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Mearns and Coastal Health Living Network’s Future Secured with Three-year Funding Grant

  • Submitted by: Tess White, North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party.
  • Date lodged: Monday, 10 February 2025
  • Motion reference: S6M-16392

That the Parliament congratulates Mearns and Coastal Health Living Network (MCHLN) on securing three years of funding, totalling £90,000, from the Bank of Scotland Foundation’s funding programme, Enable; recognises that Mearns and Coastal Healthy Living Network was formed as a charity in 2002 to support older people living across Kincardine and the Mearns; understands that the grant will be used to support the day-to-day running of MCHLN, as well as the delivery of groups and activities that address loneliness and isolation, while promoting health and wellbeing; notes that the charity also offers vital volunteering opportunities by providing volunteer-led transport services for older people in isolated rural areas to access healthcare appointments, undertake shopping trips or to visit spouses in care homes, and applauds the funding success, which, it believes, will allow it to continue delivering vital services to vulnerable older people across Kincardine and the Mearns.


Supported by: Karen Adam, Jeremy Balfour, Colin Beattie, Miles Briggs, Jackson Carlaw, Sharon Dowey, Tim Eagle, Russell Findlay, Meghan Gallacher, Maurice Golden, Pam Gosal, Jamie Greene, Dr. Sandesh Gulhane, Craig Hoy, Liam Kerr, Bill Kidd, Douglas Lumsden, Ruth Maguire, Stuart McMillan, Edward Mountain, Douglas Ross, Alexander Stewart, Kevin Stewart, Paul Sweeney, Annie Wells, Brian Whittle