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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Now that our base is in Scotland the trustees decided to re-establish Paristamen as a Scottish charitable incorporated organisation (SCIO) from 2021 named The Paristamen Charity – however there is no change to our contact details. All grants from June…
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The Paristamen CIO is delighted to announce details of our 2021 large grant programme. We are inviting bids for a one-off £20,000 grant on the theme: Christian Hope in a Post-Covid Scotland. Full details on the large grants page –…
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The large grants page on this site has plenty of new information on our biggest grantmaking programme – a single grant award of £20,000 each year for inovative work in a key area with a different theme each year. Latest…
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The Paristamen Annual Report and Accounts for the year to 31 March 2020 is now available on our charitable basis page on this site. The document (which will shortly be filed with the Charity Commission and with OSCR) includes a…
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We would just like to assure those who may be considering submitting grant applications to us that we are working as normal during the Coronavirus crisis in spring 2020. The trustees are in close touch with each other. Grant applications…
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In February 2020, the trustees agreed to appoint David McGregor as a new trustee. Based in the West of Scotland, David brings personal experience of involvement in a wide range of Scottish charities including the church sector and professional experience…
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For 2020, Paristamen is pleased to offer a one-off large grant of £20,000 for a charity working in the field of Action to Support Refugees and Asylum Seekers in Scotland. Details are now available on our large grants page –…
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The Paristamen CIO has been looking for one (or more) new trustees to share in our key decisions about awarding grants and all other decisions on the work of this small grant-making charity. The deadline for expressions of interest was extended to…
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