Corra Foundation
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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.
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.
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November 11, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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!
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October 13, 2025 at 9:30 AM
✨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."
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October 10, 2025 at 11:15 AM
🌟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.
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October 8, 2025 at 11:30 AM
📣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..."
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October 7, 2025 at 11:30 AM
📣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).
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October 7, 2025 at 9:10 AM
📣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.
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October 7, 2025 at 8:50 AM
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...
September 24, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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...
September 18, 2025 at 8:31 AM
3/3 For more information and to apply, visit www.corra.scot/grants/corra-racial-equity-fund
September 17, 2025 at 11:22 AM
✨🎉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.
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September 17, 2025 at 11:20 AM
🌺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.

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September 2, 2025 at 1:41 PM
📣🎉🌟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...

August 18, 2025 at 2:00 PM
🔎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...

August 18, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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...
August 1, 2025 at 7:10 AM
☕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...
July 30, 2025 at 7:14 AM
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.
July 30, 2025 at 7:14 AM
👋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.
July 30, 2025 at 7:14 AM
✍️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."

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July 11, 2025 at 7:10 AM
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...
July 9, 2025 at 7:13 AM
🙌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.
July 9, 2025 at 7:13 AM
📢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.
July 9, 2025 at 7:13 AM
🌈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.
July 9, 2025 at 7:13 AM
🏫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...
June 23, 2025 at 7:11 AM
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:
June 23, 2025 at 7:10 AM