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6,000 walkers raise £1.7 million for charities in Scotland Scotland’s capital was a sea of tartan (today) as 6,000 people took to the streets for Edinburgh’s biggest ever Royal Bank of Scotland Kiltwalk. Scots rugby legend Doddie Weir and philanthropist Sir Tom Hunter gave rallying cries to the brave walkers as they set-off from
Posted in News | Leave a commentThe Hunter Foundation Launch Schools Competition To Win Table At Dinner With Former First Lady Michelle Obama
In the Year of the Young People and in celebration of the former First Lady Michelle Obama’s visit to Scotland, The Hunter Foundation (THF) invites school pupils to submit a short essay, video, picture or poem on the theme: ‘If I ruled Scotland the one thing I’d change to enable more young people to succeed
Posted in News | Leave a commentBBC Children in Need and The Hunter Foundation Announce £2M Partnership to Help Prevent Young People Engage With The Care System
Dundee Council Set to be the First Council Partner BBC Children in Need and THF have announced an ambitious £2m partnership in Scotland which they hope will transform young people’s lives and prove a model of intervention that can be adopted at scale across Scotland and beyond. In the first phase of the partnership,
Posted in News | Leave a commentThe Hunter Foundation Announces Poverty Innovation Fund Of £7.5M In Partnership With The Scottish Government
Venture philanthropy, The Hunter Foundation (‘THF”) has announced the creation of a £7.5m Innovation Fund aimed at delivering systemic change in child poverty – THF will contribute up to £2.5m over four years with the Scottish Government contributing £5m. The focus of the fund will be to either trial new approaches or attempt to
Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a commentThe Hunter Foundation partners with new FutureX Impact Summit
Economy | Business | Entrepreneurship Edinburgh, 6th March 2018 The Hunter Foundation pledges three years of financial support to new Impact Summit. The first FutureX Impact Summit will take place on 9th of May in Glasgow’s Barras. Summit organisers seek to inspire the reinvention of how we live, learn, work and play. Over 300 entrepreneurs,
Posted in News | Leave a comment£670,000 RAISED FOR SCOTLAND’S CHARITIES BY PRESIDENT OBAMA DINNER
Kiltwalk charities set for a minimum 40% increase in funds The charitable fundraising dinner hosted by the Hunter Foundation with President Barack Obama has raised £670,000 for Scottish charities. Funds will be allocated as follows: £570,000 will be shared with all charities who have or will participate in this year’s series of Kiltwalks – equivalent
Posted in News | Leave a commentCommunities Aim To Eradicate Food Poverty
Innovative scheme to provide food and support to those in need. Communities in Ayrshire will be able to access affordable food through an innovative scheme aimed at tackling food poverty. The new project, which will provide meals, advice, support and mentoring in Drongan and Fullarton in East Ayrshire and Pennyburn in North Ayrshire, will seek
Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a commentHRH The Duke Of Cambridge Launches WRU Coach Core Apprenticeship Programme
The Duke of Cambridge today (Thursday 1 October) launched the Welsh Rugby Union (WRU) Coach Core apprenticeship programme. Coach Core was created by The Royal Foundation of The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge in 2012 as part of the Olympics Legacy and it aims to improve the quality and availability of sports coaching, especially in
Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a commentThe Kiltwalk Charity Announces New Board And Support
The Kiltwalk, the charity that has in the past three years raised more than £ 4.7m for Scottish children’s charities has moved to its next stage of development. Having successfully built the Kiltwalk into a major series of Scottish walking events, the current Trustees have determined its time to pass the continued development of the
Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a commentThe Sentry
The Enough Project is launching The Sentry, an initiative seeking to help dismantle the networks of perpetrators, facilitators, and enablers who fund and profit from Africa’s deadliest conflicts. We hope to lend greater support to broader accountability measures as well as provide leverage to peace efforts aimed at ending Africa’s deadliest conflicts. Watch The Sentry’s
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