Common Wheel has been awarded a second grant of £10,000 to help fund their climbing programmes for people managing or recovering from mental illness.

CIS’s “Thrive” project, which got going at the end of 2024, and was awarded £4795 by the Trust to introduce hill walking to a minimum of 42 men, mainly from  West African, East African, and Kurdish Sorani and Kurmanji communities.

The SMT is delighted to have provided £2700 that enabled primary children from Benarty Primary School near Lochore to enjoy ten 2-hour indoor sessions at the Edinburgh Internatonal Climbing Arena at Ratho.

The SMT has made a £20,000 grant to the Venture Trust charity so that more vulnerable people can benefit from a wilderness journey through highland Scotland. These journeys are the centre of VT’s intensive programme for people who face the barriers caused by addiction, poverty, unemployment, a convictions history, or mental health troubles.

This Scottish charity runs courses for 10–18 year olds, mainly at indoor and outdoor climbing walls. and with an award of £1960 from the SMT, they’ll help more youngsters start climbing in Scotland’s great outdoors in 2022.

The Scottish company Mhòr Outdoor enables people from socially excluded backgrounds to get out on Scotland’s hills, and the Trust is supporting it through a £2000 grant.