During the second half of 2016 the Trustees held two meetings and distributed grants totalling £26,800 among the following 12 organisations in connection with their youth projects:
- The Prince’s Trust Scotland for their work in the Edinburgh area
- Dance Base Great Feats project
- Teenage Cancer Trust in connection with the new Sick Kids Hospital in Edinburgh
- Scotland Yard Adventure Centre
- Fischy Music
- Positive Help
- Edinburgh Young Carers Project
- Scottish Chamber Orchestra’s Wester Hailes Project
- Play Therapy Base Dalkeith
- Leith School of Art’s Craigroyston Art Project
- Project Scotland
- Royal Lyceum Theatre’s Creative Pathways Programme
The cumulative total of grants given out by the Trust since it started in 1993 has now risen to approximately £900,000. The Trustees are already engaged with and look forward to supporting a variety of new and interesting projects in 2017.