Managing Osteoporosis Information Event

Posted on May 12, 2017

If you have been recently diagnosed with osteoporosis, or would like some information about the condition, NHS Forth Valley’s Fracture Liaison Service would like to invite you to attend their “Managing Osteoporosis: looking after your bones” event on Monday 26^th June.

The event will take place 4:30pm – 6pm at the Lecture Theatre in the Learning Centre at Forth Valley Royal Hospital, Stirling Road, Larbert, FKS 4WR, with tea, coffee and biscuits served from 4pm. Speakers will include Kirstie Stenhouse, Fracture Liaison Practitioner with NHS Forth Valley, and Mayrine Fraser, Development Manager from the National Osteoporosis Society.

To book your place, or for further information, please contact Alison Wilson by phone: 01259 214199, or email: a.wilson@nos.org.uk

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Creative Scotland Youth Arts Emergency Funding

Creative Scotland have released new funds to support project activity with children and young people, including the Youth Arts Small Grants Scheme (allows organisations and local authorities to apply for small grants funding of up to £50,000, to distribute £500 – £5,000 to freelance artists and creative practitioners, to deliver youth arts activities; deadline for applications is Monday 2nd November) and the Youth Arts Access Fund (offers grants of £5,000 – £30,000 to those who run youth arts programmes, to support activity from March 2021 onwards. Applications proposing specific actions and partnerships to tackle inequality will be prioritised; deadline for applications is Thursday 12th November).

Weekly Funding Insight Bulletin: w/c Monday 19th October

This week’s Funding Insight Bulletin is now live! The insight bulletin is generated by the Grantsonline Funding Portal, the UK’s most comprehensive and up to date UK grant funding information service.