Beneficiaries
The Sportsman’s Charity was founded in 1983 by David MacLean, John Frame and Andrew Cubie who wished to help provide opportunities for others which they themselves, as sportsmen, had enjoyed in all fields.
Having successfully led the Charity for over 25 years they retired from active involvement in early 2010 but their initial and continuing wishes will continue to be followed by the current Board of Directors of the Charity.
Since its beginnings The Sportsman’s Charity has distributed almost £2.5 million to assist individuals and groups in the fields of sport, the disabled and the disadvantaged. Following the principle that we support those who are already supporting themselves in their day-to-day running but where extra funds can make a difference, most of the funds that have been distributed have been in the form of grants to smaller charities and projects. We do also support a small number of larger charities which meet our criteria by accepting auction items to sell on their behalf.
Below is an A-Z list of charities and projects to which we have given support. Please click on a particular letter to locate a good cause.
133rd Haymarket Venture Scouts Unit
137th Glasgow Scout Group
1st Kilmadock Rainbows
6 & 7 Boys Brigade Company Trinity Church
Aberlour Child Care Unit
Abernethy Angling Improvement Society
Access to Training and Employment
Action For The Crippled Child
Action Research
Adventure Sailing Trust
Aims Youth Project
Alastair Crerar Trust
Alastair Hignell Interferon Fund
Alness United FC
Alzheimer Scotland
Amnesty International
Answer Youth Information Cafe
ARC
Arthritis Care Musselburgh
Ashcraig School
Aspire
AWP Coatbridge AFC
Ayrshire Rolling Cougars
Ayrshire Rolling Cougars Wheelchair Sports Club
Baillieston Girl’s Football Team
Bainsford Parish Church
Bee All You Can Find
Beith Playpark Action Group
Bellshill & Mossend YMCA
Big Project
Birthright
BLAST
Board 2 Extremes
Bonar Bridge and Ardgay Youth Group
Borders Children’s Therapy Unit
Borders Community Health Services
Borders Talking Newspaper
Borders Wheelchair Curling Club
Boys & Girls Clubs of Scotland
Boys’ Brigade Glasgow Battalion
Boys’ Brigade Livingston Company
Brae Partnership
Brainwave
British Liver Trust
Brora Youth Access
Broughton High School
Brunswick Youth Centre
Buna Limited, Harris
Cameron Sharp Appeal
Cancer Bacup
Cancer Relief Macmillan Fund
Cancer Research UK
Candlelighters Trust
Canongate Youth Project
Capability Scotland
Care Partners (The Lodge Club)
Carefree Kids
Centre for Metabolic Bone Disease
Charleston Neighbourhood Centre
CHAS
Cherry Trees Project
Child Psychotherapy Trust
Childline
Children in Scotland
Children of Slovakia Happiness Appeal
Children’s National Hospital
Church of Scotland
Clovenstone Community Centre
Clyde Cruising Club
Clyde Sail Training Club
Colston Milton Church
Columba 1400
Comedians Golfing Society
Community Central Hall (Bridge P
Community Corner
Computers & Integration Disabled
Continuing Care Service
Corstorphine Youth Club
Council for Music in Hospitals
Cowdenbeath / Lochgelly JAG
Craighall Day Centre
Craigmillar Adventure Project
Craigroyston Community HS Fund
Croileagan An Taobh Siar
Cruse Bereavement Care Lanarkshire
Cue & Review Recording Service
Cumbernauld Traditional Tae Kwon Do
Cystic Fibrosis Holiday Fund
Cystic Fibrosis Holiday Fund
Cystic Fibrosis Research Trust
Dalmuir Out of School Care Group
Deaf Connections
DEBRA
Development Unit for People with Disabilities
Diabetes UK (Berwickshire Branch
Dingwall Drop-In Kafe
Disability & Rehabilitation Education Foundation
Disabled & Handicapped Sport
Disabled of Craigmillar
Dornoch Youth Group
Douglas House
Drake Music Project
Dugald McArthur Trust Fund
Dumfries & Galloway Association
Dumfries and Galloway Council on Alcohol
Dunfermline Advocacy Initiative
East Park Home For Infirm Children
Eastenders Stroke Club
Edenhall Hospital
Edinburgh & East of Scotland Society For The Deaf
Edinburgh & Leith Age Concern
Edinburgh & Lothian Clubs for Young People
Edinburgh & Lothians Club for Youth
Edinburgh Association for Mental Health
Edinburgh Camp & Services for Homeless
Edinburgh City Mission
Edinburgh Community Trust
Edinburgh Headway Group
Edinburgh Outward Bound Assoc
Edinburgh Road Club
Edinburgh Sitters
Edinburgh Super Youth League
Edinburgh University Childrens Holiday Venture
Edinburgh Volunteer Tutors Organisation
Edinburgh Walk-In Numeracy Centre
Edinburgh Young Carers Project
Endeavour Scotland
Enlighten
Epilepsy Association of Scotland
Epilepsy Society of Scotland
Eric Liddell Centre Ltd
European Summer Special Olympics
Evanton Judo Club
Extreme Wheels
Faces
Fair Play Training & Development Project
Fibromyalgia Friends of Scotland
Floras Soccer School
Forth & Tay Disabled Ramblers
Forth Valley Sports Association for People with Disabilities
Fortune Riding Therapy Centre
Freeman Transplant Association
Freespace Housing
Friends of Craigmillar
Friends of Midlothian’s Children
Friends of the Simpson Neo-Nnatal Clinic
Furniture Project Tayside
Garvald Centre
Glasgow & West of Scotland Deaf Children’s Society
Glasgow Braendam Link
Glasgow Centre for the Deaf
Glasgow Handicapped Children’s Pilgimage Trust
Glencoe Trust
Glenkers Community & Arts Trust
Glenurquhart Youth Club
Glenvale AFC Boys Club
Gogarburn Hospital
Gorbals Youth Project
Gorgie City Farm
Grange Hockey Club Centenary Fund
Grantown Speyside Old Peoples’ Association
Grapevine
Great Ormond Street Hospital
Greenbank Parish Church Youth Club
Greenhills Drop-In Youth Club
Greenhills Out of School Care
Guide Dogs for The Blind
Headwell Community Church
Help The Aged
Highland Basketball Club
Highland Children’s Forum
Highland Hospice
Hignell Interferon Fund
Honeycomb Community
Hopscotch Holidays
Hutchison Vale Football Club
Imaginate
Intensive Care Endowment Fund Western General Hospital
Interest Link
Inverclyde Deaf Forum
Inverness Shinty Club
Iochdair
Islay Boys Football Club
Jackie Ashdown Appeal
Jackson Youth Club
Jet Trampoline Club
Jim Baxter Memorial Football Club
John Muir Trust
Jubilee Sailing Trust
Jura Playground Association
Keepers of the Green
Keepers of the Green
Kidney Patients Association
Kilbride Kavern
Kilsyth traditional Tae Kwon Do Club
Kilwinning Community Sports Club
Kilwinning Rangers Boys & Girls
King’s Kids
Kinlochbervie Planning for Play Association
Lanark and Carluke District Arthritis Care
Langholm Playcare Ltd
Leith HomeStart
Leonard Cheshire Scotland
Leslie Stoddart Appeal Fund
Leukaemia Benevolent Fund
Leukaemia Research Fund
Lewis & Harris Football Assoc
Lochinmerch Playgroup
Lochmaben Bowling Club
Lochryan Pipe Band
London Scottish RFC
Longniddry Rotary Club
Lord Roberts Workshops
Lothian Association of Boys Clubs
Lothian Centre for Integrated Living
Lothian Federation of Boys’ Clubs
Lothian Special Olympics
Lucy Hayter Appeal
Margaret Blackwood Housing Assoc
Marie Curie Cancer Care
Marie Curie Foundation
Maritime Volunteer Service (N Ayrshire)
Medic I
Medical Foundation for Victims of Torture
Men Against Cancer
Mid Argyll Community Dance Group
Mid Craigie Area Summer Camp Trust
Millerston Nursery
Mitchell Hall Resource Centre
Monklands Youth Rugby Club
Moray & Banff Deaf Children’s Society
Mrs ME Wright with Imagine Chicago
MS Society Holiday Respite Care Centre, Holmhill, Grantown on Spey
Muirfield Riding for the Disable
Muirhouse Six Circle Project
Muirhouse Youth Development Group
Multiple Sclerosis Society
Murrayfield Church Dementia Project
Muscular Dystrophy
Musselburgh RCC
Myelin Project
Neurology Research & Education Fund
Nigel Tranter Memorial Fund
Nordoff Robbins Music Therapy UK
North Merchiston Boys’ Club
Not Forgotten Association
OneCity Fund
Pacers Wheelchair Sports Club
Pain Association Scotland
Parkinson’s Self Help Group
PASS
PATH
PBC (Primary Biliary Cirrhosis) Foundation
Pentland View Close Support Unit
Peter Allis Classic
Petersburn United AFC
Phab Scotland
PHAD Fife
Pittentrail Recreation Hall Committee
Play & Care Entrust (PACE)
Play-Base Project
Playback Trust
Police Aided Clothing Scheme Edinburgh
Polio Plus
Pollockshaws After School Service
Poloc Cricket Club
Portage
Positive Action Housing
Primary Club
Prince’s Scottish Youth Business Trust (PSYBT)
Princess Margaret Rose Orthopaedic Hospital
Princess Royal Trust for Carers
Project for Amputees
Project Trust
Red Cross
Research Trust for Metabolic Diseases in Children
Respiratory Unit, Royal Hospital for Sick Children.
RFU Disabled Players’ Fund
Richard Cave MS Holiday Home
Riding for the Disabled
Riding for the Disabled Association Mosswood Group
Riding for the Disabled Thornton Rose
Rigpa Fellowship
Rock Trust
Roosters After School Care
Royal Blind Asylum & School
Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors’ (RICS) Benevolent Fund Ltd.
Royal National Institute for the Blind
RSSPCC
Rutherglen Amateur Boxing Club
Salvation Army
Sarah Matheson Trust
Save The Children Ethiopia
Saving Faces
Scalpay Playgroup
Scotland Yard Adventure Centre
Scotstoun & Bearsden Warriors Taekwondo Club
Scottish Adoption Association
Scottish Association for the Deaf
Scottish Ballet
Scottish Blind Golf Society
Scottish Care & Information on Miscarriage
Scottish Cot Death Trust
Scottish Council for Spastics
Scottish Council on Alcohol
Scottish Disability Sport
Scottish Disabled Sailors Association
Scottish Dyslexia Trust Appeal
Scottish Lame Ducks Disabled Angling Club
Scottish Motor Neurone Disease
Scottish Schoolboys Camp
Scottish Select Wheelchair Basketball
Scottish Society for Autistic Children
Scottish Spina Bifida Fund
Scottish Sports Aid Trust
Scottish Sports Assoc. for the Disabled
Scottish Sports Futures
Scottish Throughcare and Aftercare Forum
Scripture Union Scotland
Seafar FC.
Seagull Trust
Search M.E.
Sense Scotland
Sensory Impaired Support Group Home
Shopmobility Paisley & District
Sick Kids Appeal
SIDRA
Single Parent Family
SNAP (Special Needs Adventure Playground)
Social Iceberg Foundation Scotland
Sounds of Progress
South Edinburgh Amenities Group
Southside Old Town Sports Centre
SPARKS
SPC Ltd
Special Olympics United Kingdom
Spinal Research
Sport Any Way
St Catharine’s Convent of Mercy
St Catherine’s Homeless Project
St George’s & St Peter’s CA
St Mary’s Music School
STA Schooners
Stannah Power Chairs Ltd
Star Youth Club
Stars for Spastics Scotland
Steve Morgan Benevolent Fund
Stow Parish Trust
Streetwork
Sue Ryder Foundation
Sunseekers
Sutton Coldfield Baptist Church
Tarbert Community Development Association
Taynuilt Sports Club
Temple Shafton Youth Project
Tenovus Scotland
The Brae Partnership
The Bridge Community Project
The Coach House Trust
The Good Shepherd Centre
The Lennox Love Trust
The Lin Berwick Trust
The Meningitis Trust
The Pavillion (The Greater Easterhouse Learning Network)
The Spark Initiative
Thistle (Wheelchair) Basketball Club
Thistle Foundation
Three Towns Blind Club
Three Towns No1 F.C.
Torpichen Playgroup
Townhead Amateurs FC
Trash Music Project
Uphill Ski Club of GB
Upstairs Kids Club
Urban Plunge
Viewpark Family Centre
Way Ahead Group
West Haugh Centre
West Lothian Visually Impaired Bowlers
West of Scotland Wheelchair Sports Club
West Side Football & Recreation
Westcare
Western General Hospital Intensive Care Unit
Westwood Pre-5s
Wheatfields Hospice, Headingly
Whitehill Stroke Club
Wick Youth Club
Wigan Hospice
Willie Bauld Charity Golf Tournament
Willie Hogg Memorial Trust
Wooden Spoon Society
Woods for All
Yorkhill Children’s Trust
Young Arthritis Care
Young Women’s Project
Youth Clubs Scotland
Youth for Understanding
Youth Inclusive

