District Grants awarded 2026-27
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District Grants awarded 2026-27
District Grants fund small-scale, short-term activities that address needs in the local community and overseas.
In 2026-2027, £17,225 was awarded to Clubs in District Grants from the Rotary Foundation. This list shows the wide range of projects supported.
- Rotary Club of Ayr: support for underprivileged families through Newton Primary School, £750; support for youngsters using Shred Skatepark, £750
- Rotary Club of Braids: support for activities for the elderly through Libertus Independent Living, £500; a defibrillator for Columcille Day Support Centre, £500; with Corstorphine Amateur Athletics Club, provision towards Frame Running equipment, £500
- Rotary Club of Clydebank: provision of equipment for Dalmuir Community Pantry, £500
- Rotary Club of Dalkeith: replacement roofing at the STEKA Centre for Vocational Skills and Community Enterprise Nursery, Malawi, and playground equipment, £1,500
- Rotary Club of Dumfries Devorgilla: supporting rehabilitation of stroke patients at Dumfries and Galloway Royal Infirmary by enabling wheelchair accessibility to the community gardens, £500; with Step Together, support for disadvantaged young people through community service, £500; kitchen equipment for a community garden to enable the teaching of fruit preservation, £500
- E-Club of Southern Scotland: provision of girls' menstrual changing rooms and WASH buckets at Thondwe school, Malawi, £500
- Rotary Club of Edinburgh: provision of Children’s Fun Day activities at local Special Needs Schools, £620
- Rotary Club of Erskine & District: with Erskine Arts and Renfrewshire Council, provision of equipment for the Civic Plaza, £500
- Rotary Club of Esk Valley: provision of equipment for Mayfield and Easthouses Development Trust Community Café, £700
- Rotary Club of Grangemouth: upgrade of the soft play area, Robin House, CHAS, £750; refurbishment of the reception area, Strathcarron Hospice, £750
- Rotary Club of Innerleithen, Walkerburn & Traquair: provision of girls’ toilet facilities at Thondwe school, Malawi, £1,500
- Rotary Club of Kilsyth: with the Uphill Trust, establishment of a new coffee plantation at Uphill School, Uganda, £500
- Rotary Club of Kirkcudbright: Literacy boxes for Taonga Community School, Zambia, £500; provision of a park bench to improve local civic amenities, £500
- Rotary Club of Linlithgow Grange: with Linlithgow Angling Club and the Forth Rivers Trust, education, and instruction for primary school children on protecting wildlife corridors in the River Avon, £650
- Rotary Club of Longniddry & District: with the Pennypit Trust, support for food provision to vulnerable families at Christmas and New Year, £1,000
- Rotary Club of Motherwell & Wishaw: support for Rotakids to expand their Courtyard Garden and start garden restoration at their schools, £500
- Rotary Club of North Berwick: with Glorious Gullane Bloomers, plant 24,000 purple crocus corms in Gullane village, £555
- Rotary Club of Prestwick: enable 4 young carers to take a respite break at the Honeypot charity, New Cumnock, £500
- Rotary Club of Whitburn with the Rotary Club of Livingston: with the Rotary Club of Columbo, provision of educational equipment at Sada Sarana Pre-School, Sri Lanka, £700
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