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Corra Foundation

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Corra Foundation is a Scottish grant-making charity that is about strengthening and amplifying people’s voices and their power to make change.

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Corra Foundation @corra.scot · 28/04/2026
Expression of interest closes on the 8th May 2026: forms.office.com/e/SMxbZ6ANU2 More information : www.corra.scot/people-in-pl... Please share with anyone who should see this!
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Corra Foundation @corra.scot · 22/04/2026
"We’re trying to build something that reflects the hopes, realities and wisdom of the people shaping it." Cath McNally reflects on the all learning in bringing the Community Leadership Collective to life. Head to our website to read all about learning in the open: www.corra.scot/learning-as-...
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Corra Foundation @corra.scot · 16/01/2026
Boost Fund is back!📣 Now open to community-led organisations across Scotland supporting local people affected by poverty or disadvantage. ✨£500 - £3,000 to constituted groups and charities with an annual income of £50,000 or less. ✨£250 - £1,500 available to unconstituted groups
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Corra Foundation @corra.scot · 13/01/2026
This year, we are pleased to be supporting the Gathering by offering to fund travel and subsistence bursaries to support staff, volunteers, and community members from Black and racially minoritised-led organisations.
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Corra Foundation @corra.scot · 09/01/2026
We'll be exhibiting at the hashtag#SCVOGathering on 10 & 11th February 2026!🎉📣 This year come join us at the Catalysing Community Leadership workshop on Wednesday 11th February 2026 in Moorfoot Room from 13:30-14:30pm!
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Corra Foundation @corra.scot · 11/11/2025
Our Applicant and Grant Holder Survey 2025 is now open!🎉 Listening is key to Corra’s work, and we strive to ensure that applicants are heard, supported and well connected. Our Applicant and Grant Holder survey is central to this. 1/4
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Corra Foundation @corra.scot · 13/10/2025
The March For all of Us on the 25th October 2025 in Edinburgh is a great way to use your voice to evoke change. Head over to Scotland Demands Better's website for everything you need to know about the upcoming rally: www.scotland-demands... 📣We hope to see you there! 3/3
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Corra Foundation @corra.scot · 10/10/2025
✨Thursday was day 4 of Challenge Poverty Week!✨ 👨🏽‍👩🏼‍👧🏻‍👦🏽Better Investment In Our Communities "Communities can hold and heal us, they can build and renew, they can weave bonds and bridges between us. And they can challenge poverty." 1/2
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Corra Foundation @corra.scot · 08/10/2025
🌟It's Day 3 of Challenge Poverty Week! Today we are thinking about better Investment in Life's Essentials. We recently published The National Drugs Mission Funds Impact report 2024-25 that highlights the role of multiple disadvantages on an individuals quality of life. 1/3
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Corra Foundation @corra.scot · 07/10/2025
📣Challenge Poverty Week 🚩Day 2 - Better Jobs, Pay, Hours, Conditions & Worker Voice "Adequate incomes are key to challenging poverty because they provide a foundational level for people and families to achieve a sense of stability and not have their dignity eroded..." 1/2
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Corra Foundation @corra.scot · 07/10/2025
📣It's Challenge Poverty Week!📣 📌This upcoming week, we will be taking part in the Poverty Alliance's Challenge Poverty Week (6-12th October 2025). 1/2
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Corra Foundation @corra.scot · 07/10/2025
📣Do you have an idea you want to turn into action? Boost Fund might be for you! ✨Offering small grants to community-led organisations across Scotland supporting people affected by poverty or disadvantage. 1/3
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Corra Foundation @corra.scot · 24/09/2025
The National Drugs Funds Report 2024-2025 is now available to read! 📣📖 ➡️This year, £13 million was distributed in grant payments supporting over 51,000 people through 225 projects across the country. To find out more, read this year's report: www.corra.scot/national-dru...
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Corra Foundation @corra.scot · 18/09/2025
Our Annual Report and Accounts 24-25 are now available on our website. Thank you to all the people, communities, and organisations who've worked alongside us this year. Without you, this work would not be possible. Grab a cuppa and have a read at www.corra.scot/corra...
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Corra Foundation @corra.scot · 17/09/2025
3/3 For more information and to apply, visit www.corra.scot/grants/corra-racial-equity-fund
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Corra Foundation @corra.scot · 17/09/2025
✨🎉Corra's Racial Equity Fund Opens today!✨🎉 📣The Corra Racial Equity Fund provides unrestricted funding to organisations that are led by, and working with, people from Black and racially minoritised backgrounds. 1/4
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Corra Foundation @corra.scot · 02/09/2025
🌺We'd like to say a massive thank you to all the organisations that came along and got involved. Also a special thank you to The Daisy Project for making these beautiful cards. 2/2
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Corra Foundation @corra.scot · 18/08/2025
📣🎉🌟You’re Only Young Once Fund - now open! For local community organisations with a track record of supporting children, young people and families affected by drugs and alcohol. For more information and the full criteria, head to our website: www.corra.scot/grant...
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Corra Foundation @corra.scot · 18/08/2025
🔎We have been sharing annual updates from the communities we work alongside via our People in Place programme. 📍Take a read of the Methil Annual Update to find out more about the achievements made over the last year: www.corra.scot/methi...
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Corra Foundation @corra.scot · 01/08/2025
Corra's Cath sharing reflections on the achievements of the community of Buckhaven this past year 🙌👏 ✍️"Community life rarely fits into neat plans, and some of the most meaningful progress has come from being willing to pause, listen, and change direction." www.corra.scot/buckh...
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Corra Foundation @corra.scot · 30/07/2025
☕Cosy Cafe & Larder - demand for this has increased and challenges have been met by the community working together, seeking out new partners and taking on training. Take a read of the full update for 2024 here: www.corra.scot/buckh...
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Corra Foundation @corra.scot · 30/07/2025
We now visit Buckaven, where community leaders have been busy hosting groups and creating chances to meet, learn and connect. 🎫Community Cinema - the community secured funding to purchase their own equipment, making this a mainstay community activity for years to come.
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Corra Foundation @corra.scot · 30/07/2025
👋Through Getting Alongside Communities, we work with local people and partners in eight communities across Scotland - supporting and resourcing communities in ways that work for them. We've been catching up with them through our Place Annual Updates for 2024.
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Corra Foundation @corra.scot · 11/07/2025
✍️Cath's follow-up on Dunterlie reflects on the hard work & collaboration seen in the community➡️ www.corra.scot/dunte... "...planning and campaigning has helped people see the value in working together, learning from each other, supporting new leaders to step forward." @cathcorra.bsky.social
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Corra Foundation @corra.scot · 09/07/2025
There's lots more to learn from Dunterlie in the full Place Annual Update for 2024, take a wee read here➡️ www.corra.scot/dunte...
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Corra Foundation @corra.scot · 09/07/2025
🙌The Dunterlie Action Group has started to play a more central role in the community, planning for a sustainable future for the Dunterlie Resource Centre –a treasured hub home to loads of groups that support the local community, from Bumps, Babies and a Blether to storytelling sessions & foodshare.
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Corra Foundation @corra.scot · 09/07/2025
📢The We Need Our Bus campaign – a fantastic example of empowered local people getting together to campaign for change, when residents found themselves isolated following the cut of a vital bus service.
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Corra Foundation @corra.scot · 09/07/2025
🌈Positive change happens when we listen to communities – the people who call Scotland’s neighbourhoods home. In Dunterlie in Barrhead, East Renfrewshire, it’s been a big year, with the community stepping forward and using their voice to make change happen.
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Corra Foundation @corra.scot · 23/06/2025
🏫We also share an update on fundraising to secure a new, larger location for Cumbernauld & Carbrain Community Hub - a permanent home that suits the community's needs. Read more: www.corra.scot/carbr...
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Corra Foundation @corra.scot · 23/06/2025
This is clear to see in Carbrain, Cumbernauld - the next community to visit as part of the Place Annual Updates for 2024. www.corra.scot/carbr... There's lots to celebrate this year:
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Corra Foundation @corra.scot · 23/06/2025
Working alongside communities through People in Place, we aim to build collective trust, deepen knowledge, and encourage connections with communities and partners. As a result, community leadership, voice, ambition, and action have grown.
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Corra Foundation @corra.scot · 19/06/2025
📝Latest piece from Corra's Cath, on the People and Place team, reflecting on the impacts seen in Castlehill, Dumbarton this past year. www.corra.scot/castl...
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Corra Foundation @corra.scot · 19/06/2025
"Ultimately, the impact of Getting Alongside Communities in Castlehill is seen in more than just projects delivered. It’s in the increased wellbeing, the new skills gained, the friendships formed, and the sense of empowerment that’s growing across the community." ⬇️⬇️
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Corra Foundation @corra.scot · 16/06/2025
As well as more news from Castlehill, the Annual Update includes their ‘Plan on a Page’ - which sets out the community vision for Castlehill, and how they will get there. Grab a cuppa and catch up with Castlehill here: www.corra.scot/castl...
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Corra Foundation @corra.scot · 16/06/2025
🥬June, who champions local growing spaces and runs the Lets Grow Together project, getting school kids into gardening and growing. “This is the first time that I’ve run a group on my own, the first time I’ve thought this is something I really want to do.
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Corra Foundation @corra.scot · 16/06/2025
Place based working centres the knowledge of local people to drive positive changes in their communities. Castlehill’s Annual Update 2024 celebrates two local community leaders ⤵️ www.corra.scot/castl...
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Corra Foundation @corra.scot · 12/06/2025
Corra’s @cathcorra.bsky.social now highlights the successes seen in Langlees this year– a community responding sensitively to local need, demonstrating the power of partnership working and leadership, with local people stepping forward to help guide activities and support shared spaces.
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Corra Foundation @corra.scot · 05/06/2025
📣A new partnership between Corra and The Henry Smith Charity with investment of £948,000 towards The Promise Partnership and Henry Duncan Grants. Excited to work alongside Henry Smith Charity who are doing incredible work to support the UK’s third sector! More info at tinyurl.com/4anyprau
Reads'Corra Foundation is proud to partner with the Henry SMith Charity' with three images of community activity, including two men speaking through sign language, a young adult playing basketball, and two women working in a recycling shop.
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Corra Foundation @corra.scot · 02/06/2025
🌳Plus much-cherished, looked after and utilised community parks and green space that play a central role in local life. Catch up with Langlees here: www.corra.scot/langl...
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Corra Foundation @corra.scot · 02/06/2025
🎉There’s a host of activities and things to get involved in locally, offering chances to meet and that cater for all generations – from dementia support cafes to kids clubs and parent/toddler groups.
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Corra Foundation @corra.scot · 02/06/2025
This something clear to see in Langlees. 🌈For example, a huge achievement - teaming up with neighbours in Bainsford to take community ownership of the Community Hall, a key community asset and hub.
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Corra Foundation @corra.scot · 02/06/2025
🌟Vibrant is the word for Langlees, a community just west of Falkirk and the next stop on our tour of the People and Place communities we work alongside. Happy to be sharing the Langlees Annual Update for 2024 this week. www.corra.scot/langl...
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Corra Foundation @corra.scot · 27/05/2025
🌍🍃Corra is one of the signatories to The Funder Commitment on Climate Change (FCCC), hosted by The Association of Charitable Foundations and launched in 2019, which supports funders to play their part in tackling the causes and impacts of climate change.
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Corra Foundation @corra.scot · 26/05/2025
🏠 The Nest has continued offering community-led wellbeing projects from a space that feels like a home from home. 🔑The Nest Wellbeing Group Homemaker Project has been providing people in recovery with the tools & support to create their own homes that reflect safety, stability, and dignity.
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Corra Foundation @corra.scot · 26/05/2025
Second instalment from our 2024 Annual Place Updates spotlights Cumnock! There's lots to catch up on: 🛠️Update on the renovation of the new community space. Volunteers have continued work on the derelict building, making way for what’s to come – a valued space where people can come together.
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Corra Foundation @corra.scot · 20/05/2025
🎉📣It’s time to catch up with the communities we work alongside as part of Corra’s Place Programme!
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Corra Foundation @corra.scot · 29/04/2025
Boost Fund - closing at 12 noon on Wednesday 7 May. Boost 2025 is delivered by Corra Foundation and is a partnership between the STV Children's Appeal, Comic Relief and Corra Foundation.
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Corra Foundation @corra.scot · 28/04/2025
Boost Fund reopens tomorrow! For local community orgs in Scotland supporting children & families affected by poverty. ⭐£500 - £3k to constituted groups/charities w/ annual income of up to £50k. ⭐£250 - £1,500 available for unconstituted groups Open 12noon, Tues 29 April: www.corra.scot/funding/
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Corra Foundation @corra.scot · 24/04/2025
Applications for the new trustee role on our board close a week today - Thursday 1st May 2025 at 12-noon. We're particularly keen to hear from those with experience in charity accounting and audit. We look forward to hearing from you! www.corra.scot/who-w...
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Corra Foundation @corra.scot · 22/04/2025
Closing this Thurs 24th, 5pm! More info and apply at: www.corra.scot/who-w...
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