based writer, Sally Huband, whose book, Sea Bean: A Beachcomber’s Search for a Magical Charm, has won this year's @HighlandBkPrize.
We are pleased to supports the year-long public engagement programme that runs alongside the prize.
highlandbookprize.org.uk/202…
👍👎Why feedback matters to us.
We regularly ask the orgs we engage with how they find the experience of working with us. Our latest blog explains how we've reviewed our feedback system, what we've learned and what we'll be doing differently in future. williamgrantfoundation.org.u…
⛪ Making it easier for urban communities in Scotland to own and manage land and buildings. Check out the results and recommendations from this action research project, supported under our Natural and Built Environment theme.
#CommunityAssets #Research #Report
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Carbon reduction workshop: how to tell your sustainability journey. @scvotweet is running 3 workshops for operational charities or social enterprises as part of its #GrowingClimateConfidence programme. Dates in Sept, Oct. Edinburgh, Glasgow or online: scvo.scot/events-training/ca…
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On our website, we’ve compiled a list of useful links we think might be helpful for the orgs we fund, incl. where to get help w digital skills, finding funding & thinking about climate change.
Are there other resources we could signpost organisations to?
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In our latest update on LinkedIn, our Partnerships & Learning Manager, Elaine Gibb, reflects on her recent visit to @BannockburnHSE and how our flexible funding is supporting the volunteers there to restore and revive this historic site for the community. linkedin.com/feed/update/urn…
We're excited to welcome a couple of new faces to the Foundation's staff team.
Read more about our new colleagues here ⬇️
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The Foundation continues William Grant & Sons long association with competitive solo piping. Tickets for this year's Glenfiddich Piping Championships - held annually at Blair Castle on the last weekend of Oct - now on sale via the National Piping Centre: bagpipe.news/2024/07/19/tick…
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10 yrs after documenting the transformation of Dalmarnock in Glasgow's East End for the Commonwealth Games, @clesliephoto revisited the community to explore local people's views of the Games' legacy. See the exhibition at Strange Field, until 28 July. strangefield.org/event-detai…
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Our training bursaries for Scotland are supported by the @WmGrantFound and are part of a wider scheme of training bursaries currently available. Find out how to apply via heritagecrafts.org.uk/opport…. The deadline is 2 August 2024.
📽️We're pleased to be supporting @glasgowfilmfest's New Talent Mentorship Scheme, which aims to support more talented people from more diverse backgrounds to advance their careers in screenwriting, directing or producing.
Read more and find out how to apply. ⬇️
We're delighted to open applications to the fifth year of our New Talent Mentorship scheme! 🎉
For more information - bit.ly/GFFNTMS
This scheme is funded by The William Grant Foundation.
Holding a mirror up to our own practices. In this blog, Partnerships & Learning Mgr, Elaine Gibb reflects on her experience as both an applicant and a funder during her career to explain why we’re trying to hold ourselves to account for the way we operate: williamgrantfoundation.org.u…
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