Giving back

At Underbelly we’re proud to support a number charities both locally in the areas we host festivals and events and also nationally.

If you would like your charity to be considered as a partner for one of Underbelly’s events, please get in touch using our contact us form.

Raising money for The Brain Tumour Charity

£19,819 raised from ticket sales to the Street Party hosted by Johnnie Walker.

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Underbelly raises over £29,000

Underbelly raises over £29,000 at Edinburgh’s Christmas and Edinburgh’s Hogmanay in support of OneCity Trust’s work fighting inequality and exclusion across Edinburgh.

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Fair Saturday 2018

On 1 December 2018, Edinburgh’s Christmas took part in St Andrew’s Fair Saturday which is a new initiative delivered in a partnership between the Scottish Government and the Fair Saturday Foundation. On that day, all proceeds from Silent Light went to support three charities: Deafblind Scotland, National Deaf Children Society and Royal National Institute of Blind People.

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£1 from every ticket sold donated to RNLI at Edinburgh’s Loony Dook

£1 from every ticket bought for the Loony Dook at Edinburgh's Hogmanay is donated to the RNLI.

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The Brain Tumour Charity

£21,256.17 raised from voluntary donations from festival goers at Edinburgh Fringe and Underbelly Festival Southbank 2019.

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Planting New Trees in Edinburgh

The Christmas Tree Maze raised £9,104 for local charity, Edinburgh and the Lothians Greenspace Trust’s Tree Time.

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Raising £6,915 for One City Trust

Underbelly and Danny MacAskill’s Drop and Roll raised £6,915 in support of OneCity Trust’s work fighting inequality and exclusion across Edinburgh.

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Underbelly’s Big Brain Tumour Benefit 2019

On August 12 Underbelly sold-out the McEwan Hall raising a grand total of £41,055.00 through its third annual Big Brain Tumour Benefit.

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NSPCC

Through Box Office and charity collections on Edinburgh streets – including the official start of the festive season in the city, Light Night – Edinburgh’s Christmas 2018 raised £13,594 for NSPCC.

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The Big Brain Tumour Benefit

Underbelly held the Big Brain Tumour Benefit in 2018, with a sell-out concert at McEwan Hall. Tickets and accompanying donations raised over £40,000 towards the charity.

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222kg of Food Donated

In 2018 Underbelly donated 222.3kg of food and non-perishable items to the Edinburgh Food Project which went to the Edinburgh North West, Central and East food banks. In addition to this Edinburgh’s Christmas raised just under £1,000 in financial donations for the food banks and gave 12,000 free tickets to their users.

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Making a Positive Impact

Underbelly raised just under £20,000 through Silent Light donations towards the One City Trust.

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Connection Crew

Connection Crew started out in 2005 and since then they have employed 248 people with a history of homelessness to complete 136,017 hours of work

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