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The Coronation Champions Awards are organised by the Royal Voluntary Service and celebrate extraordinary volunteers.

All the sessions are designed to help the third sector become stronger, more resilient, and more sustainable.

A total of £445,026 was given to 33 third sector organisations across Dumfries and Galloway in the last round.

ASDAN provides programmes and qualifications for learners with special educational needs and disabilities.

D&G HandyVan staff were joined by board members, volunteers and invited guests in Lockerbie to celebrate the special anniversary.

The organisation Health and Shelter for Children is winding up and has some remaining funds to donate to a charity that fits its purpose.  This must be for children under 13 years old and has housing or shelter in the organisation.  The money is to be used for equipment for children and young people, such… Read more »

The Furniture Project have been shortlisted in the Outstanding Contribution to the Community category.

Five years of transformational people power in Dumfries has been celebrated, with supporters declaring: “We’ve only just begun”.

A total of £445,026 was split between 33 third sector organisations across Dumfries and Galloway.

There are eight categories of awards, from volunteering in health or animal welfare, to supporting the environment or sports and heritage.

A number of funders or training sources that might be able to help with costs of developing the skills of your team.

The Hens’ Dens are a safe space for women with Learning Disabilities, Learning Difficulties and/or autism to create healthy relationships and develop life skills.

Heather Bryson is looking for opportunities to speak at meetings or events to encourage others to nominate local heroes.

The free event is delivered by social enterprise agency Firstport in collaboration with Third Sector Dumfries and Galloway.

Training courses available from a wide range of organisations to help you gain your desired employability skills.

One hundred projects nationally will share £27million over the next three years to help tackle poverty and disadvantage.

Melanie McEwen has become Development Manager as Gordon Mann leaves as Trust Chair.

Dumfries and Galloway Council has become the first whole Council in Scotland to be awarded the Investing in Volunteers (IiV) Charter Mark of Excellence by Volunteer Scotland. The external accreditation was officially presented to Dawn Roberts, Chief Executive and Stephen Thompson, former Council Leader at the Ewart Library in Dumfries on Tuesday 14 February 2023… Read more »

The Tackling Poverty Reference Group is a regional group of Volunteers who have direct experience of poverty.

All the sessions are designed to help the third sector become stronger, more resilient, and more sustainable.

Wheatley Homes South will be delivering their environmental roots employability programme in Dumfries. Due to the way the programmes are funded, places can only be offered to Wheatley customers. This is anyone living in a Wheatley Homes South, formerly DGHP house, or anyone being supported by Wheatley Care. Environmental Roots is a 4 week employability… Read more »

An artist is being commissioned to work with the community to embrace and express the excitement surrounding the future of Dumfries’ Midsteeple Quarter. They will host a series of engagement events with people of all ages to capture the determination and ambition behind the drive to breathe new life into the town centre through community… Read more »

Many people need medical care that can’t be delivered at their home – this could be physiotherapy, occupational therapy, or just time in a medical setting. This is intermediate care. This year, Dumfries and Galloway Health and Social Care is engaging to gather views about intermediate care in the region and is launching Right Care, Right… Read more »

Third Sector Dumfries and Galloway hosts and helps to run thematic forums as part of its engagement work – including its regular one on Employability. The forum is open to any third sector organisation or community group that self-identifies as having a role to play, or interest, in that subject area. The forums: Provide a… Read more »

The project will refurbish the 145-year-old Old School, creating a new Community and Enterprise Centre for the DG11 area.

Dalbeattie Rocks and Wheels, Stranraer Water Sports Centre, and the George Hotel in Stranraer are part of a successful £17.7million bid by Dumfries and Galloway Council. It has been announced that the local authority has successfully bid to round two of the UK Government’s Levelling Up Fund (LUF) for the ‘Reactivating Galloway’ vision. The three… Read more »

The project involved many people from the People’s Project and Dumfries and Galloway Council working together.

The new Macmillan-funded service is expected to be fully up and running in Dumfries and Galloway by September this year.

The programme of visits is supported by South of Scotland Enterprise and organised by Third Sector Dumfries and Galloway.

The funding is being delivered in partnership between the Scottish Government and Inspiring Scotland.

The New Year Honours List for 2023 recognises the achievements and service of extraordinary people across the UK.

Our Online Conversations are designed to help the third sector in Dumfries and Galloway become stronger, more resilient, and more sustainable.

Volunteers with older people’s charity are ensuring residents across Dumfries and Galloway have all the food they need for the festive season.

The UK Shared Prosperity Fund succeeds the old EU structural funds and will invest in three local priorities; communities and place, support for local businesses and people and skills.

Parents Inclusion Network and The Stove Network were among the groups and both received £150,000.

Three local charities to benefit from return of Kinder shop in Dumfries for one more day.

Free mobile app DGLocator is being used to map warm spaces available to residents in Dumfries and Galloway.

The service wants people worried about their energy bills to seek wraparound advice that could see their incomes boosted.

The audience heard the remarkable and inspirational stories of the 24 finalists, who were shortlisted from over 200 nomination.

Both join over 300 organisations from across the UK as recipients of these special trees.

The website has been developed by the region’s Poverty and Inequalities Partnership and will signpost people in need to information and resources.

Stranraer’s The Furniture Project and The Guild Dumfries take top prizes for work to tackle climate change and encouraging entrepreneurial spirit.

A Listening Ear began after a group got together to think of ways to support lonely and isolated people stuck at home because of Covid.

The Chair works closely with all partners in the area of tackling poverty and inequalities in Dumfries and Galloway.

The report is the first known primary research report looking at the issue of digital exclusion specific to Dumfries and Galloway.

Alive Community Radio, Lockerbie Squash and Racketball Club and Tundergarth Kirk had all asked for a transfer.

The survey showed 28 per cent of organisations were reducing a service and 10 per cent closing a service, as a result of energy costs.

Do you have a product or experience you could sell as a Christmas gift?

The Scottish Government has reintroduced these measures in recognition of the severity of the issues currently affecting this sector.

The groups are among 299 from across Scotland that are sharing in grants from The National Lottery Community Fund.