Scottish Government

The Scottish Government has announced that staff who work in specialist cancer services, or provide long-term care for the elderly, as well as staff working in residential mental health, will be offered weekly coronavirus testing from July 8.

Hebridean Housing Partnership (HHP) has secured funding from the Scottish Government's Supporting Communities Fund thanks to Highlands and Islands Enterprise. The fund has been created to support local communities and households who are suffering as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Clydebank Housing Association (CHA) has been awarded £52,900 from the Scottish Government Wellbeing Fund to enhance the services they have been providing to residents during the coronavirus pandemic. The award has allowed for the delivery of three-day food parcels for individuals and families,

Govan’s own orchestra known as The Glasgow Barons has been running hugely-popular music sessions to entertain shoppers and passers-by at Govan Cross each Wednesday.

Children eligible for free school meals will be among those who continue to be supported over the summer through a package of £27.6 million of additional funding from the Scottish Government.

The Applecross community in Wester Ross has been working together to deliver essential services to residents during the coronavirus pandemic.

Oak Tree Housing Association has been awarded £140,000 from the Scottish Government’s Supporting Communities Fund, which will benefit 16 grassroots and community-controlled organisations that have been busy coordinating vital responses to the coronavirus crisis across Inverclyde. As the

Pupils living in Scotland’s most deprived communities will benefit from £50 million of targeted funding from the Attainment Scotland Fund to help close the poverty-related attainment gap. Nine local councils with the highest concentrations of deprivation in Scotland, known as “Chal

An expert advisory board is to be established to drive progress towards a fairer, more equal Scotland in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. The group will listen to and learn from people with lived experience of poverty and inequality and membership will draw on expertise from equality and disabl

A parliamentary inquiry into the impact of coronavirus on the Scottish Government’s Budget for 2021/22 has been announced by Holyrood’s finance and constitution committee.

Small businesses which share properties but do not pay business rates are now eligible to apply for grants to help with the impact of COVID-19, the Scottish Government has announced.  The extension to the Small Business Grant Fund will apply to firms occupying shared office spaces, business inc

The Scottish Government has called for clarity from the UK Government over its £10 million funding gap. Tens of millions of pounds of lifeline funding has been fast-tracked to charities by the Scottish Government since the start of the coronavirus crisis despite delays in clarity over Barnett

People most at risk from food insecurity due to the coronavirus outbreak are to receive further support from the Scottish Government’s £70 million Food Fund. FareShare, a national network of charitable food distributors, has distributed over 1,440 tonnes of food - the equivalent of almos

The Tannahill Centre has secured £60,548 from the Scottish Government’s Supporting Communities Fund to help support locals across Paisley's North West area during the coronavirus pandemic. The funding will be shared between the Centre itself, its parent organisation Ferguslie Park Housin

Glasgow City Council has been granted nearly £4.75 million of funding to help make its homes more energy-efficient.