ScottishPower Foundation News

Twenty inspiring UK charities will receive a share of a funding pot of over £1.2 million from the ScottishPower Foundation, empowering them to continue supporting local communities and protecting the environment.

The milestone year saw inspiring charities awarded additional funding for their vital projects aimed at empowering communities and the most vulnerable in society.

We are delighted to reveal the nominees for the 10th annual ScottishPower Foundation Awards.

An array of charitable projects dedicated to supporting vulnerable people, local communities and the environment are in line for a funding boost from the ScottishPower Foundation, allowing them to continue the valuable support they provide.

An inspiring charity leader named this year’s Charity Champion is among the winners at the ScottishPower Foundation Awards

Over 90 tonnes of marine life-harming materials have been recycled thanks to a ground-breaking project funded by the ScottishPower Foundation.

We’re excited to unveil the shortlist for the 10th annual ScottishPower Foundation Awards.

For the first time in 100 years 10,000 native oysters have been deployed into the Firth of Forth as part of the groundbreaking Restoration Forth project, part-funded by the ScottishPower Foundation.

As the ScottishPower Foundation celebrates 10 years of providing invaluable support, so too does one of the charities we proudly support.

Melanie Hill, ScottishPower Foundation Executive Officer and Trustee, recently visited Welsh charity Techniquest to see first-hand how Foundation funding is helping young people across Wales learn more about the importance of protecting the marine environment from pollution. Read her thoughts below.

Smart Works Scotland shares how funding from the ScottishPower Foundation is supporting women from minority ethnic backgrounds in Glasgow and across Scotland into sustainable employment and helping them to flourish in their new job.

UK Charities Receive Funding Boost Of Almost £1.2 Million To Support Vital Projects And Help Transform Lives

Funding From ScottishPower Foundation Helps To Restore Vital Habitat To Encourage Thriving Natural Ecosystem

ScottishPower Foundation Executive Officer and Trustee Melanie Hill talks about getting hands-on with a marine restoration project in the Firth of Forth. Part-funded by the ScottishPower Foundation’s Marine Biodiversity Fund, the WWF Restoration Forth project aims to restore seagrass habitats and native oyster populations. The first seeding event brought together marine experts and local volunteers to seed the Forth’s new seagrass meadow – and Melanie went along to help.

Rebecca Kennedy, Head of Communities at Playlist for Life, shares how funding from the ScottishPower Foundation is supporting people living with dementia through the power of music.

The ‘Restoration Forth’ project is supported by up to £600,000 over three years from the Foundation’s Marine Biodiversity Fund

An inspirational charity leader has taken home the Charity Champion Award at this year’s ScottishPower Foundation Awards, where the legacy and impact of the Foundation’s charitable support over the past nine years was also celebrated.

Charities supported by the ScottishPower Foundation could be in line for a funding boost of up to £10,000 this winter after being shortlisted for its annual awards.

Lincolnshire charity, Linkage Community Trust, will take to the road on an innovative sensory bus to help children access the support they need, thanks to funding from the ScottishPower Foundation.

A revolutionary recycling scheme that’s supports the retrieval of nets from harbours and beaches is being launched by Keep Britain Tidy. This scheme will reduce waste and plastic pollution, preserve marine life and support local communities.

Disadvantaged people not in education, employment or training are set for a brighter future thanks to local charity The Lorna Young Foundation and support from the ScottishPower Foundation.

The Motherwell right-back attended one of Street League’s ‘Transforming Lives’ sessions – funded by the ScottishPower Foundation – to see first-hand the work the charity does to support young people from disadvantaged backgrounds to gain access to education and employment.

Young people across North Wales will soon be reaching for the stars in their quest to learn about sustainability and climate change thanks to funding provided by the ScottishPower Foundation to Flintshire-based education activity centre, DangerPoint.

Fourteen UK charities are in the running for a share of £30,000 as part of this year’s ScottishPower Foundation Awards, which showcase incredible projects that make a positive impact on people and communities across the country.

Sixteen charities across the UK are set to share almost £1.2 million funding from the ScottishPower Foundation, which supports incredible projects that make a positive impact on people and communities across the country.

Bendrigg Trust plans to welcome those with hidden disabilities to its Adventure for All initiative after opening grounds to the local community during lockdown.

Conservation experts have finally spotted one of the UK’s rarest bumblebee species and caught it on camera, supporting ongoing efforts to protect and preserve the endangered species.

Seven UK-based charities have been named as winners and runners-up of this year’s ScottishPower Foundation Awards, splitting a £30,000 prize fund between them.

Fourteen charities are competing for prize funds of up to £5,000 as part of this year’s ScottishPower Foundation Awards, which celebrate benevolent work in local communities throughout the UK.

Twenty-one charities across the UK will share a £1.2 million funding pot from the ScottishPower Foundation, which champions benevolent work in local communities throughout the UK.

Northamptonshire-based community arts programme, Made in Corby, has received a funding boost from the ScottishPower Foundation to support its latest initiative 'Time To...Create'

Young people from all over Wales gathered at the Senedd in Cardiff to debate climate change in front of Ministers, Assembly Members and representatives from the Future Generations Commissioner's Office.

The creators of Bright Sparks, a unique STEM education project from Theatr Clywd and Bangor University, have praised the impacts of the programme in Welsh schools with an estimated 1,200 students set to be reached by the initiative this year, an increase of 600 from last year.

Eight UK-based charities have been named as the winners and runners-up at the annual ScottishPower Foundation Awards ceremony, splitting a £30,000 fund to support benevolent work in communities around the country.

ScottishPower Foundation to donate additional £30,000 to organisations across the UK. Twenty-two charities have been shortlisted at this year’s ScottishPower Foundation Awards, which celebrate benevolent work in local communities the length and breadth of the UK.

Pupils from Kirkmichael Primary School are among the first youngsters in Scotland to benefit from a series of innovative new nature-inspired STEM workshops at an Ayrshire estate with royal links.

The charity Music in Hospitals & Care (MiHC) organises professional musicians to provide soothing lullabies and calming melodies for premature babies and sick children in hospitals and hospices.

The charity Music in Hospitals & Care (MiHC) organises carefully selected musicians to sing soothing lullabies and play calming melodies for premature babies and sick children in hospitals and hospices.

Opera singer Wynne Evans, who is also an Ambassador for the charity Music in Hospitals & Care Cymru, is bringing live music to children at The Noah’s Ark Children’s Hospital in Cardiff.

The ScottishPower Foundation has announced this year’s recipients of its annual award fund. Twenty-five charities from across the UK will share in the £1.25 million pot to help them make a positive difference to people’s lives in many diverse communities.

On Tuesday 13 November, the ScottishPower Foundation hosted its second annual Autumn Lecture. In celebration of Scotland’s Year of Young People 2018 and delivered in conjunction with the National Theatre of Scotland (NTS), the event focused on the country’s landscape for the next generation.

On Tuesday 13 November 2018, the ScottishPower Foundation will host its Autumn Lecture at Rockvilla in Glasgow in conjunction with the National Theatre of Scotland.

Eight UK-based charities, from Glasgow to North Wales, will share a slice of a £30,000 award fund after being announced as winners and runners-up at the ScottishPower Foundation Awards.

ScottishPower Foundation to donate additional £30,000 to organisations across the UK.

Aberdeen volunteers turned out in force at the weekend at Torry Battery to take part in a beach clean to protect local marine wildlife as part of RSPB Scotland’s four-day Dolphinwatch Carnival.

A new pond-dipping area for visitors has been officially opened at RSPB Scotland Loch Lomond near Gartocharn.

Torry communities, school children, partners and local politicians are thanked for making “wish come true” at the launch of RSPB Dolphinwatch.

RSPB Scotland is going to take Dolphinwatch activities to schools and the community in Torry in Aberdeen over the next two years thanks to funding from the ScottishPower Foundation and the Heritage Lottery Fund.

Young entrepreneurs in the west of Scotland are being encouraged to lead an environmental revolution by taking part in interactive sustainability sessions.

Charitable projects serving communities right across the UK from Aberdeen to Sussex are set to receive a funding boost of more than £1m from the ScottishPower Foundation.

Work has been underway at RSPB Scotland Loch Lomond this month to build a new pond-dipping facility for visitors, despite the heavy snow which fell across the region.

The 11th annual 'Your Heroes' awards, which are sponsored by the ScottishPower Foundation in partnership with Trinity Mirror newspapers, took place at the Ramada Hotel, Southport on 24th January.

A memorable 30th anniversary Your Champions Awards ceremony was held on the 17th November at the Crowne Plaza Hotel, Chester, with Colin Jackson CBE the special guest of the night and awards presented by Carl Wood, Trinity Mirror and Stephen Stewart representing ScottishPower Foundation.

A unique video project commemorating the 100th anniversary of the death of Wales's most famous Great War poet, Ellis Humphrey Evans was on the 10th November beamed onto the front of the National Library of Wales in Aberystwyth after receiving backing from the ScottishPower Foundation.

An awards fund of £30,000, which will be shared amongst seven UK charities, was announced at the ScottishPower Foundation Awards that took place in Glasgow last night (7 Nov).

On 11 October 2017 ScottishPower’s Glasgow Headquarters was the venue for a special event when the ScottishPower Foundation, in conjunction with the Royal Scottish Geographical Society (RSGS), hosted the presentation of the prestigious Shackleton Medal.

Ninety Wallasey school pupils have taken part in a programme aimed at helping students to make informed career choices and prepare them for life beyond education.

A drive to boost pupil participation in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics has received backing from the ScottishPower Foundation.

Scenic Route structure opens at new site in Loch Lomond and The Trossachs National Park

The Llangollen Eisteddfod is celebrating the ninth year of its Inclusion Project with the commission of a new performance piece and a prestigious Arts & Business Cymru Award nomination.

On Friday 23rd June, a glittering Wales Arts & Business Awards event was held at the iconic Millennium Centre in Cardiff and the ScottishPower Foundation was shortlisted in two categories.

The 2017 ScottishPower Foundation scholarship candidates have been announced for the Postgraduate Studies in Energy and Environment in the United Kingdom.

Scotland’s youth climate group, the 2050 Climate Group, has been named best project in the United Kingdom in the prestigious Energy Globe Awards.

Following the success of ‘Justice in a Day’ and ‘Connor’s Time’ which spotlighted vital issues in crime and justice for secondary school students, Theatr Clwyd, with the support of the ScottishPower Foundation, brings a new show about cyber bullying into thirteen junior schools in Flintshire and Gwynedd in June.

We are currently looking to appoint two additional independent trustees with a passion for, and commitment to, the Foundation’s mission. We are keen to hear from applicants with expertise and strategic experience in: change management; arts and culture; and the environment. A well-founded understanding of governance at board level and particularly in grant making is an asset. Applications must be received by 19th June 2017.

The ScottishPower Foundation and National Museums Scotland have launched a new photography competition for primary and secondary school students across Scotland.

Twenty six UK-based charities will be awarded funding from the ScottishPower Foundation this year. The programme for 2017 was unveiled today at the National Theatre of Scotland in Glasgow.

Biggest investment yet to back the next generation of future leaders

Newtown residents who attend the Park Day Centre have been treated to a free, festive concert thanks to live music charity Music in Hospitals and the ScottishPower Foundation.

A gallery which showcases Scotland’s history with electricity and the technology utilised to keep the lights on has been officially opened in Edinburgh, funded by the ScottishPower Foundation.

More than 300 of Scotland’s future leaders gathered at the Strathclyde Technology and Innovation Centre for Leading for the Future, the 2050 Climate Group’s second Youth Climate Summit on November 26th, 2016.

On the evening of 11th November, the 29th Your Champions Awards ceremony was held at the Crown Plaza Hotel, Chester. This glittering event honours the unsung heroes of the local community in Cheshire, Wirral and North East Wales, and is a ScottishPower Foundation funded project.

On the evening of 7th October, John Hartson led the tributes to the unsung heroes of North Wales at a glittering event held at the St George’s Hotel, Llandudno.

Today, 6 October 2016, pupils at Ysgol Dolbadarn primary school, Llanberis were curators of a world famous masterpiece in a National Library of Wales project funded by the ScottishPower Foundation.

Pupils from over Scotland took a break from their studies yesterday (Sunday, 28 August), for a unique work experience opportunity at Hampden Park, the home of Scottish football.

Llŷn-based community transport programme, O Ddrws i Ddrws will this year help hundreds of locals and visitors to North-Wales explore the stunning Wales Coastal Path, thanks to a £12,000 funding boost from the ScottishPower Foundation.

The ScottishPower Foundation scholarship candidates have been announced for the Postgraduate Studies in Energy and Environment in the United Kingdom.

The Wales Arts & Business Awards took place on Saturday 14th May at the iconic Millennium Centre, Cardiff. The glittering annual awards now in its 23rd year, celebrates the success in which businesses large and small and the arts collaborate to support the local community.

The ScottishPower Foundation has announced a second year of funding for Music in Hospitals Scotland, the live music charity which offers high-quality musical performances for people in hospitals, hospices, day care centres, special schools and care homes.

With funding from the ScottishPower Foundation, the charity will provide an additional 50 ‘Magic Moment’ concerts with professional volunteer musicians in care establishments across Wales this year.

The ScottishPower Foundation unveiled its funding programme for 2016. Trustee, Ann Loughrey met with representatives from the Citizen’s Theatre, which is benefiting from a share of the Foundation’s £1,154,542 funding pot.

The ScottishPower Foundation has today announced 14 new post-graduate energy and environment scholarship grants in the UK for the 2016/17 academic year.

Today (Wednesday, 16 December), the ScottishPower Foundation announced the three winners of Comic Generation, its comic drawing competition for young people in Dumfries and Galloway.

Today, 23 November 2015, pupils at Coed Eva Primary School, Cwmbran were curators of a world famous masterpiece in a National Library of Wales project funded by ScottishPower Foundation as part of the Welsh Government Fusion Programme, tackling poverty through culture.

Four charitable projects from across the UK have been recognised at the ScottishPower Foundation Awards which took place in Aberystwyth last week, Thursday 15 October 2015, winning a further £7,500 to enhance the highly valuable services which they currently provides in their local communities.

The ScottishPower Foundation, sponsor of the Wigtown Book Festival, is energising creative 15- to 25-year-olds in Dumfries & Galloway, in a challenge to develop a new comic book superhero.

Two Glasgow community groups took the opportunity today, 14 August 2015, to show what a difference their projects are making to people who live and visit the places they care for.

ScottishPower Foundation are making generous donation to the Prince and Princess of Wales Foundations Appeal. The appeal aims to raise £330k to start the work to lay the foundations for the new Hospice in Bellahouston Park.

Princes, plotting and power struggles in medieval Wales have been brought vividly to life for schoolchildren in mid Wales thanks to a National Library of Wales Outreach Education Project marking this year’s Montgomeryshire and the Marches National Eisteddfod.

This week, 40 young people from across Scotland will receive new qualifications and awards from taking part in a personal development programme that has helped them turn their lives around.

Today, children from Currie Community High School in Edinburgh spent a day in the life of scientists and engineers, at the National Museum of Scotland, as part of the Get Energised programme.

Buckingham Palace this week announced that Northern Lights, based on the Wirral, was to become the recipient of the Queens Award for Voluntary Services (QAVS) for 2015.

As one of the top six Pipe Band’s in the World, the ScottishPower Pipe Band is celebrating 26 years of global success by releasing a new album which features a selection from the band’s current repertoire.

School children from Glasgow have taken part in a week-long adventure at Outward Bound’s Loch Eil Centre near Fort William, thanks to a project funded by the ScottishPower Foundation.

ScottishPower Foundation has today announced a new partnership with Scottish charity, Music in Hospitals Scotland, which offers high quality live musical performances to people living in care.

Llŷn based charity, O Ddrws i Ddrws, has today announced the expansion of its local community transport programme, thanks to funding from the ScottishPower Foundation.

RSPB Scotland marked an important stage in its visionary forest expansion project at Abernethy with the opening of a native tree nursery on the reserve.

Workshops to help job seekers, who are blind or partially sighted, to develop skills needed to gain or retain employment have been launched by sight loss charities RNIB and Action for Blind People, thanks to the ScottishPower Foundation.

ScottishPower Foundation literacy initiative now open to schools across Scotland

Keep Scotland Beautiful is launching a call for community groups and projects from all over Scotland to take part in the ground-breaking 'It’s Your Neighbourhood (IYN)' initiative.

ScottishPower Foundation, Clwyd Theatr Cymru and Police Community Trust deliver session to over 1,000 young people to deter them from crime.

The ScottishPower Foundation, in partnership with its Spanish equivalent Fundacion IBERDROLA, has today announced 17 new post-graduate scholarship grants in the UK for the 2015/16 academic year.

Earlier this month the Children’s University Scotland, funded by the ScottishPower Foundation, held it first east of Scotland graduation ceremony at Queen Margaret University, to honour the success of 60 school pupils from across East Lothian.

Kirkcudbright pupil Josie Oliver was today presented with an early Christmas present thanks to her creation of superhero Vanquish.

500 young Glaswegians celebrate receiving their Duke of Edinburgh's Awards at the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall on Monday 10 November 2014.

ScottishPower Foundation funded initiative gives pupils hands-on workshops in science and engineering.

Four projects across the UK have been recognised at the inaugural ScottishPower Foundation Awards which took place earlier this month at the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh.

The ScottishPower Foundation, sponsor of the Wigtown Book Festival, is energising creative 15- to 25-year-olds in Dumfries & Galloway, in a challenge to develop a new comic book superhero.

ScottishPower Foundation will celebrate its partnership with Edinburgh International Book Festival this week by launching Library Energiser, a brand new initiative giving primary schools in Glasgow, Edinburgh and the Lothians the opportunity to improve their reading provisions with a £2,000 investment and their very own book festival.

From Barrowfield Boy to BAFTA BRIT winner, Paul Brannigan helped 20 young people to follow in his footsteps and create their own path to success through a unique training opportunity using the power of drama and sport.

Five young people from Hyndland Secondary School in Glasgow visited the Palace of Holyrood House to collect their Gold Duke of Edinburgh Awards having been supported every step of the way by the ScottishPower Foundation.

A major new multi-media exhibition, celebrating the birth of iconic Welsh literary figure Dylan Thomas, was officially opened at the National Library of Wales in Aberystwyth on Saturday 28 June by the author’s granddaughter.

Young people from Glasgow took part in a week-long adventure at Outward Bound’s Loch Eil Centre near Fort William recently, thanks to a project funded by the ScottishPower Foundation.

ScottishPower Foundation and The Duke of Edinburgh’s Award (DofE) have announced a continued partnership to enable more young people (aged 14–24) in Liverpool, Knowsley and the Wirral to start their DofE journey and benefit from the unique employability, social and personal development opportunities it brings.

The ScottishPower Foundation, in partnership with its Spanish equivalent Fundacion IBERDROLA, has today announced 17 new post-graduate scholarship grants for the 2014/15 academic year.

The ScottishPower Foundation Trustees met on 1st October, 2013 to review the 141 applications received for consideration for next year.

A new charitable foundation from ScottishPower, established to reinforce the energy company’s commitment to charitable work throughout Britain, was launched in Glasgow today (Tuesday 18 June).

The ScottishPower Foundation has today announced a new partnership with National Museums Scotland bringing a programme of exciting science and engineering activity to secondary school pupils across Scotland.

A new charitable foundation from ScottishPower, established to reinforce the energy company’s commitment to charitable work throughout Britain, was launched in Glasgow today (Tuesday 18 June).