"EVERY single penny" of a £1,000 grant will go towards young people with learning difficulties in Fife thanks to Times readers.

We asked you to vote for your favourite charity in Scotland to receive a portion of a £16,000 cash pot from our parent company’s charitable arm, the Gannett Foundation.

And now our chosen organisation, Fairway Fife, will receive a £1009.30 share to be spent on equipment or events chosen by their service users.

Jaqui Dow, chair of the charity, said: "It's absolutely fabulous, every single penny goes to such a good cause with us, everything is spent directly on the charity, there is no money which goes elsewhere.

"Everything 100 per cent benefits the guys we support, it will absolutely make a difference.

"It means we can look a equipment and things like that which we wouldn't usually have the funds to buy."

What happens with the money will be decided by the young people Fairway Fife supports, with their aim being to create “lived experiences” of being a teenager and build friendships as they move into adulthood.

Jaqui added: "We do consult with our members all the time to see what would benefit them and what they would use.

"We will arrange a get-together evening and have a chat and tell them about the award and get some feedback from them on the best way to spend it.

"It's normally that they would like to go to a special theatre night or even a night away somewhere.

"Last time we got a little bit of money from another organisation they wanted a Go-Pro camera to do movie shots so we invested some money in that as well as some staff water training.

"It enabled us then to carry out sessions on the water without having to have other instructors with us, we could just arrange it and do it at times which suited the guys, we weren't relying on other people delivering the session for us."

Outings are supported by volunteer mentors who are the same age as service users and involve things like shopping or football trips, or even bigger days out like cinema trips and nights away in places like Glasgow.

The group also works with places like Lochore Meadows to provide water sports activities, while also giving back by creating cycle paths at the park, a job which is rewarded with free access to equipment.

They also provide opportunities to work with groups like the Pars Foundation, who run football sessions and Walk and Talk meetings, Duloch in Bloom, who develop garden areas in Dunfermline, and Grow West Fife, where they learn about how to harvest and grow different foods.

Jaqui continued: "The volunteers are really good at feeding back to us, they're the ones who have the closest time with them at events.

"They will tell us if someone has really enjoyed a show or is mentioning that they would really like to see something at somewhere like the Alhambra.

"That helps us decide what direction and activities we are planning.

"I want to say a massive thanks to all the readers, thanks for giving us the opportunity to have some cash that we can spend that doesn't have to be spent in a certain way, which can go directly to the guys."