Winter 2021 awards

Overhaul the club’s armoury to allow fencing to take place in a safe, responsible and welcoming environment, and offer necessary equipment to new or prospective members.

The Golf Club wants to change the selective stigma of golf by offering free rental clubs to recreational golfers to develop their skills, socialise and enjoy the sport.

Acquire parallel bars and rings and thereby increase the range of gymnastics apparatus the club’s gymnasts can train on.

Edinburgh University Jazz Orchestra

Funding camera equipment to record practices and matches, which will be streamed online. This will help to build a wealth of online resources for students to learn about kendo.

Edinburgh University Lawn Tennis Club

Edinburgh University Orienteering Club

Edinburgh University Triathlon Club (EUTRI)

Funding to build up a substantial inventory of open water swim kit for club members, including wetsuits, gloves, socks and safety buoys that the members can borrow or rent in order to go open water swimming.

Linda Initiative plans to run a program to provide guide booklets to teenagers in Kenya. Linda Initiative started in 2018 and aims to provide sex education to youth in Kenya in order to protect them from misinformed decisions.

The aim of this project is to build a miniature contemporary art space where the work of art students can be installed and subsequently exhibited.

The exhibition is an accessible event conceived by the Early Career Creatives, a group of emerging artists based in Edinburgh and further afield. They are working together to create and provide opportunities to promote each other's artistic practices.

£5,000

Mind-Athletics: Settle, strengthen and stretch the mind

To launch a podcast that focuses on World Christianity and promotes research of PhD students at the University of Edinburgh.

Given the rapidly increased level of social isolation, bringing with it emotional, mental, and physical illness and stress, this Telefriending partnership with a local charity would provide regular contact between students and isolated local people.

Re:think is a peer-reviewed online journal of creative ethnography, which is managed by an editorial collective of undergraduate students (UG) at the School of Social and Political Science, and features work by UG students at the University of Edinburgh and beyond.

This project aims to build hedgehog friendly spaces at the Easter Bush Campus to stimulate biodiversity and well-being.

The goal of this project is to run three seasonal courses by leading naturalist Dan Puplett, aiming to teach essential skills while improving understanding of the species present on the Easter Bush campus.

She Can is a pilot program that aims to provide employment opportunities and a self-care platform for underprivileged women in a tribal region of Maharashtra, India, to improve their livelihoods.

The aim of this project is to set up a multi-disciplinary Arduino group that is accessible to all students at the University. The group will offer tuition, funding and support to enable students to build and showcase their own electronics-based projects. 

The PremierDev Summer Tech BootCamp is a three months intensive tech bootcamp. It aims to provide young Cameroonians with software development skills to develop software products for the African service industry in a Covid-era digital world.

Enhancing the reliability of health care services delivery in Rwandan hospitals and health care centres.

A student-led group will establish a network to interact and share ideas among Malaysian Earth Science students all over the world.

Edinburgh University Sports Union (Wellbeing Committee)