Individual Youth Grants Scheme

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INDIVIDUAL YOUTH GRANTS SCHEME

Currie Balerno Rotary offers a range of grants to help young people develop their leadership, sporting or educational skills. Financial support to help meet training and travel costs is available, as set out below, for young people performing at national or international level in sporting or cultural disciplines.

The scheme is open to all young people who attend or have attended Currie High School, Balerno High School or Wester Hailes Education Centre, or live within the catchment areas of these 3 schools.

Generally, grants are considered for young people who:
currently compete or perform in National competitions that incur costs which are not covered by other types of funding; or
are undertaking leadership or educational programmes.

Grants of up to £250 will be dependent on a range of factors such as funding already in place from other sources, number of national or international events that the applicant will be attending as well as individual circumstances.

Applicants should complete an application form which is available by following this link:

Youth Grant Application Form March 2019.pdf

Applications should be submitted by the end of May and November of each year.

Completed forms should be returned via email or by post to the Chair of the International and Charity Committee. These details are included at the bottom of the application form.

Grants of £200 each were made in January 2023 to four local youngsters:

Brothers Andrew and Ruaridh Goodall, pictured above, are both pupils at Currie Community High School and are both competing in national speed climbing championships across Europe. The donations will assist their competition expenses. Andrew is to represent GB in four international championships this year with the ambition of competing in future Olympics. Ruaridh is the junior Scottish lead climbing champion and has held the title for 5 years.

Omar Navarro Munoz, also a pupil at Currie, is a member of Edinburgh Vipers Basketball team and is now competing at national level. The grant will help with his training expenses.

Jakub Burda is a pupil at Balerno Community High School and the grant will assist with a residential study weekend to further his ambition to follow a career in Law.

Contact Ken Lindsay about this page at: kenlindsay@blueyonder.co.uk or phone: 07801686131