Following a recent strategy review by trustees, The Paristamen Charity is tightening the criteria for award of Responsive grants. This is because we were starting to receive more applications than we could effectively consider, which would have meant a very…
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The second year’s annual report and accounts of The Paristamen Charity – for the year ending 31 March 2023 – are now available on this site. This is our second year as a SCIO, but it the 38th year since…
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Paristamen’s 2023 Blue Sky Grant of £25,000 has been awarded to the University of Glasgow (Theology and Religious Studies) for a project to be led by Revd Dr Doug Gay and Prof Heather Walton – see the press release for…
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The Trustees of The Paristamen Charity have now updated the invitation to bid for our 2023 Blue Sky Grant. We are offering a grant of £25,000 for an imaginative project on the theme: Christian Reflection on Scotland’s Constitutional Future. The…
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We have just filed our first trustees’ report and accounts with OSCR for The Paristamen Charity in our new structure as a SCIO – they are available to view or download on the charitable basis page. They cover a period of…
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The trustees have agreed that from the year 2022/23 The Paristamen Charity will seek to increase the level of our funding to support those in the world’s poorest countries. This will be implemented in two ways: we will increase the…
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We are delighted to confirm the appointment of Sheena Stone as a trustee of the Paristamen Charity. Her appointment was made in response to an open advertisement. She attended the February 2022 trustees meeting as an observer and was then…
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We have now filed our 2021 accounts for The Paristamen CIO both with the Charity Commission for England and Wales and with the Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator (OSCR). They are available on the Charitable Basis page of this…
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We are delighted to announce an opportunity to join the trustee board of The Paristamen Charity and thus share in deciding how we award grants and all the other issues of how the charity is run! This could be a…
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The Paristamen Charity has now launched an invitation to submit bids for our first ever “Blue Sky” grant to be awarded from January 2022. This year’s theme is mental health of young people in Scotland. Under the Blue Sky programme we…
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