• To engage Edinburgh residents with experience of homelessness, addiction, mental health difficulties, poverty, racism and domestic abuse in theatre and participatory democracy for empowered advocacy and decision making.

  • More details about the proposed project will be announced in future.

  • To empower Leith residents to advocate for improved housing conditions, community relations, and local environment, though capacity building and wellbeing activities.

  • Bridgend Farmhouse + Trees & Seas Outdoor Adventures + The Very Inclusive Play Club + Peace and Justice

    To co-design projects with families on low incomes in Southeast Edinburgh, focusing on skills development, nature engagement, and new paths in education.

  • More details about the proposed project will be announced in future.

  • To strengthen ESEA and migrant voices in Edinburgh by developing leadership and advocacy, fostering collective organising, delivering rights information, and using cultural and creative practices to reshape discourse and reimagine belonging.

  • To strengthen voice and visibility of Roma communities in Edinburgh, through cultural advocacy and youth leadership.

  • To co-create, with residents of Craigmillar, Pilton, Drumbrae and Almond on low incomes, a city-wide food system that is fair, healthy, affordable and kinder to the environment, through food education, urban agriculture and political participation.

  • To empower families in Craigmillar to engage confidently with science and developing climate solutions, through co-creating free, hands-on workshops.

  • To empower communities in Edinburgh experiencing poverty to improve their local spaces, through tool skilling and knowledge sharing.

  • More details about the proposed project will be announced in future.

  • Big Hearts Community Trust + Health All Round + Dads Rock + Gorgie Community Farm

    To co-create community-led solutions and lead collective action on addressing poverty, racism, and climate justice in Gorgie Sighthill.

  • To advance community ownership and development of Gracemount Mansion and grounds with a food and nature learning and skilling hub for residents experiencing poverty and racism.

  • Hope for the Future + Rowan Environmental Arts + SCORE Scotland + Refugee Action Scotland + Sandy's Community Centre

    To increase political engagement around climate justice for families experiencing racial inequality through interactive outdoor performances and workshops.

  • To motivate and upskill young people from low-income households in Liberton and Gilmerton through inclusive sport and employability training programmes.

  • Edinburgh Agroecology Co-Op + Rhyze Mushrooms Co-Op + Grassroots Remedies + Granton Community Gardeners

    To co-design, with low income and racialised communities in North Edinburgh, ecologically regenerative systems for stewarding land and expanding access to healthy, culturally-appropriate food and medicinal herbs.

  • Multi-Cultural Family Base + YMCA Edinburgh + The Junction + Citadel Youth Centre + Pilmeny Development Project

    To co-design community-led solutions to systemic hardships with Leith residents experiencing poverty and racism, through art, dialogue, celebrations and civic action.

  • To advance food security and promote inclusivity for communities across Edinburgh experiencing poverty and racism, through cultural knowledge sharing, leadership training, and food skilling.

  • More details about the proposed project will be announced in future.

  • To empower Black and racialised youth in Craigmillar to lead community action through co-design of leadership, cultural identity, mental wellbeing programmes.

  • Workers' Observatory + Citizens Rights Project + Empowering Multicultural Communities Alliance

    To strengthen collective action among Edinburgh migrant communities by co-creating solutions to the systemic injustices they face and a city-wide migrant network.

  • To support youth-led and designed initiatives tackling poverty and racism in North Edinburgh.

  • More details about the proposed project will be announced in future.

  • To empower communities in Craigmillar and Portobello to make decisions on heating, and to co-design a fair and equitable community heating system.

  • More details about the proposed project will be announced in future.

  • To connect and empower learning communities across Edinburgh to take localised action to address racism.

  • To co-create BPOC-led and centred writing and story-telling spaces and development opportunities for Edinburgh BPOC writers.

  • To empower communities affected by poverty and racism to co-create the local circular economy and pathways to environmental action across Edinburgh, through resource and knowledge sharing.

  • More details about the proposed project will be announced in future.

  • To co-create sustained safe and supportive spaces for health, recovery and belonging for Edinburgh residents affected by poverty, homelessness, and racism.

  • To strengthen capacity of Edinburgh communities experiencing poverty and racism to engage with film as a tool to advocate for social and environmental justice.

  • To rebuild and deliver sustainable local food systems through co-creation of community farming with communities in Edinburgh affected by food insecurity and climate challenges.

  • To co-develop, with Edinburgh residents facing digital exclusion, pathways out of poverty and into green-tech careers.

  • To unite Afghan, Sudanese, and other refugee communities in Edinburgh to foster collaboration and co-create solutions to poverty, racism, and environmental challenges.

These organisations and collectives will take part in our Capacity Building phase.