National Lottery Community Fund Grants for Falkirk East Groups

That the Parliament congratulates eight community groups across the Falkirk East constituency on being awarded National Lottery Funding grants in the last six months up to September 2025; celebrates that £5,589 was awarded to Grangemouth Band of Brothers to run a mental health group for the next two years, £9,140 was awarded to Friends of Inchyra Park to run gardening projects community events for 15 months, £19,426 was awarded to Under the Trees Ltd to provide nature based activities in the Stirling area for a year, £147,892 was awarded to KLSB Community Group to employ an operations manager to oversee the development and delivery of activities, £10,000 was awarded to Slamannan Action Group to run Brunch & Blether for the Slamannan community for a year, £15,000 was awarded to Power Station to upgrade its heating system, £15,089 was awarded to The Falkirk Braes Grange Centre to create fully accessible toilet facilities, and finally £20,000 was awarded to Laurieston Community Hall at The Thrums to refurbish and equip its hall to deliver community needs and events; notes that the National Lottery Community Fund from The National Lottery awards funding to support communities and grassroot organisations to thrive and ensure that what it sees as important community facilities and events are started or maintained; congratulates all eight groups who were awarded grants for their projects, and looks forward to seeing the projects come to fruition in due course.