Funded by Comic Relief, through the Scottish Community Foundation. Comic Relief spends money raised by its fundraising campaigns, Red Nose Day and Sport Relief.
Dumfries and Galloway has the highest percentage of older people in Scotland. Currently 44,665 (30.1%) of our 148,190 population is over 60. Statistics from the National Records of Scotland show that this will continue to be the case. Their fact sheet produced at the beginning of 2011 can be downloaded here