Projects which received grant
2006 - 2007
Solar Cities Scotland - £36,971 in 2006-07, £26,015 in 2007-08 and £39,706 in 2008-09 for a Dundee Sun City project, developing a participative awareness-raising campaign to engender a culture change and collective responsibility towards energy efficiency and renewable energy. The aim was to develop an approach which could be adapted and promoted to other communities throughout Scotland.
Dumfries and Galloway Farming and Wildlife Advisory Group and Highland Farming and Wildlife Advisory Group - £22,388 in 2006-07, £16,654 in 2007-08 and £2056 in 2008-09 (Dumfries and Galloway) and £28,818 in 2006-07, £25,998 in 2007-08 and £3104 in 2008-09 (Highland) for a project 'Linking sustainable farming, tourism and biodiversity' - to encourage visitors into the rural areas and promote a greater appreciation of farming and biodiversity management. This work provided advice on habitat enhancement, increasing visitor appreciation of environmental land management and the rural economy.
Borders Machinery Ring - £35,500 in 2006-07, £39,500 in 2007-08 and £35,500 in 2008-09 for a Sustainable Energy in Farming project, jointly with the Scottish Institute of Sustainable Technology (SISTech), identifying opportunities in the Borders and Lanarkshire for renewable energy systems on farms and in rural communities. The project aimed to be a model for communities throughout Scotland. (See Borders Energy Farming Forum website.)
Sustainable Communities Initiatives - £30,590 in 2006-07 and £9655 in 2007-08 for a project to maximise use of the Earthship Visitor Centre (located at Kinghorn Loch in Fife). This expanded activity on waste and energy. There were creative waste workshops, a Green Living Experience on living in an eco home, consuming in a more ecological way and minimising waste, a micro-renewables workshop series, and profile-raising to increase visitor numbers.
Trellis, the Scottish Therapeutic Gardening Network - £33,437 in 2006-07, £30,265 in 2007-08 and £30,776 in 2008-09 for a project providing support, information and advocacy to a network of therapeutic gardening projects throughout Scotland through events, an annual conference and a newsletter. It enabled disabled and disadvantaged people to improve their health and quality of life through cultivating and conserving land, and help build sustainable communities.
Employability Orkney - £34,000 in 2006-07, £30,000 in 2007-08 and £30,000 in 2008-09 for an Orkney Furniture Project to re-use, repair and recycle furniture and household goods to fulfil local demand for donated or low-cost furniture to people in need or on low incomes, divert waste from landfill and provide employment and training opportunities, and avoid exporting waste to Shetland.
Scottish Traditional Skills Training Centre - £30,000 in 2006-07, £20,000 in 2007-08 and £20,000 in 2008-09 to deliver training in conservation skills for the regeneration and sustainability of the built and natural environment. This regional project, in Aberdeenshire - based at Fyvie Castle - had wider outreach. It aimed to deliver training for those directly implementing construction techniques, relevant to the use of traditional skills and materials, as well as other skills such as woodland conservation.