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![Putting SDG13 into practice](/sites/default/files/2021-10/SDG13-blog-MG-1500x675.jpg)
Blog
Putting SDG13 into practice
Ahead of COP26, Mercedes Green discusses some of the initiatives we're implementing to support positive climate action.
![Open data sharing with 360Giving](/sites/default/files/2021-10/360Giving-News-1500x675.jpg)
General News
Open data sharing with 360Giving
We have joined the UK’s leading funders in making our grants data open, helping to map and improve grantmaking across the UK.
![HEG Education and Training Fund Success](/sites/default/files/2021-10/Mel-HEG-E%26T-1500x675.jpg)
Fund News
Education and Training award drives Mel 'Bananas'
HEG Education & Training Fund award winner passes her C1 Ambulance Driving Test.
![Celebrating two years of community funding](/sites/default/files/2021-10/Whiteside%20Hill%20News%20Sewing%20%281920x864%29.jpg)
Fund News
Celebrating two years of community funding
Read how, since its launch almost two years ago, the Whiteside Hill Community Fund has supported groups in the local area.
![Fund panel vacancies](/sites/default/files/2021-10/Gordonstown%20panel%20vancancy%20%20%281920x864%29_0.jpg)
Fund News
Fund panel vacancies
Do you take an interest in local community issues in the Auchterless, Inverkeithny and Fisherford areas? Why not join the local fund panel and make a difference?
![Critical support highlighted in fund evaluation](/sites/default/files/2021-10/Jessica--summary-News-1500x675_0.png)
General News
Critical support highlighted in fund evaluation
New evaluation of the JESSICA (Scotland) Trust illustrates the critical support offered to social enterprises throughout the fund's first nine years.
![Foundation Scotland achieves Quality Accreditation](/sites/default/files/2021-10/UKCF-news-1500x675.jpg)
General News
Foundation Scotland achieves Quality Accreditation
Foundation Scotland is delighted to have been successful in the fifth round of Quality Accreditation.
![Kippen community invests in sustainable future](/sites/default/files/2021-09/Kippen-aerial-News-%26-Case-Study-1500x675.jpg)
Fund News
Kippen community invests in a sustainable future
Kippen becomes the latest community to establish a Community Invested Fund by investing community benefit monies from the local wind farm.
![Lifesaving device installed in Avonbridge](/sites/default/files/2021-09/IMG-20210912-WA0005.jpg)
Fund News
Lifesaving device installed in Avonbridge
A newly installed defibrillator could save lives in Avonbridge, thanks to funding from the EDF Burnhead Moss Wind Farm Community Fund.
![Pump Track pump primes public park](/sites/default/files/2021-09/Pump%20Track%20image%201%201500x675.jpg)
Fund News
Pump Track pump-primes public park
A newly opened Pump Track has kick-started a major overhaul of an ageing public park in Avonbridge.
![Act 4 SDGs Week 2021](/sites/default/files/2021-09/SDG-Global-Week-News-1500x675.jpg)
General News
#Act4SDGs Week 2021
During #Act4SDGs Week 2021, we reveal the 12 SDGs Foundation Scotland has chosen as their primary goals and how our work aligns with their objectives.
![New Community Impact Fund for Scotland](/sites/default/files/2021-09/PHP-News-1500x675.jpg)
Fund News
New Community Impact Fund for Scotland
New partnership supports social prescribing and community wellbeing initiatives across Scotland.