MVA News
£247k Fund Launching for Midlothian Community Groups
Year 4 of the Community Mental Health and Wellbeing Fund for Adults launches on the 9th September 2024!
Third Sector Funding: Have Your Say
We hosted an online session to discuss fair funding & the Scottish Government’s funding principles.
Scottish Charities Invited to Shape Future Regulations
The Scottish Government is running a consultation to understand whether a review of charity regulation is needed, and what the Third Sector would like this review to focus on. Midlothian…
Free Unrestricted Funding With Easyfundraising
MVA hosted an online event today with Becky Coleman at easyfundraising.org.uk. Don’t worry if you missed the session, you can view the recording below: You can download the slides from…
Scottish Government proposes charges for volunteers’ PVGs.
What’s Happening? Disclosure Scotland has opened a proposal to introduce fees for volunteering. They plan to remove the current fee waiver and apply a fee of £28 for volunteers to…
National Lottery Funding – Briefing Blog
MVA recently held a National Lottery Funding Briefing to provide third sector organisations with an update on some changes the National Lottery are making to their funding streams.
ALISS (A Local Information System for Scotland) Training Recording & Recap
We recently held training alongside Health and Social Care Alliance Scotland & Midlothian Council to help organisations in Midlothian learn more about ALISS (A Local Information System for Scotland) and…
A Fresh Start for The Midlothian Climate Action Network – Meet The Team!
The Midlothian Climate Action Hub is delighted to confirm that our staff recruitment is now complete and the community-led Hub Steering Group has been formally elected! Meet The Team The…
Applications open for CMHWB Micro Grant
Are you a community group looking for funding? Year 3 of Midlothian Community Mental Health and Wellbeing Fund for Adults launched in the end of September 2023 distributing over £246…
Success for a Midlothian Climate Action Hub
Members of the Midlothian Climate Action Network are thrilled and making plans to celebrate after the Scottish Government confirmed that their application for grant funding for a staffed Climate Action…
Challenge Poverty Week: Uniting Against Poverty In Midlothian
We are more than halfway through Challenge Poverty Week and we want to highlight what’s been happening in Midlothian to unite against poverty and what we are doing at MVA…
Community Climate Action Project
Midlothian Council has set a target of reaching Net Zero by 2030. We are living in a Climate Emergency and it’s imperative that we all take a role, big or…
