Everyone at SHIP wants to say a huge thankyou to the Bank of Scotland for the generous award of £7,000 towards the cost of our play schemes. This means that we can go ahead full tilt for the summer without the worry of increased transport costs or venue hire; more young people will access our services and be able to look forward to days and days of fun and activities, such as trips to Edinburgh Zoo, the wonderful Auchingarrich Animal Park in Comrie and sports days at Bell's here in Perth, fully supported by our volunteers, and our parents and carers can relax and enjoy meaningful periods of respite at the same time!

The Bank of Scotland's support is a relection of how valued our service is, and the award is going to make a real difference to a very large number of people.

Thankyou from us all!

We have so many reasons to be grateful to The Gannochy Trust ; they have supported us consistently over the many years we have been in operation, helping us with everything from the purchase of specialist equipment to the redecoration of our property, and lately with the funding of our Co-ordinator's post,  enabling us to improve the quality of service we offer,  and extending that service to more children.   A cliche perhaps, but what we have today would not have been possible, without their invaluable and continuing help.

The Trust itself was founded in 1937 by Arthur Kinmond Bell, known as A K Bell, for charitable and public purposes as a direct result of his family’s successful distilling business. A K Bell’s first project built the Gannochy Housing Estate between 1925 and 1932 to provide rented accommodation for the people of Perth. His Estate included two small farms and the Doo’cot Park cricket grounds and pavilion which he also gave to the Trust

We were delighted to be awarded £500. We've since spent this on developing our website.

Perth Common Good Fund have been operating within the loca community for 10 years.

We were delighted to be awarded £9,400 for a variety of different purposes.

Bit About Awards for All Scotland
The organisation puts lottery money back into local communities by giving grants of between £500 and £10,000. They fund projects that improve opportunities for people to take part in arts, sport and community activities and can fund a wide range of organisations.