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The Central Scotland Regional Equality Council (CSREC) is holding a Lunar New Year Celebration for the new Year of the Dragon, taking place on Saturday 24th February, 12pm – 3pm, at their office in Unit 8 of the Howgate Shopping Centre, High Street, Falkirk, FK1 1HG.

Royal Voluntary Service (RVS) Forth Valley’s “First Time for Everything” Project is holding a free “Growing Your Own Food From Scraps” event on Thursday 22nd February, 4pm – 6pm, in collaboration with Transition Stirling. Taking place at Transition Stirling’s office, 5 Wellgreen Lane, Stirling, FK8 2BS, participants will learn to grow food from scraps.

Social Investment Scotland (SIS) (who will be attending Falkirk Funders Fayre in March!) has teamed up with Third Sector Lab to enhance the digital skills of Scotland’s social enterprises. Social enterprises which are customers of SIS will have free access to Third Sector Lab’s annual online training programme, The Curve, until the end of 2024.

UnLtd grants and business support are available to social entrepreneurs who are looking to start or grow an existing social venture, through 2 funding streams: Starting Up (grants of up to £8,000 for social businesses not yet established, or which have been running for less than one year) and Scaling Up (grants of up to £18,000 to grow an existing social enterprise which has been operating one – 4 years). The next application deadline is Sunday 31st March.

With just over 6 WEEKS to go until Falkirk Funders Fayre 2024, we’re delighted to announce another TWO new stallholders attending for the first time: Local Energy Scotland and Edinburgh Airport Community Fund!

In light of the incorporation of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) into Scottish law (coming into force July 2024), Children in Scotland has launched their new Children’s Rights eLearning course.

Scottish Government has launched an independent review into Community Learning and Development (CLD), with 2 online surveys for learners and potential learners, and practitioners. The deadline for responses to both surveys is Sunday 3rd March.

Our next Health and Wellbeing Forum takes place online via Zoom, 10am – 12pm on Wednesday 6th March. The theme of this meeting is “identifying the latest mental health trends for Falkirk and harnessing the power of Lived Experience in your own service”.

Our upcoming Safer and Empowered Communities Forum takes place online via Zoom, 10am – 12pm on Wednesday 21st February. The theme of the meeting is “protecting and safeguarding adults against varying kinds of harm”.

V for Life is currently offering their members a free taster sessions, following the response to their virtual and in-person cooking demos. They are now taking bookings for sessions in March and April.