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4/4/2022

Dounreay Communities Fund - Closing Dates For Applications

How to apply Read the following guidance notes. Once you have read through and decided that the Dounreay Communities Fund can assist your project, you need to apply by completing the small grant online application form It is for an applicant to complete the online application form; however a step by step guide is available at the end of this document.

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4/4/2022

Castletown Heritage Society's AGM - 26 April

Castletown Heritage Society's AGM to be held on Tuesday 26th April at 7:30 PM. This will be our first in person meeting since 2019 so we hope that you will be able to come.

4/4/2022

How To Use The Free Funding Finder Database

The free Funding Finder database isn't just a funder database, but one that connects you to 100s of other free funding databases and online funder lists, giving you click through to a huge range of funders. It's updated weekly, also includes Covid and core funders, and has 50 of its own downloadable funder lists.

4/4/2022

How To Fund Your Charity's Digital Strategy

This video was the presentation to the Charity Digital Summit. It looks at how and where to identify suitable tech funders, how to package your bid to reach other funders and how to ensure you maximise the likliehood of your bid being successful.

4/4/2022

How To Engage Trustees In Fundraising: Trustee Responsibilities

This 1st of 2 videos enables charity trustees to understand their fundraising role and specific regulatory responsibilities for fundraising, and how to do that. The 2nd gives them 20 ways in which they can become actively involved in doing so and enjoy themselves doing that.

4/4/2022

20 Ways For Trustees To Support Fundraising

This 2nd of 2 videos provides trustees with 20+ ways in which they can become activly involved in supporting their charity's fundraising and enjoy themselves whilst doing so. You can find a written version on the Chaeity Excellence Resource Hub - https://www.charityexcellence.co.uk/Home/BlogDetail?Link=20way_To_Engage_Charity_Trustees_In_Fundraising.

3/4/2022

Wick Players - Christmas Panto Meeting

See poster for details..

31/3/2022

SSEN Encourages Applications For Its £1m Resilient Communities Fund

With this year's funding pot increased to £1m, SSEN is urging communities across the north of Scotland to submit their applications for the latest round of its Resilient Communities Fund (RCF). The aim of the fund is to help communities become more resilient in the face of severe weather events and prolonged power interruptions and, following the severe storms which battered the country this winter, SSEN has increased the total amount available in the north of Scotland in 2022 to £1m.

31/3/2022

Countryside Rangers Support Highland Carers - Walks

High Life Highland is working with a charity that supports carers to help them improve their health and wellbeing. Over a million people in Scotland care for someone else and in 2018 it was estimated around 32,000 people in Highland provide unpaid care.

25/3/2022

Possible New Group - Thich Nhat Hanh

"For a number of years, I have practiced mindfulness meditation in the tradition of Thich Nhat Hanh. Now living in Caithness, I wondered if anyone else is doing the same, and if might be possible to start a group (or Sangha)? Please get in touch and we can look at getting something started." Jim McCourt 07769 278502 email - jtmelgin@googlemail.com As regards the group, it would just be for like-minded people to get together, meditate, and look at some of the teachings of Thich Nhat Hanh.

22/3/2022

Caithness Castles And Other Fortified Buildings - A New Book

Caithness Castles and other fortified buildings A Genealogical History and Guide to the Strongholds and Lairds. Houses of the County of Caithness in the Northern Highlands of Scotland Michael J Gunn This book recounts the histories and family connections of more than one hundred Caithness strongholds.