£10,000 awarded from the Lintel Trust to fund two projects being offered by the Kirkhouse Neighbourhood Community Centre. Cookery on a budget and Wheels in Motion.

£150 supermarket voucher provided to Hillhouse Community Centre to purchase Christmas presents for young people attending a festive party.

£250 was donated towards Act Scotland performing Arts School to contribute towards the cost of funding a trip tp New York in March 2025

£200 was donated to Hillhouse Tenants and Residents group to help with the purchase of non perishable foods to stock their food pantry

£300 donated to Calderbraes Football club to enable them to take all 21 children to two football tournaments over the summer

£1,000 donated to North Fest Fun day to pay Generation Events who will supply the rides/activities for the day

£200 was donated to St Brendans Primary school to help towards the costs of a P7 residential trip

£280 was donated to St Cutherberts School to help towards costs to establish a herb and vegetable garden for the nursery pupils

£10,000 awarded from the Lintel Trust

This money will be used to support a Particpatory Budgeting project within North Motherwell. Participatory Budgeting invovles local people deciding on spending priorites of a defined budget on ways to improve their ccommunity.

CVG staff collected and donated Childrens books to help establish a library within Blantyre High Primary School

£1,000 donated towards a variety of communty groups to support local events:

• Larkhall Gala Day
• Hillhouse Tenants and Residents Association Childrens Christmas party
• Coatbridge Federation of Tenants and Residents Association Santa Tour
• Stepss Community Development Teams Festive Trail

£6,000 awarded from SFHA Winter Fuel Fund, these funds are to support customers who have fuel related debts of £300 or less.

£9,600 awarded from SFHA Winter Fuel Support fund.

We have partnered with Spruce Carpets to address heat loss within homes for those customers who are living with no or unsuitable flooring.

£37,200 awarded from Advice UK to support customers with Financial Advice

This funding will allow us to partner with three local Citizens Advice Bureaus who will allocate a staffing resource to support CVHA customers

CVHA donates £550 to Hilhouse Residents and Tenants Association to support their summer programme for local tenants and families.

£50 Amazon voucher as a fundraising raffle prize

£500 towards the cost of providing children and young people with a voucher for rides on their trip to Burntisland

CVHA hosts coffee morning at East Kilbride Arts Centre as an opportunity for customers to speak face to face with staff

CVHA donates £300 worth of litter picking items to support Mossview Crescent Community Clear Up initiative

Fundraising event held by Clyde Valley staff for the Tea for Trussell Campaign

£250 + large food donation given to Hamilton Foodbank

£10,001 awarded from the National Lottery to provide:

• Outdoor clothing for children at local school and nursery
• ASDA vouchers for Women and families who use Womens Aid Services
• £5,000 to issue £40 cash out vouchers to CVHA customers who are struggling with cost of living

£14,000 awarded from the SFHA Winter Hardship fund to support customers who are food insecure

CVHA hosts coffee morning at sports complex to provide an opportunity for customers to speak face to face to staff

CVHA host coffee morning in Douglas to provide an opportunity for customers to speak face to face with staff

£50,000 awarded from the SFHA Fuel Fund to provide financial support and energy saving items to our customers aged 65years and over

£2,500 awarded from EVH to provide Winter jackets to children aged 12years and under

For a full list of projects offered through this scheme, please read this report:

EVH Cost Of Living Grant Scheme

£40,000 awarded from Independent Age who commissoned a research project via Snook Service Design company to look at the needs of our older customers

£30,000 awarded from Cycle Scotland to install two bike storage units at two of our sites where we have homes

£10,000 awarded from Lintel Trust to provide supermarket vouchers to those who are food insecure

CVHA hosts community event at Pat Cullinan Centre in North Motherwell

Range of support providers in attendance

CVHA issued free energy saving items to local residents

CVHA hosts drop in event at Burnbank Centre for customers seeking Fuel and Energy advice

Free energy saving items handed out at event

£10,000 awarded from National Lottery to support work of Energy Advisor

100 iPads awarded from Connecting Scotland Programme

£137,000 awarded from SFHA

Funds used to:

• Clear fuel debt
• Provide pre-payment vouchers
• Provide warm packs
• Provide energy saving and draught proofing items

Wellbeing boxes donated from SLC Community Can Do intiative

Boxes contained a variety of household cleaning items, toiletries, essential items and games for youg children

£20,000 awarded from SFHA to fund a one year part time Energy Advisor post

£1,000 awarded from Arnold Clark Community Funds to purchase Education books from the Childrens Safety and Education Foundation

Books donated to Mossend Primary school and local community group

40 iPads awarded through the Connecting Scotland Programme

100 iPads awarded from the Connecting Scotland programme

Scot Gov Recovery Fund awareded £9,700

CVHA match funded £4,300

Funding to employ a one year part time Family Support Worker

10 families support via the Barnardo's family support service

£19,500 awarded from Scot Recovery Funds to employ a part time Community Development Officer

£5,000 awarded from the SFHA to provide customers with pre-payment vouchers from the Fuel Bank Foundation

100 iPads awarded from Connecting Scotland