{"grants":[{"amountAppliedFor":9970,"amountAwarded":9970,"awardDate":"2018-10-30","description":"Background We have operated as a constituted community group called 1st Step Café for the last 3 years and in October 2018 we became a charity registered with OSCR, as 1st Step Development Ventures SCIO. We support a weekly SMART recovery meeting and also a Recovery Cafe, which is open to everyone. Both are based at the Longcroft Hall in Linlithgow. Last year we created a lovely therapeutic cafe garden space with 6 raised beds and separate herb and fruit growing areas. A vibrant team of volunteers run both the café and garden. The café offers healthy and delicious meals, with many ingredients sourced from the garden produce. On a weekly basis the café offers free food surplus from local supermarkets to everyone attending. This has proved to be a very popular and valuable service to our communities. Our garden recently contributed to Burgh Beautiful in Linlithgow achieving Gold in the Britain in Bloom awards and to coming first in the UK \"Town\" Category. Over the last 2 years we have gone on to develop a new bicycle refurbishing initiative called 1st Step Bikes, based at the Linlithgow Community Recycling Centre. We are currently open 3 days a week but hope to expand to be open every day from next year. On average we work with between 15-20 people a week and we have a waiting list for people who have been referred to our courses. We receive referrals from many organisations including criminal justice teams, social work, nurses, third sector organisations and self -referral. People from all across West Lothian and surrounding communities take part in our courses. We offer bike refurbishment training courses, from the Recycling Centre, for people in recovery from addiction. The courses enable people to start to learn new skills, develop routines, make wider social connections (really important to preventing relapse) and start to rebuild their lives. We have just started to offer accredited courses through West Lothian College. Our work was recently recognised by Cycling UK, when we were awarded \"Community Group of the Year\" for 2018. Three months ago, building on the success of our café, we launched Mustard Seed Catering, which offers the opportunity to gain new transferrable skills and qualifications in a supported and social environment while producing food orders for a number of customers. We have quickly built a team of 7 people, 6 of whom are regular volunteers benefiting from the new opportunities. As with 1st Step Bikes we receive referrals from a wide range of organisations (social work, criminal justice, GP's, nurses and voluntary) and have a waiting list. Overview of what we would like you to fund Our established relationships with a participant group that is often isolated and alienated from service providers means that we are in a unique position to effectively provide help and advice in a way that makes a real difference. We have found that participants in our activities are often vulnerable to changes and uncertainty caused by, for example, changes to benefits, health related issues in their families, accessing employment, and access to services. For this reason, we want to carry out work to improve resilience among our participants. We would like to pilot a new project building on the success and knowledge gained through our work over the last 3.5 years. This would increase our capacity and enable our café to become a \"resource hub\". The hub would be a one-stop-shop for people affected by addiction providing timely support, information and skills training to meet the need for people to access services earlier and help people to take decisions that keep their lives stable and avoid crisis around – food, housing, energy, education and training, money advice, recovery, health and other support services. In order to do this we will need investment to enable us to recruit a part time resource coordinator, invest in computer equipment and support 2 sessional workers to offer resilience building workshops focusing on growing your own food and fun cooking on a budget workshops. We know that travel costs and accessibility are barriers to people attending our café and projects. The funding would also enable us to recruit and pay mileage expenses to volunteer drivers who would provide free transport to the SMART recovery meeting, café and 1st Step Bikes, every Tuesday from West Lothian and Falkirk areas. The resource hub would have a regular monthly programme of drop-in sessions supported by other organisations like the CAB to provide specialist advice and support in the safe and trusted environment of the café. We have a private space that could be used for this. Many of the people attending the café or our projects struggle to engage with service providers. Some need additional support or an individual to act as a bridge to support by sometimes \"buddying\" them to appointments or helping them make them in the first place. Our role would be to empower individuals and help them become more confident enabling them to access help in the future without or with less support. Also to be become more financially resilient by having better knowledge about budgeting, food growing and cooking food on a budget. How will we do it? This fund would enable us to recruit a 1st Step Hub Coordinator to work for 7 hours a week and undertake the tasks required to develop the café into an accessible and well connected resource centre, that also offers a variety of workshops to help people lead happier and healthier lives with less stress and more control around money management or other wellbeing issues. The Hub Co-ordinator would be based at the Café every Tuesday and as required and would: • Offer and promote meaningful volunteering opportunities for people targeting people affected by addiction or unemployment but open to others who want to contribute. • Recruit 3 volunteer drivers and buddies to provide transport to those in need or support to make and attend appointments with agencies. • Network with referring agencies including Criminal Justice teams, Social Work, Housing, NHS and other third sector organisations to promote signposting to 1st Step. • Develop and coordinate a rota of weekly drop in sessions for advice and support services delivered by partners (develop new partnerships including with the CAB, West Lothian Advice shops, DWP and Housing departments) on welfare, benefits, debt and money advice. • Offer one-to-one drop in confidential surgeries for people in need. • Signpost people to other support services when appropriate. • Organise training on basic welfare issues and local services for all 1st Step volunteers. • Run weekly IT training sessions for everyday life access to job hunting, CV building and benefits completion of forms. (Three laptops would be available through the funding). • Recruit a team of 3 volunteer buddies to support people to access the laptops and support the training. • Some of these tasks would develop over the year as we gain more knowledge through regular reflection and evaluation meetings with our Development Manager. As well as the 6 new volunteer roles we hope to engage with around 6 people each week who will access the IT training and 8 to 10 people who will access the advice and support drop in surgeries. Sessional Gardener and Training Chef The funding would also enable us to recruit a sessional gardener and a training chef who would work together to make the most of the garden produce. We would support our gardener and training chef to develop and pilot suitable learning workshops based in our community garden and café. Over the year we would offer a total of 4, 6 week long \"grow your own food\" workshops. We anticipate 6/8 participants to take part in each course so we hope to engage with at least 24 people over the year. In addition over the year we would offer a total of 4, 6-week \"fun and easy cooking on a budget\" workshops. As well as recipe ideas and tips we would look to include how to feed yourself and family for a week on a budget. This would help people plan and apply their knowledge over a longer time frame to really help people benefit. We would anticipate that 6 to 8 people would take part in each set of cooking workshops so we would hope to engage with an additional minimum 24 people over the year. Why will we do it? After discussions around changing needs with our community and partners and the potential to better meet and bridge these, we have identified an innovative opportunity to build on the strengths and networks of 1st Step (including 1st Step Bikes and the Mustard Seed) and develop the capacity our 1st Step café to become a valuable \"resource hub\". This will be a one-stop shop to provide information and support to people affected by addiction. Our local work highlights that welfare reform is impacting upon people in many different ways, and at different rates. It is important therefore to stay on top of what is happening locally to understand what help people may require, how our service can meet their needs, and to raise awareness of support that is available. It is clear that many of the people that attend our café and other services are affected by poverty and welfare reform. They have to make choices about which necessary costs to spend their money on, fuel, food, clothing, bills or other demands. 1st Step Café and our other projects are well used by people affected by addiction from across West Lothian and Falkirk. The Café has a weekly footfall of between 25-50 people. 1st Step Bikes engages with around 15-20 people a week with new referrals every 6 weeks. Our new project, the Mustard Seed works with around 7 volunteers but engages with other community projects working in West Lothian and Falkirk who also work to mitigate the effects of welfare reform and poverty. Most of the people involved in our work are on low incomes and are increasingly being affected by benefit changes and living in poverty. Many access food banks (we are referring agency) and are increasingly struggling with welfare reform. Many of the people involved in our activities are in the early stages of recovery and still affected by chaotic lifestyles. They struggle to engage with service providers or other forms of support. By using our existing community networks, peer support, activities and trust that has been built up over 3 years, we are in a unique position to be able to provide the additional support necessary to mitigate the impact of welfare reform. Our current capacity is limited, but a Resource Coordinator would enable us to network with a range of other support services, so that if we do not have the answers, we would be able to confidently signpost people. People that have mobility issues, or where transport is a barrier to engagement, would be able to come to the café and attend the SMART recovery meeting, eat a nutritious lunch and access valuable information that could prevent people falling into serious debt, lose their tenancy, relapse into addiction. These approaches will ease the costs of everyday living for local people and increase income by ensuring that people are claiming all the benefits they are entitled to and are better placed to use modern IT to be successful in job hunting. Who will benefit? People (individuals and families) affected by addiction across West Lothian and Falkirk would benefit from the new resource hub. We work closely with Steptogether a local support group for friends and family of those affected by addiction. We benefit from family and friends attending the café and social activities run by the café. However, the hub would also welcome anyone who is involved or interested in 1st Step's activities. Interaction between different people opens many doors and promotes integration and access to new social networks, which are the building blocks to recovery. Where will the work take place? The hub would be established in Linlithgow but cover West Lothian and Falkirk. Currently we have people attending the cafe and activities from across these two Council areas. Some of the people travelling have free bus passes issued by their workers, but for some people costs or length of journey through public transport is an issue. We would offer free transport to people where this is a barrier to accessing our services. This new support will make a huge difference to many people. 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Our approach involves looking at people’s need holistically – training and developing other forms of recovery capital in the form of soft skills, relationships, networks and norms. Our activities aim to empower people by helping them build stronger social connections to tackle isolation, learning new transferable life and work skills to build confidence, purpose and reach their potential.","streetAddress":"Avonmill House, 12 Avonmill Road","addressLocality":"Linlithgow","addressRegion":"West Lothian","postalCode":"EH49 7QX","location":[{"latitude":55.980079,"longitude":-3.629675},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S13002820","geoCodeType":"WD"},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S14000043","geoCodeType":"WPC"},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S03000035","geoCodeType":"CCG"}],"addressCountry":"Scotland"}],"beneficiaryLocation":[{"latitude":55.980079,"longitude":-3.629675},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S13002820","geoCodeType":"WD"},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S14000043","geoCodeType":"WPC"},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S03000035","geoCodeType":"CCG"}],"fundingOrganization":[{"name":"Scottish Council For Voluntary Organisations","id":"GB-SC-SC003558","charityNumber":"SC003558","department":"Policy","streetAddress":"Caledonian Exchange, 19A Canning Street","addressLocality":"Edinburgh","addressRegion":"City of Edinburgh","postalCode":"EH3 8EG","addressCountry":"Scotland","description":"The Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations is the membership organisation for Scotland's charities, voluntary organisations and social enterprises.","url":"http://scvo.scot","location":[{"latitude":55.959611,"longitude":-3.190946}]}],"grantProgramme":[{"code":"scvo-ccrf-r4-strand-3","title":"Community Capacity & Resilience Fund - R4 Strand 3","description":"Funding to help local voluntary sector groups and organisations across Scotland tackle poverty and mitigate against UK government welfare changes.","url":"https://scvo.scot/funding/community-capacity-resilience-fund"}],"fromOpenCall":"Yes","dateModified":"2020-03-24T10:55:44+00:00","dataSource":"https://scvo.scot/funding/data/archive/community-capacity-resilience-fund.json"},{"amountAppliedFor":4900,"amountAwarded":4900,"awardDate":"2018-10-26","description":"WHAT WE WILL BE DOING WITH THIS PROJECT. A M Special Needs – This project will extend our current delivery on this theme of providing health and fitness activities for the learning disabled and those with other disabilities. Our current delivery for those with special needs has been focussed on delivery to children in high schools. This project will support youths and adults beyond school age, recognising that this group has the same health need as any other but with different characteristics and challenges. Beyond school age the education and welfare system has no responsibility to help this group with health and fitness activities The project will focus on features to stimulate learning disabled and other disabled participants who need: • The benefits of healthy exercise, along with; • The attendant social interaction of working in a group • Additional motivation and content to develop their involvement. The project will serve a disabled group that generally does not have the capacity to understand the principles of sport and competition or rules of play and behaviour, but physically each participant requires healthy exercise as much as any person. The project will also help carers, usually family members parents and siblings who also provide a caring role and have most often exhausted their own efforts to generate fresh and successful challenges for the individuals they care for. For both the disabled group and the carers the project intends to inspire methods of maintaining their health, both with our group activities and in inspiring their own efforts and engagement at family level in-between sessions, exploring practical activities relevant to individual's capabilities. We will also work with organisations who are already serving this client group but not delivering our form of intervention i.e. to develop healthy exercise, team activities and the social interaction that follows with participation in this form of group activity. REFORM ISSUES An undoubtedly unintentional spin-off of the reform of public service has been that priority in the reform of creating person-centred-planning which has resulted in literally almost eliminating but certainly minimising the social interaction that was previously derived from group work. The practice and resources, at least in our nearby day centres, is now dominated by service to individuals, moving individuals who previously gathered in day centres and were supported in groups for example, out into the community with \"individually tailored\" services. While naturally laudable as an additional feature of support it has suppressed the values of social and group interaction. A product of that policy is that our local day centres have disposed of transport for groups (e.g. minibuses which were a simple practical tool to support group/social interaction) in favour of cars providing personal and individual transport. This practice is to respond to the drive to respond to the perceived needs of the individual While our members have very definite views about how that is working out when they get feedback that disabled people end up in shops and supermarket café's, our assumption is that simply the staff involved have no other creative or valuable alternatives in their portfolio. This project intends to provide one which also services highly desirable benefits for the participants. DELIVERY AND WHERE. This project will run taster sessions in physical fitness exercises (intending to lead to and provide for ongoing engagement) but in a group environment, creating health exercise and stimulating interaction. The project will work with organisations and their clients serving the large number of learning disabled who gather in Cupar where we know that the organised services mostly do not include team activity as a focus and the organisations serve their clients individually. We will use the resources already established for our Seniors walking football i.e Duffus Park and pavilion where we lease the pavilion and reserved park area and in inclement weather, readily available local sports / halls. This funding will therefore support the additional hours for our staff in this project with a small budget requirement for the additional equipment for the project. WHY. The education system has a responsibility to provide physical education for disabled schoolchildren and our current service to the disabled is with that age group. But despite there being an overwhelming acknowledgement that health, fitness and social interaction are necessary but lacking in those beyond school age, the public care system has no remit to service those acknowledged needs. We believe that it is primarily because staff and even voluntary organisations serving his group do not have the skills to take on \"physical education\". This project will provide taster sessions to help our peer organisations assess the practicalities and benefits of providing this service while providing benefit to the participants.","title":"A M Special Needs","id":"360G-SCVO-a0g0N00001gBVVaQAO","currency":"GBP","plannedDates":[{"startDate":"2019-02-01","endDate":"2019-10-31","dateModified":"2018-12-24T10:18:26+00:00"}],"recipientOrganization":[{"name":"AMS","id":"GB-SC-SC045906","charityNumber":"SC045906","description":"First established in 2006, as A M Soccer Club we renamed the organisation in 2012 and restructured our constitution to become AMS (pronounced aims or A.M.S.). The purpose of that change was to reinforce the fact that, our aims had long since gone beyond the definition of sport being “an activity in which a person or team competes against another”. We now working in four thematic areas - all branded with the prefix AMS for consistency, incidentally recognising our founder Austin Macphee, but also keeping their individual identity. The themes are: • A M Small Communities - Prioritising rural disadvantage. • A M Special Needs- Serving learning disabled school children. • A M Seniors - Providing several forms of engagement for the elderly. • A M Soccer Club – Continuing our origins in soccer. 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We would like to fund a Benefits Advisor to assist people with disabilities with the introduction of universal credit which is scheduled to commence in Aberdeen City in November, 2018. This application process has to be completed online within one month, and many disabled persons will be unable to undertake this unaided, or do not have access to computer resources. We anticipate that this will have a major impact on people applying for new benefits, causing much anxiety and stress. By allocating an additional advisor to this activity we will help to alleviate financial hardship and improve health and well being. The advice and assistance will be provided to disabled residents of Aberdeen City on a one to one basis and will also include assistance on any related benefit issues. 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Through our previous funding we wanted simply to expand our abilities to support vulnerable young people, with this application we aim to build upon our past work and create, pilot and deliver a new 12-month service. Our previous project concluded in September 2017 and, since it ended, there is no similar work being done locally that meets the needs we seek to address or explicitly focusses on supporting unemployed young people, with a specific view to mitigating the impact that welfare reform has on them and reducing the social inequalities that they face. Our proposal is focussed on working with young people aged 16 – 25 who are not currently employed or engaged with further education or training. The service will involve young people engaging with a group work programme aimed at supporting and encouraging them to be confident, healthy and creating opportunities for them to develop and learn new skills which improve their quality of life, employability and future potential. Participation in the group work project will be complimented by additional one-to-one support providing young people with access to coaching and mentoring with the purpose of identifying and developing individual plans for progressing into opportunities in employment, further education and training and for accessing support with specific issues such as finance, benefits and housing. Throughout the group work programme young people will take part in activities, sports and cultural outings and participate in skills workshops and issue based sessions aimed at increasing their awareness of welfare benefits, housing, drugs and alcohol and mental health.  \nOne-to-one support will work with participants to identify issues that they require additional help with and to develop strategies for overcoming barriers and obstacles. One-to-one support will also provide young people with supported access to computers and the internet for writing CV's, exploring employment, further education and training opportunities and making applications. The group work project will be delivered over two 15-week periods with sessions taking place weekly. One-to-one support will be available throughout, also on a weekly or as required basis. We anticipate that our project will have the capacity to reach out to and work with around 30 unemployed young people. Funding through the Community Capacity & Resilience fund will support us to cover the staffing, operational and activity costs relating to our project. Sessions will take place across a variety of different community spaces in the South-West of Edinburgh including Gate 55, the Calders Community Flat, WHALE Arts and Wester Hailes library. The types of activities and sessions we will deliver during the group-work programme include; • Sessions promoting opportunities for young people to learn new practical skills such as cooking and budgeting. • Basic computer skills sessions, delivered in partnership with the local online community newspaper 'The Digital Sentinel'. • Employer visits and trips to see colleges and training providers. • Activity sessions at Foxlake Adventures, Go-Ape and other outdoor learning providers and activities. • Sport sessions, including football, volleyball and gym visits, promoting active and healthy lifestyles. • Issues based sessions, aimed at raising awareness of risks around topics such as mental health, crime, sexual health and drugs and alcohol. Past experience has shown us that these types of activities and sessions help young people to improve their confidence, communication skills and awareness of opportunities and different types of employment, as well as improving their abilities to positively manage their lives. We will actively involve young people in decision making processes regarding project planning and encourage them to have a genuine influence in how our project is delivered. By doing this we aim to foster important skills and provide opportunities for young people to learn more about budgeting and planning considerations. We will also regularly seek out feedback from young people and develop creative ways of involving them in evaluating the project and recognising and celebrating successes. Partnership working is at the heart of our project and we strongly feel that developing positive relationships with other organisations and involving them in project delivery results in better projects and additional outcomes for young people. For this project, we will be looking to gain input from a number of partners including the local community arts agency to help us explore with young people the impact of welfare reform, both individually and societally, and to develop materials and information that creatively engages and informs young people. We will also work with the local health, drug and alcohol support agencies in order to increase awareness of their specific services for young people and also to deliver issue specific workshops and sessions themed around mental and physical health, illicit drugs and alcohol. Cooking sessions will also involve us linking in with local community gardening and carbon reduction projects in order to promote awareness of growing fresh fruit and veg and food waste, both of which will provide young people with opportunities to develop their resilience and abilities to save money. Other key stakeholders and partners including police, social work and the local council; all of whom have a vested interest in promoting opportunities for young people and reducing the impact of inequality in our community. We are also keen to embrace opportunities to tap into the wider network of organisations receiving Community Capacity and Resilience funding and to explore potential partnership working with them. Having previously delivered work around these themes, we know that our project addresses a significant gap in provision in the locality and that supporting young people to be aspirational and develop their awareness and confidence dealing with issues which contribute to inequality such as health and finance literacy. We strongly believe that actively helping young people to learn new skills at such a key stage in their lives, during the transition from adolescence to adulthood, improves their wellbeing and reduces their future dependency on family and state supports. Being based in a community which experiences multiple deprivation, we consider ourselves, despite our specific young people focus, to be fundamentally an anti-poverty and pro-equality organisation. As such we are committed to creatively supporting young people and developing projects which seek to reduce inequalities and decrease the number of people who experience financial hardship and are negatively effected by welfare reform. We know that there is a need for our project as a result of our previous work and also through our interactions with young people who are unemployed during our regular detached youth work sessions. When we speak with young people who we meet, often on the streets during the day, about what they are doing many report that they are currently doing nothing and that the feel that no existing provision meets their needs. These young people need more creative, innovative and informal education led approaches to getting them initially engaged. We also know, via our conversations with Skills Development Scotland and local schools, that the majority of these young people have disengaged from the supports they offer to them post-school and that existing services, such as Activity Agreements, are not stage appropriate to the young people we are looking to work with. We therefore find ourselves in a unique position in terms of being able to target the most vulnerable and 'hard-to-reach' young people in the community and to actively and positively support them. The young people we will work with experience a number of disadvantages and complex needs as a result of their age, the area they live in and its social issues and, for many, their negative experiences of mainstream education. Several of the young people we will work with will be care experienced and some will have grown up in chaotic and challenging family homes. As a result, they will often not have the types of supportive family relationships in place that young people require in order to succeed such as guidance, encouragement and financial support. Worryingly, diagnosed mental health conditions or issues with depression, self-harm and other mental illnesses are increasingly prevalent amongst the young people we work with. Consequently, our target young people often require additional one-to-one support and encouragement to engage with projects and services as well as opportunities to build positive relationships with workers and professionals who are confident and capable supporting young people with their mental health. The young people we will work with are at a high risk stage in terms of their susceptibility for developing unhealthy relationships and dependencies on drugs and alcohol and problems around young people, for example, smoking cannabis is something we often have to creatively address in our projects. Drug and alcohol misuse is a visible problem in the community where we work and we aim to ensure that the young people who witness this do not become normalised to the issues and the risks they pose to physical and metal health, wellbeing and future potential. The majority of young people who participate in the project will come from low income families and be experiencing domestic poverty and other socio-economic disadvantages and inequalities. Benefit dependency is particularly problematic in the area we work and our focus on developing employability skills is based on the belief that adequately paid employment represents a real pathway out of poverty and and a foundation for a better future. Some of the young people we work with report that their families are often reliant on food banks and crisis loans in order to survive and we have observed this theme occurring with alarming frequency and in tandem with changes to the welfare system, particularly the introduction of universal credit, and housing benefit reforms such as the 'bedroom tax'. The young people we work with often feel powerless in the face of such changes and increased inequalities and sometimes they do not understand the complex political, policy and social backdrop of the welfare reform programme, or the impacts it is having on their families and communities. As a result, we find that many of the young people we work with are prone to assuming controversial, often stereotypical and racist, views and attitudes which they feel to provide explanations for their family's disadvantages or economic hardships; often blaming them on sensitive social issues such as immigration, religion and ethnicity. We believe that this only serves to create divides in communities and contribute further to social inequality and via our projects we aim to work with young people to help foster tolerant and informed understandings of their lives and their community. Fundamentally, the young people we work with face a range of obstacles and barriers, the sum total of which is often a distinct lack of opportunities. Some of these barriers are around the accessibility of existing supports or due to financial and motivational issues and young people themselves not being aware of where they can turn to for help and support and to find out about new opportunities. We feel that it is important that projects like ours are able to exist and be there to support young people to be resilient, aspirational and open to other cultures, values and ideas. The community in which we our project is based, the Wester Hailes area of Edinburgh, is home to several SIMD data zones ranking in the bottom 5% and 10% percentile for deprivation. Levels of reported crime and anti-social behaviour in the area are significantly higher than the Scottish average. Educational attainment figures locally are also well below city and national averages and the secondary schools in the area report unauthorised absence, disengagement and exclusion rates that are also higher than average. The South-West has the second highest youth population per locality in Edinburgh and, as a result of the various socio-economic and health disadvantages experienced, many families in the area often find it hard to provide supportive, safe environments for their children to achieve academically and move on to positive destinations after leaving school. Our project will focus on young people living in Wester Hailes and the bordering communities of Broomhouse, Sighthill, Saughton and Stenhouse. We work regularly with young people across all of these areas and we have excellent partnership relationships with key local organisations; recently we have been involved in developing and delivering a number of collaborative initiatives, including working directly with police, the council, social work and other agencies to promote awareness and tackle a variety of youth and community related local issues such as knife crime, theft, vandalism, drug and alcohol use and gang culture. Many of the young people we work with on our projects are involved with or affected by these types of issues and our project aims to provide them with opportunities for creating positive change in their lives and increase their abilities to be safe, healthy and to encourage them to aspire and have the skills to be able adapt to change and navigate difficulties and inequalities. If successful with our application, we anticipate a project start date of February 2018 with planning, development and recruitment of participants commencing from then. The first group-work project would run from March until July and the second from September until early December.","title":"Positive Pathways","id":"360G-SCVO-a0gb000001KQeEgAAL","currency":"GBP","plannedDates":[{"startDate":"2018-02-01","endDate":"2018-12-16","dateModified":"2019-11-29T14:18:28+00:00"}],"recipientOrganization":[{"name":"About Youth","id":"GB-SC-SC046776","charityNumber":"SC046776","description":"About Youth is a Youth Work and Community Development organisation based in the South-West of Edinburgh. Our purpose is to act as resource for young people by providing them with advice, information and support in order to help them develop as individuals, connect with their communities and access opportunities which enable them to be active, creative and learn new skills. We aim to encourage and support young people to become active and involved members of society and are committed ensuring that all of our activities promote values of justice, inclusion and integration. As a youth focused organisation, the views, needs and aspirations of young people drive the work we deliver. We purposefully create opportunities for young people to shape our projects and services and always ensure that they have the ability to have influence and be involved in key planning, programming and decision making processes.","streetAddress":"30 Westburn Grove","addressLocality":"Edinburgh","addressRegion":"City of Edinburgh","postalCode":"EH14 2SA","location":[{"latitude":55.913554,"longitude":-3.288522},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S13002920","geoCodeType":"WD"},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S14000025","geoCodeType":"WPC"},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S03000042","geoCodeType":"CCG"}],"addressCountry":"Scotland","url":"https://aboutyouth.uk"}],"beneficiaryLocation":[{"latitude":55.913554,"longitude":-3.288522},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S13002920","geoCodeType":"WD"},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S14000025","geoCodeType":"WPC"},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S03000042","geoCodeType":"CCG"}],"fundingOrganization":[{"name":"Scottish Council For Voluntary Organisations","id":"GB-SC-SC003558","charityNumber":"SC003558","department":"Policy","streetAddress":"Caledonian Exchange, 19A Canning Street","addressLocality":"Edinburgh","addressRegion":"City of Edinburgh","postalCode":"EH3 8EG","addressCountry":"Scotland","description":"The Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations is the membership organisation for Scotland's charities, voluntary organisations and social enterprises.","url":"http://scvo.scot","location":[{"latitude":55.959611,"longitude":-3.190946}]}],"grantProgramme":[{"code":"scvo-ccrf-r3-strand-1","title":"Community Capacity & Resilience Fund - R3 Strand 1","description":"Funding to help local voluntary sector groups and organisations across Scotland tackle poverty and mitigate against UK government welfare changes.","url":"https://scvo.scot/funding/community-capacity-resilience-fund"}],"fromOpenCall":"Yes","dateModified":"2019-11-29T14:18:28+00:00","dataSource":"https://scvo.scot/funding/data/archive/community-capacity-resilience-fund.json"},{"amountAppliedFor":9900,"amountAwarded":9900,"awardDate":"2018-11-02","description":"Given the success of our pilot project and the learning we have accumulated, we believe that securing additional funding to enable us to further develop Positive Pathways and to continue to develop and deliver it in 2019 is essential. For many participants, our project will continue present an entry point and accessible route back into receiving support and engaging with professionals to explore how they can gain training, further education and employment. We believe that young people who are aware of their opportunities, aspirational and informed are more likely to succeed in the future. While our project seeks to try and create opportunities for young people to move on and be positive about their future, it also serves the purpose of alleviating difficulty and helping participants to overcome challenges. Additional funding in 2019 will help us to: • Support more unemployed young people who need our help • Combat the negative effects of welfare reform on participants by providing advice and information • Reduce the impact of povery and disadvantage by raising aspirations and helping young people to progress in their lives • Improve participants social inclusion by creating opportunities for them to try new things and increasing their capacity for having influence in their lives and their communities • Reduce risks and the effects of trauma and abuse on young people's health • Develop and grow as an organisation MITIGATING THE EFFECTS OF WELFARE REFORM Welfare reform continues to have a devastating effect on our community. Many families of the participants in our projects are benefit dependent and changes in the welfare system, in our experience, almost always result in the poorest households becoming even poorer and struggling even more to adequately provide for children and young people. One problem that we have observed an increase in due to welfare reform in our community is the volume of young people who are becoming homeless or effected by their families tenancies being unsecure. Our particular client group, young people 16 plus who have left education, are made more vulnerable to homelessness because of the introduction of bedroom tax. Although the Scottish Government have been pro-active in dealing with the bedroom tax through the discretionary housing payments scheme, we find that some families still struggle to access it; often because they don't seek out support or have the skills to apply in the first place. As a result, unemployed young people living in family homes are sometimes considered as a burden by the adults financially responsible for them. In our view, the bedroom tax has introduced even more tension into households that are already full of stress and financial anxiety and has been largely responsible for many young people we know of becoming homeless. Being a young person and being homeless is a perilous state of affairs. Young people usually find it difficult to access emergency accommodation and to get the right advice and information. If they do get into a hostel or a bed and breakfast on account of their homelessness then they can find themselves becoming even more at risk, sometimes surrounded by adults who have issues themselves and can be dangerous and corruptive influences. Our project makes a difference and mitigates the effects of issues like homelessness caused by welfare reform through providing the young people who participate in our project with practical advice and support to access benefits, including giving them information they can pass on to their parents and carers, and also by helping them to navigate homeless processes including dealing with the local authority and understanding their rights. The young people we support in our project are often clueless when it comes to welfare and don't understand the different benefits available to them and their families. In the first year of our pilot project nearly a quarter of the young people who participated in our project reported having a disability, yet almost none understood that they could potentially get extra support to help them financially and in other ways. Helping young people with mental health conditions, for example, to access National Entitlement Cards so they can travel for free on public transport is something we supported a few participants with last year and expect to do via our project in 2019. The issue based sessions we will run on money management include information on welfare rights. Even though the majority of our participants are under 18 and are often unable to claim state benefits we believe it is important that they have an understanding of not just the welfare system, but also how it is being reformed and how that might negatively impact on them and their families in the near future. We anticipate that several of the young people we will work with will require state welfare support in the future. For many, the kinds of things that might cause them difficulties such as knowing what to do, who to speak to and what to ask about are problems we can help them with in advance by helping them to build up their knowledge and skills. COMBATING POVERTY AND INEQUALITY We know that the majority of the young people that we help are living in poverty. Our project has a positive impact by both improving their lives in the present, through teaching them new skills that increase their capacity, resilience and ability to cope with difficulty, and by helping them to be hopeful about the future. Gaining fairly paid, meaningful and secure employment is at the forefront of minds of most of the young people who engage with our themed group-work projects, but is also something that feels remote and unreachable to many of them - they need us to help them to get their lives back on track and moving forward. We believe that for most of the young people we will support, employment is the main way through which the can have a better life and escape poverty. A lot of the young people who we will support in our project will have left secondary education with low levels of educational attainment and having had quite negative experiences. Some will have struggled to focus on school because they live in chaotic households and have had to manage their education alongside dealing with complex personal or family issues. Many of the young people we work with have been excluded from school because they have presented challenging, difficult or violent behaviours. In our experience, there is always a reason or an adversity behind what has negatively impacted on their learning. We work with young people to understand that their past does not have to dictate their future so that they can progress in their lives. Not succeeding at school can be deeply distressing for young people. Often their confidence takes a damaging blow and they lower their aspirations and become reluctant to try new things out of fear of failure. Our project builds young people back up and helps them to realise themselves what they are actually capable of. Many who take part in our projects will have totally disengaged from other supports and lost routine and structure in their daily lives. Some will have become involved in crime because they have no other alternative to make money. They need projects like ours to provide them with positive alternatives and so that they can begin to see a better life beyond offending. PROMOTING SOCIAL INCLUSION Promoting social inclusion is a massive, perhaps universal, aspect of what our project is all about. From our perspective, every participant in our project is social excluded due to one common reason – their youth. Young people simply cannot access all that society has to offer. Their voices are listened to and respected less and their inexperience seen by some as a weakness. The sense of social exclusion is further amplified in the case of the young people we actively target, where additional factors including unemployment, discrimination, family and relationship breakdown and lack of skills or knowledge also negatively contribute to their abilities to participate fully in society. We mentioned in our report on our pilot how we were often amazed by how little the exposure the young people we worked with had to different places, in particular other cities and the outdoors. In doing so, we are perhaps a little bit guilty of being naïve about the actual underlying reasons for that, from looking at it as often a matter of choice and motivation and not fully appreciating that young people are actually limited in the choices they are able to make in their lives. Many of the activities we helped young people to participate in during our group-work programme, for example, were new to them because they couldn't afford to do them themselves, would struggle to travel to or that they just didn't even realise existed. Again, we believe that gaining employment presents a way that young people can improve their social inclusion. We regularly tell young people that employment is about so much more than getting money; it's a route towards new friendships, experiences and opportunities. HAVING A PREVENTATIVE IMPACT IN COMMUNITIES We believe that our project will continue to have a preventative impact on the young people who participate. We will continue to target the most vulnerable young people in our community and we know from our experience that these young people are often particularly prone to risks. Through our issue based group-work sessions and the one-to-one support we provide to participants we actively work to improve young people's abilities for making informed decisions when it comes to the risks in their lives such as smoking, drinking, drugs and crime. As we have observed in the first year of our pilot, the participants in our project often do not have access to clear and impartial information and advice on many of these subjects. As a result, their decision making capacities are limited. We believe, quite simply, that knowledge is power when it comes to reducing risks and we know that because we are able to develop meaningful relationships with participants where we can establish ourselves as being people they trust we are able to genuinely impact on their risk taking and provide much needed help and support to young people around risks. We have also been closely following and participating in the dialogue around Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs). We've attended several professional events and forums around ACEs and we were recently featured in a high profile STV documentary as part of their Children's Appeal which aimed to increase the general public's awareness of ACEs. The ACEs movement is gaining momentum in Scotland and professionals across all sectors are finding that they provide an excellent explanatory framework for understanding the relationship between childhood trauma and abuse and health inequalities. We know that many of the young people we work with in our project have experienced ACEs and we believe that our project has a massive preventative role when it comes to mitigating the effects of ACEs on young people's futures. Professionals who promote the ACEs movement recognise that the key to reducing their negative impact is not only to increase resilience in young people, but also to offer them hope and to create opportunities for them to develop positive and supportive relationships with people who care. We feel that this is exactly what our project serves to do and, as advocates of ACEs theory, we believe that the impact of our work has the potential to reduce the likelihood of our participants being effected by disease and poor health outcomes as adults. LONG TERM IMPACT In focussing our project on helping disadvantaged young people, our ambition in our work is underpinned by a desire to have a long term impact in people's lives. The young people in our community deserve better and we owe them more. We know that they want and value our project because they have told us that regularly throughout – they recognise and appreciate the positive difference that we can make in their lives. We fear for the future of our young people and we believe that is why we need to focus such energy on improving their resilience. Our project is called Positive Pathways because that's the message we want to promote to participants, but in reality we recognise that those pathways are far from straightforward and are complex to navigate. They live in a city that has enormous wealth and prosperity and with the right attitude and a will to succeed the young people we help should have genuine opportunities available to them to improve their lives. Sadly such opportunities are not so easy to access, but often the first barrier to change is the reduced aspirations of the young people themselves. By trying to tackle that issue at the point that we work with people, which we believe is key stage, we hope that our role in helping them has lasting impact and can positively change participants trajectories. ORGANISATIONAL BENEFITS As well as focusing on our project development and delivery, securing longer term funding for our project will be a key focus of our organisation during 2019. We know that through the funding we have accessed for our pilot we have amassed a strong evidence base for our work going forward and we are sure that with the help of continued funding for another year, we will be in an even stronger position to utilise that knowledge and learning in our efforts to secure future funding. One thing we have tremendously valued as an organisation during our current pilot has been the opportunities we have had to participate in the learning events that have been held by the Community Capacity and Resilience fund. In attending them, we have been amazed by both the different variety and diversity of the projects that the fund supports and also the commonalities. As a relatively new small grassroots and community-based organisation it has been invaluable for us to have the chance to learn from other organisations, regardless of whether their project is similar to ours or not. We found that many other organisations the fund supports face similar challenges to our own and we've really benefited from having the opportunity to hear from others about their learning. We view our potential future involvement with the Community Capacity and Resilience Fund as representing more than just finance to enable us to develop and deliver our work and a particular project, for us it presents an invaluable opportunity to feel like we are part of a wider network. We know through our experience with other funders that this is rarely the case and we appreciate how valuable and innovative the approaches taken by the fund to bring groups together is. In continuing to fund organisations like ourselves, we believe that the Community Capacity and Resilience Fund remains true to its aims to reach out and provide support to grassroots organisations operating on the frontline. We feel that organisations like ourselves are often best placed to tackle the issues in our community because we are actually a part of it, we see first-hand on a daily basis the challenges that face people living around us and we want to involve them in trying to create solutions – we deliver projects with young people, not on them. Securing additional funding for our pilot in 2019 will give us much needed time and space so that we can continue to develop an important and much needed project and advance our ambitions to be a consistent and dependable source of support in our community.","title":"Positive Pathways","id":"360G-SCVO-a0g0N00001gBGWlQAO","currency":"GBP","plannedDates":[{"startDate":"2018-02-01","endDate":"2019-12-13","dateModified":"2019-03-25T11:59:35+00:00"}],"recipientOrganization":[{"name":"About Youth","id":"GB-SC-SC046776","charityNumber":"SC046776","description":"About Youth is a Youth Work and Community Development organisation based in the South-West of Edinburgh. Our purpose is to act as resource for young people by providing them with advice, information and support in order to help them develop as individuals, connect with their communities and access opportunities which enable them to be active, creative and learn new skills. We aim to encourage and support young people to become active and involved members of society and are committed ensuring that all of our activities promote values of justice, inclusion and integration. As a youth focused organisation, the views, needs and aspirations of young people drive the work we deliver. 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The project will involve young people engaging with a group work programme tailored around supporting participants to be confident, healthy and to develop and learn new skills which improve their quality of life, employability potential and future opportunities. Participation in the group work project will be complimented by one-to-one support providing young people with access to coaching and mentoring with the purpose of identifying and developing individual plans for progressing into opportunities in employment, further education and training. The group work programme will involve young people taking part recreational activities around sport and culture and participating in cooking skills workshops and issue based sessions themed around benefits and housing, drugs and alcohol and mental health. One-to-one support will work with participants to identify issues that they require additional help with and to develop plans and strategies for overcoming barriers and obstacles. One-to-one support will also provide young people with supported access to computers and the internet for writing CV’s, exploring employment, further education and training opportunities and making applications. The project seeks to address a significant gap in provision in the locality and to support young people to be aspirational and develop awareness and confidence dealing with issues which contribute to inequality such as health and finance literacy. Via our developed relationships with local schools, careers services and social work services we aim to target young people who have been identified as vulnerable or ‘hard-to-reach’ and to actively and positively engage with them.","title":"Better Futures","id":"360G-SCVO-a0gb000000QAdojAAD","currency":"GBP","plannedDates":[{"startDate":"2017-01-17","endDate":"2017-08-30","dateModified":"2019-11-29T14:11:24+00:00"}],"recipientOrganization":[{"name":"About Youth","id":"GB-SC-SC046776","charityNumber":"SC046776","description":"About Youth is a non-profit Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisation which seeks to provide a range of distinct and diverse youth and community work projects and services. Newly established in August 2016, About Youth has been created by individuals who have over a decade of experience working in the Wester Hailes and South-West localities of Edinburgh and in direct response to local need. The principal mission of About Youth is to act as resource for young people by providing them with advice, information and support in order to help them to develop as individuals, connect with their community and access opportunities which enable them to thrive and prosper. We work with young people via developed partnerships with local schools, public bodies and voluntary organizations to address gaps in provision and promote a holistic perspective and approach to supporting personal development and barrier removal.","streetAddress":"30 Westburn Grove","addressLocality":"Edinburgh","addressRegion":"Edinburgh","postalCode":"EH14 2SA","location":[{"latitude":55.913554,"longitude":-3.288522},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S13002920","geoCodeType":"WD"},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S14000025","geoCodeType":"WPC"},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S03000042","geoCodeType":"CCG"}],"addressCountry":"Scotland","url":"https://aboutyouth.uk"}],"beneficiaryLocation":[{"latitude":55.913554,"longitude":-3.288522},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S13002920","geoCodeType":"WD"},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S14000025","geoCodeType":"WPC"},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S03000042","geoCodeType":"CCG"}],"fundingOrganization":[{"name":"Scottish Council For Voluntary Organisations","id":"GB-SC-SC003558","charityNumber":"SC003558","department":"Policy","streetAddress":"Caledonian Exchange, 19A Canning Street","addressLocality":"Edinburgh","addressRegion":"City of Edinburgh","postalCode":"EH3 8EG","addressCountry":"Scotland","description":"The Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations is the membership organisation for Scotland's charities, voluntary organisations and social enterprises.","url":"http://scvo.scot","location":[{"latitude":55.959611,"longitude":-3.190946}]}],"grantProgramme":[{"code":"scvo-ccrf-call-2","title":"Community Capacity & Resilience Fund - Call 2","description":"Funding to help local voluntary sector groups and organisations across Scotland tackle poverty and mitigate against UK government welfare changes.","url":"https://scvo.scot/funding/community-capacity-resilience-fund"}],"fromOpenCall":"Yes","dateModified":"2019-11-29T14:11:24+00:00","dataSource":"https://scvo.scot/funding/data/archive/community-capacity-resilience-fund.json"},{"amountAppliedFor":5000,"amountAwarded":5000,"awardDate":"2018-10-31","description":"Funding will allow Abundant Borders to work in partnership with Open Space to grow food on an allotment space in Eyemouth. The Open Space project was created by a group of individuals recovering from and/or living with, a range of mental health issues. Group members are unemployed, experience social isolation and exclusion, have low confidence and self-esteem. The project was initially supported by Scottish Borders Council but, with continued cuts to services, they are no longer able to dedicate staff time to the project. Open Space members are keen that the project continues and want to be able to continue to grow food for themselves, their families and for other community projects. However, when people are facing complex challenges in their lives because of dealing with mental health issues, it is not reasonable to expect them to be able to create a food garden and grow their own food without support. One member of the Open Space group is a graduate of Abundant Borders training courses and another was a nurseryman, specialising in growing and nurturing trees and bushes, so we believe that there is enough expertise within the community to be able to create a successful food garden. What is needed is short-term support to re-start the project. Open Space members contacted Abundant Borders and we would like funding to work with them, to support existing volunteers, build the pool of volunteers, teach people how to grow food, help people to become more resilient and work towards making the project sustainable. Abundant Borders was incorporated as a charity in November 2016. Since then we: • received funding from Scottish Government Good Food Nation, Postcode Community Trust and Awards for All, which has allowed us to run formal training courses and purchase plants and equipment needed to create Community Food Gardens. • provided formal training to 12 people in Eyemouth, who each completed a 10-week foundation course in sustainable growing. Two graduates regularly participate in community food garden events, three have taken their learnings back home and are growing food in their own garden spaces, one has gone on to further education, one has started their own small business and one volunteers with Connect Youth Allotments. • provided formal training to 15 people in Hawick, who each completed a 10-week foundation course in permaculture and sustainable growing. One participant from the course (previously unemployed) has now been engaged by Abundant Borders as Volunteer Co-ordinator for the Hawick community food garden, eight continue to volunteer at the community food garden and one manages a partner project at Burnfoot Community Hub. • created a community food garden on land provided by Berwickshire Housing Association (BHA) in Ayton. This food garden is now self-managed; six members of the local community work there on a regular basis. The garden also attracts visitors and occasional volunteers from the community. Good links have been established with the neighbouring businesses, Ayton Primary School and Eyemouth High School. Participants from the sustainable growing course, which was based from this site, continue to be involved in monthly volunteering days. These individuals were previously isolated, and the garden has given them a way back into the community. • created a community food garden on land behind the Salvation Army Community Store, High Street, Hawick. Ten participants from the sustainable growing course, which was based from this site, continue to be involved in twice-weekly volunteering sessions, with one now engaged as volunteer co-ordinator. • designed and built raised beds at Linkim Court, a sheltered housing complex in Eyemouth to give residents access to herbs and salads as well as creating a pleasant seating area. • provided ongoing support and volunteering opportunities to course participants. One participant from Eyemouth growing and cooking course and one from the Hawick growing course now sit on our board of trustees. We feel that the experience we have of working with individuals and groups in our community, to teach practical skills in growing food and to support the establishment of sustainable food growing projects gives us confidence that this partnership project with Open Space can lead to the creation of a successful, sustainable food growing project.","title":"Abundant Borders Open Space","id":"360G-SCVO-a0g0N00001gBLUhQAO","currency":"GBP","plannedDates":[{"startDate":"2019-02-01","endDate":"2019-10-31","dateModified":"2018-12-24T10:12:09+00:00"}],"recipientOrganization":[{"name":"Abundant Borders","id":"GB-SC-SC049008","charityNumber":"SC049008","description":"Abundant Borders works within our community to create a network of community food gardens across the Scottish Borders. These gardens act as a training base for people to learn how to grow their own food in a sustainable way and then how to turn that food into healthy, inexpensive meals. 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At the moment all we can offer is group based working; offering people from chaotic, often isolated lives the chance to make art in a safe space along with others who have similar experiences. However, we have long been aware of a substantial number of people who are so isolated and disconnected from every day life that the offer of a place in one of our groups would be way to much to even consider, let alone manage. It seems that a smaller initial step is required; in time working towards one of the groups when ready. We propose this smaller step out of isolation to be one to one working, where the person will attend our premises but work with one member of staff expert in whatever mode the person requests - photography, art, sculpture or creative writing. Depending on the person's wellness we will offer one or two 2 hour sessions per week. This will allow us to collect a bank of knowledge which will inform our future plans. 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WHO & WHY: Over the last two decades the number of children in kinship care arrangements in Scotland has grown exponentially; and with legislative direction to prioritise kinship care over other placements, this trend is set to continue. With one in 77 children in Scotland today growing up with friends and relatives it is imperative that providing these children with the right kind of early experience is \"the single most important factor influencing a child's intellectual and social development, whatever the material status of their family\". In the majority of cases, these arrangements are grandparents caring for their grandchildren full-time due to parental substance misuse. Most children living in kinship care will have experienced some form of abuse, trauma or neglect in their past; but often do not receive the right support to overcome attachment, emotional and behavioral issues. Most kinship carers face multiple disadvantages; with many forced to give up work and complicated family dynamics, including parental conflict, resulting in increased anxiety and isolation. With the majority of kinship families existing as informal arrangements, many carers are unaware of or hesitant to engage with what support does exist. As a result, many do not access crucial information and advice, financial assistance and peer support networks. The rights and responsibilities of kinship carers can be complicated. Getting advice is important so they know about your options and if they are getting the practical and financial support that they are entitled to. Nearly 40% of all children in kinship care live in households located in the 20% of the poorest areas, which implies that the financial burden on kinship families is a major area of concern. The majority of these families are involved in the benefit system with many having to start claims when they took on the care of a child. Many carers had to give up their employment to meet care responsibilities and their outgoings now far exceed their income. Housing conditions are challenging with many homes unequipped to deal with new additions to the household and so new premises are often sought. Additional costs also exist around childcare, clothing, outings and activities as well as clubs or school outings and the use of foodbanks is steadily on the increase. Together with the added complications around the introduction of Universal Credit, many carers are confused and unsure what they are entitled to and with conflicting information provided by finance services and local authorities many carers are claiming inappropriately which in turn has a knock on effect to the care and support they can provide to the children in their care. WHAT: We launched our Kinship Care Programme in October 2015 as a direct response to our recognition that Kinship Care families are both under-represented and under-supported, relative to the size of the community and the challenges faced. The programme comprises the following key elements: • Social Marketing Campaign to celebrate kinship carers and get the message out that we are offering help / engage 'hidden' families. • Annual Family Day held at Tynecastle which brings together local support services and offers free activities for families. • Weekly Afterschool Club and Carer Support Group for families who require regular support. • School Holiday Activity offering free football coaching and excursions for young people and much needed respite for carers. • Youth Befriending offering kinship care young people, who require more one to one support, a volunteer befriender as a trusted mentor • Emergency Essentials Fund provides small crisis grants to kinship families for items such as bedding, clothing and household appliances. Our programme uses peer support, mutual trust and shared experiences to help increase knowledge and confidence among kinship carers. Our carer support group is facilitated by a trained family support worker; offering advice, guidance, training and support on specific issues but also, crucially, the opportunity to develop a strong network of peer support and to share and learn with other carers who have faced similar challenges. The programme is innovative and different to other provision in the range of regular and one-off support it offers, ensuring all families can access help that is relevant and tailored to their specific needs. The programme has also set itself apart in its ability to engage harder to reach families. Of the 220 families we have engaged to date through our programme, we know that approx. 35% of these families were previously 'hidden'. Moreover, football is obviously a strong 'hook' for engaging men and male carers and our strength in this area has led to 1 in 4 carers involved in the programme being male. The strength of our delivery partnership with Mentor Scotland is also unique and crucial to the programme's success. As Big Hearts, we bring the strength of our connection to Hearts Football Club and the facilities and reach into the community that comes with that. Mentor bring their expertise and over 12 years' experience of delivering their wrap around family support service. Together, we offer a uniquely holistic approach to supporting families through our programme. WHAT: Further Development with Support from CCRF: Through our ongoing consultation and evaluation of the programme, we have identified a growing need for more tailored financial advice and assistance, particularly with the introduction of Universal Credit as a new unknown for Kinship Carers. With this funding, we will respond to this feedback and increase the capacity of the organisation and programme to provide more dedicated family support worker time for families. This additional staff resource will be targeted specifically at providing tailored financial advice and information to carers who are struggling to get to grips with their financial entitlements, the change to Universal Credit or financial planning in general. This support will be delivered by an experienced family support worker with the knowledge and information required to help carers feel more informed and confident, as well as helping them to make connections, enquiries and changes directly with Social Work team, DWP or through other agencies such as the local Citizens Advice Bureau, if necessary. This targeted support will help Kinship Carers, who are struggling with multiple challenges, to find out if they are eligible for any extra money and, if they are on a low income, will help to advise carers on any changes to benefits and tax credits or help them navigate the introduction of Universal Credit. This support will be delivered through both group work inputs at our weekly Carer Support Group and also through one to one support if carers require more detailed assessment and advice. This may take place as part of the weekly group or through home visits. The Family Support Worker will also facilitate inputs from expert partner agencies such as Citizens Advice Scotland who have a national Kinship Care Advice Service and can offer detailed training on areas such as changes to Universal Credit. WHERE: The programme's geographic reach is Edinburgh-wide, with a priority focus on our immediate local community of South West Edinburgh which is recognised as having considerable problems in terms of high levels of poverty, unemployment and deprivation, relative to other parts of the city.","title":"Big Hearts: Kinship Care & Welfare","id":"360G-SCVO-a0g0N00001gBVQGQA4","currency":"GBP","plannedDates":[{"startDate":"2019-01-01","endDate":"2019-09-30","dateModified":"2018-12-24T10:15:01+00:00"}],"recipientOrganization":[{"name":"Big Hearts Community Trust","id":"GB-SC-SC037311","charityNumber":"SC037311","description":"Big Hearts Community Trust is the official charity partner of Hearts Football Club. We use the power of football to engage and improve the lives of families and individuals at risk of social isolation across Edinburgh, with a focus on our local community - South West Edinburgh. Working closely with the Club, Hearts supporters and local partner organisations, we develop and deliver tailored support for the most vulnerable and isolated in our community. Over the next 3 years, we are committed to continuing this work across 5 key areas: • Kinship Care Families • Isolated older people • BME community • Families Living in Poverty • Individuals experiencing / at risk of poor mental health With a wide network of partners, strong ties with one of the largest football clubs in Scotland and a redeveloped base in the heart of Gorgie, Big Hearts is uniquely placed to address those challenges.","streetAddress":"Tynecastle Park, McLeod Street","addressLocality":"Edinburgh","addressRegion":"Lothians","postalCode":"EH11 2NL","location":[{"latitude":55.939133,"longitude":-3.23172},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S13002925","geoCodeType":"WD"},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S14000025","geoCodeType":"WPC"},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S03000042","geoCodeType":"CCG"}],"addressCountry":"Scotland","url":"http://www.bighearts.org.uk"}],"beneficiaryLocation":[{"latitude":55.939133,"longitude":-3.23172},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S13002925","geoCodeType":"WD"},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S14000025","geoCodeType":"WPC"},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S03000042","geoCodeType":"CCG"}],"fundingOrganization":[{"name":"Scottish Council For Voluntary Organisations","id":"GB-SC-SC003558","charityNumber":"SC003558","department":"Policy","streetAddress":"Caledonian Exchange, 19A Canning Street","addressLocality":"Edinburgh","addressRegion":"City of Edinburgh","postalCode":"EH3 8EG","addressCountry":"Scotland","description":"The Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations is the membership organisation for Scotland's charities, voluntary organisations and social enterprises.","url":"http://scvo.scot","location":[{"latitude":55.959611,"longitude":-3.190946}]}],"grantProgramme":[{"code":"scvo-ccrf-r4-strand-3","title":"Community Capacity & Resilience Fund - R4 Strand 3","description":"Funding to help local voluntary sector groups and organisations across Scotland tackle poverty and mitigate against UK government welfare changes.","url":"https://scvo.scot/funding/community-capacity-resilience-fund"}],"fromOpenCall":"Yes","dateModified":"2018-12-24T10:15:01+00:00","dataSource":"https://scvo.scot/funding/data/archive/community-capacity-resilience-fund.json"},{"amountAppliedFor":5000,"amountAwarded":5000,"awardDate":"2016-12-02","description":"Black Isle Cares’ Meals-On-Wheels (MoW) is a locally based project run in partnership between Black Isle Cares and local restaurants. 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These two course meals cost our elderly five pounds - currently we deliver on Monday, Wednesday and Friday. we have to run at a loss to keep the meals going and fund raise 3 times a year to off set monies for this but would need more money as we expand out to all the local villages.","title":"Meals-On-Wheels","id":"360G-SCVO-a0gb000000QAJGGAA5","currency":"GBP","plannedDates":[{"startDate":"2017-01-17","endDate":"2017-08-11","dateModified":"2019-11-29T14:11:24+00:00"}],"recipientOrganization":[{"name":"Black Isle Cares","id":"GB-SC-SC045371","charityNumber":"SC045371","description":"Black Isle Care at Home has been developed in partnership with Highland Home Carers using Self-directed Support as the funding mechanism. It is designed to address the lack of local home care staff on the Black Isle and to speed the release of the elderly from hospital. There are now 17 clients in the communities of Culbokie, Fortrose, Avoch and Tore. More clients are to be added in the near future in North Kessock and Avoch communities. Meals on Wheels Service has been developed in conjunction with four local restaurants and twelve volunteer drivers. Services commenced in mid May 2016 and have been very well received. Currently we have an average of 25 recipients in the Avoch, Fortrose and Rosemarkie Areas who each receive meals three times a week.","streetAddress":"62 Feddon Hill, , . .","addressLocality":"Fortrose","addressRegion":"Ross-shire","postalCode":"IV10 8SP","location":[{"latitude":57.579557,"longitude":-4.143012},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S13002998","geoCodeType":"WD"},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S14000055","geoCodeType":"WPC"},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S03000044","geoCodeType":"CCG"}],"addressCountry":"Scotland","url":"https://blackislecares.com"}],"beneficiaryLocation":[{"latitude":57.579557,"longitude":-4.143012},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S13002998","geoCodeType":"WD"},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S14000055","geoCodeType":"WPC"},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S03000044","geoCodeType":"CCG"}],"fundingOrganization":[{"name":"Scottish Council For Voluntary Organisations","id":"GB-SC-SC003558","charityNumber":"SC003558","department":"Policy","streetAddress":"Caledonian Exchange, 19A Canning Street","addressLocality":"Edinburgh","addressRegion":"City of Edinburgh","postalCode":"EH3 8EG","addressCountry":"Scotland","description":"The Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations is the membership organisation for Scotland's charities, voluntary organisations and social enterprises.","url":"http://scvo.scot","location":[{"latitude":55.959611,"longitude":-3.190946}]}],"grantProgramme":[{"code":"scvo-ccrf-call-2","title":"Community Capacity & Resilience Fund - Call 2","description":"Funding to help local voluntary sector groups and organisations across Scotland tackle poverty and mitigate against UK government welfare changes.","url":"https://scvo.scot/funding/community-capacity-resilience-fund"}],"fromOpenCall":"Yes","dateModified":"2019-11-29T14:11:24+00:00","dataSource":"https://scvo.scot/funding/data/archive/community-capacity-resilience-fund.json"},{"amountAppliedFor":3500,"amountAwarded":5000,"awardDate":"2016-12-02","description":"We currently operate out of one small room where we visit clients at their homes for money advice and book out a small community room for our counselling service. This has met our needs to date, however we are now at the stage where we have outgrown our current office space and it is now impossible to run our services from our current location. We have identified a new location that would help us to ensure that we meet the growing demands of our services and help us to expand partnerships with others. The new space will ensure that we can have: • a bespoke client area: a safe environment for clients to attend appointments for either of our services and also a space which we will develop over time to include drop in sessions and befriending/listening. • Development of Partnership: we will reach out to current partners and look to work together in our new space to provide joined up client support • Development of volunteers: We place a great importance on the development of our volunteers and our new space will ensure we can offer bespoke training and support relevant to their position The grant investment will specifically be used to facilitate the reconfiguration of a bespoke client area. We will do this sensitively and creatively to ensure that the right environment is available for clients. The money advice service would be able to see clients on site, important for those who find a home environment difficult. We are a charity that works in partnership with others. Developing this space will ensure that we can run drop in sessions in partnership with other agencies, something that at present is simply not feasible.","title":"Building Bridge’s","id":"360G-SCVO-a0gb000000QAeenAAD","currency":"GBP","plannedDates":[{"startDate":"2017-01-27","endDate":"2017-08-25","dateModified":"2022-07-07T10:15:04+00:00"}],"recipientOrganization":[{"name":"Bridge Community Project","id":"GB-SC-SC045049","charityNumber":"SC045049","description":"The Bridge Community Project seeks to provide practical and relational support to families and individuals in West Lothian. We seek to bring about real and positive change to the lifes of people in our communities currently struggling with financial and social issues through the provision of Money Advice and counselling services. We launched our free face to face money advice service in March 2015 and we have seen this grow significantly. We now employ a Money Advice Manager 2 days per week, have 5 volunteer advisors and 14 volunteer listeners who provide extra practical and relational support when requested by clients. We are fully integrated into the West Lothian Advice Network and currently support 120 individuals manage over 500k of debt. With our services expanding and our counselling service starting, we now require investment to move the Bridge onto the next phase of its growth.","streetAddress":"Innes House, 18 Shairps Business Park","addressLocality":"Houston Road","addressRegion":"Livingston","postalCode":"EH54 5FD","location":[{"latitude":55.907848,"longitude":-3.511697},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S13002824","geoCodeType":"WD"},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S14000044","geoCodeType":"WPC"},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S03000035","geoCodeType":"CCG"}],"addressCountry":"Scotland","url":"https://bridgecommunityproject.org.uk"}],"beneficiaryLocation":[{"latitude":55.907848,"longitude":-3.511697},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S13002824","geoCodeType":"WD"},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S14000044","geoCodeType":"WPC"},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S03000035","geoCodeType":"CCG"}],"fundingOrganization":[{"name":"Scottish Council For Voluntary Organisations","id":"GB-SC-SC003558","charityNumber":"SC003558","department":"Policy","streetAddress":"Caledonian Exchange, 19A Canning Street","addressLocality":"Edinburgh","addressRegion":"City of Edinburgh","postalCode":"EH3 8EG","addressCountry":"Scotland","description":"The Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations is the membership organisation for Scotland's charities, voluntary organisations and social enterprises.","url":"http://scvo.scot","location":[{"latitude":55.959611,"longitude":-3.190946}]}],"grantProgramme":[{"code":"scvo-ccrf-call-2","title":"Community Capacity & Resilience Fund - Call 2","description":"Funding to help local voluntary sector groups and organisations across Scotland tackle poverty and mitigate against UK government welfare changes.","url":"https://scvo.scot/funding/community-capacity-resilience-fund"}],"fromOpenCall":"Yes","dateModified":"2022-07-07T10:15:04+00:00","dataSource":"https://scvo.scot/funding/data/archive/community-capacity-resilience-fund.json"},{"amountAppliedFor":4930,"amountAwarded":4930,"awardDate":"2016-12-02","description":"We want to build on our successful pilot project, a cooking training group and community cafe. We want to develop, extend and sustain a model that can continue once our farmhouse renovation is complete and our centre fully open. We will provide training for 6 to 8 people marginalised due to welfare reform, dependency on benefits, unemployment, ethnicity, age and/or poor mental wellbeing. During their training they will run a weekly, social hub/café to provide a light lunch for socially isolated people on low incomes. We will provide our learners with a structured learning programme (Literacy, Numeracy, Customer service, CV preparation, ICT, working as a team) with the opportunity for qualifications, and practical experience. As they prepare the food and serve customers, our learners will work towards REHIS Food Hygiene certification, REHIS Nutritions, SQA up to Level 3, and Working With Others. The project will: • use seasonal and local produce where possible, through local community gardens we partner with and produce from our own garden • link with local Health Centres, GPs and City of Edinburgh Council Local Area Coordination team • support people on tight budgets to eat well and healthily, including those with long term conditions, obesity, diabetes, heart disease etc. Our chef is a qualified nutrionalist. • provide links to additional help and support networks for people who are socially isolated and lonely • provide a venue for other organisations to meet, share practice and forge links. This is innovative and special for our community because nothing else exists like this here and because it will be a building block in our transformation of the farmhouse into a vibrant community hub where people have somewhere to learn about food, prepare it, share and enjoy it with others. 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We work to address social inequalities and isolation, to strengthen community involvement, build local resilience, and to contribute to local health, learning and greenspace strategies. We run regular activities where volunteering, outdoor activities (including food growing), cooking, and eating as a group are central. We actively involve diverse groups, including low income people; BME people; young unemployed; people with physical, learning and hidden disabilities. 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Providing 24 meals each weekly session for 24 referrals, advised by our partner organisations. 2. deliver this meal, once a week, to those most benefiting from such a service for 40 weeks (allowing for staff sickness, holidays - this will also be 2 week trial, thus 42 weeks in total) 3. provide access to any surplus through both our 'community' fridge and others setting up within our key areas encourage sustainable delivery services by electric bike. Structure: 1. 2 weeks – run in to establish project and referral system 2. initially 6, ready trained volunteers (previous trainees who have REHIS qualifications) will work under our professional chef-trainer for 8 weeks 3. thereafter 6 will take over for an additional 4 x blocks of 8 weeks 4. total of trainees working over 44 week period: 15-30 5. build a 6-8 week set cycle of recipes 6. after the initial 10 week period, the team would have a 'bible' of recipes established and the skills and confidence to work independently. 7. The recipes would also be made available to others, both through our web site and where possible as hard copies. Partners/referrals: We have discussed and agreed to take referrals from: Bingham 50+ Carr Gomm (housing & GP based social prescriber) Moredun High Flats Tenants' Association Crisis (people in temporary accommodation with limited cooking facilities) The White House, Craigmillar – to take additional meals for identified carers. Lone Fathers, Edinburgh LAC team We are likely to add to this list and have spoken with key carers and support workers in the area for additional referrals.","title":"Real Fast Food","id":"360G-SCVO-a0g0N00001gBVTFQA4","currency":"GBP","plannedDates":[{"startDate":"2019-02-04","endDate":"2019-11-18","dateModified":"2020-02-24T10:38:05+00:00"}],"recipientOrganization":[{"name":"Bridgend Farmhouse","id":"GB-SC-SC048396","charityNumber":"SC048396","description":"Our purpose is to help people live healthily and happily, through the transformation of Bridgend Farmhouse into a community-owned centre for learning, eating and exercise. Following extensive renovation, we launched officially on 24th March 2018 offering a purpose-built training kitchen, café and workshops, meeting-exhibition space, admin and gardens. 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Our project is to work specifically on an estate that has many issues such as long term unemployment, debt / rent arrears, anti social behaviour / criminal activity, isolation, mental health issues, fly tipping,vandalism, poverty and loneliness. The Mansfield estate has a 'questionable reputation' that makes homeless people request not to be located on it and current residents apologise for living there. CCAST Highland has recognised and acknowledged a great community spirit that when harnessed, supported and encouraged can make real difference to the lives of people living there. Between Jan and Aug 2017 we will be piloting a variety of programmes based on identified need such as volunteers from the local estate to 'Man' the office offering support and encouragement to the local residents, creating and establishing a new community website and an 'SOS' team. 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We have 25 volunteers from many cultures and countries, including Africa, Iraq, Poland, and Scotland. We assist over 200 families each year from a very wide range of cultures and backgrounds, including people moving out of homelessness and dealing with addiction issues, refugees newly granted status and young single parents taking up a first tenancy. We are unique project bringing together this wide mix of people. 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The programme consists of up to 4 months of English as a Second Language (ESOL) classes, followed by 6 sessions on the basic issues which we know from experience our critical; this will include basic information on the benefits system, the roles of the Police and Social Services, access to College, tenants responsibilities, contacts with schools and how to sign post to other agencies for more complex issues. This will also include our normal sessions on the ethos of volunteering, how to help others, and Child Protection in Scotland . During the Programme the volunteers will also take part in our volunteering tasks which include being part of the van delivery team, sorting of donated goods, hosting service users on a drop in day and preparing food. By the end of the Programme at least 6 Arabic speaking volunteers will be able to get alongside new service users and advice them on basic issues such as access to College, contact with schools, how to manage a tenancy and to meet the conditions for claiming Social Security benefits. By the end of the Programme we will have produced a small booklet in Arabic, French and English giving information on local service and useful contact numbers. The 6 to 8 volunteers on the Programme will benefit from the Programme by being well equipped to help others, having more information, including CV writing skills, that will allow prepare them for College or employment. The volunteers will then assist (peer mentor) any new Arabic speaking service users. This is likely to help 18 new service users in the later stages of the programme and a further 24 the following year. 12 or more of our current volunteers will also be involved in the creation of the booklet and will benefit both from considering which issues are important to new service users and hearing the views of the volunteers in the Programme. The 6 to 8 volunteers will also gain the long term benefits of better English language skills and the preparation for work and College gained while volunteering. The Furniture Project is based in Castlemilk, Glasgow. We offer help to tenancies across Glasgow and also the nearby areas of South Lanarkshire, Rutherglen, Cambuslang and Blantyre. 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These may be people newly granted refugee status, young mothers fleeing violence, someone with a history of of addiction. All our service users face the effects of poverty. We are invited to help at a positive time in a a person's life when they have taken the steps to get a tenancy and come to us for help to settle. This means that we are made aware of other help needed for someone planning for a better future. This has led us as a group of staff and volunteers to develop other supports when our skills and funds allow. Thus we run English classes for parents with young children with very little English and provide child care support for this. Volunteers and service users cook an international meal most weeks allowing people to share their skills and providing a popular drop in for some local socially isolated single men. Many of our English class students have worked with our Community Work student for the last 3 months to identify what they see as the key areas they need to address to improve integration into Scottish society , reduce isolation and prepare for employment. This work has been facilitated by a couple of group members who have better English and by Scottish \"peer educators\" sharing about cultural issues. The group identified the following 7 priorities: Some of these can be met by our existing services, some will be met within the new mini-courses proposed: others need extra funding' (1) The opportunity to learn English. We already provide ESOL classes and our qualified volunteer will continue to teach. (2)Raising children in a society with different values and expectations. (3)Addressing barriers to cultural integration. (4)Cross cultural learning, (5) Increasing self confidence Much of this will be done by sharing in the new groups. For some of these issues we will use external visitors, such as a social worker who is available to explain Scottish child care laws and expectations. Similarly after 19 years of working with asylum seekers and refugees we have volunteers and friends who are happy to share their journeys with the group. (6) Navigating welfare rights issues, school dinners, Universal credit etc. (7) Accessing employment and CV writing. The group's work identifying need and our general experience of shows a clear need for welfare rights input. We wish to employ a 5 hour a week welfare rights assistant. We also wish to offer two workshops with \"Radiant and Brighter\" to help prepare CVs and look at realistic routes to employment The group work we have done has been funded out of reserves and one small grant for a workshop with Radiant and Brighter, a pre-employment service for BME people. So we are now applying for funding for two strands of the work we wish to do Firstly we propose to run 3 eight week mini-courses between late February 2020 to mid October 2020. Each \"course\" would run once a week for the eight weeks, facilitated by our Community Work Assistant. The course will address the priorities identified above and aim for the group to find ways to change. Much of this will be done by sharing in the group. Other issues will use external visitors, such as a social worker who is available to explain Scottish child care laws and expectations. Similarly after 19 years of working with asylum seekers and refugees we have volunteers and friends who are happy to share their journeys with the group. Secondly the groups' work identifying need and our general experience shows a clear need for welfare rights input. We wish to employ a 5 hour a week welfare rights assistant. We already have funding in place for a 5 hour a week \"extra support worker\" to work alongside families in crisis We would appoint one person to cover these two related remits.. . (Last year we found we had helped 30 families or individuals in need of major support to prevent eviction, deal with family breakdown basically in addition to our administrator's already busy schedule.)","title":"Castlemily Community Church Furniture Project","id":"360G-SCVO-a0g3z00000HpN08AAF","currency":"GBP","plannedDates":[{"startDate":"2020-02-03","endDate":"2020-09-30","dateModified":"2020-02-11T08:18:48+00:00"}],"recipientOrganization":[{"name":"Castlemilk Community Church","id":"GB-SC-SC051505","charityNumber":"SC051505","description":"As a local church in a Glasgow housing scheme our aim is to help the community. As well as holding Sunday services for adults and children we also run an anti-poverty service helping people moving out of homelessness into new tenancies. This is a free service, our service users and our volunteers are from a wide variety of cultures and are 75% from Black and Minority Ethnic backgrounds (BME) often refugees and asylum seekers. We also help local single parents and others with a background of addiction. It is a very busy project, last year we helped over 360 tenancies, and worked with 28 volunteers. One of our aims is integration; we have worked with asylum seekers and refugees for 19 years; our church congregation and leadership are 50% BME so we feel we have good experiences of settling in Scotland to pass on.","streetAddress":"150 Ardencraig Road","addressLocality":"Castlemilk","addressRegion":"Glasgow","postalCode":"G45 0JG","location":[{"latitude":55.802356,"longitude":-4.217653},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S13002967","geoCodeType":"WD"},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S14000034","geoCodeType":"WPC"},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S03000043","geoCodeType":"CCG"}],"addressCountry":"Scotland","url":"http://www.castlemilkcommunitychurch.co.uk/"}],"beneficiaryLocation":[{"latitude":55.802356,"longitude":-4.217653},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S13002967","geoCodeType":"WD"},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S14000034","geoCodeType":"WPC"},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S03000043","geoCodeType":"CCG"}],"fundingOrganization":[{"name":"Scottish Council For Voluntary Organisations","id":"GB-SC-SC003558","charityNumber":"SC003558","department":"Policy","streetAddress":"Caledonian Exchange, 19A Canning Street","addressLocality":"Edinburgh","addressRegion":"City of Edinburgh","postalCode":"EH3 8EG","addressCountry":"Scotland","description":"The Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations is the membership organisation for Scotland's charities, voluntary organisations and social enterprises.","url":"http://scvo.scot","location":[{"latitude":55.959611,"longitude":-3.190946}]}],"grantProgramme":[{"code":"scvo-ccrf-round-5","title":"Community Capacity & Resilience Fund - Round 5","description":"Funding to help local voluntary sector groups and organisations across Scotland tackle poverty and mitigate against UK government welfare changes.","url":"https://scvo.scot/funding/community-capacity-resilience-fund"}],"fromOpenCall":"Yes","dateModified":"2020-02-11T08:18:48+00:00","dataSource":"https://scvo.scot/funding/data/archive/community-capacity-resilience-fund.json"},{"amountAppliedFor":10000,"amountAwarded":10000,"awardDate":"2018-08-08","description":"Our project is designed ultimately (and overt time) to mitigate the negative effects of welfare reform by equipping the communities of Muirhouse and West Pilton to be self sufficient in their planting, growing harvesting and eating their own food. We realise the scale of the task and that a mind set shift of an enormous scale is required to achieve that but we know that already, over 250 young people and their families who would never have thought about farming and horticulture have experienced the hands on process of planting, growing, harvesting and eating the produce of their own labour. They have felt the pride of their achievements and they have wondered at the magic of nature when one potato planted in the ground can multiply and multiply. During 2018/19, we will grow those numbers. A further 250 young people and their families will be involved and we will attempt to continue engaging with the 250 from last year so that 500 people in the area are engaged in mind set shifting activities by August 2019. We also anticipate that for every person involved in the programme, a further 2 members of their families are impacted too giving a total of 1000. We also anticipate that the speed and velocity will increase as the project gains momentum. If we are able to deliver this programme year on year over the next 10 years, we will have reached 20000 people which is more than 2/3rds of the population of Muirhouse and West Pilton. Our approach to combating poverty and inequality and promoting social inclusion is holistic and integrated. With a target to turn the population of Muirhouse and West Pilton into a self sufficient food growing community by 2028, the steps along the way are all about creativity, fun, events, together working and sharing community meals. Rather than combating poverty therefore, we are taking a cultural planning approach: we are creatively building on the skills and assets that already exist within the community. We have land and buildings within the church and North Edinburgh Arts. The church is planning to turn itself into a social enterprise hub: a learning centre where self sustaining skills can be learned and shared (carpentry, plumbing, electrics and constructions skills as well as the horticulture and husbandry skills that we can contribute) and Centipede will be a key project within the social enterprise hub plans. Centipede will work with young people (including the long term unemployed people) in growing and planting food and we will take an intergenerational approach too: encouraging older people to pass on skills. Our arts and creativity work is as important as our planting growing and harvesting as it is the engagement with the creative spirit that turns the sense of self to aspirational from despair. That is the main work of Centipede: the combination of the creative and generative with the sustainable approach to combating poverty: growing and sharing our own.","title":"GERMINATOR!!","id":"360G-SCVO-a0g0N00001gAR9CQAW","currency":"GBP","plannedDates":[{"endDate":"2019-08-31","dateModified":"2019-11-29T14:17:01+00:00"}],"recipientOrganization":[{"name":"Centipede","id":"360G-SCVO-001b000003Xu8glAAB","description":"Located in one of the top five areas of multiple deprivation in Scotland, Centipede aims to bring people together in community to play, plant, grow, eat and celebrate. Our aim is transformation: transformation of how we see ourselves and how others see us so that the image of drugs, crime and desperation is replaced with images of a vibrant Muirhouse where people love to live, work and play. 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We are in receipt of £20,000 from Go For It, the Church of Scotland fund and we have a £10,000 shortfall in what we hope to deliver. £10,000 from this application would therefore help us to: - Continue to develop outreach and learning workshop programmes, upscaling our efforts to include other demographics, community members and age groups. - Continue develop planting out on brownfield sites involving community members taking ownership of the beds: their maintenance and protection. - Continue to run the creative arts programme alongside the hands on planting and growing and we want to upscale this aspect over the coming months. - Develop skills in drawing and painting, and creating collaborative artworks together from scratch that will be necessary for the mounting of a final exhibition at the end of the project in December 2018 - learn about the importance of keeping our global/and local soils healthy. - learn how to compost with mini composting systems, and looking at microorganisms that live in the soil, recycling its nutrients. - Create art works - Reach a much wider demographic of families, community groups and local residents - Become an exemplar for sustainable food solutions.","title":"GERMINATOR!!","id":"360G-SCVO-a0gb00000127f8iAAA","currency":"GBP","plannedDates":[{"endDate":"2018-07-31","dateModified":"2019-11-29T14:17:01+00:00"}],"recipientOrganization":[{"name":"Centipede","id":"360G-SCVO-001b000003Xu8glAAB","description":"Located in one of the top five areas of multiple deprivation in Scotland, Centipede aims to bring people together in community to play, plant, grow, eat and celebrate. Our aim is transformation: transformation of how we see ourselves and how others see us so that the image of drugs, crime and desperation is replaced with images of a vibrant Muirhouse where people love to live, work and play. Originating as an initiative from two merging churches as a solution to a fractured faith community, the Centipede project is now an independent unincorporated association with a constitution, a committee of local residents, community group members and the wider community. 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This project will therefore take place in one of the most deprived areas in Scotland. With widespread demolition of local authority housing coupled with recession preventing planned new build housing, there are large swathes of brownfield in Muirhouse offering a great opportunity to develop the land for community growing projects. We have already delivered three new spaces and places with raised beds, recreation/performance/contemplation space and landscape development for play. We now need a community education programme that will support local people to understand and embrace the planting, harvesting, food preparation serving and eating process as well as addressing issues of damaged plants and obstruction of the growing process that plagues their efforts to grow their own food. We will now introduce a long-term education programme into the local schools. Our innovative creative learning programme will employ an artist to engage, inspire and bring the growing project to life for the young people. Through hands on outdoor work they will learn the value of planting, growing, harvesting and cooking their own food. They will make their own paints from liquidised vegetables and fruits which they have grown themselves. The artist will work closely with the children, demonstrating the value of locally grown food, creating new images and engaging in a new way. We will employ a chef to work with the children to create delicious food that they can enjoy and share. They will create their own dishes, their own images and new recipes of their own food. The artist will seek out a public space to exhibit the children's work so that friends and family can value their efforts, share the food and enjoy viewing the images, recipes and new ideas.","title":"GERMINATOR!!","id":"360G-SCVO-a0gb000000QAInxAAH","currency":"GBP","plannedDates":[{"startDate":"2017-01-18","endDate":"2017-08-25","dateModified":"2019-11-29T14:11:24+00:00"}],"recipientOrganization":[{"name":"Centipede","id":"360G-SCVO-001b000003Xu8glAAB","description":"Located in one of the top five areas of multiple deprivation in Scotland, Centipede aims to bring people together in community to play, plant, grow, eat and celebrate. Our aim is transformation: transformation of how we see ourselves and how others see us so that the image of drugs, crime and desperation is replaced with images of a vibrant Muirhouse where people love to live, work and play. 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Indirectly this project will benefit much more than direct participants as the key skills taken from this will be transferable to other groups and the participants own families in the future. As this project will allow for the creation of skilled volunteers this will therefore become a programme we can replicate more easily in the future, thus giving more young people the chance to develop new skills which they will be able to use throughout their lives. By teaching young people about healthy eating and giving them the skills with which to help support their learning will also have multiple health and well being benefits for those involved. Scotland's unhealthy diet is widely cited as a factor in its poor health record. Previous research has shown that children and young people in Scotland follow a diet that falls short of national recommendations and is less healthy than that of children in other European countries, thus by educating young people in these sessions we can hopefully encourage those that take part to eat more healthily both now and in the future thus affecting their overall health positively for years to come. Health inequalities in the UK persist despite various attempts at tackling them. Data from Office for National Statistics (ONS) in March 2014 show males in the most advantaged areas can expect to live 19.3 years longer in 'good' health than those in the least advantaged areas. For females this was 20.1 years. The most deprived households in the UK spent almost a quarter of their income (23.8%) on food in 2012 compared with an annual spend of around 4% by the most affluent households (Centre for Economic and Business Research, 2013). Healthy eating costs three times as much as junk food – in 2012, the average price for 1,000 calories of healthy food was £7.49, whilst the same amount of unhealthy food was just £2.50 (Jones et al., 2014). Inequality in the form of poverty and economic hardship can often lead to people being unable to achieve an adequate, nutritious diet. Research supports the idea that 'food poverty' is an appropriate term to be used to describe situations where opportunities to consume healthy food are severely constrained and this can have a huge impact on peoples quality of life and healthy development. Our project would focus in tackling some of the issues that are created through inequality and bring together various partners in doing so to help us support some of the people who may deal with these issues. Teaching future generations, parents and families how to cook healthy and nutritious meals within a budget could be hugely beneficial to them in their lives. These skills will also be transferable to their families and thus have an even greater impact than may initially seem evident. By holding community meals we will also be able to pass on lessons and information related to healthy eating to the wider community.","title":"Cooking Up A Storm !!","id":"360G-SCVO-a0gb00000127f8wAAA","currency":"GBP","plannedDates":[{"endDate":"2018-08-31","dateModified":"2019-11-29T14:17:01+00:00"}],"recipientOrganization":[{"name":"Church House, Bridgeton [SCIO]","id":"GB-SC-SC039112","charityNumber":"SC039112","description":"Church House has been operating for over seventy years within the East End of Glasgow. The organisation currently delivers a range of youth activity and family support with over 80 young people participating each year. 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We will look to discover if we have the need that everyone talks about. An example of a young mum a member of staff spoke with explains she had no idea how to make a bottle apart from looking it up in google, she didn't want to appear 'stupid' so never asked questions, didn't attend parent & toddler groups as she always thought they were for older more experienced parents. We've mapped postcodes of our current beneficiaries against the SIMD 2016 rank using a tool on the Scottish Government website and this has confirmed that: • 70% of those we're engaging live in the worst 5% of datazones in Scotland • 91% of those we're engaging live in the worst 10% of datazones in Scotland • 100% of those we're engaging live in the worst 20% of datazones in Scotland Some of our existing parents talk about when they were pregnant \"how lonely I felt, especially after I gave up work and was used to seeing people every day, I felt that I never had anyone to talk to\", explaining that they felt there was a lack of support groups that they could attend that was about their needs, not just the babies needs and the pressures to feel amazing as they had a new baby and in reality some of them never felt this. Some parents said they would have felt more comfortable attending somewhere that they knew on their doorstep without the additional stress of travelling on 2 buses to get to a service as they felt quite nervous. That was some of our older parents, so we want to make sure that this is not repeated, that there is a service on the doorstep for young parents to ensure that they do not become socially isolated. Many of the parents we will be working with are young and will suffer from ACE's (adverse childhood experiences) and as such need support with their parenting and relationships. Through no fault of their own they have had poor parenting experiences and lack the tools and techniques for them to enjoy their children The group will offer a chance to support young parents when they can be at there most vulnerable. We would like to offer different activities that target various areas to support them as a person and parent. This could include activities addressing positive parenting, healthy eating/cooking ideas/cooking on a budget, children/parent activities - this may involve messy play, Bookbug, cooking on a budget, music sessions, trips - many of the activities that are on offer with other providers have a fee attached, which makes this unaffordable and then their children miss out on that development. It means every parent can access the activities, regardless of their financial status. We would like to train one of our volunteers, possibly a parent if willing to do this, in Baby Massage so that we can run courses as and when required for the community, instead of waiting for a trained person from a partner organisation by which time we have lost the interest of the original group. We would also offer paediatric first aid training and food hygiene training. This programme would encourage bonding with their child, a chance to learn how to play with their child and participate in actitivies to have fun with their children, to develop their skills and confidence as a person. The group would start with lunch, each week staff would lead different activities/ideas/workshops which would be co-designed by the young parents. The two staff members are experienced in youth work and also are parents. They have been on a range of training that would support the young parents, including counselling, mental health first aid for young people, Understanding Perinatal Mood Disorder. They have made many contacts with possible partners who will enhance the programme. On a monthly basis we would look at an outreach creche to come in and support the parents while they possibly have 1:1 advice or participate in self-confidence workshops, the rest of the sessions would involve their children. An idea of the programme could include: Children Activities 1. Play Group Sessions - Baby Sensory 2. Book Bug 3. Healthy Eating/Cooking with parents Parent Support 1. Bonding & Attachment Continuing Education 2. Positive Parenting Education - sleeping, eating etc. 3. Healthy Eating 4. Child Development Education 5. Play session education for parents 6. Trips We would also trial the idea of a 'baby pantry', the pantry would stock essential items and would be accessible by the young parents attending the group if they are running short of items until they receive their payment. Young parents would be allowed to pay £2.50, and receive three items from the baby box, this may include nappies, baby wipes, which may support them if they are struggling financially. The money would be used to restock the baby box. This would mean that people keep their dignity while providing for their child. Through the Family Nurse partnership we would promote our new young parents support programmes and ask them to signpost parents that would benefit from our service ensuring a local organisation is supporting the Governments Pregnancy and Parenthood in Young People Strategy. We have also recently met with the Smith Croft Secondary School Young Parent Base Coordinator to discuss the idea for our new young parents group, to talk about partnership working, the gaps in provision and signposting young parents who may have left school who do not currently access any support but may still need that support. Other partners may include Health Improvement Team, Citizens Advice Bureau etc. The group will not only be an opportunity for people to develop new skills as a person and a parent, but also to gain new peer support and relationships, which is crucial to ensure that young parents do not become socially isolated, especially those young parents who do not have the family support network.","title":"Young Parents Programme","id":"360G-SCVO-a0g3z00000HpOCbAAN","currency":"GBP","plannedDates":[{"startDate":"2020-02-14","endDate":"2020-10-29","dateModified":"2020-02-11T08:25:41+00:00"}],"recipientOrganization":[{"name":"Church House, Bridgeton [SCIO]","id":"GB-SC-SC039112","charityNumber":"SC039112","description":"Church House, Bridgeton [SCIO] exists to help children, young people and families in Bridgeton and surrounding areas of Glasgow to find fullness of life (physically, mentally, spiritually, emotionally and socially) through recreational activities and informal education. Our warm and welcoming purpose built Family Support Centre is open 7 days/week, we currently have 20 groups per week, ranging from pre-school to elderly. We strive to reach the most isolated and vulnerable families and work alongside them to deliver more and better outcomes: • Children have improved life chances and enhanced levels of learning, communication, language, numeracy and social skills. • Young people are more engaged in productive pursuits with long term benefits and feel more involved and valued, are knowledgeable, confident, skilled, tolerant, positive and successful individuals and citizens. • Parents feel more empowered and confident, less isolated and better able to cope. • Families operate more cohesively with greater resilience.","streetAddress":"22 Queen Mary Street","addressLocality":"Glasgow","addressRegion":"Glasgow","postalCode":"G40 3BB","location":[{"latitude":55.848403,"longitude":-4.219666},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S13002975","geoCodeType":"WD"},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S14000029","geoCodeType":"WPC"},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S03000043","geoCodeType":"CCG"}],"addressCountry":"Scotland","url":"https://www.facebook.com/churchhousebridgeton/?ref=aymt_homepage_panel"}],"beneficiaryLocation":[{"latitude":55.848403,"longitude":-4.219666},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S13002975","geoCodeType":"WD"},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S14000029","geoCodeType":"WPC"},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S03000043","geoCodeType":"CCG"}],"fundingOrganization":[{"name":"Scottish Council For Voluntary Organisations","id":"GB-SC-SC003558","charityNumber":"SC003558","department":"Policy","streetAddress":"Caledonian Exchange, 19A Canning Street","addressLocality":"Edinburgh","addressRegion":"City of Edinburgh","postalCode":"EH3 8EG","addressCountry":"Scotland","description":"The Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations is the membership organisation for Scotland's charities, voluntary organisations and social enterprises.","url":"http://scvo.scot","location":[{"latitude":55.959611,"longitude":-3.190946}]}],"grantProgramme":[{"code":"scvo-ccrf-round-5","title":"Community Capacity & Resilience Fund - Round 5","description":"Funding to help local voluntary sector groups and organisations across Scotland tackle poverty and mitigate against UK government welfare changes.","url":"https://scvo.scot/funding/community-capacity-resilience-fund"}],"fromOpenCall":"Yes","dateModified":"2020-02-11T08:25:41+00:00","dataSource":"https://scvo.scot/funding/data/archive/community-capacity-resilience-fund.json"},{"amountAppliedFor":7640,"amountAwarded":7640,"awardDate":"2017-07-28","description":"The sessions would be delivered to people from the surrounding communities of Bridgeton, Dalmarnock and Barrowfield all of which fall into the 10% of most deprived communities in Scotland and where food poverty is a real issue. Indirectly this project will benefit much more than direct participants as the key skills taken from this will be transferable to other groups and the participants own families in the future. As this project will allow for the creation of skilled volunteers this will therefore become a programme we can replicate more easily in the future, thus giving more young people the chance to develop new skills which they will be able to use throughout their lives. By teaching young people about healthy eating and giving them the skills with which to help support their learning will also have multiple health and well being benefits for those involved. Scotland's unhealthy diet is widely cited as a factor in its poor health record. Previous research has shown that children and young people in Scotland follow a diet that falls short of national recommendations and is less healthy than that of children in other European countries, thus by educating young people in these sessions we can hopefully encourage those that take part to eat more healthily both now and in the future thus affecting their overall health positively for years to come. Health inequalities in the UK persist despite various attempts at tackling them. Data from Office for National Statistics (ONS) in March 2014 show males in the most advantaged areas can expect to live 19.3 years longer in 'good' health than those in the least advantaged areas. For females this was 20.1 years. The most deprived households in the UK spent almost a quarter of their income (23.8%) on food in 2012 compared with an annual spend of around 4% by the most affluent households (Centre for Economic and Business Research, 2013). Healthy eating costs three times as much as junk food – in 2012, the average price for 1,000 calories of healthy food was £7.49, whilst the same amount of unhealthy food was just £2.50 (Jones et al., 2014). Inequality in the form of poverty and economic hardship can often lead to people being unable to achieve an adequate, nutritious diet. Research supports the idea that 'food poverty' is an appropriate term to be used to describe situations where opportunities to consume healthy food are severely constrained and this can have a huge impact on peoples quality of life and healthy development. Our project would focus in tackling some of the issues that are created through inequality and bring together various partners in doing so to help us support some of the people who may deal with these issues. Teaching future generations, parents and families how to cook healthy and nutritious meals within a budget could be hugely beneficial to them in their lives. These skills will also be transferable to their families and thus have an even greater impact than may initially seem evident. By holding community meals we will also be able to pass on lessons and information related to healthy eating to the wider community.","title":"Cooking Up A Storm !!","id":"360G-SCVO-a0g0N00001gAR8YQAW","currency":"GBP","plannedDates":[{"endDate":"2018-08-31","dateModified":"2018-10-03T09:33:47+00:00"}],"recipientOrganization":[{"name":"Church House, Bridgeton [SCIO]","id":"GB-SC-SC039112","charityNumber":"SC039112","description":"Church House has been operating for over seventy years within the East End of Glasgow. The organisation currently delivers a range of youth activity and family support with over 80 young people participating each year. 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At the end of each session the young people would then host their very own community meal for members of their family and friends to show of their new skills and share their knowledge of healthy eating. These 5 blocks would all be directed at different age groups and focus on specific issues around food that would be suitable to that age. For example when working with those who are in primary school we may focus on the basics of cooking such as basic food hygiene and simple recipes such as boiling an egg. This would be to encourage the young people to use their own initiative to cook a healthy meal for themselves if this may not be done for them at home. We would also work in partnership with other agencies such as the NHS to deliver workshops that can further educate the young people on the importance of healthy eating and the multiple benefits a good diet can have on their lives. 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This hasn't made the process any easier for those affected, the support required has not diminished, in fact, as welfare reform continues to roll out, further support and assistance is required. We now have a better understanding of the application process, what is expected of a client during the process and methods of support going through the process. Over the last year we have been able to put in place a model which is flexible to the ever changing Universal Credit and welfare reform environment. Universal Credit does not stand in insolation, we hope to make sure that clients are fully aware of what Universal Credit is, what the impact it may have on any other benefits, including housing costs and changes in ill health benefits that UC can impact on. We will offer a supportive and encouraging role, whilst still providing the essential information and advice that individuals require. 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We aim to provide a face to face service where a client can come and get full information on Universal Credit, for example: what it is, how it is paid, what expectations will be placed on them, what information they require to make the claim, how to pay their rent in a practical sense, Scottish Choices, advance payments and budgeting advice. We will also refer them for further support to the Job Centre for practical digital support. This will enhance and compliment our holistic service. We will encourage basic computer training for those who don't have the skills or confidence in using one and we will advise on where they can get further advice on this. We already know from data gathered that clients find the first 5 weeks especially hard and we will over advice ad support during this period. We will provide our clients with full support on applying for any statutory or charitable assistance during this time. 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We also provide specialist advice on: NHS complaints, debt, money advice, welfare benefits and representation at Welfare Benefits tribunals and in the Heritable and Small Claims Courts in Lanark.","streetAddress":"10-12 Wide Close","addressLocality":"Lanark","addressRegion":"South Lanarkshire","postalCode":"ML11 7LX","location":[{"latitude":55.674031,"longitude":-3.780439},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S13003096","geoCodeType":"WD"},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S14000042","geoCodeType":"WPC"},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S03000030","geoCodeType":"CCG"}],"addressCountry":"Scotland","url":"http://www.clydesdalecab.org.uk"}],"beneficiaryLocation":[{"latitude":55.674031,"longitude":-3.780439},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S13003096","geoCodeType":"WD"},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S14000042","geoCodeType":"WPC"},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S03000030","geoCodeType":"CCG"}],"fundingOrganization":[{"name":"Scottish Council For Voluntary Organisations","id":"GB-SC-SC003558","charityNumber":"SC003558","department":"Policy","streetAddress":"Caledonian Exchange, 19A Canning Street","addressLocality":"Edinburgh","addressRegion":"City of Edinburgh","postalCode":"EH3 8EG","addressCountry":"Scotland","description":"The Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations is the membership organisation for Scotland's charities, voluntary organisations and social enterprises.","url":"http://scvo.scot","location":[{"latitude":55.959611,"longitude":-3.190946}]}],"grantProgramme":[{"code":"scvo-ccrf-r3-strand-1","title":"Community Capacity & Resilience Fund - R3 Strand 1","description":"Funding to help local voluntary sector groups and organisations across Scotland tackle poverty and mitigate against UK government welfare changes.","url":"https://scvo.scot/funding/community-capacity-resilience-fund"}],"fromOpenCall":"Yes","dateModified":"2019-11-29T16:07:47+00:00","dataSource":"https://scvo.scot/funding/data/archive/community-capacity-resilience-fund.json"},{"amountAppliedFor":4788,"amountAwarded":4788,"awardDate":"2018-10-19","description":"We are seeking funding to help us recruit a Sessional staff and five volunteers to undergo training in Universal Credit Course, City & Guild Energy Awareness course and Elementary Cooking Course to delivered by CPAG, Energy Action Scotland and REHIS respectively. The training will give them the skills to help the community affected by welfare reforms to develop effective coping strategies that will improve their day-to-day lives. Below is the course content. 1. CPAG-Universal Credit course-The roll out of Universal Credit (UC) full service is due to be completed by the end of this year. Roll-out takes place in West Dumbartonshire and Edinburgh on 28 November and Castlemilk, Drumchapel and Shettleston on 5 December. The course will give the five volunteers and support staff the opportunity to learn about UC in order to support our community of interests. By drawing on experience from areas where UC full service is operating, they will learn who is affected and how best to support them, particularly those who are vulnerable or in difficult circumstances. They will also have the chance to refresh their knowledge of UC entitlement and calculations. 2. Energy Action Scotland-City & Guild Energy Awareness Course-The course is aimed at those providing energy advice to community and wishing to have a greater understanding of domestic energy efficiency. Modules Heating and Preventing Heat Loss: • Use of heating and hot water systems • Effective use of heating controls • Heat loss from buildings • Methods of home insulation • Renewable energy in the home Lifestyle and Housekeeping: • Fuel poverty and health • The causes and control of condensation and dampness • The need for adequate ventilation • \"No cost\" energy saving measures • Health risks from the lack of affordable warmth Finance and Budgeting: • Understanding tariffs, meters and budgeting for fuel • Comparative costs and system efficiencies • Costs of running household appliances • Payment methods for fuel • Services from fuel suppliers and consumer bodies • Grants and financial help available for energy efficiency improvements and fuel payments 3. REHIS- Elementary Cooking Course-Provide participants with basic cooking skills that increases confidence, skills and knowledge. The project will engage 280 households in poverty due to benefit sanction and welfare reforms and are from deprived, hard-to-reached households of Portuguese speaking community living in social housing to help them cope and deal appropriately with the welfare reform. The project will be robust and help increase participants financial skills, energy awareness skills and the skills to deal with the factors to overcoming poverty. The project will target and work with members of the PALOPs residing in Castlemilk, Shettleston, Bridgeton Cross, Calton, Mile End, Gallowgate, Haghill, South Camtyne, Parkhead, Dalmarnock/Stadium and South Dalmarnock. The Steering group comprising of 10 people at different stage of their life with respect to welfare reform engaged with other benefits claimants to discuss the issues facing them that required urgent attention. The biggest threats highlighted is the effect the welfare reform & benefit sanctions and the cascading effect on their mental health and wellbeing, No digital skills, Lack of budgeting and cookery skills and the Health risks from the lack of affordable warmth. Other problems highlighted: • that the communication from Department of Works and Pensions to them can be poor and it is often difficult to contact the appropriate person who has made the decision to sanction and to find out the reason why. • that there is little information available to claimants about hardship payments or the ability to appeal a sanction decision. • that claimants are expected to search for work online (using the Universal Jobmatch facility), however many claimants are not computer literate or do not have easy access to a computer or internet. The ability to make and maintain claims online is central to Universal Credit. Individuals with limited access to online facilities or who find new technology challenging are at a significant disadvantage. UC can also provide help with housing costs and a landlord portal is being distributed to social landlords. Evidence suggests that the current DWP systems are not adequately developed. In particular, there is no alignment between deductions from UC and housing costs. This can lead to arrears and threaten tenancy sustainment. In 2016 the UN declared access to broadband to be a basic right. Despite this, home internet access varies considerably by household income. In 2016, 63% of households in Scotland with an income of £15,000 or less had home internet access rising to 98% in households with incomes over £40,000 (Scottish Household Survey, 2016). Additionally, only 65% of social housing tenants have home internet access, compared to 88% of home owners or private rented tenants. Older people, those with disabilities, and those in social housing or on low incomes are all more likely to be digitally excluded. • The threat of benefit sanctions being applied, and the conditionality requirements can be a constant source of stress. If a sanction has been applied, then all the Job Seekers Allowance is lost for a certain period. Claimants can get into further debt or have to borrow from friends and family. The volunteers, Sessional staff and the management committee will be able to offer one to one advice on accessing benefits online and how to avoid their benefits from been sanctioned by DWP (and, if Sanctioned what to do seek redress), budgeting, cookery and digital skills to access benefit online. Volunteers will also visit homes for Energy Audit- checking for the installation of thermostatic valves on radiator; Insulation of hot water tank, loft and wall; checking to know whether fridge is 15 years old (Modern fridge are come with better energy efficient rating); Checking whether boiler is too old requiring more energy efficient condensing boiler. We want to raise the knowledge and the skill level of our volunteers, who more often than not, would be asked a wide range of questions by the participants they are trying to help. The project will provide low cost, nutritional meals for all ages in the community and it serves as a hub whereby people can access support and information on benefits, fuel and energy, bill paying, support services on specific days provided by partner agencies e.g. CAB, Advocacy projects etc. We would deliver cookery activities in conjunction with welfare and benefit checks, Financial literacy & budgeting workshops. Households have expressed an interest in learning to cook but felt that it was too expensive. We will demonstrate with our service users that with budgeting skills and cookery skills that they can maximise their income. We will deliver the cooking in conjunction with activities. other wider benefits include improve mental wellbeing and whilst we are delivering the energy advice visits to all the households we also expect that we may come across African householders not engage with the current project that are in fuel poverty due to welfare reforms. In these cases, we hope we can help alleviate these issues by making their energy usage more efficient but may also help them spend less money by changing supplier or tariff. We will monitor this by asking these households if they are comfortable to either be a case study for the project, or at least to be counted as a household that the project has helped with making their bills more manageable. 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Our project community are members of the PALOPs, the Paises Africanos de Lingua Oficial Portuguesa (or African Countries with Portuguese as Official Language) of the Cape Verdean, Angolan and Mozambican people resident in East End of Glasgow, Scotland.","streetAddress":"Suite 3.1, 34 St. Enoch Square","addressLocality":"Glasgow","addressRegion":"Scotland","postalCode":"G1 4DF","location":[{"latitude":55.85746,"longitude":-4.255832},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S13002976","geoCodeType":"WD"},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S14000029","geoCodeType":"WPC"},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S03000043","geoCodeType":"CCG"}],"addressCountry":"Scotland","url":"http://www.assetproject.org.uk"}],"beneficiaryLocation":[{"latitude":55.85746,"longitude":-4.255832},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S13002976","geoCodeType":"WD"},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S14000029","geoCodeType":"WPC"},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S03000043","geoCodeType":"CCG"}],"fundingOrganization":[{"name":"Scottish Council For Voluntary Organisations","id":"GB-SC-SC003558","charityNumber":"SC003558","department":"Policy","streetAddress":"Caledonian Exchange, 19A Canning Street","addressLocality":"Edinburgh","addressRegion":"City of Edinburgh","postalCode":"EH3 8EG","addressCountry":"Scotland","description":"The Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations is the membership organisation for Scotland's charities, voluntary organisations and social enterprises.","url":"http://scvo.scot","location":[{"latitude":55.959611,"longitude":-3.190946}]}],"grantProgramme":[{"code":"scvo-ccrf-r4-strand-3","title":"Community Capacity & Resilience Fund - R4 Strand 3","description":"Funding to help local voluntary sector groups and organisations across Scotland tackle poverty and mitigate against UK government welfare changes.","url":"https://scvo.scot/funding/community-capacity-resilience-fund"}],"fromOpenCall":"Yes","dateModified":"2018-12-24T10:11:20+00:00","dataSource":"https://scvo.scot/funding/data/archive/community-capacity-resilience-fund.json"},{"amountAppliedFor":9920,"amountAwarded":9920,"awardDate":"2017-11-10","description":"We are seeking funding to allow us to deliver, develop and test a dual outreach approach at two locations in Edinburgh. We will deliver our three primary services, - namely, Advice Provision, Employability and the Food Bank - in the Calder's Community Flat, located in Dunsyre House, West Edinburgh. From a different standpoint, we will offer advice to employees at Edinburgh's Saughton House Government Buildings. Each outreach approach will focus on a different demographic with distinct needs, however, the grounding aim of the project is to ensure advice is available and accessible. We will host a once weekly drop in session a week, within our normal operating hours at each location. This is an initial trial project to allow us to gather evidence on need, footfall and impact on the area. 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From analysis of our foodbank access statistics from April to September we have determined that 11.2% of foodbank clients are currently resident in either Dunsyre House, Medwin House or Cobbinshaw House. Additionally, we have noted that clients in this cohort have an increased rate of access due to benefit issues, for example, 42% of our client's resident in this area accessed the foodbank due to issues with their benefits – 57% of this being benefit sanctions. Compared with the wider client group in which 31% of clients access the foodbank due to benefit issues, with 50.1% of that being due to benefit sanctions. This, coupled with consultation with the volunteers at the Community Flat highlights that there is a need for our primary services in the area. Supporting some of the city's most vulnerable residents in an informal space that they are comfortable will encourage service engagement; the accessibility of the service also has the potential to encourage residents to seek support before reaching crisis point. At present, there are no other services operating in the immediate area. Advice Outreach at Saughton House: Saughton House is a Scottish Government office in Edinburgh. There are over 500 members of staff, typically working from 9:00 to 17:00. Currently, we offer out of hours Advice, supported by CHAI (Community Health and Advice Initiative) this service has been very well received, especially by those unable to attend office hour's appointments due to their working hours. We aim to develop the accessibility of Advice Provision while acknowledging that 17%, or around 880,000 people of working age in Scotland are living in relative poverty, a rise of 2% on the previous year – 64% of this number were living in working households, signifying a continued rise of in work poverty. This, alongside the popularity of our out of hours service and consultation with staff at Saughton House, demonstrates the need for this project. There is no in-house support service within the offices and we have seen an increase in workers accessing our services - although on their exit questionnaire 80% of clients informed us that they struggled to access our services due to their working patterns.","title":"In your Community","id":"360G-SCVO-a0gb00000129aYVAAY","currency":"GBP","plannedDates":[{"startDate":"2017-12-01","endDate":"2018-11-30","dateModified":"2019-11-29T14:18:28+00:00"}],"recipientOrganization":[{"name":"Community One Stop Shop","id":"GB-SC-SC049181","charityNumber":"SC049181","description":"Established in 2002, the Community One Stop Shop (COSS) is situated in the heart of Broomhouse, Edinburgh, an area affected by poverty and deprivation. We also offer support to local areas ranked in the top 5% to 10% of most deprived areas in Scotland. COSS provides support to residents through three strands of work; Advice Provision; Employability Support, and a Food Bank. We also offer ancillary services such as C-Card, Credit Union and holiday support programmes at local schools, aiming to reduce food insecurity during the school holidays. One of the only self-referral food banks in the city, we offer services with a holistic approach; working to address initial crisis or food poverty issues experienced by individuals and families, while working with them to address issues such as long standing debt, or supporting them into paid employment. Our overall aim is to alleviate the effects of poverty.","streetAddress":"3 broomhouse market","addressLocality":"Edinburgh","addressRegion":"lothian","postalCode":"EH11 3UU","location":[{"latitude":55.928376,"longitude":-3.279458},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S13002925","geoCodeType":"WD"},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S14000025","geoCodeType":"WPC"},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S03000042","geoCodeType":"CCG"}],"addressCountry":"Scotland","url":"https://www.coss-broomhouse.org.uk/"}],"beneficiaryLocation":[{"latitude":55.928376,"longitude":-3.279458},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S13002925","geoCodeType":"WD"},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S14000025","geoCodeType":"WPC"},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S03000042","geoCodeType":"CCG"}],"fundingOrganization":[{"name":"Scottish Council For Voluntary Organisations","id":"GB-SC-SC003558","charityNumber":"SC003558","department":"Policy","streetAddress":"Caledonian Exchange, 19A Canning Street","addressLocality":"Edinburgh","addressRegion":"City of Edinburgh","postalCode":"EH3 8EG","addressCountry":"Scotland","description":"The Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations is the membership organisation for Scotland's charities, voluntary organisations and social enterprises.","url":"http://scvo.scot","location":[{"latitude":55.959611,"longitude":-3.190946}]}],"grantProgramme":[{"code":"scvo-ccrf-r3-strand-1","title":"Community Capacity & Resilience Fund - R3 Strand 1","description":"Funding to help local voluntary sector groups and organisations across Scotland tackle poverty and mitigate against UK government welfare changes.","url":"https://scvo.scot/funding/community-capacity-resilience-fund"}],"fromOpenCall":"Yes","dateModified":"2019-11-29T14:18:28+00:00","dataSource":"https://scvo.scot/funding/data/archive/community-capacity-resilience-fund.json"},{"amountAppliedFor":9725,"amountAwarded":9725,"awardDate":"2018-11-02","description":"This funding would allow us to provide the service for another year. 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At the moment we offer a mainstream advice service 5 days a week, an emergency drop in and an evening out of hours surgery. After evaluating our work and reviewing our statistics we have identified that 27% of our client base is from the increasing BEM community in the Broomhouse area. At the moment due to language barriers and other cultural issues we do not feel we are meeting their needs. We are also concerned that some of the clients do not have a sound understating of the various issues they are asking for help with primarily benefits and housing issues and we are worried that they are not comprehending the advice we are giving them. Many applications for various benefits or jobs are done online - and this can be extremely challenging if English is not your first language. We could help with that. Language is such a barrier to many of these clients who many have literally just arrived in this country and need support. Signposting is important and useful but we want to be able to support these clients in their own area where they are starting to feel more comfortable so more likely to engage with us. There is currently no support for this group of residents in the local Broomhouse area and we feel we are in a strong position to be able to deliver this new service with success as being a well established, trusted local project. Delivering the service locally would also reduce travel costs for clients already affected by poverty. We would recruit a specialised advice worker with additional languages for two days per week based in our offices in Broomhouse. Part of their remit would be to recruit and mentor volunteers that can deliver the service in support of their deliver so we can offer long term support to this client group whilst we continue to seek funding. We feel that we would be in a strong position to be able to fund this project longer term once we have statistical information that evidences need that we could gather during the duration of this grant. During these two working days we could offer 10 appointments . Offering support with various non-immigration issues. These would include benefit advice, housing issues, fuel poverty, training, employability and most other ancillary services.","title":"Access for All","id":"360G-SCVO-a0g3z00000HpMQkAAN","currency":"GBP","plannedDates":[{"startDate":"2020-02-03","endDate":"2020-10-31","dateModified":"2020-02-11T08:18:01+00:00"}],"recipientOrganization":[{"name":"Community One Stop Shop","id":"GB-SC-SC049181","charityNumber":"SC049181","description":"Established in 2002, the Community One Stop Shop (COSS) is situated in the heart of Broomhouse, Edinburgh, an area affected by poverty and deprivation. 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Because she is not part of any statutory service and meets parents in a variety of settings and offers very small informal interventions she is able to build up relationships, signpost, support and encourage parents to be more confident. As she becomes known, Head Teachers can make informal referrals, families can self-refer and friends support one another. She is working to build peer support and encourage volunteers to take leadership roles in parent and toddler and play scheme and craft and cooking groups. The person-centred approach taken is special and we have had success in engaging with parents who have very low self confidence and tend to be wary of positive parenting courses. 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We provide worship, pastoral care, youth activities and since 2014 a project supporting and encouraging families with young children.","streetAddress":"109 Bellrock St","addressLocality":"Cranhill","addressRegion":"Glasgow","postalCode":"G33 3HE","location":[{"latitude":55.866229,"longitude":-4.167768},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S13002984","geoCodeType":"WD"},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S14000030","geoCodeType":"WPC"},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S03000043","geoCodeType":"CCG"}],"addressCountry":"Scotland"}],"beneficiaryLocation":[{"latitude":55.866229,"longitude":-4.167768},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S13002984","geoCodeType":"WD"},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S14000030","geoCodeType":"WPC"},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S03000043","geoCodeType":"CCG"}],"fundingOrganization":[{"name":"Scottish Council For Voluntary Organisations","id":"GB-SC-SC003558","charityNumber":"SC003558","department":"Policy","streetAddress":"Caledonian Exchange, 19A Canning Street","addressLocality":"Edinburgh","addressRegion":"City of Edinburgh","postalCode":"EH3 8EG","addressCountry":"Scotland","description":"The Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations is the membership organisation for Scotland's charities, voluntary organisations and social enterprises.","url":"http://scvo.scot","location":[{"latitude":55.959611,"longitude":-3.190946}]}],"grantProgramme":[{"code":"scvo-ccrf-call-2","title":"Community Capacity & Resilience Fund - Call 2","description":"Funding to help local voluntary sector groups and organisations across Scotland tackle poverty and mitigate against UK government welfare changes.","url":"https://scvo.scot/funding/community-capacity-resilience-fund"}],"fromOpenCall":"Yes","dateModified":"2019-11-29T14:11:24+00:00","dataSource":"https://scvo.scot/funding/data/archive/community-capacity-resilience-fund.json"},{"amountAppliedFor":5000,"amountAwarded":5000,"awardDate":"2017-11-10","description":"We would like to employ our Family Worker an extra day (7.5 hours) per week. She will use this time to develop and promote 'Bite Size' parenting workshops, and deliver 2 training opportunities weekly in addition to her existing work.'Bite Size' is being developed in recognition of the need for support and encouragement for parents experiencing stress, often due to financial pressure. Children may be emotionally immature, failing to thrive or have anger management issues. Using her extensive knowledge of child development and family issues, including attachment and play, the family Worker will create a menu of bite size learning experiences. Parents themselves will identify issues relevant to their family life either from the menu or from their own experience. The issue will be explored either 1-1 or in a small informal group setting. Peer support and sharing good ideas will be encouraged. The learning will be fun and tailored for participants. From January – August 2017 we were in receipt of a grant from the Community Capacity and Resilience Fund which allowed us to employ our Family Worker for 7.5 hours extra per week. The results of this investment have been: extended reach to Lamlash Nursery as well as Cranhill PS and Bellrock Nursery, better partnership working and planning, more families involved, and more time for support for individual families. We are very keen to continue this extra provision, working with our partners at CDT, the nurseries and schools, parent volunteers and the participants, who are able to shape the direction of the project. A recent QI inspection at Cranhill PS noted the high numbers of children with additional support needs and the need for support for parents to be as effective as possible. We have also noted the numbers of children referred to Social Work for child protection reasons, and Social Work's inability to provide early intervention. Many families are struggling to cope financially and socially, and while some have strong social support with extended family and friends, others are isolated and lack opportunity to build support networks. Many children have additional support and learning needs and show signs of stress, emotional immaturity and poor health, including poor diet and lack of sleep. The Family Worker is experienced in delivering services within local authority and third sector settings with extensive knowledge of GIRFEC (Getting it right for every child). The Bite Size menu will reflect GIRFEC Shanarri wellbeing indicators – safe, healthy, achieving, nurtured, active, respected, responsible and included. Through informal and self-referral to our Family Worker, families can seek support, and offer support to others. Many parents have skills to pass on, and the Bite Size informal parenting groups give opportunity for peer support. During the holiday playschemes interfaith and intercultural exchange and relationship building is seen as parents and children involved in the holiday play schemes teach each other ethnic dishes and exchange customs and ideas. Families are encouraged to travel beyond Cranhill on day trips and the Family Worker encourages low cost imaginative and creative play and healthy cooking on a budget. Parents have reported feeling less stressed and more able to enjoy play with their children. We work in partnership with the Community Food Co-ordinator at CDT to encourage families to grow food and to learn low cost healthy cooking. During the six week summer playscheme CDT employed a sessional worker to support the Family Worker. A healthy meal is provided/prepared by participants each day. The Family Worker, who is a child and family specialist with experience in early learning, nursery, outdoor play and child development, has worked alongside families met through nursery, school, holiday play schemes and out of school family activities. She is trained in delivering Bookbug, part of the Scottish government's GIRFEC strategy. Through building relationships she develops trust and can tailor her input according to what she observes or hears. Families help shape programmes: planning and delivering the summer play scheme and recent cookery on a budget groups and 'bite size' parenting tips, allowing parents (or carers) to acknowledge an area of difficulty, for example bedtime, and explore various possible solutions with peer support and input from the worker. Parents gain confidence and then suggest a further topic of interest and also suggest to friends that Family Matters might help them. She meets families one-to-one at home as well as in small groups. We have had success in engaging with parents who have very low self confidence and tend to be wary of 'positive parenting' courses. Opportunities and resources promoted by the Scottish government such as Ready, Steady Baby! and Ready, Steady Toddler! and Play, Talk, Read are maximised by informal and peer delivery. Many parents have low self-esteem, low literacy and numeracy and are suspicious of formal agencies such as schools and social work. By meeting them where they are and encouraging them to have success in small bite size steps our Family Worker contributes to reducing the impact of social inequalities and poverty. We have also successfully encouraged parents to volunteer and achieve recognition through the Community Achievement Awards scheme and have successfully encouraged several parents to undertake study which will improve their quality of life. The Family Worker is able to signpost to other agencies as needed. We work in partnership with Bellrock and Lamlash Nurseries and Cranhill Primary, and the family Worker has begun to talk with St Maria Goretti Primary to encourage engagement and referral. The Family Worker will focus on early, informal intervention at points of transition, paying particular attention to families with younger children 0-5 and children transitioning into primary school. The beneficiaries of Family Matters, including Bite Size parenting tips, come mainly from the Cranhill area, but some come from the wider east end ie Ruchazie, Carntyne, Riddrie. The service will be delivered in Cranhill at the church but mainly in the nursery and primary schools. The SIMD and Understanding Glasgow reveal that the number of families living in poverty in Cranhill and surrounding areas is very high. Cranhill and Riddrie in the profile provided by Understanding Glasgow thave a population of under 15s at 16.7% which is 3% higher than the Glasgow average.The population of those aged 11 and under for Scotland is around 12.7% but for Cranhill, Lightburn and Queenslie South it is 13.5%. Across Scotland the proportion of children aged 11 and under living in the most deprived 15% areas is 17.2% compared to 90% in Cranhill, Lightburn & Queenslie South. These bald statistics convey something of the level of need in the area. Our approach, however, is to recognise the potential and 'hidden treasure' in each individual and try to create opportunities for people to discover and share their knowledge, skills and experiences. Feedback from the families involved in the playschemes and informal drop-in sessions during 2017 is overwhelmingly positive, with parents reporting increased confidence and reduced stress. We believe the Bite Size approach will maximise the positive effect of work by the Family Matters project on families living in poverty. We will evaluate the effectiveness of the project against our aims. The aims of the project are 'To support families, to enable empowerment and self- development, particularly in crisis; and to increase participation in community life.' Quantitive and qualitative data will be gathered to measure impact against these aims. Participants in 'Bite Size' will be asked to indicate stress levels, confidence, and knowledge before and after a group or intervention. Teachers and nursery staff will be asked to assess impact. The project worker will keep detailed records, which will help identify further topics for exploration with participants, as well as capturing informal feedback. She will invite a colleague from a similar project to peer review the project and will use photography and film making as a way of gathering evidence. 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Guest Speakers will be invited to attend to have a 30 mins Q&A session eg. Money Matters, CAB, Turning Point, DWP & Learn Direct, Glasgow College, Scottish Poverty Network, Inclusion Scotland, Migrant Help etc. • \"School Holiday Lunch Club\" - local children will receive a healthy lunch daily throughout school holidays and includes 2 trips eg. to World Buffet Restaurant, Cinema, Outdoor Adventure Playground etc • \"Fresh Food Express\" - increase the amount and variety of food (including hot) that we can deliver via our Foodshare platforms (listed below), by being able to prepare & cook food from scratch with fresh ingredients (all donated), therefore providing a better balanced, more varied and healthier choice for our service users. - Foodshare Drop-in Centre - Foodshare on Wheels inc emergency parcels - Foodshare Pop-Ups CCG Foodshare Services - provide a minimum of 100 food parcels per week – each food parcel consists of 3-days food per person per household. From our questionnaires / referrals – it is calculated that we reach 600+ people per week. NB. we have changed the word Foodbanks to Foodshare to reduce stigma. HOW we're going to do it: • \"Independence from Foodbanks\" Run 4 week blocks with 6 participants in attendance per block x 8 blocks p/a – 192 different individuals • \"School Holiday Lunch Club\" Run 3 x per annum (Christmas, Easter, Summer) with 2 meal settings per day (Mon-Fri) – 50 children at each setting - 100 children (some new, some attending all) • \"Fresh Food Express\" Train a minimum of 20 \"Independence from Foodbanks\" participants to achieve accredited REHIS Food Handling certificates to enable them to volunteer to prepare & cook for our Foodshare Platforms and \"School Holiday Lunch Club\". Distribute 3800 freshly prepared meals throughout Glasgow & East Renfrewshire. 100 meals per week prepared & cooked within Crookston's Community Kitchen by the above volunteers x 38 weeks = 3800 Our current partners & referral organisations are: Action For Children; Citiziens Advice; Various Medical Practices, Housing & Social Work Departments, Central Mosque, City Mission, Local Councillors & MPs, Epic 360, Glasgow City Council, Flexible Homelessness, Women's Aid, Hamesh Allen Centre, Various Social Work Departments, Learn Direct, Leverndale Hospital, Loretto Care, Money Matters, North East GAMH, Pollok Social Work & 80/20 Initiative, SACRO, SAMH, Scottish Prison Service, Job Centres, Sidestep Intervention, Turning Point, Urban Roots, Wheatley Group, Woman's Aid, YPeople. Where necessary, we will identify any additional support needed for our services users (from us or our partners) and refer as required (we make introduction & follow up, we don't just signpost!) Many of these organisations have service users throughout Glasgow and East Renfrewshire eg Money Matters, Glasgow Housing Association, Turning Point (to name a few, it's a long list!) and over the past year during meetings, consultations and attending forums, the increasing need and the wider geographical spread became more and more apparent and urgent. Our partners recommend our services to their service users and we have now found ourselves in the position of delivering donations throughout the whole of Glasgow & East Renfrewshire - almost half (47.3%) of Glasgow's residents - 283,000 people - reside in the 20% of most deprived areas in Scotland. Food is donated to us by: FareShare, Diamond Fruits, Tesco Silverburn, Tesco Barrhead, Waitrose, Mearns, Greggs, Co-op, Morrisons Cardonald, Eurasia, Glasgow Markets, Sainsbury's, Local Shops & occasional eg schools & Celtic Park WHY we want to do it: Our Experience: With myself, husband and children experiencing homelessness, we know the struggles, humiliation and devastation that is felt when you feel alone, hungry and with nowhere to turn. CCG was founded by people who have experienced real life hardships, many of our volunteers are ex-service users determined to give back – we all have our own personal stories which enables us to connect, communicate and understand our service users. We have seen how a person's life experience is heavily influenced by social & economic status resulting in erratic & poor decisions being made, quickly spiralling to what they then feel is outwith their control. For the past 7 years, we have realised that absolutely nothing breaks social, cultural or language barriers faster than food. We built community through food eg Samosa Fun Days (1,500 regularly attend) and began providing snacks and meals for those who accessed our centre-based services. We then found ourselves providing food to those who were hungry. We then built partnerships with local food suppliers (high street & wholesale) and with those already in contact with the hungry who could direct them to us and soon became established providers of food parcels* (NB although we call our services Foodshare, this includes not only Food Parcels - as well as food, they need clothing & underwear, toiletries for personal hygiene eg toothbrushes, sanitary towels, nappies, razors etc, bedding, furniture and kitchen appliances to prepare, cook & eat from eg we've had service users been given tins but can't open them as they don't have a tin opener). Thus now leading us to the next step – we are now not only going to supply food parcels, but our Service Users / Volunteers are going to PREPARE & COOK IT for their neighbours, their community and themselves. Our Records: Our training with Evaluation Scotland has helped us to understand and ensure our services are tailored to the communities needs and ensure the right data is recorded to track the differences CCG's services and activities are making to inform strategic decisions and strengthen governance procedures. In the past 12 months, this has shown an increase in number & type of service users, but also the range of items needed and the geographical spread (service users walk up to 5 miles to reach us) with many 'following' our Pop-Ups. Some words taken from Questionnaires on how service users feel before/after using our Foodshare services: Before: Embarrassed, Humiliated, Shame, Vulnerable, Poor, Scared, Cold, Lonely, Isolated, Disabled & Hopeless After: Grateful, Thankful, Happy, Less scared, Less alone, Relieved, the list goes on …………. Our Journey: The following demonstrates how our services evolved to meet the needs as identified by our referring partners & service users (real examples of referrals & services users): 2011 - Drop-in Foodshare Centre eg Walk in: Male arrives physically shaking, hasn't eaten for 5 days, has 2 children he makes excuses to why they can't visit him, he's ashamed & visibly upset. We provide a food parcel, enough for his children to visit and signpost to Wheatley Group for intervention / early crisis. He has since successfully participated in the Work Ready Programme and now regularly sees his children. 2015 - Mobile Foodshare Service 'Food on Wheels' NHS Asylum Health Bridging Team refer (a family) asylum seekers needing food and support to integrate within community. We deliver food parcels. All are now taking part in our community centre projects & activities. 2015 - Emergency & Out of Hours Foodshare Service Epic 360 refers a disabled (amputee), incontinent & agoraphobic lady, we speak on telephone, she feels dirty, hungry and very lonely. We deliver a box of toiletries, food & refer her to Turning Point. Money Matters referral: A woman & children arrived at centre for abused women, with nothing more than the clothes on their backs, we deliver a food parcel (inc toiletries & clothing) immediately. 2016 - Pop Up Foodshare opens in Govanhill Liz came to us suffering from depression; her husband had lost his job; they and their children were hungry. Within months the family were attending regular activities, before becoming volunteers. Liz was the driving force behind setting up our Govanhill Pop Up Foodshare, which weekly provided food to 50+ families inc local Roma community http://myccgblog.wixsite.com/blog/single-post/2016/10/18/An-other-day-in-the-Govanhill 2017 - Independence from Foodbanks Project Helps transition service users away from their reliance on foodbanks by teaching affordable recipes, budgeting, shopping - 53 now completed. 2017 - What you need to know to Look after Yourself & Your Family Project Outreach Programme, aimed at those BME communities, sensitive to cultural needs 2018 - School Holiday Lunch Club 60+ children attended our summer lunch club – receiving their lunch daily throughout school holidays inc trips to the Cinema and Funworld Taken from our Blog on 18 July 2018: Crookston Community Group foodshare ran out of food at Dunterlie Community Centre today which was not surprising as foodbank use is at its highest in 12 years. Service users at our offices in Beltrees Road are very worried about the roll out of Universal Credit in the next few months throughout Glasgow. \"I think there's going to be a tsunami of people needing help\" -a comment made by one of our volunteers. Printed Statistics: The use of food banks in Scotland has risen by 20% in the last year - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-41895594 The need for food banks is well publicised https://stv.tv/news/scotland/1413196-scottish-food-bank-use-more-than-doubles-in-five-years/ WHO will benefit: 1. Our Community Development Officer will receive an additional salary and will take on more responsibilities, gaining a wider range of experience and skills. 2. Individuals & families within Crookston & Pollock areas, Glasgow wide and Dunterlie in neighbouring East Renfrewshire - all within the most deprived 5% on the SIMD. Housing schemes that appear derelict on first glance are actually habited homes, poverty, crime, drug & alcohol abuse is rife and the norm, many living within chronic conditions. All service users are individuals whose life experience and circumstance have found themselves in desperate need for a helping hand, with many having no control over their daily food intake. Reasons identified: - Recent Austerity Measures resulting in Benefit Cuts - Low income - Overspent benefits - Debt – credit cards, goods purchased on finance - Asylum / Refugees - Unemployment - Homeless - Pay cuts - Sanctions - Theft - Partner controlling money - Zero Contract Hours - Minimum wage earners - Increasing numbers of people with low skills - Increasing numbers of people with learning difficulties or mental health problems not receiving enough support - Increasing numbers of elderly people living in poverty - Ex-offenders - Ill health / Disability / Mental Health Issues - Alcohol / Drug Misuse WHERE: Training & Cooking To meet the demands and facilitate the above, we have taken over an additional unit at 48 Beltrees Road and are renovating into a fully functional catering & training kitchen. Crookston Community Centre – will be located at 56 Beltrees Road & Crookston Community Kitchen – will be located at 48 Beltrees Road. 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This person will be allocated 2 dedicated volunteers to provide assistance Training undertaken by the Advisor will be: • Introduction to Welfare Rights • Income Maximisation for Families • PIP and Attendance Allowance • Challenging PIP Decisions • Universal Credit – Claimant Responsibilities & Sanctions • Universal Credit – For People with Ill Health & Disabilities And provided by CPAG. TIER 1) Drop-in Help Desk – 2 set hours per week 30 mins will be allocated per session: 4 people per week x 32 weeks = 128 service users ( realistically this could be 100 due to times running over) TIER 2) 121 Meetings – 2 set hours per week It is estimated that 35 of those attending the drop-in desk will need additional 121 assistance, such as: • Providing advice to prevent sanctions • Checking & verifying eligibility • Maximising income • Providing advice on budget planning & debt problems • Accompanying to sanction & other meetings • Signposting to our partners & making introductions 2hrs per week x 32 weeks = 35 service users TIER 3) Group Workshops – 2 set hours per week for a 4-week block with 4 blocks These groups will be kept to a maximum of 10 attendees with some attending all Workshops and some attending individual Workshops depending upon their needs. 10 attendees x 4 weeks = 40 people x 4 blocks = 160 service users Some service users will overlap therefore we estimate we will reach 125 unique individuals Week 1: Family Benefits Workshop • Grants, Child Benefit & Universal Credit • Financial help available from pregnancy to starting school • Financial help for those with school age children • Help with childcare costs • Other support available, including for families still getting tax credits • Q&A Session Week 2: Universal Credit Workshop – How to Make Claims • Universal Credit - help make effective claims, work out entitlement and advise on payments • Q&A Session Week 3: Universal Credit Workshop – Work & Benefits • Universal Credit and Work – how work-related requirements and sanctions operate inc those with a health condition or disability • Other Working-Age Benefits • Q&A Session Week 4: PIP & Attendance Allowance • Who is Entitled to PIP • Who is Entitled to AA • How to Claim • Q&A Session WHY: 1) Formal Food Bank Referral Questionnaires & Casual Conversations: We continue to witness how a person's life experience is heavily influenced by social & economic status resulting in erratic & poor decisions being made which quickly spiral to what then feels out of control. The impact of poverty experienced due to the Welfare Reform is the Number 1 reason identified from our service users. Our service users are very vulnerable, their life experience and circumstance have found them in desperate need for a helping hand due to: - low wages; high unemployment rates; families with several generations out of work; few local work opportunities; young people lacking a work ethos; low educational achievement - lack of understanding on how to budget; high debt levels; reduced payments; delays in payments; and sanctions - lack of awareness or inability to access help due to language barriers, anxiety, lack of confidence, lack of knowledge etc. Adults living in poverty focus on short-term survival, their decision-making ability is rushed and their attention span narrowed, leading to erratic decision makings. Although stated within the \"Glasgow Financial Inclusion Strategy 2020 – 2025\" that those most effected by the welfare reform are single parents & the BME community and although a high number of our service users fall into this category, we have also identified that: i) Poverty is hereditary to many who do not know how to or can't break the cycle ii) Some have found themselves in debt due to long term illness (eg cancer) or they/their loved one has a long term disability and iii) Adults retiring without adequate pension and no knowledge of the benefits system with many beginning with a short-term financial issue which then snowballed rapidly to crisis point. Adults living in poverty are less confident in their ability to succeed, leading to decreased personal attainment and ill health due to lack of food, depression and anxiety. Negative self-stereo typing is common, believing the media stereotyping that they are fundamentally flawed, with any achievements tempered by lack of confidence and for many self-loathing resulting in social isolation. All this can be exasperated for the BME and Refugee communities with language barriers, faith and dietary restrictions. Child poverty leads to various negative consequences, including weight & height deficiency, low self-esteem, which is a risk factor for mental illness, suicide or poor academic achievement. Our children should have equal rights to obtain the type of diet, participate in activities, opportunities and living conditions that their peers have. 2) CAB - Welfare Reform Officer Since October, CAB have provided a Welfare Reforms Officer to our premises every 2nd Thursday due to the demand from our service users. We arrange for 4 service users to meet with him for a 121 on every visit – the diary is full to the end of January and we have no guarantee that he would be able to return from February onwards. 3) CCG Development Day (attended by Service Users, Volunteers, Staff, Partners & Trustees) On the 20 November, the Impact of the Welfare Reform repeatedly became the topic of conversation and after some brainstorming incorporating the issues where most service users sought help from us and our partners, the 3-Tier Project was drafted. http://myccgblog.wixsite.com/blog/single-post/2019/11/20/Development-Day We know that this project will have a positive impact not only on improving the financial benefits of our service users but their mental and emotional well-being too. We can make a positive impact in breaking the cycle. All will be encouraged to take part in any of our services that could be beneficial to them eg social activities, language classes and the Independence from Foodbank Project (currently funded until 2022 by the Scottish Government) WHO: • A local community individual will receive a contract and will receive invaluable training to become our \"Welfare Reform Advisor\". • A group of 2 volunteers will be trained by our Welfare Reform Advisor sharing their knowledge obtained from the training courses. These volunteers will then rotate throughout each Tier to help our Welfare Reform Advisor. These volunteers could then go on to further education and / or employment in this field and / or continue to support our service users as volunteers on completion of this project. • Estimated 125 different services users, from age 16+ who are experiencing poverty and social exclusion due to the welfare reform including those lacking awareness or inability to access help. The knowledge and help received will have a domino effect on their dependents and own individual health (financial & emotional). WHERE: All 3 Tiers will take place within Crookston Community Centre (located in Beltrees Road, SIMD stats show Education & Skills ranked as 1, Income, Health, Unemployment & Crime ranked as 2, with Housing at 3). Our service users live within some of the most socially and financially deprived areas including Greater Pollok, Govan, Linn, Newlands / Auldburn, Cardonald, Pollokshields, Langside and Southside Central and we have now branched out due to demand to Dunterlie, East Renfrewshire – we work within many areas within the most deprived 5% on the SIMD. As many of our service users seek support from and are signposted by organisations with branches throughout Glasgow eg. Money Matters, Turning Point, Glasgow Housing Association & Citizens Advice this in-turn has increased the number of individuals approaching us, the needs of the individuals and the geographical spread. Current Services: Throughout the years, our activities & services grow as needs are identified and continue to evolve to meet ever-changing hardships, necessities and currently now include: - Foodshare Drop-in Centre (at our Community Centre, Crookston bridging with Pollok) - Foodshare on Wheels inc emergency parcels (Glasgow Wide and Dunterlie– we have 2 vans) - Foodshare Pop-Ups (Glasgow Wide & Dunterlie) Foodshare includes Food, Toiletries, Toys, Furniture, Clothing and Bedding ie. all hygiene and household necessities etc. Every Wednesday we offer a drop-in service free Sanitary products. Every Wednesday we sell bags of groceries worth between £25/ £30 for £3.50 to help reduce stigma and help with household budgeting. - Children's School Holiday Lunches (local children receive a healthy lunch daily throughout school holidays, funded by Cash for Kids & Glasgow City Council) - Independence from Foodbanks (helps transition frequent users away from their reliance on Foodbanks, funded by the Scottish Government) - Get Yourself Connected (basic IT skills for employment and other economic outcomes) - Adult & Children language classes (4 languages) - Youth Games & Movie Club - Thursday Cook n Chat (cooking & eating together, doing arts & crafts, guest speakers eg Money Matters etc) - General Drop-in / Advocacy Service - Volunteering, Training & Work Placement opportunities. - Multi-Culture Fun Days - Local MP Chris Stevens Surgery every 2nd Friday - Energy Scotland every 2nd Wednesday to offer Fuel Poverty advice - Money Matter, Turning Point & Citizens Advice (alternate) every Thursday to offer general advice Current Partnerships: Food donated by: Aldi, Fare Share, Locavore, Tesco Silverburn, Tesco Barrhead, Asda Mearns, Greggs, Co-op, Eurasia, Glasgow Markets, One stop Shop , Key store Paisley, Local Schools & football teams e.g. Pollok FC, Beith FC, Celtic FC & Rangers FC. 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Subsequently we have held focus groups and talked with partner organisations who also work locally with those in real hardship. We have also seen an increase in poor emotional and mental health caused by the poverty and effects of welfare reform placing people under stress and at disadvantage. New Hope locally provides food and acts as a resource for those without money to adequately feed themselves and their family although it is not strictly a foodbank. However, speaking with people in Oban itself and in the surrounding areas the need spoken of has been that clothing has become unaffordable for many. People are telling us that the local charity shops, all nationally owned, are now so expensive (some say more expensive than new Primark although the nearest is Glasgow ) and they can no longer afford to replace worn out clothing for themselves or their children, dress smartly or feel confident about how they look. 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Our plan would be to: Accept donations and sort these retaining those suitable for reuse Ensure that any unsuitable garments were sent to textile recycling Offer 'pop-up' clothing banks where people could access free clothing on similar principles to some school clothing banks (there are none locally) The clothing banks would rotate around Lorn and central Oban and take referrals from professionals as well as partner third sector organisations. Referrals would ensure that traders could not access free clothing. We would aim to offer women's, men's and children's clothing subject to donations received. How we will deliver this We would recruit four additional volunteers to assist this project. One existing staff member would extend their hours over a six-month period working an extra 8 hours each week. This will enable the marketing, awareness and publicity to establish the new service as well as volunteer recruitment and training. Collections of donations would be advertised in local and hyper local areas. Clothing would then be collected using our own vehicles and taken to our rented premises in Oban for sorting. We use the Baptist Church premises twice weekly and they are supportive of offering additional space for this. Clothing would be sorted into re-wearable men's, women's and children's and stored ready for distribution. Clothing which is unsuitable would be taken for textile recycling. We would then on a rota basis, take available clothing for distribution in either central Oban or outlying settlements (for example, Kilmelford, Dalmally, Appin, Lochawe etc). Staff would receive referrals and volunteers would support the distribution. The cycle of receiving donations, sorting, recycling and distributing following referrals to help identify areas would operate on a monthly basis once established. Appropriate health & safety measures would be instigated following risk assessments. Costs incurred are initial additional hours for a staff member, travel costs and the purchase of clothes rails for display. Black bags and zip up storage bags would also be required plus a small amount for initial literature and promotional materials. Why we want to do this Through focus groups and conversations we have been told how being unable to dress decently by replacing worn out clothing, and thereby look presentable, impacts on wellbeing and exacerbates the feelings of inadequacy experienced by those suffering the impacts of welfare reform. Poverty is insidious affecting all aspects of life and feeling 'shabby' impacts on self- esteem, and emotional capacity. Resilience is therefore affected and reduced by the stigma and shame felt. One service user was told us that not only if she could volunteer (in a supportive environment) for 3 hours a week, then she was perfectly capable of working for 16 hours a week, but also told that she needed to 'smarten up' before going to an arranged interview. She said she just crumpled, partly due to her fragile mental health and at the implication that she looked a mess. Dignity was mentioned by many attending our groups and this is important for anyone as it impacts on their perceived place in the community. We heard feedback that it is easier to stay away and at home than to go out feeling that everyone else was better dressed, smarter and somehow a 'better person' due to how they looked. We noticed particularly amongst women that there was a tendency to compare themselves and how they looked with others. When coupled with sanctions or existing on a meagre and inadequate income confidence is so badly affected that around 40% of 30 attendees spoke of hiding away and dreading going out even if to jobcentre appointments. This increases social exclusion and inequality and is a direct result of welfare reform. We believe that this can be addressed if people can access good quality preloved clothing without costs. Of those we spoke with, most do not want to remain in poverty depending on the welfare benefits and unpredictability that comes with the new regime. Katrina spoke for all, saying 'if I look unkempt or untidy because my clothes have long since worn out I am no longer part of my community. People shun someone wearing old clothing that has seen better days but after a year of existing on this income the last thing I can afford is a change of clothes. It takes away my confidence, and I avoid trying to find work or going to parents evening because I am ashamed. Every time I look in the mirror I am reminded that I have failed'. Who will benefit By accessing clothing and feeling presentable we will be benefiting anyone living in poverty to regain dignity and feel they do not have to hide away from their community. Those participating and receiving clothing will increase their confidence, and therefore be more resilient and better able to cope. We know that much clothing thrown away is of very good quality and we also know that appearance matters not only to the individual but sadly, society judges us firstly by appearances. If we can intercept this lack of suitable clothing then we can have a real impact on families, men, women or children by helping them feel equal to others and able to stand alongside anyone without feeling inadequate. We estimate that we could support in this initial period a total of 70 – 100 people of all ages. 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Where they can share and develop their skills and talents, learn new skills and work together to address and resolve issues within the community. Currently we facilitate a weekly meeting of the community whereby they can socialise, obtain information, have input from various agencies and share a meal together within their own community. The meeting welcomes everyone who resides within Drumchapel.","streetAddress":"281 Kinfauns Dv","addressLocality":"Drumchapel","addressRegion":"Glasgow","postalCode":"G15 7BD","location":[{"latitude":55.917002,"longitude":-4.371063},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S13002980","geoCodeType":"WD"},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S14000033","geoCodeType":"WPC"},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S03000043","geoCodeType":"CCG"}],"addressCountry":"Scotland"}],"beneficiaryLocation":[{"latitude":55.917002,"longitude":-4.371063},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S13002980","geoCodeType":"WD"},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S14000033","geoCodeType":"WPC"},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S03000043","geoCodeType":"CCG"}],"fundingOrganization":[{"name":"Scottish Council For Voluntary Organisations","id":"GB-SC-SC003558","charityNumber":"SC003558","department":"Policy","streetAddress":"Caledonian Exchange, 19A Canning Street","addressLocality":"Edinburgh","addressRegion":"City of Edinburgh","postalCode":"EH3 8EG","addressCountry":"Scotland","description":"The Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations is the membership organisation for Scotland's charities, voluntary organisations and social enterprises.","url":"http://scvo.scot","location":[{"latitude":55.959611,"longitude":-3.190946}]}],"grantProgramme":[{"code":"scvo-ccrf-call-2","title":"Community Capacity & Resilience Fund - Call 2","description":"Funding to help local voluntary sector groups and organisations across Scotland tackle poverty and mitigate against UK government welfare changes.","url":"https://scvo.scot/funding/community-capacity-resilience-fund"}],"fromOpenCall":"Yes","dateModified":"2019-11-29T14:11:24+00:00","dataSource":"https://scvo.scot/funding/data/archive/community-capacity-resilience-fund.json"},{"amountAppliedFor":5000,"amountAwarded":5000,"awardDate":"2015-07-03","description":"Detailed information not yet available.","title":"Out of Sight, Out of Mind: addressing the invisible impact of Welfare Reform on LGBT plus people","id":"360G-SCVO-a0gb0000003dFamAAE","currency":"GBP","plannedDates":[{"startDate":"2015-08-03","endDate":"2016-01-29","dateModified":"2019-11-29T14:11:24+00:00"}],"recipientOrganization":[{"name":"Dumfries and Galloway LGBT Plus","id":"GB-SC-SC045377","charityNumber":"SC045377","description":"Supports adults and older people who are LGBT plus, their families, friends, supporters and allies to live happier, safer, more active and healthier lives and engage more confidently within their communities.","url":"http://www.lgbtplus.org.uk"}],"fundingOrganization":[{"name":"Scottish Council For Voluntary Organisations","id":"GB-SC-SC003558","charityNumber":"SC003558","department":"Policy","streetAddress":"Caledonian Exchange, 19A Canning Street","addressLocality":"Edinburgh","addressRegion":"City of Edinburgh","postalCode":"EH3 8EG","addressCountry":"Scotland","description":"The Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations is the membership organisation for Scotland's charities, voluntary organisations and social enterprises.","url":"http://scvo.scot","location":[{"latitude":55.959611,"longitude":-3.190946}]}],"grantProgramme":[{"code":"scvo-ccrf-call-1","title":"Community Capacity & Resilience Fund - Call 1","description":"Funding to help local voluntary sector groups and organisations across Scotland tackle poverty and mitigate against UK government welfare changes.","url":"https://scvo.scot/funding/community-capacity-resilience-fund"}],"fromOpenCall":"Yes","dateModified":"2019-11-29T14:11:24+00:00","dataSource":"https://scvo.scot/funding/data/archive/community-capacity-resilience-fund.json"},{"amountAppliedFor":10000,"amountAwarded":10000,"awardDate":"2017-11-10","description":"Universal Credit (UC) full service launched in our area on 5th July 2017. Between April and June 2017 we had 14 enquiries about UC which was 1.5% of or total benefit enquiries. From July - September this increased to 68 enquiries totaling 11% of our benefits enquiries for that quarter. UC provides new challenges such as monthly payments instead of fortnightly, housing costs being paid directly to claimants and being wholly online and removing certain premiums and therefor reducing overall benefit entitlement resulting in increased poverty levels across our area. From the initial claim date to the first payment there is often a waiting period of 5.5 - 6 weeks. We would like the following to be funded; 1) An outreach worker who can do the following; *Help people complete Universal Credit (UC) applications across East & Central Sutherland; UC is a wholly online benefit and many of our clients don't have access to the internet at home, don't know how to use a computer, can't get to their local library (which will only be open on set days and times) due to transport issues or mental/physical issues and don't know how to set up an email address which is required to claim UC. The proposed solution is to offer drop in sessions in halls with WiFi across East & Central Sutherland where we provide laptops and tablet computers and an adviser to help people make the claims and show them how to work the computers, provide them with information on local bus times and library opening hours, local job clubs and computer courses. Provide support for ongoing claimants in the early stages of their claim whilst developing their skills and confidence to use computers, update their UC journal, using their email accounts and making contact with job clubs and learning centers where appropriate. *Where necessary help people prepare to make a UC claim - ensure people know that a bank or post office account is required and help them to set one up if they don't have one, help to set up email addresses and run through a checklist of requirements and help to put anything in place that they don't already have. *Offer budgeting advice to clients. Using a simple income and expenditure form the adviser can show people how far their money will stretch and help identify any expenditure that could reasonably reduced. If debts are present a referral to the Money Advice Officer within our bureau will be done. *Offer benefit checks and income maximisation opportunities and refer back to the office for making claims or provide clients with information on how to claim if they are able to do so themselves. *Identify and make people better aware of the sources of help available to them when initially claiming UC; Short Term Benefit Advances and how to request them, Scottish Welfare Fund and how to make a claim, local food banks and food parcels, local and national grants that may be available to them. *Work in partnership with other local advice and support providers (many of whom we already have a working relationship with) such as New Start Highland (who do housing support), Highland Council Welfare Team/Housing department/service points, Home Energy Scotland, East Sutherland Energy Advice Service, Lairg & Brora Learning Centres, Blythswood (local foodbank/food parcel provider), Women's Aid, NHS (Midwifes, Community Psychiatrist Nurse, Occupational Therapist), the Gatehouse (local support organisation for mental health), Support in Mind Scotland, Brora/Helmsdale/Bonar Bridge village hubs, local development trusts, Advocacy Highland and Dementia Friendly Communities to identify and refer people who require support with UC by raising awareness for the project and implementing a simple referral process. *Work with the in house Client Access Officer to identify vulnerable clients who would be unlikely to be able to claim UC on their own and make them aware of the new UC Advice & Support project. *Refer clients on for appropriate further advice with in house specialists and other local and national organisations where necessary. 2) Venue hire for various different halls and venues across East & Central Sutherland - the intention would be to visit each area fortnightly as the UC journal must be updated at least fortnightly. 3) Printing costs related to the project (information leaflets about UC, creating an email address, local bus times, local learning centre courses, library opening hours and computer information etc) 5) Two tablet computers for use at outreach sessions which will allow those who are more comfortable with using the internet and technology to update their journals and access their emails, freeing up our laptops for use by clients who may find tablets too small or daunting to use. 6) A simple mobile phone and call costs (for calls to UC helpline and for telephone referrals to other organisations).","title":"Universal Credit Advice & Support","id":"360G-SCVO-a0gb00000129ZcMAAU","currency":"GBP","plannedDates":[{"startDate":"2017-12-01","endDate":"2018-11-30","dateModified":"2019-11-29T14:18:28+00:00"}],"recipientOrganization":[{"name":"East & Central Sutherland Citizens Advice Bureau","id":"GB-SC-SC039847","charityNumber":"SC039847","description":"E&CS CAB provides free, impartial and independent advice to anyone who requires it in East & Central Sutherland. 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A dedicated worker will continue employment for 2 days per week to deliver the project 2. A weekly drop in clinic will be held in the office and two clinics per month will be held in each learning centre. The clinics will be open to anyone in East & Central Sutherland 3. It is anticipated that up to 6 people per week will be helped through two clinics and appointments in the office 4. Awareness raising through local newspaper and newsletters of welfare reform, Universal Credit and claiming benefits will reach an estimated 1000 people across East & Central Sutherland 5. Partnership working with local and national organisations 6. Referrals to workers and projects internally 7. Referrals to external organisations The project will make a difference to people financially as they will have an income sorted, they will be better informed of what Universal Credit is, how to apply, how to keep their claim up to date, they will be supported to use computers and the internet increasing their skills, they will be helped to create and update a CV if necessary, they will be referred on to specialist help for issues not directly related to Universal Credit, their situation will be looked at holistically to assess any further help or support that may be required and to identify any appropriate referrals for the client. The project will directly relate to welfare reform, combatting poverty and inequality; clients will be assisted to claim Universal Credit which will increase their income and will be supported to maintain their claim; clients will be signposted and referred for further help internally and externally to maximise their income and minimise their issues and people will be more aware of where they can access help and support in relation to poverty and welfare. The longer term impact will be that people who have used the project will increase their computer and internet skills, be more confident in filling in forms and completing claims online and more people will have maximised their income through being in contact with the project.","title":"Universal Credit Advice & Support","id":"360G-SCVO-a0g0N00001gBGVJQA4","currency":"GBP","plannedDates":[{"startDate":"2017-12-01","endDate":"2018-12-31","dateModified":"2018-12-24T10:22:35+00:00"}],"recipientOrganization":[{"name":"East & Central Sutherland Citizens Advice Bureau","id":"GB-SC-SC039847","charityNumber":"SC039847","description":"E&CS CAB provides free, impartial and independent advice to anyone who requires it in East & Central Sutherland. Advice areas include benefits, debt, employment, housing, consumer, immigration and utilities. We offer a generalist advice service with the help of volunteer advisers. We also offer specialist advice for Welfare Rights, Money Advice and Housing. 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The primary outcome we plan to deliver, how we will achieve it and how we will assessed the long term success is shown below: Primary Outcome – Address increasing need for foodbanks by transforming centres into \"Support Hubs\" We will achieve this by – i) Partnership development - ensuring current and new partnerships are nurtured and developed and good communication links are established and maintained ii) Operational management - ensuring the services being developed are run efficiently, effectively and are sensitive to people's needs iii) Providing our volunteers training on applicable \"more than food\" agencies iv) Continuous development of our signposting folder We will assess the long term impact by – 1. Recording the number of organisations able to provide support within our foodbank centre. a. Target – 4 agencies covering 16 sessions 2. Recording the number of clients who engage with the support on offer; a. Target – 400 people engaging with the services 3. 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This figure is expected to increase to over 8,500 by the end of this year as we have seen a 32% increase in referrals in the year to date. This funding will help us to address the causes of food poverty, with our ultimate goal being a decrease in the number of multiple referrals (clients who need to use our services multiple times within a six month period). At our centres, we have a real opportunity to connect with people in need. We believe that we should take that opportunity to assist, not only with the urgent, short term need for food, but also to tackle the long term causes of that need. As our organisation has grown, we have identified a real and growing need for a Support Hub Manager, and we are seeking funding for this role. To date we have already worked alongside: • Shelter Scotland working at our Pilton centre to provide energy and housing advice; and • Big Issue working at our Grassmarket centre to provide work opportunities. And ongoing projects include: • Contact Point working at our Tollcross centre to provide mental health support; • Fresh Start at our Craigmillar centre offering cooking classes, starter packs and fresh food vouchers; and • Steps Employability Support who our volunteers can now refer clients to. The Support Hub Manager would develop partnerships with other support agencies such as: CMA and Citizens Advice Bureau so that clients can access long term support to tackle the root causes of food poverty. The Support Hub Manager will also provide an important liaison point with our volunteers to ensure that they are confident about engaging with our clients on the issue of long term support. How Through our Support Hub Manager, the primary outcomes we plan to deliver are: 1. Transforming at least 5 of our foodbank centres in to support hubs. Within our support hubs other agencies such as: Contact Point (Mental Health), CMA (debt advice), Fresh Start (cooking classes) and Steps (Employability support) will be present alongside the foodbank. This will allow clients to easily access further support, to help them tackle the root causes of poverty. Our Support Hub Manager will play a critical role in developing working relationships with such partner agencies. Furthermore, we aim to have at least four partner agencies who, on a long term basis, can be present, within our support hubs on a regular basis. 2. Training volunteers to effectively signpost clients We will develop a signposting handbook which will highlight the array of support agencies available to people affected by welfare reform and poverty, within Edinburgh. This handbook will allow us to guide and support volunteers to effectively advise and signpost clients of further help available to them. It will include categories such as: energy, housing, debt, addiction and clothing. We will train volunteers on how to use support websites such as Turn2us which will give clients the tools to tackle welfare reform. Furthermore, we will advertise and promote any free training courses that could help build our volunteers knowledge, such as the free energy advice course conducted by SSE. Why Our project works with the people living in greatest need in Edinburgh. The reasons for food poverty are complex, and the information we collect tells us that food bank use is growing (see above). We anticipate that the introduction of Universal Credits in Edinburgh in 2018 will see a continued rise in foodbank use. The Trussell Trust recently conducted a study (2017) which identified: \"The effect of a six-plus week waiting period for a first Universal Credit payment can be serious, leading to foodbank referrals, debt, mental health issues, rent arrears and eviction. These effects can last even after people receive their Universal Credit payments, as bills and debts pile up.\" Wage freezes and zero hours contracts also drive foodbank use, as it is hard for people to predict earnings. A March 2017 report by the Scottish Government identified that 64% of people in work are living in poverty in Scotland. In our centres we see regularly people affected by the following: • Benefit changes/delays • Low income, including those in work • Debt • Domestic abuse • Lack of awareness of how to access help and support before crisis point is reached At our foodbank centres our volunteers have an opportunity to connect with clients over tea/coffee and a chat. This gives us a real insight into the issues that give rise to the need to turn to a foodbank. Over the past six months, we have conducted some initial research with our clients to identify the services and support our clients would like to see within our proposed \"Support Hubs\" to help them with any overarching problems. The areas identified by our clients were: • Debt advice • Employability support • Advice on energy costs This funding would allow us to give people the knowledge and support they need to mitigate the effects of welfare reform, and other issues leading to food poverty. Who Firstly and primarily, this funding will benefit our clients, who are affected by food poverty for a number of reasons, as set out above. Furthermore, an analysis of our clients shows the following breakdown by age group: • 54% Adults (25 - 64 yrs) • 17% Children (5 - 11 yrs) • 9% Children (0 - 4 yrs) • 7% Children (12 - 16 yrs) • 8% Adults (17 - 24 yrs) • 2% Children (unknown age) • 2% Adults (unknown age) • 1% Adults (Over 65 yrs) Secondly, this funding will benefit our volunteers by giving them the knowledge and skills to confidently advise our clients of the help and support available. Our volunteering opportunities suit a wide range of skills, and we attract volunteers of all ages and from all walks of life. Our volunteer base includes: a. Skills Path – a group of young people with learning disabilities who volunteer in our warehouse and office to gain skills for the workplace. b. Edinburgh College student placements - students who are learning English at college come to us on 6 week placements to help improve their confidence in speaking English. c. University students – complete their 3rd or 4th year undergraduate placement with us. This not only enhances their skills and employability, but helps us with more specialised volunteering, for example running our social media channels. d. Retired people – a large number of our volunteers are retired. For many, helping at the foodbank is a socialising experience, as well as an opportunity to give the benefit of their experience or to learn new skills. Where Our Foodbank centres cover the northwest, central and east of Edinburgh, with a number of our centres, including our newest centre (Craigmillar), being in some of Edinburgh's most deprived data zones as per the SIMD data 2017. We will focus on developing 5 of our foodbank centres in to support hubs: Pilton, Craigmillar, Broughton, Grassmarket and Tollcross. These are our most established foodbank centres, and have the space and capacity to host partner agencies. However, all foodbank centre volunteers will receive the signposting handbook and training, including those within our Oxgangs, South Queensferry and Rannoch foodbank centres.","title":"Transformation of foodbank centres into support hubs","id":"360G-SCVO-a0gb000001KQehtAAD","currency":"GBP","plannedDates":[{"startDate":"2018-01-08","endDate":"2018-12-31","dateModified":"2019-11-29T14:18:28+00:00"}],"recipientOrganization":[{"name":"Edinburgh Food Project","id":"GB-SC-SC043220","charityNumber":"SC043220","description":"The Edinburgh Food Project is part of the Trussell Trust network of foodbanks, providing emergency food parcels to people living in food poverty. Since opening in northwest Edinburgh in 2012, based out of our founder’s garage, with only a handful of volunteers, we now: • Have eight foodbank centres across Edinburgh, which are open 16 times per week • Have fed over 28,000 people - providing over 250,000 meal equivalents • Have processed around 260,000kg of food donations • Work with over 180 agencies who refer clients • Have increased our pool of individual volunteers to around 180 • Have developed relations with corporate volunteers from organisations including Tesco, British Gas and Lloyds Banking Group We currently have only one full time paid employee (40 hours per week) and one part time bookkeeper (16 hours per month); everything else has been achieved through our loyal and increasing number of volunteers.","streetAddress":"Unit 12 New Lairdship Yards","addressLocality":"Edinburgh","addressRegion":"Lothian","postalCode":"EH11 3UY","location":[{"latitude":55.926781,"longitude":-3.28195},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S13002925","geoCodeType":"WD"},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S14000025","geoCodeType":"WPC"},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S03000042","geoCodeType":"CCG"}],"addressCountry":"Scotland","url":"https://edinburghfoodproject.org/"}],"beneficiaryLocation":[{"latitude":55.926781,"longitude":-3.28195},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S13002925","geoCodeType":"WD"},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S14000025","geoCodeType":"WPC"},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S03000042","geoCodeType":"CCG"}],"fundingOrganization":[{"name":"Scottish Council For Voluntary Organisations","id":"GB-SC-SC003558","charityNumber":"SC003558","department":"Policy","streetAddress":"Caledonian Exchange, 19A Canning Street","addressLocality":"Edinburgh","addressRegion":"City of Edinburgh","postalCode":"EH3 8EG","addressCountry":"Scotland","description":"The Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations is the membership organisation for Scotland's charities, voluntary organisations and social enterprises.","url":"http://scvo.scot","location":[{"latitude":55.959611,"longitude":-3.190946}]}],"grantProgramme":[{"code":"scvo-ccrf-r3-strand-1","title":"Community Capacity & Resilience Fund - R3 Strand 1","description":"Funding to help local voluntary sector groups and organisations across Scotland tackle poverty and mitigate against UK government welfare changes.","url":"https://scvo.scot/funding/community-capacity-resilience-fund"}],"fromOpenCall":"Yes","dateModified":"2019-11-29T14:18:28+00:00","dataSource":"https://scvo.scot/funding/data/archive/community-capacity-resilience-fund.json"},{"amountAppliedFor":6587,"amountAwarded":6587,"awardDate":"2019-12-18","description":"We will deliver two Monthly food sharing cafes. One in the community centre in Dumbiedykes and one in the newly opened resident led community hub in the Canongate. The food sharing café will be managed by a sessional worker along with volunteer helpers from the communities they are based in. The volunteers will be trained in hygiene training and healthy cooking to create simple but nutritious meals for the café. The twice monthly event will run a pop up café, serving simple but nutritious food such as soups and salads, created by local volunteers and using food where possible from surplus. A communal sharing area will be created in the café area where people can help themselves to what food they need for their families. This will be stocked by donations from local people and from local surplus food sharing organisations. We work closely in partnership with Womanzone who support woman recovering from trauma in the community and who have many contacts with residents in the Dumbiedykes area. Womanzone have worked with women and families from Dumbiedykes for many years and have built trusting relationships, and understand well the acute need in the area for access to food due to poverty and welfare changes in the area. Womanzone will work with us on this project to support women and families from the area to access and help run the pop up cafes. We work with an organisation called SHRUB that provides surplus bread for our drop in sessions and they are happy to expand our partnership working by providing surplus food for more activities. We are also in discussion with Fareshare and the Cyrenians about using surplus food for activities and for supporting them to distribute food to local residents. Fareshare Edinburgh are also able to provide hygiene training for volunteers. At each pop up café Information will be shared about the various food sharing projects in Edinburgh as well as food sharing apps and local community sharing pages on Facebook etc. Residents using the café will be encouraged and supported to use the food sharing avenues available to them and to develop further sharing and swapping activities in the community for example clothes swaps, and toy swaps. Alongside this project EOTDT will also be running a monthly cooking club where people who visit the café will be welcomed to come along and share or learn skills in cooking on a budget and using surplus or food or left overs where possible. At the end of the cooking club people will be welcome to stay and eat together in the community hub. WHY you want to do it and how you came up with this idea/approach. What makes this innovative/creative? We know from the many conversations we have had with local people and with Womanzone, that Dumbiedykes has no local shops that are both accessible and affordable. Dumbiedykes has no bus service that takes residents to larger supermarkets. The only shop within walking distance is a Tesco metro where everyday products are highly priced. This means access to local nutritious food is very difficult for most families, and in particular for the high elderly population in the area or for anyone with mobility issues. A community shop that was in the area for 3 years, and run with the support of many local volunteers, closed down in October 2018 and will not be replaced, as the land is to be sold for housing. Residents have told us how much this is missed, both as a lifeline as a source of affordable food and also as a place where they could meet their neighbours, have a chat and get involved in community life. We plan to pilot this programme to find out what would really help the residents of Dumbiedykes and the Canongate to mitigate the impact of food poverty the most. By trialling the food sharing and café this gives us an opportunity to work alongside local people and find out from residents themselves what their own ideas are, as well as what the local strengths and assets are that could contribute to future resident led food activities that mitigate poverty in the area. WHO will benefit from the activities/services Local residents and families across the Old Town but mostly from Dumbiedykes and The Canongate will benefit from the great grub share. The events will be open to residents of all ages who want to attend and will be advertised as such. Therefore we anticipate attendance from outside of these areas by other users of the community hub and associated contacts through the various other projects which are run by both the Crannie and by Womanzone. All attendees will benefit from a free meal but those who participate in the creation of the food will take home knowledge of how to recreate this for themselves, learning how to prepare tasty and healthy food both cheaply and easily. The Geographical area is; Edinburgh Old Town, South East Locality, Dumbiedykes and Cannongate","title":"The Great Grub Share","id":"360G-SCVO-a0g3z00000HpOCWAA3","currency":"GBP","plannedDates":[{"startDate":"2020-02-03","endDate":"2020-10-31","dateModified":"2020-02-11T08:25:10+00:00"}],"recipientOrganization":[{"name":"Edinburgh Old Town Development Trust","id":"GB-SC-SC042964","charityNumber":"SC042964","description":"EOTDT is a registered charity committed to the revitalization of the Old Town through stimulating growth in community participation, arts and enterprise. It aims to support a vibrant, sustainable community in the Old Town by: developing enterprising projects to meet local needs; establishing a network of gardens and green spaces; promoting education and training; and preserving the area’s built and cultural heritage. Present projects include: The Crannie community Hub Opened in November 2019 this new community hub is a space for local residents to come together, create and share activities, events and connections Greening our streets. Supporting community gardening in the Old Town and cooking classes and clubs Creating the Old Town. Developing arts activities with local residents across the Old Town. A monthly music jam now meets regularly at The Crannie The Word Bank. This community led publishing collective writes and publish books about life in the Old Town.","streetAddress":"Johnston Terrace","addressLocality":"Edinburgh","addressRegion":"Edinburgh City","postalCode":"EH1 2PW","location":[{"latitude":55.948508,"longitude":-3.194914},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S13002929","geoCodeType":"WD"},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S14000022","geoCodeType":"WPC"},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S03000042","geoCodeType":"CCG"}],"addressCountry":"Scotland","url":"http://www.eotdt.org/"}],"beneficiaryLocation":[{"latitude":55.948508,"longitude":-3.194914},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S13002929","geoCodeType":"WD"},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S14000022","geoCodeType":"WPC"},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S03000042","geoCodeType":"CCG"}],"fundingOrganization":[{"name":"Scottish Council For Voluntary Organisations","id":"GB-SC-SC003558","charityNumber":"SC003558","department":"Policy","streetAddress":"Caledonian Exchange, 19A Canning Street","addressLocality":"Edinburgh","addressRegion":"City of Edinburgh","postalCode":"EH3 8EG","addressCountry":"Scotland","description":"The Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations is the membership organisation for Scotland's charities, voluntary organisations and social enterprises.","url":"http://scvo.scot","location":[{"latitude":55.959611,"longitude":-3.190946}]}],"grantProgramme":[{"code":"scvo-ccrf-round-5","title":"Community Capacity & Resilience Fund - Round 5","description":"Funding to help local voluntary sector groups and organisations across Scotland tackle poverty and mitigate against UK government welfare changes.","url":"https://scvo.scot/funding/community-capacity-resilience-fund"}],"fromOpenCall":"Yes","dateModified":"2020-02-11T08:25:10+00:00","dataSource":"https://scvo.scot/funding/data/archive/community-capacity-resilience-fund.json"},{"amountAppliedFor":5000,"amountAwarded":6500,"awardDate":"2016-12-02","description":"Many of our young people are care leavers, from broken families and many are young single mothers. They have not been taught to cook, shop or budget yet they have to fend for themselves and live on takeaways. We would like to set up a project within which the young people would learn about healthy, cheaper foods and how to budget. We would plan a weekly meal with the young people, guide them towards healthy choices, help them source cheap foods and bring them to tether to cook and share food once a week. Through this, they will learn the many different things that can be done with the humble potato, realise there is more to life than a microwave meal and become better able to budget. 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We carry out outreach to target the most vulnerable young people on the streets.","streetAddress":"1 Victoria Road","addressLocality":"Dundee","addressRegion":"Angus","postalCode":"DD1 1EL","location":[{"latitude":56.464092,"longitude":-2.971496},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S13002549","geoCodeType":"WD"},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S14000016","geoCodeType":"WPC"},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S03000039","geoCodeType":"CCG"}],"addressCountry":"Scotland","url":"http://www.18u.org.uk/"}],"beneficiaryLocation":[{"latitude":56.464092,"longitude":-2.971496},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S13002549","geoCodeType":"WD"},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S14000016","geoCodeType":"WPC"},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S03000039","geoCodeType":"CCG"}],"fundingOrganization":[{"name":"Scottish Council For Voluntary Organisations","id":"GB-SC-SC003558","charityNumber":"SC003558","department":"Policy","streetAddress":"Caledonian Exchange, 19A Canning Street","addressLocality":"Edinburgh","addressRegion":"City of Edinburgh","postalCode":"EH3 8EG","addressCountry":"Scotland","description":"The Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations is the membership organisation for Scotland's charities, voluntary organisations and social enterprises.","url":"http://scvo.scot","location":[{"latitude":55.959611,"longitude":-3.190946}]}],"grantProgramme":[{"code":"scvo-ccrf-call-2","title":"Community Capacity & Resilience Fund - Call 2","description":"Funding to help local voluntary sector groups and organisations across Scotland tackle poverty and mitigate against UK government welfare changes.","url":"https://scvo.scot/funding/community-capacity-resilience-fund"}],"fromOpenCall":"Yes","dateModified":"2019-11-29T14:11:24+00:00","dataSource":"https://scvo.scot/funding/data/archive/community-capacity-resilience-fund.json"},{"amountAppliedFor":9878,"amountAwarded":9878,"awardDate":"2017-11-10","description":"What & How we will be doing: We will deliver a three-pronged holistic approach to help our members (their families) and those with Learning Disabilities within the wider community of South Ayrshire on the Impact of the Welfare Reform – we will deliver: Individual, Group & Practical Workshops covering the Impact of the Welfare Reform including the increasing concerns and uncertainty over sanctions, benefits, food banks, blue badge entitlement etc. Our aim is to dispel the misconceptions and raise awareness of the services available in a way that is tailor-made and understandable. This project will be a new pilot Outreach Programme, aimed at Adults with Learning Disabilities and their families who are suffering greatly due to recent changes in the welfare systems, many we believe unnecessarily due to lack of knowledge and access to tangible help & support. Initially, we will target our 100 members, surveying ie either in writing or verbally with each one to identify those in greatest need and assessing these needs. In addition, we will circulate 1000 flyers to 3rd sector organisations and to public places within our community to promote our services (this will also be an excellent way to help bridge the gap / be the stepping stone to get many more individuals though our doors with an aim of them becoming members, joining in and benefitting from all our activities & services). We will then deliver the following: 1) Individual 121s 1hr Meetings (and or with a family member/carer) - Every Thursday from 10.00 to 1.00pm* – tailored specifically in advance to the individuals need to ensure efficient use of time. Minimum 3 individuals per day x 45 weeks = 135 individuals (plus family members) over a 12-month period. The Welfare & Financial Inclusion Officer will deliver these meetings along with a pool of 2 volunteers. We will cover topics and offer help such as: • Critical financial & welfare support • Checking, verifying eligibility, providing advice on & assisting with benefits • Maximising income from benefits • Assisting access to other specialist support • Providing advice on budget planning & debt problems • Attending sanction & other meetings, preventing sanctions *times above may vary depending on travel requirements • Support members in the completion of documentation including drafting correspondence, assisting with financial calculations and negotiating with a range of third parties on their behalf e.g. benefits agencies, statutory bodies, creditors and others as appropriate. • Liaise with partners to ensure that service users are signposted to the most effective pathway • Practical help eg Form Filling Transport to meetings Accompanying them to or representing them at meetings Making introductions In addition, Evaluation Forms will be distributed for completion to enable our Trustees to assess the success of the 121 Meetings and implement any learnings, to ensure these meetings continue effectively & efficiently. There will be a box within our Reception for the Evaluation Forms to be posted. 2) Group 1hr Workshop - Every Thursday from 2.00 to 3.00pm – (the workshop will include some role play & photo symbols - which we know from past projects & experience is extremely helpful to our members in understanding situations and in keeping their attention and focus). Maximum 10 individuals per workshop = 10 individuals per day x 8 weeks (1 block = 8 weeks) x 5 blocks = 50 individuals over a 12-month period. (this number will be higher as some may attend the topic particularly relevant to them opening up a space for another individual and some may attend the full 8 weeks – we will encourage attendance of the full 8 weeks). The Welfare & Financial Inclusion Officer will deliver these Workshops along with a pool of 2 volunteers. These Workshops will cover the following Topics (some topics will be spread over 1 to 2 weeks and will last 8 weeks). \"Universal Credit - Week 1 & 2\" This workshop will cover and explain in detail the requirements required, how to prepare for these and the consequences should they fail to do so eg: Work- related requirements: • work focused interviews • work preparation • work search • work availability Personal Circumstances: • no work-related requirement • work focused interview requirement only • work focused interview and work preparation requirements • all work-related requirements Sanctions & Hardship Payments: • Explained in full using non-threatening, simple explanations ensuring that they are aware of the 121 help and practical workshops that we provide. \"Working-Age Benefits - Week 3\" This workshop will cover the changes and responsibilities required in the period leading up the introduction of Universal Credit and the abolition of the various benefits. \"Other Benefit Changes - Week 4\" This workshop will cover the changes to a number other social security benefits, including: • Community Care Grants & Crisis Loans • Housing Benefits • Carer's Allowance • Transport & Travel \"Personal Independence Payment - Week 5 & 6\" This workshop will cover the 2 components of this new benefit: • Daily Living • Mobility \"Budget Planning – Let's Make A Plan- Week 7\" This workshop will focus on: • Income • Home Expenses eg. rent, utilities etc • Daily Living Expenses eg groceries, hygiene supplies, clothing etc • Activities / Hobbies eg. swimming club, cinema etc • Transport Exenses eg. public transport \"Recap / Q&A - Week 8\" This workshop will focus on anything that is still unclear / will involve a Q&A session and signposting to additional external support where necessary. During this hour we may decide to bring in external speakers / representatives from organisations such as the Food Bank, Money Matters, Citizen Advice etc., this will be decided upon when the Workshop is up and running and what additional help / resources may be identified. We are keen to work with our local community and to encourage help and support from all services within the community. In addition, Evaluation Forms will be distributed for completion within the workshop or at home to enable our Trustees to assess the success of each block and implement any learnings, to ensure each block is delivered effectively & efficiently. There will be a box within our Reception for the Evaluation Forms to be posted. 3) Practical 2hr Workshop & After Care - Every Tuesday from 6.00pm till 8.00pm – These workshops will give members the opportunity to seek practical help for filling in forms where their family members & carers can also attend to help / learn how to do so. During this time access their will also be access to computers to assist with research, online form filling etc. All those individuals who have attended our other 2 Workshops will be invited to come along on Tuesday evenings to ensure that they can still receive continued help where necessary. Maximum 10 individuals per workshop = 10 individuals per workshop x 45 weeks (some of these individuals will also attend 121 meetings & group meetings and may overlap and / or some may come more than 1 week) – we therefore realistically anticipate reaching an additional 100 individuals [to those mentioned above] plus family members / carers over 12 months via these workshops). The Welfare & Financial Inclusion Officer will deliver these Workshops along with a pool of 2 volunteers. Why? People with learning disabilities have a significant lifelong condition which affects their development. In addition to the needs we all share ie. a place to live, security, social and personal relationships, leisure, recreation and work opportunities, people with learning disabilities also need help to understand information, support to make decisions and plan, learn hard & soft skills and help with communication. Many people with learning disabilities have additional challenges eg physical and sensory impairment, mental health problems, family circumstances, behavioural difficulties and increasingly, poverty including accessing food banks. The level of support they need varies from occasional or short-term eg during periods of change or crisis to constant intensive support. We have always been aware of the need for individual personal support but felt the charity did not have the capacity to deliver such a service. However, the impact of the withdrawal of funding for and subsequent closure of our sister charity the Citizen Advocacy Support Services charity (CASS), located in Sutherland House, exacerbated by seriously reduced welfare payments, resulted in: • An acute deterioration in the level of independence experienced by people with learning disabilities • No non-statutory advocacy support for people with learning disabilities in South Ayrshire • And, on a more positive note, a group of experienced, dedicated ex-volunteers from CASS suddenly available and keen to work with us! Who will benefit? (please see Q26 for additional info) Members & their families / carers • Members • Staff • Sessional Staff Worker Once funding is secured, the position of Welfare & Financial Inclusion Officer will be advertised within: • Goodmoves - charity & voluntary sector employment • JobCentre Plus • Ayrshire Colleges – Social Science (community development) faculty We have 2 exCASS volunteers who are willing to commit their time to this project (one who also has a background in Social Work and the other currently helps with 'form filling' at the local Salvation Army). Both are keen to participate in any refresher training etc., required of them. • 2 Volunteers • Other 3rd sector organisations and their members Where? This service would be delivered within our premises \"Sutherland House\". 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We will work with the abundant supply of donated vegetables and other ingredients to run classes to demonstrate how to use these foods to cook and enjoy nutritious meals. We plan to run a weekly 3 hour morning session to prepare and cook a meal in the Community Centre kitchen area. This will then be eaten together with the participants (if they wish) or taken away to enjoy at home with other family members. There will also be a supply of the ingredients and a recipe provided to allow them to replicate this at home. Surplus portions will go into the Fridge for everyone to benefit from. Every 4th week (when the kitchen is unavailable) we will invite along guests representing other groups and agencies who can assist with any issue that the attendees have or to encourage them to join other classes etc – example guests would be Healthy Living Network, Abundant Borders, Citizens Advice, Eyemouth Foodbank, local Chefs etc. We will also use the funding to upskill our volunteers in REHIS Food Hygiene and Welfare Reform Training available through CA so that are able to assist the attendees. Over the 9 months we will run 4 Programmes of 8 weeks duration however participants will be able to continue to attend the new Sessions if they wish to. Our Community Fridge has been running now for 12 months and it is very well used by a cross section of the Community – there are some users who are regularly there every morning and this has allowed us to engage with them – this in turn has led to us referring to our local Food Bank for some of them – The Community Fridge is the main source of referrals for the Food Bank as a result of this. We have spoken to many users and they have all said that this is something they would really benefit from as they are struggling to budget effectively and say that the Fridge is a necessity for them however they don't always make best use of some of the produce as its not 'ready made' Also now that the fridge has been running for a year we know we need to develop this to encourage more people to use it and for it to be a source of more nutritional value to more people and make more use of the vegetables from the supermarket and from donations from Abundant Borders. The Fridge is situated next to the Kitchen in the Community Centre and is in a communal area and we have been offered use of this to help develop the idea We are very fortunate to have an active group of volunteers who run the Fridge – this involves food pick up and delivery and stocking and maintenance of the Fridge – this works very well on a rota system however many of the Volunteers have said they would like to now do more to develop this – 5 of the volunteers have already passed REHIS Food Hygiene Cert as part of this development which we used previous funding for and they now want to be part of a cooking group so that food can be made and put back into the fridge. Some of the regular users who are waiting in the morning are also starting to engage with helping out with stocking and we are keen to recruit more of them to help in the future (one previous user is already a regular volunteer) Our volunteers are keen to learn new skills in cooking too. Although our aim is to help the users of the Fridge who are struggling as a result of welfare reform and who we will target specifically in the beginning we want to create a programme that is open to all and seen as an opportunity for people to learn 'cooking from scratch using what's in the fridge'. We will particularly encourage young and not so young to learn together. This will also assist to reduce isolation as we notice that a large proportion of users are older gentlemen who live alone and we want to encourage the 'eat together' idea where what is cooked that day is eaten together. 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We are the main organisation in the town to access opportunities in training, volunteering, community involvement, fundraising and cohesion of many organisations. We work to build the sustainability of the town by creating a more healthy & happy town to live in where residences have the confidence to help themselves and the resilience and support to do this. 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Through this development we hope to extend our capabilities and create a more comprehensive and improved service. As part of this we are particularly interested in furthering our engagement with the carers, allowing us to consider their needs to the same degree that we consider the needs of young people with disabilities. More recently we gained access to our own premises which has provided the opportunity to expand our capabilities, including the range and type of services we offer our beneficiaries. Our premises can operate as both office space and as a social-hub for young adults with disabilities. As part of the social-hub there are kitchen facilities, lounge space and a games room. Our building can provide a safe space in the community where young adults with disabilities can meet, learn and socialise. The need for our service to expand is unfortunately stronger than ever, with recent public sector cuts in social care and voluntary organisations overstretched with people desperate for provision, there are few opportunities available for vulnerable families in need. In an area where the local authority and community alike have limited spending power we stand out as one of the few service providers that come at little or no cost to those benefiting from it. In the following months we aim to refine, develop and expand our current service so that we are in a better position to improve the way we help young people with disabilities. We will do this by using SCVO funding to grow our service and implement improvements which will make our service more accessible to a higher volume of people, help us to identify and work with those most in need, establish a stronger relationship with carers, become more in tune with the needs of our beneficiaries and redesign our activity portfolio to help us address a wider range of issues. The funding will enable us to increase our service hours offered per week, take on new service users with disabilities and train new peer mentor volunteers. 13/10 - confirmed they will train 10 peer mentors and support 10 more people. We create opportunities for people with disabilities to form a social pairing or grouping with people their own age. Together they participate in social outings which directly reduce their isolation by getting them out the house on a regular basis to mix with people and participate in fun activities. The concept of peer support has shown itself to be an effective service model, capable of reaching higher social outcomes than generic support services. Using this system we have managed to deliver a more valuable social experience that cannot be replicated by parents and carers. Our programme helps build stronger relationships, as young people with disabilities mix with peers who share life experiences and common interests. Our work helps people with complex needs and difficulties integrate into the community where they build confidence, life skills, become independent and know they have a place. Through the same initiative we recently started to address the physical health issues of young people with learning disabilities by introducing a healthy living approach to our service. We have now integrated new activities such as dance, aerobics and healthy eating workshops in to our regular portfolio. There is a strong message that people with disabilities view opportunities to exercise in the context of wider social factors such as the opportunity to develop friendships, as seen in the development of the 'You Can Do It!' DVD produced by The Scottish Consortium for Learning Disability. These findings offered us an opportunity to use the social structure that we created to influence our beneficiary's attitudes towards health and exercise. This has been a very successful new development as it has allowed us to tackle an additional, unrelated, issue without altering the premise of our original service. The people who will benefit from this grant are young people with disabilities who are socially isolated and their parents who are struggling to endure the unrelenting day to day challenges they face managing the needs of a disabled child. The young people with disabilities are restricted from functioning more fully in society as a result of the many conditions attributed to their disability such as underdeveloped life skills, low self-esteem, low level social abilities and anxieties. These inhibitors, along with a lack of accessible supported services available in our community leave them without anything or anyone to fulfil their social needs. Their inability to develop a social structure and fulfilling lifestyle outside the family home leads to an existence of isolation and dependence. As well as the detrimental effect on their emotional health, their inactive lifestyles can also lead to physical health concerns, most predominantly obesity. Many people with disabilities have fewer opportunities to make choices and decisions that impact on their health and wellbeing. This statement has become more apparent to us in recent years, as the number of people with disabilities that we work with increases, the problems have become more visible. We witness first-hand the disproportionate health circumstances present amongst our beneficiaries. Refocusing the nature of our activities to become more in tune with the health needs of young people with disabilities has allowed us to provide a more comprehensive service which tackles both mental and physical health issues. Our own experiences are also backed up by supporting government research. A recent NHS report revealed that people with disabilities have some of the poorest health of any group in Scotland. It has also been reported that many people with disabilities face challenges with weight and are likely to be either underweight or overweight. The increased rates of obesity in children with a disability, compared to children who do not have a disability, are already present by the age of three years old and adults with disabilities aged 16-24 experience higher rates of obesity than adults over 50 who do not have a disability. This causes them, and their families, severe distress and hardship as they struggle to cope under these unfortunate circumstances. Our work has, and will continue to fill that void by facilitating social development and health & wellbeing initiatives that give purpose and structure to our beneficiary's lives. The families caring for the young disabled people we work with are often consumed with the responsibilities related to that role. It can severely restrict their own ability to leave the home, pursue their own social relationships and adhere to a normal work pattern. The respite that a single evening of relief each week offers can make a world of difference. In addition to the lack of free opportunities to engage in their own pursuits they can regularly become overwhelmed with the stress involved in the uncertainties surrounding their child's life circumstances. The future prospects for their children will be relatively unknown, parents will worry about finding the right provision and about ensuring they are well connected with adequate support structures in place. 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It is only natural that the good people of Scotland have been among the first to open their hearts and minds to those fleeing with their lives from the areas of raging conflict. Fife offered to accommodate 140 refugees in the coming 4/5 years is to be welcome as our own contribution in caring for those in dire need of care and compassion. The first group of families has arrived in December 2015 and by the end of April 2016 there will be around 14 families located in Fife. Fife Arabic Society (FAS) feel that it is its duty as well as privilege to be the main point of contact as well as a conduit to offer counselling, help and representation for these refugees. Not only that its members share the same background, culture and language, but also because it has unrivalled record in presenting and serving the Arab community in Fife as well as the whole of Scotland. The project will provide the opportunity to recruit 8 volunteers, of whom 5 will be from the new Syrian arrivals, 3 from the Arab community. The project will allow us to PILOT an IT training course at which twice weekly sessions for 8 participants from the Syrian families. The project will offer Money Advice sessions for the Syrian and people on benefit and/or needing support.","title":"Arabic Community Support Services for Syrian (ACSSS)","id":"360G-SCVO-a0gb000000QAfdiAAD","currency":"GBP","plannedDates":[{"startDate":"2017-01-23","endDate":"2017-08-27","dateModified":"2019-11-29T14:11:24+00:00"}],"recipientOrganization":[{"name":"Fife Arabic Society","id":"GB-SC-SC037751","charityNumber":"SC037751","description":"Fife Arabic Society (FAS) is a registered charity with a constitution as governing document. It was founded in 2000 with the objectives of promoting understanding of Arabic culture, language and society in Fife, and to provide advocacy, support, and signposting of services for individuals and families. We organise social events, conferences and open days where members of the wider community can meet and engage with people from different backgrounds, and get a better understanding of the difficulties and barriers to integration that many people from ethnic minority communities face on a daily basis. We are particularly focused on helping those who face the greatest barriers to full participation in the life of the community. Our membership includes people from 18 Arabic countries, members of other Ethnic Minority groups, and Scottish people with an interest in Arabic culture, and students and their families from Arabic countries studying at Fife Colleges.","streetAddress":"St Clair Hall, 258 St Clair Street","addressLocality":"Kirkcaldy","addressRegion":"Fife","postalCode":"KY1 2DB","location":[{"latitude":56.12862,"longitude":-3.137093},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S13002956","geoCodeType":"WD"},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S14000041","geoCodeType":"WPC"},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S03000008","geoCodeType":"CCG"}],"addressCountry":"Scotland","url":"http://www.fifearabicsociety.org.uk"}],"beneficiaryLocation":[{"latitude":56.12862,"longitude":-3.137093},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S13002956","geoCodeType":"WD"},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S14000041","geoCodeType":"WPC"},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S03000008","geoCodeType":"CCG"}],"fundingOrganization":[{"name":"Scottish Council For Voluntary Organisations","id":"GB-SC-SC003558","charityNumber":"SC003558","department":"Policy","streetAddress":"Caledonian Exchange, 19A Canning Street","addressLocality":"Edinburgh","addressRegion":"City of Edinburgh","postalCode":"EH3 8EG","addressCountry":"Scotland","description":"The Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations is the membership organisation for Scotland's charities, voluntary organisations and social enterprises.","url":"http://scvo.scot","location":[{"latitude":55.959611,"longitude":-3.190946}]}],"grantProgramme":[{"code":"scvo-ccrf-call-2","title":"Community Capacity & Resilience Fund - Call 2","description":"Funding to help local voluntary sector groups and organisations across Scotland tackle poverty and mitigate against UK government welfare changes.","url":"https://scvo.scot/funding/community-capacity-resilience-fund"}],"fromOpenCall":"Yes","dateModified":"2019-11-29T14:11:24+00:00","dataSource":"https://scvo.scot/funding/data/archive/community-capacity-resilience-fund.json"},{"amountAppliedFor":4990,"amountAwarded":4990,"awardDate":"2015-07-03","description":"Detailed information not yet available.","title":"Family Finances Coach / Support Worker","id":"360G-SCVO-a0gb0000003dBTmAAM","currency":"GBP","plannedDates":[{"startDate":"2015-08-03","endDate":"2016-01-29","dateModified":"2019-11-29T14:11:24+00:00"}],"recipientOrganization":[{"name":"Forres Area Credit Union Ltd","id":"360G-SCVO-001b000000St26VAAR","description":"Credit union."}],"fundingOrganization":[{"name":"Scottish Council For Voluntary Organisations","id":"GB-SC-SC003558","charityNumber":"SC003558","department":"Policy","streetAddress":"Caledonian Exchange, 19A Canning Street","addressLocality":"Edinburgh","addressRegion":"City of Edinburgh","postalCode":"EH3 8EG","addressCountry":"Scotland","description":"The Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations is the membership organisation for Scotland's charities, voluntary organisations and social enterprises.","url":"http://scvo.scot","location":[{"latitude":55.959611,"longitude":-3.190946}]}],"grantProgramme":[{"code":"scvo-ccrf-call-1","title":"Community Capacity & Resilience Fund - Call 1","description":"Funding to help local voluntary sector groups and organisations across Scotland tackle poverty and mitigate against UK government welfare changes.","url":"https://scvo.scot/funding/community-capacity-resilience-fund"}],"fromOpenCall":"Yes","dateModified":"2019-11-29T14:11:24+00:00","dataSource":"https://scvo.scot/funding/data/archive/community-capacity-resilience-fund.json"},{"amountAppliedFor":5000,"amountAwarded":5000,"awardDate":"2017-11-10","description":"We want to hire a part-time Integration Support Coordinator to allow us to extend the services we provide to the Syrian refugee families who have come to our area (Stirling and Clackmannanshire) over the last 20 months - and others expected to arrive gradually over the next few months. We are looking for a contribution towards the cost of the salary, plus a pension contribution, and day to day expenses for travel by the coordinator to meet the Syrians in their homes and community or to meet volunteers. The Syrians are people who have come here via the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) under the UK's Syrian Vulnerable Persons Resettlement Scheme. The aim of our support services is to help the Syrians adapt to life in Scotland as quickly as possible and to integrate step by step into the community and in due course (as their English language skills develop) into employment. The services are provided through our group of volunteers (currently 79). With the total number of Syrians now up to 103 adults and children, we need to extend our staffing resources to coordinate the work of the volunteers so that we can provide the services to a much larger group. We work in association with the two Councils, who we know the value of the services we provide and with whom we have frequent and regular contact. The support takes the form of: - welcoming on first arrival - providing extra clothes and household items over and above the basic set of items provided by the Councils - supporting families through regular visits by trained befrienders - providing transport for Syrians to hospitals and job centres, especially in the early days before they are familiar with the public transport system - providing computers to families - providing support for Syrians taking driving lessons - introducing the families to others in the community - helping family members get to know about and join local groups such as girl guides, sports clubs, allotment groups, swimming pools We also run a monthly \"snack and chat\" as a drop-in event for the Syrians. The Snack & Chat events are a way of the Syrians getting together with each other, with the volunteer group, and with people in the community. These events include a training session each time e.g. on first aid, on Scottish / Syrian culture, on relocation, etc. The food is supplied by both the volunteers and the Syrians, who we found were keen to contribute in that way. (They make very tasty food!) We also run: - a 'Positive Action Fund' to help with some one off expenses, e.g. club subscriptions. - a 'Crisis and Care Fund' to help with any unusual expenses that families encounter, e.g. transport to visit sick relatives. In the early days we found it easy to provide a good level of support on an equitable basis to the few families who had arrived. We are very happy to see the Councils steadily bring in new families but with the number of Syrians now up to 103 in the two counties (and expected to grow gradually in the coming months) we now need to keep up the level of support to the newer families to the same level we were able to provide for the first families who arrived. We have seen a welcome and gradual growth in the confidence and degree of integration in those first families since their arrival. We recently held a consultation session with the Syrian adults in Stirling, with the help of an interpreter, to determine the level of satisfaction with the various steps in their journey from refugee camp to life in Scotland, including their views on the services we provide and that the Council provide. (This was done with the agreement of Stirling Council's Lead Officer for refugees, who was keen to have objective feedback on how they view the services provided by the Council.) That session identified a number of desirable improvements but there was also warm appreciation of the visits by befrienders and the practical help given in various ways. With 79 volunteers, proper management and coordination of their activities is important in order to provide an even level of service to the Syrians. Helped by funding grants we were able a year ago to employ a part-time Volunteer and Project Coordinator (VPC) who manages: - the recruitment and training of volunteers including obtaining references - training of volunteers (in conjunction with the two befriending coordinators, who are both trustees of SCfS) - assignment of volunteers to families (in conjunction with the befriending coordinators) - monitoring the work of volunteers - running regular meetings of our volunteer network. The VPC has also helped to draw up policies, coordinate projects, and liaise with the Councils. However, the large number of Syrians who are now resettled here, especially in Clackmannanshire, has led to work overload on both the paid VPC and on the volunteer who coordinates the befriender services in Clackmannanshire. That is why we wish to recruit someone who can take on much of their roles. We also need to grow the number of volunteers in Clackmannanshire and our network of community contacts, and that would be an important part of the new role.","title":"Employment of Integration Support Coordinator","id":"360G-SCVO-a0gb000001KQeUQAA1","currency":"GBP","plannedDates":[{"startDate":"2017-12-01","endDate":"2018-06-30","dateModified":"2019-11-29T14:18:28+00:00"}],"recipientOrganization":[{"name":"Forth Valley Welcome","id":"GB-SC-SC046404","charityNumber":"SC046404","description":"Stirling Citizens for Sanctuary is a SCIO which developed from an informal action group that got together in mid 2015 with the aim to persuade Stirling Council to accept Home Office funding available for the resettlement of Syrian refugees, and thereafter to work in liaison with the Council on support to the Syrian families as they arrived. When families began arriving in early 2016, the Council invited SCfS to set up a befriending network. We later extended the service to Clackmannanshire Council. We are comprised of 7 voluntary board members, 1 part-time member of staff, and 79 trained volunteer befrienders, all who help with the resettlement of Syrian refugees arriving into Stirlingshire and Clackmannanshire, assisting with integration, and providing long term support to help them gain independence and employment as their English language skills improve. 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The position of Volunteer Development Officer (VDO) will be created as part of this project and the VDO will develop and support Regional Volunteer Teams (RVT's). Our aim is that each RVT will consist of a minimum of 8 volunteers. A Team Leader will be appointed who will report to the VDO. The aims of the RVT's will be to create a self-sufficient model so that our service can be delivered in any one locality, supported by local volunteers, businesses, supporters, media and fundraisers for local children. This pilot will support us with the creation of a sustainable regional model, building community spirit and involvement to help the areas most vulnerable children.The volunteers will then deliver education workshops and activities to children in foster care and kinship care during the period of funding and beyond. 'While the Scottish Government acknowledge that foster children, looked-after children and kinship families are some of the most vulnerable children and young people in our society the principal approach is through individual intervention. Our model engages the children and carers not just as a family group but as a group of families. Our current model has also evidenced that volunteers, given our training and support, can provide a satisfactory and successful service. This project will provide the initial investment to drive that outcome. Fostering Compassion - Background Fostering Compassion began in 2013 with 10 children from 5 families in East Lothian. By the end of 2018 we will have served just under 400 children and delivered support to participants across Scotland. Fostering Compassion is a unique and ground-breaking humane education project for children in Foster Care and Kinship Care (Looked After Children) who show worrying behaviour e.g. towards animals or other children or are struggling with compassion and empathy in general. A child who evidently demonstrates abusive behaviour indicates that they are/have been abused themselves or they are mirroring behaviour they have witnessed in the past, at home, in school or in other circumstances where a 'pecking order' develops. In many cases until they, their carers or our peer organisations recognise the need for our support, the evidence is masked by the child or unrecognised by the carer. We work with children and their caregivers together, and while all the children we work with are 'looked-after children' predominantly in Foster and Kinship care, all have suffered abuse or neglect or had other traumatic experiences leading to that need for our additional intervention. Looked after children are the most vulnerable children in our society and they and their care families need the greatest support. Children who have had a traumatic start in life are often at a disadvantage when it comes to fulfilling their potential. They commonly feel 'different' and 'isolated'. Fostering Compassion brings together looked after children and their caregivers with other children and carers in similar circumstances, in a safe environment giving them a sense of 'belonging'. We help participants address the major gaps for the children including solidifying trust in their carers, reversing negative confidence and low self-esteem, and inspire them, not just by redressing, but accelerating their social, emotional and educational development even beyond the norm for their age. We usually work with children aged between 3 - 12 years old. A high proportion of the children are from disadvantaged backgrounds and had we not been able to provide activities through Fostering Compassion the children in those circumstances, would not have experienced activities like those we provide in our programme of activities. We know that our programme stimulates children's reactions, comparing their experiences e.g. with their peers and developing empathy with vulnerable animals. We know the process we use stabilises their behaviour and prospects. Through our workshops and activities, we share the stories of rescued domestic and wild animals in such a way that the children draw parallels between their circumstances and those of the animals. This helps the children see animals as sentient beings who can share similar emotions to them. Through sharing the stories of the animals, the children gain a greater understanding of their own circumstances and this often provides a platform for the children to open up about their own abuse and neglect. Children who have attended our activities have shown good engagement in learning, increased feelings of self-esteem, self-worth and self-confidence, a better understanding of their emotions and behaviour and improved compassion and empathy. Each child has shown an increased sense of empowerment - understanding that their actions and attitudes can make a difference. All children show they are good learners and show improved prosocial behaviour. The children build new friendships and the caregivers find a valuable support network. We work together with Local Authorities and other third sector children's charities such as Children 1st, Barnardo's, Mentor and the Big Hearts Community Trust. All the children we work with are 'looked-after children' predominantly in Foster and Kinship care but all have suffered abuse or neglect. We usually work with children aged between 3 - 12 years old. Many of them are from disadvantaged backgrounds and would not have been able to afford activities like this, had we not been able to provide them through Fostering Compassion. Our Activities We hold a wide variety of workshops and activities and are introducing new ones all the time as demand for our service increases. We share the stories of rescued dogs, donkeys, cats, horses, ponies and bears to name a few. The children learn how many of these animals had not been looked after properly and often had to change homes having suffered abuse and neglect. By sharing the animals' stories, it often encourages the children to talk about their own circumstances, letting them know they are not alone. We bring together children and carers in similar circumstances providing a support network for carers and a safe place for children to meet others in similar situations, giving them a feeling of 'belonging'. We team up with local vets including the Links Veterinary Group and the Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies who host special 'Be a Vet for the Day' workshops teaching the children all about caring for animals, understanding an animal's body language and responsible pet ownership. We also run nature themed workshops including 'Magic of Nature' and 'Trees and Bees - Being a Friend to Nature' where the children learn how connected we all are to nature and the importance of looking after our environment. We have a Storytelling and Reading with Dogs workshop - a firm favourite with the children - building their confidence and self-esteem, especially for reading aloud at school - the dogs providing a non-judgemental audience Our workshops also include craft activities to help improve dexterity and creativity and develop coping mechanisms that can be continued at home Our workshops provide tools and techniques to help the children deal with difficult emotions, which can be continued at home by both child and carer. Our new emotions tree gives the children an opportunity to express their feelings at the end of each workshop Fostering Compassion allows children in care to come together with other children in similar circumstances providing an opportunity for the children to thrive, gain confidence and self-esteem. A place where they can meet other children in a similar position, have fun, achieve a sense of identity, or come together with separated siblings on neutral ground. It allows carers to meet and make friends finding a network of support in the process. Our activities let the children and carers bond as a new family unit. Our workshops provide the ideal opportunity to try to reach these families and bring them together with others in similar positions, providing them with much needed support and friendships. We have always worked with the caregivers and the children so they are attending the activities together and creating shared memories as a new family unit. We also teach coping mechanisms and techniques throughout our activities that can be continued at home by the children and their caregivers such as our Emotions Tree, our Gratitude Tree, our Memory Jars and our Calm Down Jars. We introduce our families to activities and days out that they would otherwise not be able to afford. As funding to local services seems to be increasingly withdrawn, we are finding that we are filling a growing gap which is leaving little support for these vulnerable families. Many of our families have said they wish there could be Fostering Compassion activities every week and that nothing comes close to our activities. Why the need. There are over 15,000 looked-after children in Scotland, and by the very nature of that care need there is automatically trauma in their lives. While Foster and Kinship carers commit major efforts to redress that trauma there is a desperate need for additional support through services such as those Fostering Compassion provide, generating independent means to stimulate self-help, peer support and analysis of the children's behaviour and future. Dealing with these issues from childhood therefore is critically important because, unresolved, such behaviour has led to violence; towards those victims who cannot retaliate or complain, (most often animals); equally towards other children who do not naturally have coping mechanisms against violence and even; to carers and adults who are not automatically immune to or skilled to recognise or cope with such behaviour. Unchecked and unresolved all of these reactions ultimately lead to childhood and on to adult criminal behaviour. A frequently quoted fact is that: \"While those in the care system account for just one per cent of children, a quarter of those in prison were in care as children.\" - David Cameron, 2012. There are many other factors e.g. unresolved the issues can lead to placement in secure accommodation, inevitably increasing exposure to criminal tendencies poor mental health and a hardening negative reaction to society at large. 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As a result of their training and the culture of the military, where self reliance and never admitting to weakness or difficulty, veterans tend to be proud, and reluctant to ask for help until they are at a crisis point. They often believe that the only option is to deal with what ever problems arise without seeking, or accepting help. An example of that is where we had asked a veteran who was at risk of eviction when his housing benefit had been stopped, because of a mistake on his form, what he would do first. His response was, \"Don't worry, I can live in the woods, I've done it before.\" As you can see, this veteran needed a great deal of support to calmly address the issue, get advice, and submit the necessary information. Another veteran who had a very short term cash flow issue, gave up hos mortgage and moved into insecure rented accommodation because he was too proud to ask for help, he said \"there are others who need it more than me\". 90% of the veterans we support are completely reliant on the welfare system, but few have any understanding of how it works, and particularly of the changes that have been and are being made. There is clearly a need for : 1. Removing the stigma for veterans in of asking for help 2. Encouraging asking for support early, not waiting until they are at crisis point. 3. Enabling veterans to engage with the welfare system and understand welfare reform changes. 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The charity desperately need our own 17 seater minibus which would solve all the problems we have, the service users would have a far more comfortable journey to our centre, us volunteers would have massive pressure lifted of us, and with this project one vehicle would be used instead of 4 cars and the hire of an adapted vehicle which is what we do now so helps our planet also.","title":"HEADS TOGETHER TRANSPORT","id":"360G-SCVO-a0gb000000QAFqJAAX","currency":"GBP","plannedDates":[{"startDate":"2017-02-13","endDate":"2017-02-13","dateModified":"2019-11-29T14:11:24+00:00"}],"recipientOrganization":[{"name":"Heads Together","id":"GB-SC-SC042775","charityNumber":"SC042775","description":"We support people with severe brain injuries some have had strokes, accidents and some have tried to take there own life, most have both physical and mental problems with depression in most, we try to build up confidence shattered by trauma. We are all volunteers and do this because we care, I as chairman and founder had a brain haemorrhage that left me disabled, so I know what they are going through. There are many of us that feel our lives were saved and then we were dropped by the system, these people deserve a some help, we offer support, day trips, arts and crafts, speech therapy and respite at our superb wheelchair friendly static caravan sited at Berwick Upon Tweed open to disabled people across Scotland at very affordable prices. 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The box includes the following: a nightdress, breast pads, maternity pads, shower gel, shampoo, deodorant, toilet bag, slippers, toothpaste, toothbrush, pants and lip balm for the mother. The bairn's box will have items that are not included in the Government box; cardigan, nappies, wipes, baby bath, shampoo moisturiser, baby oil cotton wool, hair brush, sponge and muslin squares. These vulnerable women who received a mother and baby box would normally have been socially excluded as they did not have the funds to purchase the necessary toiletries required for going into hospital. The difference the Mothers and Bairns box made to the mother was huge. Gone are the worries about how she is going to manage to purchase the items, thus relieving mental anxiety and stress. The health visitors and midwives tell us that the pregnant women lie about having forgotten their toilet bag, when clearly there was no toilet bag in the first place. 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After consultation with this partner, they had noticed a growing issue with their service users, which was that many of these women were arriving at the hospital to deliver their baby and had no toiletries or nightwear with them. The safeguarding midwives and Health Visitors have advised us that women are arriving at hospital to have their baby and when asked 'where is your toilet bag?' the women say they have forgotten it, which is sadly untrue. Given our reputation within our community of supplying good quality second hand clothing, baby equipment and Bairn's Boxes, they approached us to ask if this is a new service we would be interested in delivering as there is a need within their client group. After various discussions, we decided that in partnership with the Safeguarding Midwives, we would like to extend our service to offer 'Mother and Bairn's' boxes to vulnerable women going into hospital to have their baby. The safeguarding midwives support women struggling with; mental health issues, domestic abuse, and drug and alcohol abuse. During 2016 they supported 309 vulnerable pregnant women in East Ayrshire. They have suggested that a service such as the Mother and Bairn's box would ease the financial worry of affording toiletries and other essential items for mums going into hospital to have their babies. It is this group of women who will benefit from this service. In addition to our consultation with the Safeguarding Midwives, we spoke to some of the general midwives who refer service users to us. They also tell us that many women do not have the basic essentials when going into hospital to have their baby. It was then agreed that these boxes would include the following items; nightdress, breast pads, maternity pads, shower gel, shampoo, deodorant, toilet bag, slippers, toothpaste, toothbrush, pants and lip balm. The box will also have some essential items for the baby. These items are not included in the existing Government box, as we were keen not to replicate their model. In addition to the mother's items the following items are for their baby; cardigan, nappies, wipes, baby bath, shampoo moisturiser, baby oil, cotton wool, hair brush, sponge and muslin squares. The items included in the box will be brand new and purchased by Hillhouse; however we will supplement the box by including new items that are donated to us, such as blankets and knitted items. Each box will cost £25 so if funding is secured, then 200 women in East Ayrshire will receive a Mother and Bairn's box. The distribution of clothes and equipment, which is our core work, will continue to operate as an open referral service. However, the Mother and Bairn's boxes will be offered on a referral only basis. The referral agents will be the Safeguarding Midwives and Health Visitors who work and support families in East Ayrshire. These agencies will identify women they are working with and refer them to us. Both agencies have advised us that they are working with many women who would benefit from this service at the moment. Hillhouse have a small van and although many of the midwives like to collect items from our Distribution Centre to take to their families, we would offer a delivery service and happy to deliver these boxes and any other baby equipment they might need to their homes.","title":"Mother and Bairns Boxes","id":"360G-SCVO-a0gb000001KQedmAAD","currency":"GBP","plannedDates":[{"startDate":"2017-12-04","endDate":"2018-08-31","dateModified":"2022-02-21T16:40:41+00:00"}],"recipientOrganization":[{"name":"Hillhouse","id":"GB-SC-SC013482","charityNumber":"SC013482","description":"Hillhouse has been working for 41 years with young people and families who are experiencing financial hardship. A significant number of the young people and families that come to us for support are experiencing situations in their families and in their own lives which make them extremely vulnerable. All of Hillhouse’s services are developed and delivered in support of a common vision: ‘to address inequality and improve the lives of vulnerable children and families across East Ayrshire by providing free clothes and other support. Clothes and equipment provision is the core of Hillhouse’s service and involves the collation and distribution of: • High quality second-hand clothing and footwear to children up to the age of 16 years (we currently have 4,000 young people on our database) • Other equipment required by children: for example; prams, cots and high-chairs tomyoung mums who cannot afford to purchase these items.","streetAddress":"11 Hill Street","addressLocality":"Kilmarnock","addressRegion":"East Ayrshire","postalCode":"KA1 1HA","location":[{"latitude":55.609261,"longitude":-4.498022},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S13002894","geoCodeType":"WD"},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S14000040","geoCodeType":"WPC"},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S03000001","geoCodeType":"CCG"}],"addressCountry":"Scotland","url":"https://hillhousehelps.co.uk"}],"beneficiaryLocation":[{"latitude":55.609261,"longitude":-4.498022},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S13002894","geoCodeType":"WD"},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S14000040","geoCodeType":"WPC"},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S03000001","geoCodeType":"CCG"}],"fundingOrganization":[{"name":"Scottish Council For Voluntary Organisations","id":"GB-SC-SC003558","charityNumber":"SC003558","department":"Policy","streetAddress":"Caledonian Exchange, 19A Canning Street","addressLocality":"Edinburgh","addressRegion":"City of Edinburgh","postalCode":"EH3 8EG","addressCountry":"Scotland","description":"The Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations is the membership organisation for Scotland's charities, voluntary organisations and social enterprises.","url":"http://scvo.scot","location":[{"latitude":55.959611,"longitude":-3.190946}]}],"grantProgramme":[{"code":"scvo-ccrf-r3-strand-1","title":"Community Capacity & Resilience Fund - R3 Strand 1","description":"Funding to help local voluntary sector groups and organisations across Scotland tackle poverty and mitigate against UK government welfare changes.","url":"https://scvo.scot/funding/community-capacity-resilience-fund"}],"fromOpenCall":"Yes","dateModified":"2022-02-21T16:40:41+00:00","dataSource":"https://scvo.scot/funding/data/archive/community-capacity-resilience-fund.json"},{"amountAppliedFor":5000,"amountAwarded":6500,"awardDate":"2016-12-02","description":"Our vision is to expand Home-Start West Lothian by developing a Social Enterprise Employability/Training Programme, comprising of a High-end style Charity Shop offering accredited training qualifications for individuals in West Lothian looking to gain employment skills and experience in retail industry. For individuals requiring additional support a Home-Start Volunteer will be matched to a trainee to support, encourage and motivate them. The Shop, located in a main street in the hub of the community, in West Lothian will be warm and welcoming, will offer good quality clothes and soft furnishings for sale at a reasonable cost. In the first year we will concentrate on establishing the shop, sourcing our donations through various drop-boxes located in organisations throughout West Lothian. We will engage in a robust marketing campaign to highlight the ongoing need for donations, volunteers and the support of our community. Through various fundraising events in the past year we generated £1500 in one week, with another Thrift Shop booked in for next year. With funds from various fundraising events we have bought a Steamer, Rails, Mannequins, Pricing Gun, Size Tabs, etc. One room is currently being utilised at our offices to receive donations, prepare them for sale, etc. It is hoped that as soon as the Shop is ready for use we can 'drop in' all the sale-able items to open as soon as is possible. We want to be innovative, to generate our own funds especially given the fragile environment we find ourselves in - there are less Trusts around to support us - affected by the loss of their own funds. We want to be different: we want to generate income but we also want to support our families (and others) to gain their financial independence too - I believe this makes us quite special!","title":"Junk to Funk","id":"360G-SCVO-a0gb000000Q9wf1AAB","currency":"GBP","plannedDates":[{"startDate":"2017-02-01","endDate":"2017-08-30","dateModified":"2021-11-29T12:54:32+00:00"}],"recipientOrganization":[{"name":"Home-Start West Lothian","id":"GB-SC-SC029770","charityNumber":"SC029770","description":"We are a local charity supporting vulnerable young families across West Lothian. We have been supporting families for 16 years. We support families by matching a trained volunteer to a vulnerable family to offer practical and emotional support to help families cope with the obstacles they face. In addition to one-to-one support we provide Family 4 Support Groups in Blackburn, Livingston and Broxburn. As well as Volunteer and Group support we have a highly trained and knowledgeable staff team who support families by attending meetings ie social work, schools, hospital appointments, organise emergency foodbank parcels, and react to families in crisis. In the last financial year we supported 96 families, including 225 children (60 of these families attended our Support Groups). Of the 96 families we support last year 37 families ended positively – no longer requiring the service due to improving their home situations. Currently we have 57 volunteers.","streetAddress":"Cameron House, 13a Fairbairn Road","addressLocality":"Livingston","addressRegion":"West Lothian","postalCode":"EH54 6TS","location":[{"latitude":55.891512,"longitude":-3.528783},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S13002823","geoCodeType":"WD"},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S14000044","geoCodeType":"WPC"},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S03000035","geoCodeType":"CCG"}],"addressCountry":"Scotland","url":"http://www.homestartwl.org.uk"}],"beneficiaryLocation":[{"latitude":55.891512,"longitude":-3.528783},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S13002823","geoCodeType":"WD"},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S14000044","geoCodeType":"WPC"},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S03000035","geoCodeType":"CCG"}],"fundingOrganization":[{"name":"Scottish Council For Voluntary Organisations","id":"GB-SC-SC003558","charityNumber":"SC003558","department":"Policy","streetAddress":"Caledonian Exchange, 19A Canning Street","addressLocality":"Edinburgh","addressRegion":"City of Edinburgh","postalCode":"EH3 8EG","addressCountry":"Scotland","description":"The Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations is the membership organisation for Scotland's charities, voluntary organisations and social enterprises.","url":"http://scvo.scot","location":[{"latitude":55.959611,"longitude":-3.190946}]}],"grantProgramme":[{"code":"scvo-ccrf-call-2","title":"Community Capacity & Resilience Fund - Call 2","description":"Funding to help local voluntary sector groups and organisations across Scotland tackle poverty and mitigate against UK government welfare changes.","url":"https://scvo.scot/funding/community-capacity-resilience-fund"}],"fromOpenCall":"Yes","dateModified":"2021-11-29T12:54:32+00:00","dataSource":"https://scvo.scot/funding/data/archive/community-capacity-resilience-fund.json"},{"amountAppliedFor":10000,"amountAwarded":10000,"awardDate":"2018-10-22","description":"The Women sector has been disproportionately affected by the recent cuts in public sector spending, at a time when the issues the sector deals with have never been so prominent. Financial worries are common in many households across Scotland, but can be particularly difficult for lone parents, people experiencing unemployment and those on low incomes and mostly households from the Black & Minority Ethnic community. We are seeking funding to pilot a new service in Glasgow & South Lanarkshire that will target mostly women in poverty due to the welfare reforms, and are disengaged from education and are experiencing various social & economic disadvantages to have access to financial education, help them develop their financial skills and to help them raise their educational attainment; and to support them to improve confidence and self-esteem to lead a healthy and meaningful lifestyle. The project will empower them with the necessary financial skills to live independently and to deal effectively with the welfare reforms. The project will offer these women experiencing financial difficulties support and advice in relation to debt and money management including welfare, debt, fuel and energy management. The activities will take a preventative approach to financial problems and improve mental welling for those affected by the current welfare reforms and reduce the social inequalities that they face. The primary purpose of the project is to support women aged 18-50 years from the African community resident in Glasgow & South Lanarkshire in poverty and experiencing financial difficulties exacerbated by the UK Government Welfare reform to money management services. Financial Inclusion is about ensuring everyone has access to appropriate financial services and products which enable them to manage their money on day to day basis; plan and deal effectively with unexpected financial pressures. We will actively involve the women in decision making processes regarding project planning and encourage them to have a genuine influence on how the project is delivered. By doing this we aim to foster important skills and provide opportunities for them to learn more about budgeting and planning considerations. We will also regularly seek out feedback from them and develop creative ways of involving them in evaluating the project and recognising and celebrating successes. Partnership working is at the heart of our project proposal and we strongly feel that developing positive relationships with other organisations and involving them in project delivery results in better projects and additional outcomes for young people. For this project, we will be looking to gain input from a number of partners including the local community CAB agency to help us explore with participants the impact of welfare reform, both individually and societally, and to develop materials and information that creatively engages and informs the women. We are also keen to embrace opportunities to tap into the wider network of organisations receiving Community Capacity and Resilience funding and to explore potential partnership working with them. Having previously delivered work around these themes, we know that our project addresses a significant gap in provision in the locality and that supporting the women to be aspirational and develop their awareness and confidence dealing with issues which contribute to inequality such as health and finance literacy. We strongly believe that actively helping the women to learn new skills at such a key stage in their lives, improves their well-being and reduces their future dependency on family and state supports. Being based in a community which experiences multiple deprivation, we consider ourselves, despite our specific community focus, to be fundamentally an anti-poverty and pro-equality organisation. As such we are committed to creatively supporting women and developing projects which seek to reduce inequalities and decrease the number of people who experience financial hardship and are negatively affected by welfare reform. We know that there is a need for our project because of our previous work and through our interactions with these women who are currently unemployed. When we speak with the women who we meet, often on the streets during the day, about what they are doing many reports that they are currently doing nothing and that they feel that no existing provision meets their needs. The target beneficiaries that we will work with experience a number of disadvantages and complex needs as a result of their age, the area they live in and its social issues and, for many, their negative experiences of mainstream education. We propose to deliver financial educations that will include budgeting sessions; support with DWP claims; credit check, switching energy suppliers and opening bank accounts, Practical steps to reducing living costs, Reducing energy bills by switching providers and being more energy efficient, Shopping about for the best deals in relation other regular bills such as home and car insurance, Making the most of entitlements such as free schools' meals; clothing grants, concessionary travel; Education Maintenance Allowance. Steps taken to maximise family incomes, reduce essential outgoings and mitigate the effects of poverty and whilst there is an upward trend in rates of employment in Scotland, changes to the quality and nature of works have driven in-work poverty. We estimate that 250 women aged 18-50 years from the African community will have access to the project. The project will be delivered on a one to one and group basis depending on the need of individual women.Delivery will be from our Glasgow City centre base (new) and this is easy accessible via good transport links. We expect the delivery to be like: One-to-one support will work with participants to identify issues that they require additional help with and to develop strategies for overcoming barriers and obstacles. One-to-one support will also provide the women with supported access to computers and the internet for writing CV's, Excel sheet for money management, exploring employment, further education and training opportunities and making applications. Each person will have an allocated Mentor who will walk hand in hand with them to improve and assist with their finances and future financial situations. We will provide ranging levels of support dependent on the individual needs and requirement. We will improve a person's current situation with their finances and ensure they have the skills and capacity to be able to continue with positive finances through their lives. A big part of the service is to ensure that those who are socially excluded due to debt will no longer be, we will provide family support if required and volunteers will be trained and peer supporters to carry on with the work. Partnering with local groups through referral to extend the service to hard-to-reached women resident in the target community. NEED FOR THE PILOT PROJECT Research from Chartered Institute of Housing (CIOH), Institute of Fiscal Studies (IFS), Poverty Alliance as well as the UK and Scottish Government's suggest that the poorest 5th of Scotland's population are disproportionately most likely not to have a basic bank account or access to affordable financial services and far more likely to be in the social housing sector, in receipt of benefits and unemployed than those in the top 80% of incomes and therefore vulnerable to the welfare reform, particularly the introduction of Universal Credit ( claimant online accounts will be an issue among the BME communities as only 21 per cent of the population have some internet access at home. Households experiencing financial exclusion typically exhibit one or more of the following characteristics: A lack of key financial products such as bank account; Insurance; Savings products and the financial services that come with them and a reliance on alternative forms of expensive credit such as doorstep lenders; payday loans and pawnbroker. Based on this information, we set out a consultation together with the women in order to address the issue of financial exclusion and to find ways in which these could be improved in our community. We held three events and a focus group discussion to carry out the consultation and engagement process. We actively encouraged maximum involvement throughout the process to ensure a \"bottom-up\" approach; this means asking women what they want, how best to deliver it and ensure they are actively involved in the project management. The outcome of the consultation and community engagement shows that women in the community are affected by high level of debts, live in households in fuel poverty, in unemployment, inability to claim benefits. Some of them have accessed loans from the loan shark lenders. The women affirmed that financial inclusiveness will help them with the foundational knowledge to succeed and able to navigate the welfare reforms. The consultation enables us to determine whether there is a need for the project and whether there is any third sector organisation in the area currently running similar projects specifically targeting the BME women so as to avoid duplicity. Women were given the task to discussed and come up with activities capable of making the greatest impact in helping the community financially empowered with the hope of creating life opportunities that will make it possible for them to lead a life free from economic & financial exclusion. The outcome of the consultations: 86% (80 households) of our respondent (93 targeted) had no bank account; 100% (93 households) of our respondents had no form of Insurance; 96% (89 households) are currently in extreme fuel poverty and 71% (66 households) are in one to two months of rent arrears; 95% (88) are living in social housing; 90% (84) are in receipt of one form of benefit and 89% (83) are in unemployment. The majority do not have the skills to understanding UC or are able to access benefits for themselves. The common denominator for these women is that they are all affected and impacted negatively by the welfare reforms. Developing financial understanding is the first step in ensuring the beneficiaries have the skills required to deal confidently with every day financial issues, helping them to make informed decisions and choices. To support the importance of financial literacy,Ofsted, suggested\" Providing personal finance education can have a significant and lasting impact on women's future prosperity and help them to successfully navigate the financial markets – from mortgages and pensions,to whom to bank with – when they leave education\" Director of Education Ofsted, Ofsted 12th March 2008). Access to financial services is a key barrier to financial inclusion whether it is not being able to open a basic bank account or poor credit histories that deter lenders. Runnymede Trust suggests that many people from the ethnic minority backgrounds have serious money issues and a pressing need for money guidance. Women should have opportunities to acquire financial capability and that \"women becoming financially capable is one pre-requisite for their personal and social well-being, for their developing roles as responsible citizens in an increasingly complex world and for success in their future working lives.\" (ibid, 1999, page 12).","title":"In the Black Project","id":"360G-SCVO-a0g0N00001gBHfGQAW","currency":"GBP","plannedDates":[{"startDate":"2018-12-07","endDate":"2019-12-06","dateModified":"2018-12-24T10:08:23+00:00"}],"recipientOrganization":[{"name":"Hope Amplified","id":"GB-SC-SC044265","charityNumber":"SC044265","description":"Hope Amplified works to provide practical help, social and volunteering opportunities for socially isolated and vulnerable people in Glasgow and South Lanarkshire council area. We work towards assisting and encouraging young people's development through a range of educational interventions, creating new and challenging experiences. We are community-led organisation working & supporting vulnerable and disadvantaged family, young and children in every aspect of life ensuring they are given every possible chance to meet their full potential and to participate fully in society. We ensure people from disadvantaged community are given fairer chance to develop their social, employment and life skills. We advance the education of the disadvantaged and the vulnerable in the community by encouraging and developing their innate skills. We run activities including lunch club, home start, jewellery making, music, inter-generational arts, computer classes, befriending and mentoring activities.","streetAddress":"Station House, 2nd Floor, Suite 2/2, 34 St. Enoch Square","addressLocality":"Glasgow","addressRegion":"Glasgow","postalCode":"G1 4DF","location":[{"latitude":55.85746,"longitude":-4.255832},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S13002976","geoCodeType":"WD"},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S14000029","geoCodeType":"WPC"},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S03000043","geoCodeType":"CCG"}],"addressCountry":"Scotland","url":"http://www.hopeamplified.org.uk"}],"beneficiaryLocation":[{"latitude":55.85746,"longitude":-4.255832},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S13002976","geoCodeType":"WD"},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S14000029","geoCodeType":"WPC"},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S03000043","geoCodeType":"CCG"}],"fundingOrganization":[{"name":"Scottish Council For Voluntary Organisations","id":"GB-SC-SC003558","charityNumber":"SC003558","department":"Policy","streetAddress":"Caledonian Exchange, 19A Canning Street","addressLocality":"Edinburgh","addressRegion":"City of Edinburgh","postalCode":"EH3 8EG","addressCountry":"Scotland","description":"The Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations is the membership organisation for Scotland's charities, voluntary organisations and social enterprises.","url":"http://scvo.scot","location":[{"latitude":55.959611,"longitude":-3.190946}]}],"grantProgramme":[{"code":"scvo-ccrf-r4-strand-3","title":"Community Capacity & Resilience Fund - R4 Strand 3","description":"Funding to help local voluntary sector groups and organisations across Scotland tackle poverty and mitigate against UK government welfare changes.","url":"https://scvo.scot/funding/community-capacity-resilience-fund"}],"fromOpenCall":"Yes","dateModified":"2018-12-24T10:08:23+00:00","dataSource":"https://scvo.scot/funding/data/archive/community-capacity-resilience-fund.json"},{"amountAppliedFor":4999,"amountAwarded":4999,"awardDate":"2017-11-10","description":"The project seeks to increase the current \"Digital Inclusion Initiative\" due to an increase in demand from families and young people of African community resident in Cambuslang, Springhall, Whitlawburn and Rutherglen area of South Lanarkshire (It is a regeneration area with a population of 13000 people. It consists of high-rise flats, tenement and back and front door houses. The hub of the area is a rather bleak, windswept shopping mall that also contains a local community services centre (managed through the community service department but not by the community development team. More than half of the local population live in a bottom 15% ranked ' income derived' data zone. Recent statistics shows that the neighbouhood is one of the most deprived in Scotland in terms of opportunity and activities for the youth and the elderly). The initiative started last year as a pilot project and have seen an exponential increase in demand from the community stemming from the Welfare cuts. The Initiative runs two hours(4pm-6pm) only on every Friday with 12 residents in attendance. The remaining 25 residents are unable to attend because we lack the capacity to accommodate the increase numbers. Residents are therefore placed on waiting list for the next six months on a rotational basis. The local council in conjunction with local Charity Organisation like ours piloted a two-week computer literacy and financial awareness for young people to create awareness of the welfare cuts among the most vulnerable population. The outcome of the project sample was very disturbing, more so, for the African (formerly asylum seeker and refugees) communities who are at the bottom of the ladder with respect to financial exclusion and computer literacy. The Pilot project shows that over 81% (37) of the 44-young people from the African communities are unable to use the computer to access or use basic financial services and products such as bank accounts, credit cards or affordable loan, which make it difficult for people to manage their money, cope with financial pressures as a result of the welfare cuts and plan for the future. They suggested that improving financial confidence and computer awareness will help them overcome these issues by giving them the confidence and skills to choose, access and use financial and products online and helped them deal wisely with the welfare cuts. The funding from the Community Capacity & Resilience fund would enable us to hire an additional sessional worker to increase the sessions to 3 (Friday-4-6pm; Saturday-12noon to 3pm; 3.30pm-6.30pm) and the number of hours to 8 hours from the current 2 hours a week. The Digital Inclusion Initiative is both a financial and computer wellness activity geared towards ensuring that everyone's incoming money is maximised; that they have access to appropriate financial services and products which enable them to manage their money on a day to day basis; and they can plan for the future and deal effectively with unexpected financial pressures due to welfare reform. Some of the training workshops includes the following: - financial \"cascading training\" (Cascade training will seek to recruit 2 volunteers to train as 'Money Mates Ambassador' to share their ideas and tips on making the most of their money. They will also provide free 'money makeovers' -- giving practical and friendly advice on debt, benefits, budgeting, banking, borrowing and saving). -Workshop Trainings on \"Numbers & Money\" - Understanding money; Getting to grips with money and banking words; spending, saving & borrowing money; money/budgeting advice; and planning for your financial future. It will also include dealing and coping with the welfare reform. -Workshops on \"Your Rent & You\" - This section will provide African social housing tenants with one-to-one personal support at home to help them manage their money, get on-line and find advice around work, volunteering and training. -Workshops on computer literacy & Numeracy, proficiency and use to beneficiaries over the duration of the project. -Two hours of Christmas Cruise Control (3C) - Christmas is all too often a time of over indulgence and inordinate uncontrollable spending spree that often comes with increased debt that African households will have to face in the New Year. 3C activities will help the community to understand the difference between \"wants and needs\"; how to avoid \"impulse buying\" during the festive seasons.","title":"Digital Inclusion Initiative","id":"360G-SCVO-a0gb00000129R1dAAE","currency":"GBP","plannedDates":[{"startDate":"2017-12-01","endDate":"2018-08-31","dateModified":"2019-11-29T14:18:28+00:00"}],"recipientOrganization":[{"name":"Hope Amplified","id":"GB-SC-SC044265","charityNumber":"SC044265","description":"Hope Amplified works to provide practical help, social and volunteering opportunities for socially isolated and vulnerable people in Glasgow and South Lanarkshire council area. We work towards assisting and encouraging young people's and the elderly development through a range of educational interventions, creating new and challenging experiences. We run activities including lunch club, cookery, home start, jewellery making, music, inter-generational arts, computer classes, befriending and mentoring activities. We work to promote, support, develop and connect the community (young people, women and the elderly) to create a resilient community through volunteering, social enterprises and lifelong learning. The day to day running of the organisation is carried out by the Project Director (fte employ) and the centre officer with support from other volunteers.","streetAddress":"238 Main Street","addressLocality":"Rutherglen","addressRegion":"South Lanarkshire","postalCode":"G73 2HP","location":[{"latitude":55.828184,"longitude":-4.211488},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S13003106","geoCodeType":"WD"},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S14000056","geoCodeType":"WPC"},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S03000030","geoCodeType":"CCG"}],"addressCountry":"Scotland","url":"http://www.hopeamplified.org.uk"}],"beneficiaryLocation":[{"latitude":55.828184,"longitude":-4.211488},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S13003106","geoCodeType":"WD"},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S14000056","geoCodeType":"WPC"},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S03000030","geoCodeType":"CCG"}],"fundingOrganization":[{"name":"Scottish Council For Voluntary Organisations","id":"GB-SC-SC003558","charityNumber":"SC003558","department":"Policy","streetAddress":"Caledonian Exchange, 19A Canning Street","addressLocality":"Edinburgh","addressRegion":"City of Edinburgh","postalCode":"EH3 8EG","addressCountry":"Scotland","description":"The Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations is the membership organisation for Scotland's charities, voluntary organisations and social enterprises.","url":"http://scvo.scot","location":[{"latitude":55.959611,"longitude":-3.190946}]}],"grantProgramme":[{"code":"scvo-ccrf-r3-strand-1","title":"Community Capacity & Resilience Fund - R3 Strand 1","description":"Funding to help local voluntary sector groups and organisations across Scotland tackle poverty and mitigate against UK government welfare changes.","url":"https://scvo.scot/funding/community-capacity-resilience-fund"}],"fromOpenCall":"Yes","dateModified":"2019-11-29T14:18:28+00:00","dataSource":"https://scvo.scot/funding/data/archive/community-capacity-resilience-fund.json"},{"amountAppliedFor":7497,"amountAwarded":7497,"awardDate":"2019-12-12","description":"Our project community was named in a recent report as one of the most deprived community in Scotland. It is the most economically disadvantage community in Scotland and two-thirds of the local population live in a data zone among the 15 per cent most deprived neighbourhood in Scotland. The elderly African community are economically disadvantaged due to the welfare reform and the squeeze in UK Government public spending which has taken its toll on Local Council service provision by reducing funds/budget allocated to the elderly. The elderly in our community have nowhere to go and socialise or take part in any project activity as their counterpart from other indigenous population. They practically have nothing to do, but to sit-out in the house 24 hours a day for those who are currently unable to work due to infirmities (various forms of health issues) or have passed their retirement age. Older African community are particularly vulnerable to social isolation or loneliness owing to loss of friends and family, mobility or income. Social isolation and loneliness impact upon individuals' quality of life and well-being, adversely affecting health and increasing the use of health and social care services. The Elderly from the African community (excluded from mainstream activity) who accompanied their Grandchildren to our activities are sometimes left out, unable to participate in any activity as they specifically tailored for young people. Research shows that loneliness and social isolation are harmful to our health: lacking social connections is a comparable risk factor for early death as smoking 15 cigarettes a day and is worse for us than well-known risk factors such as obesity and physical inactivity. Also, research by Voluntary Health Organisation shows that social isolation and poverty are major contributing factors to health inequality in Scotland. A total of 91% of Voluntary Health Organisation taking part in new research for Voluntary Health Scotland said that social isolation was a major issue underpinning health inequality and 71% highlighted poverty as a key issue. From our experience working with young people and their parents shows that having a place to visit, play, relax, meet new people or forget about their worries for a while is vital for the well-being of the participants. The Equal Opportunities Committee, convened by Margaret, published a landmark report on age and social isolation last year, which found evidence that the effects of loneliness in society could be as harmful as smoking. MSPs on the committee called on the Scottish Government to prioritise loneliness and isolation alongside issues such as poverty and poor housing as part of the public health agenda and called for a national social isolation strategy for Scotland. In the last eight (8) months, we received several requests from the elderly population, Parents, young people and volunteers to start a new activity specifically designed for the elderly BME who are increasingly isolated and socially excluded in the communities. We are unable to commence any meaningful activity directed at the elderly population for the lack of organisation capacity. However, early this year, we worked with our older young people to carry out an initial one-off consultation to find out what sort of activities or programme that would meet the need of the adult community. Some of the activities listed were Budgeting, arts & craft, cookery and sewing workshop. This initial consultation is not far reaching enough as they would need to stamp their input in terms of what they want, how long should it be and when would the best time to hold it. The findings from the elderly community will help guide us in our decisions about the suitability of the project activities, what to include and when to hold it. Consequently, we are seeking funding from the Community Resilience and Capacity Fund to enable us trial a new project which will provide sixty (60) isolated and socially excluded African community age 50s and above resident in Glasgow with a variety of activities such as arts & craft, sewing & budgeting and give them the chance to choose the most preferred activities they will like to do going forward. Also, the funding will help increase the capacity of our organisation to handle the elderly project through the training of five volunteers in Safeguarding vulnerable adult, Financial Planning for non-financial managers, Managing & Supervising people and Demonstrating impact and value to funders. Community Inclusion Project seeks to address economic inequality, reduce isolation and loneliness, experienced by older people, and enable them to make a positive lifestyles changes associated with ageing, and ultimately, to bring about a better quality of life for the elderly from the African Communities resident in the target council area. The Community Inclusion Project is an initiative designed to pilot this great new idea so that we can understand and establish how keen the elderly in the African community are to trying activities that are new to them, and to find out which ones they wanted to get involved. The project will focus on three specific activities which came on top during consultation-Arts & Crafts, Sewing and Budgeting. The grant will help pay for two Sessional staffs, Venue hire, Volunteer Expenses, training for 5 volunteers and Community Consultations. The project will focus on three key areas: Piloting and monitoring of the new idea to develop the organisation capacity to meet the demand relating to welfare reform; develop collaboration with carers and other support agencies by developing a new systems to track referrals and progress and aid networking between organisations; develop participant's confidence through budgeting education to prevent themselves from reaching the crisis point. We wanted to reduce the effect of poverty due to welfare reform and isolation for the elderly African community and raise the bar on their aspirations. Coming to a place like ours to participate in an activity they helped to establish will encourage the creation of supportive inter-generational networks that lead to a more cohesive and aware community. By the end of the project activities, the participants will have opportunity to choose through feedback two project activities they feel will improve their mental health and well-being, reduce isolation and improve financial literacy that will help them cope with the welfare reform. ACTIVITIES FRIDAY Activities: Budgeting & Sewing workshop-The activities will run every week for two hours (3.30pm-6.30pm) on Friday for 28 weeks. Budgeting workshop- (budgeting sessions; support with DWP claims; credit check, switching energy suppliers and opening bank accounts, Practical steps to reducing living costs, reducing energy bills by switching providers and being more energy efficient, Shopping about for the best deals). Sewing Workshops- (Sewing patterns and dressmaking patterns-How to make simple curtains, making of cushion covers, bodice a sleeve block pattern and embroidery concept) SATURDAY Activities: Arts & Craft Workshop -The activities will run every week for four hours (3.30pm-6.30pm) on Saturday for 28 weeks. Arts & Craft Workshop- (knitting, crocheting and weaving) SUNDAY Activities: On-going Community Consultation and engagement event (The activities will run once every for two hours (14.30pm-16.30pm) on Saturday for 28 weeks. 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We ensure people from disadvantaged community are given fairer chance to develop their social, employment and life skills. We advance the education of the disadvantaged and the vulnerable in the community by encouraging and developing their innate skills. We run activities including lunch club, home start, jewellery making, music, inter-generational arts, computer classes, befriending and mentoring activities.","streetAddress":"Station House, 34 St. Enoch Square, Suite 2/2, 2nd Floor","addressLocality":"Glasgow","addressRegion":"Glasgow","postalCode":"G1 4DF","location":[{"latitude":55.85746,"longitude":-4.255832},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S13002976","geoCodeType":"WD"},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S14000029","geoCodeType":"WPC"},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S03000043","geoCodeType":"CCG"}],"addressCountry":"Scotland","url":"http://www.hopeamplified.org.uk"}],"beneficiaryLocation":[{"latitude":55.85746,"longitude":-4.255832},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S13002976","geoCodeType":"WD"},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S14000029","geoCodeType":"WPC"},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S03000043","geoCodeType":"CCG"}],"fundingOrganization":[{"name":"Scottish Council For Voluntary Organisations","id":"GB-SC-SC003558","charityNumber":"SC003558","department":"Policy","streetAddress":"Caledonian Exchange, 19A Canning Street","addressLocality":"Edinburgh","addressRegion":"City of Edinburgh","postalCode":"EH3 8EG","addressCountry":"Scotland","description":"The Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations is the membership organisation for Scotland's charities, voluntary organisations and social enterprises.","url":"http://scvo.scot","location":[{"latitude":55.959611,"longitude":-3.190946}]}],"grantProgramme":[{"code":"scvo-ccrf-round-5","title":"Community Capacity & Resilience Fund - 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We will target those aged 16 and over who are not in employment, education or training and who are seeking to be economically active, are living on a low income and experiencing disadvantage. By ‘enticing’ people in with ‘softer’ options via the ‘cooking on a budget’ workshops we will open them to a range of opportunities they may not have traditionally accessed; accredited and non accredited training, formal and informal learning and the all important social interactions that will see them gain workplace ready skills. The funding will also allow us to increase capacity to delivery spaces on our current twice weekly Job Club; we will do this by bringing in an addiitonal sessional worker to assist new members. We don’t do things TO, we do things WITH people, co-designing new projects through our extensive focus groups and service user involvment structure. This idea has come from direct feedback from our members on what would work for them. 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We want a prosperous Raploch and for that prosperity to be sustainable - with economic well being enhancing social well being and quality of life.Our project provides a range of focussed services that aspires to ENCOURAGE RESILIENCE, MOTIVATE ASPIRATION, INCREASE SKILLS LEVELS, SUPPORT PEOPLE INTO EMPLOYMENT and offer a range of LEISURE AND LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES.","streetAddress":"Raploch Community Campus","addressLocality":"Drip Road","addressRegion":"Stirling","postalCode":"FK8 1RD","location":[{"latitude":56.129547,"longitude":-3.945531},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S13003118","geoCodeType":"WD"},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S14000057","geoCodeType":"WPC"},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S03000011","geoCodeType":"CCG"}],"addressCountry":"Scotland","url":"http://inspiringcommunities.org.uk"}],"beneficiaryLocation":[{"latitude":56.129547,"longitude":-3.945531},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S13003118","geoCodeType":"WD"},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S14000057","geoCodeType":"WPC"},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S03000011","geoCodeType":"CCG"}],"fundingOrganization":[{"name":"Scottish Council For Voluntary Organisations","id":"GB-SC-SC003558","charityNumber":"SC003558","department":"Policy","streetAddress":"Caledonian Exchange, 19A Canning Street","addressLocality":"Edinburgh","addressRegion":"City of Edinburgh","postalCode":"EH3 8EG","addressCountry":"Scotland","description":"The Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations is the membership organisation for Scotland's charities, voluntary organisations and social enterprises.","url":"http://scvo.scot","location":[{"latitude":55.959611,"longitude":-3.190946}]}],"grantProgramme":[{"code":"scvo-ccrf-call-2","title":"Community Capacity & Resilience Fund - Call 2","description":"Funding to help local voluntary sector groups and organisations across Scotland tackle poverty and mitigate against UK government welfare changes.","url":"https://scvo.scot/funding/community-capacity-resilience-fund"}],"fromOpenCall":"Yes","dateModified":"2019-11-29T14:11:24+00:00","dataSource":"https://scvo.scot/funding/data/archive/community-capacity-resilience-fund.json"},{"amountAppliedFor":10000,"amountAwarded":10000,"awardDate":"2018-10-29","description":"WHAT/HOW/WHO Since the inception of Universal Credit (UC) in Dumfries and Galloway in May this year, we have saw a huge increase in numbers of service users coming to Kate's Kitchen for support in accessing their benefits online and meeting the job centre requirements to ensure receipt of their Universal Credit benefit. Evidence from Citizens Advice Service (CAS) network and elsewhere indicates the incidence of rent arrears to be far higher amongst tenants receiving Universal Credit. Housing Associations across the UK report that 73% of tenants on Universal Credit are in arrears, compared to 29% of others. CAS recommendations for action to help reduce the problem include \"action to fix issues associated with UC\". We at Kate's Kitchen aim to provide a new service \"Positive Transitions\" to address the difficulties our service user's experience when applying for Universal Credit. On attending job centre appointments individuals are being told they need to apply online for their Universal Credit benefit. Service User's tell us the Job Centre are unable to help them to apply. This fills our service user's with dread and come to Kate's Kitchen for support. Currently our 2 part-time support workers deliver sessions on the floor with regards to benefits, debt and housing advice. They also attend appointments with service user's. However the implementation of Universal Credit is new to us all and we will employ a part-time support worker with Universal Credit experience 12 hours per week to:- * Deliver one to one sessions with service users in Annan to support them in making applications on Tuesdays and Thursdays our service days. * Deliver same sessions in our Outreach areas as required * Deliver \"Making Digital Universal Credit Application\" training sessions There are many aspects involved in making successful applications for Universal Credit which involves initial applications, uploading documents and essential information and adhering to job centre's commitments. We at Kate's Kitchen have a computer suite of 6 laptops which we will use for this project. The new support worker will take the sessions upstairs in our computer suite in order to give individual time and the ability to concentrate on the applications. We will offer this new service to our own service user's but also the wider community of Annan and our outreach service areas within Annandale and Eskdale. These being Langholm, Gretna, Moffat, Beattock, Lockerbie and Ecclefechan. Every Tuesday and Thursday our service days our new support worker will be available in the computer suite to support service user's in applying and adhering to their job centre commitments. We will also advertise the service locally in Annan and anyone will be able to make an appointment for support. We will do this in partnership with our local citizen's advice service and local job centre. We have always had a close working relationship with both and look forward to further partnership working when both organisations will refer eligible individuals to us. We have a very good relationship with both organisations and meet regularly to review mutual clients. WHY / WHERE The idea for this project has come from our service users who are now being asked to apply online. Our current support worker brought to light that more and more individuals are coming from job centre and citizen's advice asking for support to apply online. Online will be the only way individuals can make a claim and this will be the only way claimants can contact the DWP. Lack of understanding of the benefit, lack of internet access and the claimants lack of knowledge \"online\" makes our service users vulnerable to sanctions or worse, their claim is closed. Our service users need ongoing support not only with the initial claim. They are also required to upload sick lines and other documents to provide evidence as requested to enable them to receive their benefit payments. Due to claimants having to wait around 6 weeks before their first payment of universal credit, they may also need assistance to claim an \"advanced payment\" due to financial hardship. However, this is a loan which needs to be repaid, usually by deducting the agreed repayment amount from subsequent payments. This has an ongoing effect on budgeting. Our new service will address welfare reform as we seek to make a huge impact in tackling benefit issues, sanctioning and benefit delays, by supporting individuals facing crisis to learn skills to enable them to comply with the Job Centre Plus's criteria. This will alleviate poverty and social inequality and promote social inclusion. Our database monitoring system also evidences the need for such a project. Indeed, in the last year our support sessions have doubled to 360. Unemployment in Annan is at its worst. The shock decision in June this year to close Young's Seafood Pinney's of Annan has meant the loss of 450 jobs, meaning more and more families using our services. Our food parcel distribution numbers have already doubled this year and we expect it to increase further as people await their benefits. Some employees were on zero hour contracts meaning they have to wait at least 6 weeks until they receive any benefits. Many intergenerational families worked here for years. According to the 2016 Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation, Annan is one of the poorest neighbourhoods in the region of Dumfries and Galloway ranked at 2687 in the lowest 50% for rural areas. It also came 900th for deprivation out of the 6000 places in Scotland that were analysed. The results are based on levels of employment, health, income, education, housing, crime as well as geographical access. Many households are facing deep seated poverty and deprivation. Coupled with the rural challenges we face, contributes significantly to the number of families and individuals suffering poverty. 22.7% of the people in our region who are income deprived live in Annan. However, Kate's Kitchen services go some way in addressing these problems including our hot food service, our support sessions and our foodbank. The proposed new service \"Positive Transitions\" will compliment what we are already providing in addressing welfare reform allowing our service users to grow in confidence in using computers to meet their job centre commitments relating to Universal Credit. This is a unique project and no other similar service exists. In the project year we will:- * Support 50 service users to access their benefit entitlements * Deliver 12 Digital Universal Credit Awareness training sessions * Improve confidence and self-esteem of 50 service users * Reduce isolation and feelings of hopelessness of 50 individuals Many of our service user's suffer extreme depression and anxiety about applying for benefits and one individual recently told us \"If it hadn't been for my support worker at Kate's Kitchen I think I'd not be here today\". One other service user told me \"they wouldn't accept birth certificates as evidence of my 3 children only Kirsty my worker was able to tell me what I needed to do\". Evidence from our database and what people are telling us evidences the need for this project. Having received Anti-Poverty funding this year Kate's Kitchen is now delivering Pop-Up Kitchens through its Outreach Project. This means we are able to engage with service user's in more rural areas in Annandale and Eskdale. Transport is few and far between many of the outlying local areas. Service users are in both food and fuel poverty and being able to access our Outreach services at the Pop-Up's is invaluable to them. We will also deliver the Universal Credit Support to our service users in these hard to reach outlying rural areas. Part of the new worker's role will be to engage with people in rural areas to support them in accessing Universal Credit. We are working closely with our partners who are providing the venues for our Outreach Project free of charge. These include to date Langholm Parish Church Hall, Gretna Scout Hall, Lockerbie and Moffat Town Halls and Ecclefechan Village Hall. If successful, the CCRF funding will allow us to increase our capacity to deal with the current issues people are facing due to the impact of Welfare Reform, causing income, fuel and food poverty and feelings of hopelessness. The ultimate aim of the project is to ensure service users can successfully access Universal Credit online, thus enabling them to become more resilient and take control of their own lives. They will make the transition from being digitally challenged to digital inclusion opening up a whole new world. They will also address their benefits issues and have peace of mind and no longer a fear of poverty.","title":"Positive Transitions","id":"360G-SCVO-a0g0N00001gBVSgQAO","currency":"GBP","plannedDates":[{"startDate":"2019-01-09","endDate":"2019-12-31","dateModified":"2018-12-24T10:15:25+00:00"}],"recipientOrganization":[{"name":"Kate's Kitchen","id":"GB-SC-SC044212","charityNumber":"SC044212","description":"Established in 2008 Kate's Kitchen is a charity meeting the needs of local people in Annan. It supports individuals in crisis and in need of additional support enabling and empowering them to take control of their lives and live independent, sustainable and fulfilling lives. Our key aim is to \"support through empowerment\", enabling service users to take control and do things for themselves. At our drop-in cafe 2 days per week we offer a hot nutritious meal to those on low income and disadvantaged by poverty. (45 meals per day). We also offer one to one support sessions with our trained support workers. Issues include budgeting, housing and benefits advice. (360 sessions last year). We provide food parcels four days per week and deliver our garden and healthy eating group on Wednesdays and Thursdays and our Arts and Crafts Group every Friday finishing these group days with a nutritious lunch.","streetAddress":"The Beacon, 2-4 Bank Street","addressLocality":"Annan","addressRegion":"Dumfries and Galloway","postalCode":"DG12 6AA","location":[{"latitude":54.98691,"longitude":-3.262271},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S13002889","geoCodeType":"WD"},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S14000014","geoCodeType":"WPC"},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S03000005","geoCodeType":"CCG"}],"addressCountry":"Scotland"}],"beneficiaryLocation":[{"latitude":54.98691,"longitude":-3.262271},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S13002889","geoCodeType":"WD"},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S14000014","geoCodeType":"WPC"},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S03000005","geoCodeType":"CCG"}],"fundingOrganization":[{"name":"Scottish Council For Voluntary Organisations","id":"GB-SC-SC003558","charityNumber":"SC003558","department":"Policy","streetAddress":"Caledonian Exchange, 19A Canning Street","addressLocality":"Edinburgh","addressRegion":"City of Edinburgh","postalCode":"EH3 8EG","addressCountry":"Scotland","description":"The Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations is the membership organisation for Scotland's charities, voluntary organisations and social enterprises.","url":"http://scvo.scot","location":[{"latitude":55.959611,"longitude":-3.190946}]}],"grantProgramme":[{"code":"scvo-ccrf-r4-strand-3","title":"Community Capacity & Resilience Fund - R4 Strand 3","description":"Funding to help local voluntary sector groups and organisations across Scotland tackle poverty and mitigate against UK government welfare changes.","url":"https://scvo.scot/funding/community-capacity-resilience-fund"}],"fromOpenCall":"Yes","dateModified":"2018-12-24T10:15:25+00:00","dataSource":"https://scvo.scot/funding/data/archive/community-capacity-resilience-fund.json"},{"amountAppliedFor":4980,"amountAwarded":4980,"awardDate":"2016-12-02","description":"Kates Kitchen is a unique project in the Dumfries and Galloway region, local officials say there is nothing else like it in the region, because we combine the provision of free hot food in our unique cafe, with the 'support work' element of the project. Whilst people are receiving a hot meal the support worker gets along side then and finds out how they came to be in the position they are in, with a friendly informal manner. From this the client has the choice to receive support to tackle issues they face or they can come back to the worker in their own time if they choose to do so. In addition clients are encouraged to volunteer and take part in training, increasing their choices and chances of life, their confidence and esteem and reduces isolation. At present our part time worker is overwhelmed with the demand for her attention and we would like to increase our opening days from 3 to 5 and employ a support worker for a further 2 days. In addition we are working to encouraging clients to be part of the menu planning, food sourcing, budgeting and preparation of the food we offer. This in turn enables choice, dignity and learning of new skills building confidence and a sense of value which in turn will be transferable to life and work. With the increased hours of support we can offer we believe we can continue to make significant change in the lives of those who are suffering from the negative effects of welfare reform and support them to meet the requirements of form filling, online recording and job search as well as moving forward to more positive destinations and out of crisis and taking back the control of their lives.","title":"Positive Futures","id":"360G-SCVO-a0gb000000QAXpoAAH","currency":"GBP","plannedDates":[{"startDate":"2017-02-01","endDate":"2017-08-30","dateModified":"2019-11-29T14:11:24+00:00"}],"recipientOrganization":[{"name":"Kate's Kitchen","id":"GB-SC-SC044212","charityNumber":"SC044212","description":"Our vision is to alleviate social isolation, poverty, their causes and consequences within our community and, in so doing, recognise the value of every individual. 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We will also be able to develop the project into targeted SIMD areas as well as introducing other packs, suitable for older children and pregnant ladies. In order to do so we will employ a part time Project Coordinator who will be responsible for maintaining relationships with current partners, establishing new partnerships, support and oversee the work of the workshop tutor and volunteers, promote the project, ensure quality control of donations and ensure that monitoring and evaluating processes are adhered to. This will allow us to increase the number of KidzStart packs we supply, in turn helping more families who are in need and introduce them to the wider community services that Kidz-Eco provide. 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We would like to make a positive difference in their lives by providing them with a free Kidz-Start pack. We believe that there is a need in the West Lothian community, where many families are living in poverty and struggling to make ends meet, to offer a service where items can be given away free of charge. A Kidz-Start pack is a reusable upcycled denim box (made lovingly by our Fun with Fabric volunteers) which will be packed to the brim with everyday essentials for a baby including nappies, cotton wool, bottles, vests, sleepsuits, hats, socks, mitts, blankets and a toy/teddy and book. The design of the box allows it to be re-used in many ways such as a toy box, storage crate or laundry bag and no two are the same! While much of the contents for these packs will be from the generous donations that we receive in Kidzeco, we will also be looking for new and unused items to compliment them and plan to engage with local businesses, supermarkets and other social enterprises who may be able to assist us either by donating items or supporting the project a financial level. We have already consulted with the community to ascertain whether there was a need for this type of service and our project was named by a local mother. 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Using the volunteer resources that we have been able to secure over the past year we would like to pilot a new service which we are not currently providing; to provide digital support to those claiming welfare benefits. The Department for Work and Pensions have created ambitious targets for online claims. Universal Credit is 'digital first', which expects initial claims, work activity and updating any change of circumstances to be carried out online. Due to the Social Policy evidence that was being collected through the Citizens Advice Bureau network, which was illustrating the issues that claimants were having in carrying out the digital requirements of claiming Universal Credit, Citizens Advice Scotland carried out research to determine the extent of Digital Access issues throughout the service. 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Similarly in libraries there is public internet access but library staff do not have the training or knowledge to assist clients in completing benefit applications. In a rural community we also have to consider the travel costs involved in using public transport to get to their nearest access point. The Citizens Advice Scotland 'Round the Bend' research highlighted the issues with the costs and availability of bus transport. The percentage of income used on travel costs for those on benefit in rural areas was high. We want to ensure that nobody is missing out on claiming a benefit they are entitled to due to either their lack of digital skills or due to the barriers in the cost to either having digital access at home or through the cost of travelling to their local library or local authority/DWP access point from a rural area. With this project we hope to be able to: • Provide digital access support to those clients who are claiming benefits, in particular, Universal Credit. This will involve having allocated appointments for completing benefit applications with clients or to help them update their online journals. • As we cover a rural area this will be through a mixture of meeting clients in community hubs (such as libraries opening hours dependent), Outreach locations and home visits. The location of these appointments will depend on the availability of 3/4G coverage and the clients own ability to travel. • We will equip our outreach staff with 4G enabled tablet technology so that they can complete the forms at a venue which most suits the client. • We will create a further volunteer role 'Digital Adviser' who will become experts in the digital requirements of Universal Credit and cascade that learning down to both colleague advisers and the clients themselves. This will particularly be in relation to updating their online journals. • We will work with partners in the Employability Service and in the Local Authority as well as other 3rd sector organisations to ensure that clients are referred into the service and get the assistance they need. • We will also work with Employability Partners to promote the volunteer role of 'Digital Advisers' to those who do have the skills to carry out their role and as a result expanding their experience. The project will run throughout the Kincardine and Mearns area to all those who have self-assessed difficulty with digital skills. The area of Kincardine and Mearns is rolling out on Universal Credit full service in two stages due to the JobCentre catchments. The first area is a smaller area of DD9 7, DD10 0 and AB30 1 postcode areas. The local authority has estimated that there will be approximately 40 new claimants a month in that restricted areas. In June 2018 the rest of the area will be rolled out to Universal Credit full service. This will give as opportunity to recruit and train Digital Advisers while numbers are manageable. We will then be fully prepared for the increased numbers midway through our project in June 2018. The people who will benefit from this project will be those who are claiming benefits which have digital requirements and their families in particular children; that being those who are unemployed, in ill health or have low wages and are effected by in work poverty. 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We have overcome the difficulties faced in that project by working in partnership with local GP practices and have been able to identify the scope of need in our community which extends beyond the service we are currently providing. We have been able to replicate the pilot project in other areas within Kincardine and Mearns. With this project we hope to pilot a new home visiting service. We will do this by recruiting and training volunteer advisers, who would carry out home visits and telephone advice. These volunteers would provide advice and assistance on a range of issues including benefits, debt, housing and food and fuel poverty. This would further develop the capacity of the organisation to support those affected by welfare reform and who are at risk of financial exclusion due to unemployment, ill health, caring responsibilities and the additional challenges that are faced by those living in rural communities. We would work with local partners in the voluntary and public sectors to ensure that the most vulnerable members of the community get the advice and assistance required through referrals, home visiting and telephone support. Service provision in Kincardine and Mearns is limited and this service would be the only one of its kind to be provided in the area. We will target and recruit volunteers who they themselves have been affected by welfare reform and will be able to bring a range of personal experience and empathy to the role. 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Overall it is expected that 50 people will engage with the project through attending a group workshop or one-to-one session. Partners and their role: East & Central Sutherland Citizens Advice Bureau will raise awareness of the project to their clients, in particular those attending the bureau for their debt service and their Money Talk Team, and will offer direct referrals to the project. Brora Learning Zone has partnered with us on numerous projects and classes, most recently being a major partner for our Climate Challenge Fund project. We will offer sessions and courses in their facility and they will support us with referrals and promotion of the project. Job Centre Plus (Invergordon and Wick) work with us to support people impacted by welfare reform through accessing training and learning opportunities and this project will allow us to build our partnership with the JCPs and to receive direct referrals in for support. Clearview 2020 is an employability service which covers Caithness and part of Sutherland. We refer some of our employability students to them and they do the same for us. Through this project we will strengthen our partnership by being able to offer more for students in the Central & East Sutherland areas and will receive referrals into the project both for group sessions and on-to-one training. WHY - East & Central Sutherland, and in particular Lairg and the surrounding areas, are rural and isolated and the communities have suffered through poor public transport links, poor internet speeds, lack of long term employment opportunities, closure of all banks except for one and other issues which have a major impact on our rural communities. Sutherland does not have a Job Centre Plus, the nearest being in neighbouring counties Caithness and Ross-shire, and also does not have a dedicated foodbank, which further impacts those who have been negatively impacted by welfare reform. The project idea has been shaped through requests from current students, members of the community and partners for workshops and one to one support in various different areas, particularly relating to managing budgets, using IT for employability or benefit maintenance and confidence building. Learning from this project will be used to shape a funding application to the Bank of Scotland Foundation which will enable the project to both continue and expand to support a greater number of people. The organisation used to receive funding to run a weekly job club but this funding was cut. We continue to run it on a voluntary basis but with no paid staff to cover it we are unable to advertise it or to support people on a drop in basis. The project would enable us to build on the weekly work club with regular, tailored support for people impacted by welfare reform. • WHO – the project will be open to anyone who requires support with financial literacy, employability or digital skills and has been impacted by welfare reform. By working with partners we will reach these people. • WHERE – the project will be delivered from our office based in Lairg and will cover areas in East & Central Sutherland.","title":"Skills for Life with Lairg Learning Centre","id":"360G-SCVO-a0g3z00000HpNMwAAN","currency":"GBP","plannedDates":[{"startDate":"2020-02-03","endDate":"2020-10-31","dateModified":"2020-02-11T08:22:00+00:00"}],"recipientOrganization":[{"name":"Lairg & District Learning Centre","id":"GB-SC-SC033900","charityNumber":"SC033900","description":"We are a community led charity which supports lifelong learning and skills development for the communities of Lairg and across Sutherland. 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There is no service in place to provide support for the deaf community in the area. With welfare reform and lack of employment opportunity this is leading to deterioration in many families and individuals mental health. The communication barrier faced by many Deaf in our society is a huge hurdle that needs to be addressed. Rather than valuable members of our society being left at home we need to put things in place to enable them to access and have the same rights as their hearing counterparts. We already have strong links with other advice agencies such as North Lanarkshire Disability Forum and CAB. Through these links we would be able to signpost and provide the much-needed advice to the Deaf community. Our communication support worker will be there to translate from BSL to English. Within the Deaf community there is a very high unemployment rate. This was highlighted in the information gathering in the lead up to the British Sign Language (Scotland) Act 2015 being approved. Many young Deaf and deaf families live in poverty and are unaware of changes to the welfare system due to nothing being sent out in their own language of BSL. There have been many changes in how to access information and apply for jobs. Many companies now choose to put their applications online. Many Deaf people cannot access this as they cannot understand written English and cannot afford to have Internet at home. 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In the future we will be restarting BSL sign language courses. The 'drop in' service is a service that the deaf community can access for assistance with correspondance, appointments or to be sign posted to the appropriate service ensuring that there is an appropriately qualified interpreter there. The service is aimed at all age groups and ethnicity. 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We would like to provide an additional 6 hours staff resource per week (2 staff members working an additional 3 hours) in order to provide an additional service including weekly evening sessions. This would allow us to increase our capacity to provide 1-2-1 sessions, meaning we could offer an additional 234 hours of support for Veterans over a 9 month' period (6 hours support per week, for 39 weeks). The project will increase capacity for Veterans to be able to meet our dedicated team and receive information, support and advice on matters such as Housing, Benefits, Employment, Wellbeing and more. If we were awarded a grant from the SCVO Community Capacity and Resilience Fund, this will allow us to fund the costs of a specialist staff member to help with most benefit queries, housing issues, basic money advice and generally provide support and assistance wherever required. We will also be able to support individuals with employability queries including sourcing funding for training courses, and all AFCS, AFPS and War Pension queries. For safety and security considerations LVC require two staff members to be present at all sessions. Why are these services so vital? Housing and Benefits support services The challenge of finding a home to buy or rent can be difficult for anyone leaving the services and for some ex-service personnel whom have service related injuries, disability or other problems can make the process extremely challenging. We can help Veterans apply for ex-Service accommodation or apply for mainstream housing through our Housing Associations. We give Veterans information on buying a home, as well emergency, homeless or support accommodation and signposting to more specialist advice agencies. 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The fund would be used to purchase the materials and services needed to enable us create a physical space to test out this idea. We will then deliver the project for a 9-12 month test period. We know from research that there are other examples of Community Cupboards or Larders elsewhere in Scotland this research also informed us that each one operates differently because of the differences and needs of the communities they serve. Therefore rather than us presuming that the idea we have in place right now is the right one we would like to use the fund to support re-iterations or adaptions that will occur from the learning that comes from delivering this new project and evolving to the emerging needs of the community it will support. We know from our years of serving the local community that there are many individuals and families who are living on extremely low incomes. To try and mitigate some of instances of financial insecurity, welfare reform and health inequalities that have been prevalent for generations we have and continue to deliver an extensive list of activities that can alleviate some of the pressures people face daily. As a community centre we aim to create a feeling of community or at the very least articulate to people that they need not face there problems alone. We are one of the biggest referrers to the foodbank in the local area which is a vital lifeline of food provision for many people. We know that Food Banks have in stock, largely non-perishable goods but there is a lack of access to fresh food for many people on low incomes. We have been successfully running a community garden and cooking programmes for adults and children alike for a number of years. Despite doing these things to help improve people's lives we know that there is still much to do. Geographically the area where we are situated presents logistical challenges for residents on low incomes or those with mobility issues to access food. The Hilltown is located as the name suggests on a hill, there are no supermarkets in the neighbourhood or the wider ward area (Coldside). There is a Tesco Metro and some local shops but the choices are limited due to space and prices are generally a bit more expensive than supermarkets prices. The hilliness of the local area is also a factor when you consider that the ward area has proportion of over 65's in the whole of Dundee. However as well as the challenges there is also opportunities we have support from other successful projects running elsewhere in the community. Many of these projects use food provision as a way of connecting with those who feel the impact of inequality the most. The food theme has led to likeminded organisations getting together and sharing information that has been gathered from listening to people they engage with and exploring tests of change to collaborate on. One of these tests of change is the food cupboard I am writing to you to ask funding for. The community cupboard concept began with at first, an easy point of access for free produce that is grown in the local area and perishable produce that is donated by organisations like fair/share and possible others. However in the brief period of time we have collaborated we have begun to delve a little deeper beneath the surface and new ideas are beginning to emerge. As a group we intend to utilise the individual expertise of each of the stakeholders involved to collectively strengthen the Community Cupboard concept. Access the fund will enable us to not only test the idea but also involve the local community a lot more in shaping the design and delivery of the project. The local stakeholders currently committed to developing this pilot project in addition to the Maxwell Centre include Dundee Carers Centre, Dundee Voluntary Action, Nourish Coldside and Coldside Community health inequality workers. We know and understand there is a lot of stigma attached to accessing support for food. Again this is where we can learn lessons from community cupboards elsewhere in Scotland. 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Our thriving centre provides groups and individuals the opportunity to take control of their lives by being able to address the difficult day to day issues affecting them such as poverty, debt, unemployment and poor health. An ambitious project transformed a builder’s yard at the centre into an award winning community garden. Our garden provides the local community with the skills and confidence to grow their own food and the equipment and resources to do so. The majority of local housing has no access to private outdoor space.","streetAddress":"St Salvador Halls","addressLocality":"Dundee","addressRegion":"Dundee City","postalCode":"DD3 7EW","location":[{"latitude":56.470159,"longitude":-2.971087},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S13002548","geoCodeType":"WD"},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S14000016","geoCodeType":"WPC"},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S03000039","geoCodeType":"CCG"}],"addressCountry":"Scotland","url":"http://www.maxwelltowninformationcentre.co.uk"}],"beneficiaryLocation":[{"latitude":56.470159,"longitude":-2.971087},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S13002548","geoCodeType":"WD"},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S14000016","geoCodeType":"WPC"},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S03000039","geoCodeType":"CCG"}],"fundingOrganization":[{"name":"Scottish Council For Voluntary Organisations","id":"GB-SC-SC003558","charityNumber":"SC003558","department":"Policy","streetAddress":"Caledonian Exchange, 19A Canning Street","addressLocality":"Edinburgh","addressRegion":"City of Edinburgh","postalCode":"EH3 8EG","addressCountry":"Scotland","description":"The Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations is the membership organisation for Scotland's charities, voluntary organisations and social enterprises.","url":"http://scvo.scot","location":[{"latitude":55.959611,"longitude":-3.190946}]}],"grantProgramme":[{"code":"scvo-ccrf-r4-strand-3","title":"Community Capacity & Resilience Fund - R4 Strand 3","description":"Funding to help local voluntary sector groups and organisations across Scotland tackle poverty and mitigate against UK government welfare changes.","url":"https://scvo.scot/funding/community-capacity-resilience-fund"}],"fromOpenCall":"Yes","dateModified":"2018-12-24T10:18:47+00:00","dataSource":"https://scvo.scot/funding/data/archive/community-capacity-resilience-fund.json"},{"amountAppliedFor":9894,"amountAwarded":9894,"awardDate":"2018-08-09","description":"We will implement and develop all the knowledge we have acquired during the pilot project. We will approach potential participants in a focused manner from other local organisations and deliver workshops that are tailored to their individual needs. Specifically we will: - Deliver weekly cooking workshops covering modules such as kitchen safety and hygiene, food preparation and storage, pickling, jams and others. In addition from March to August we will include additional gardening workshops on planting, germinating, tending crops and harvesting. Also, we will store summer produce by pickling and making jams so we reduce food waste and have top quality ingredients in the middle of winter to use in our recipes (herbal oils, jams, canned vegetables and sauces etc.) As in the pilot all our workshops will focus on providing cheap, satisfying meals that use foodbank ingredients and bulking them up with garden produce. We hope to have over 30 individuals participating in the workshops over the year. -Provide members of our community visiting the centre with access to bags with fresh fruit and vegetables from the garden along with recipes and ideas on how they can use it. We aim to provide over 200 bags of fresh garden produce in this way over the year. -Prepare in our workshops additional portions of food that workshop participants enjoyed here to take home with them. -Develop our database on Facebook with recipes, cost per portion and other important information on how to store and handle food. -Continue to develop our food cupboard where in addition to fresh garden produce we are able to offer up to 20 individuals a day access to free bread, rolls, bakery products, fruit, vegetables and goods on their sell-by date donated by local bakers and supermarkets. We also plan to look at how the project can be outsourced to other local groups and organisations so there will be a wider impact in the local area. That can be achieved by arranging workshops and presentations in other organisations. Having had one year of cooking and gardening workshops, we now feel confident in which practices work and which ones don't and we have established a committed core of participants. For that reason less time will be spent in trying to acquire participants for MAXwell workshops and more can be spent on expanding our cycle of operations to other local organisations. Finally, the additional funding will allow us to gather much more evidence of all the additional social benefits we identified in the pilot. This is in addition to the benefits and impact the project is having on providing dignified ways of alleviating food poverty locally. More evidence of the impact of the pilot project will also contribute greatly to long term sustainability.","title":"Every1's Garden - Tend & Share","id":"360G-SCVO-a0g0N00001gAR92QAG","currency":"GBP","plannedDates":[{"endDate":"2019-08-30","dateModified":"2019-11-29T14:17:01+00:00"}],"recipientOrganization":[{"name":"Maxwelltown Information Centre","id":"GB-SC-SC028820","charityNumber":"SC028820","description":"Our vision is completely focused upon improving the quality of life for the local community. We work with the community to ensure they are involved in influencing the services provided to meet their changing needs. We provide a vibrant community centre, well utilised by groups and individuals, young and old. We have specific expertise working with young people, minority groups, the long term unemployed, individuals recovering from drug and alcohol misuse and vulnerable groups. An ambitious community garden project has transformed a derelict builder's yard at the centre into a fertile garden. Community consultation identified a need for a green space and the resources to grow fruit and vegetables and we created the facility to do so. Every1's garden will always be open to all members of our community at all times.","streetAddress":"St Salvador Halls, Carnegie Street","addressLocality":"Dundee","addressRegion":"Dundee","postalCode":"DD3 7EW","location":[{"latitude":56.470159,"longitude":-2.971087},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S13002548","geoCodeType":"WD"},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S14000016","geoCodeType":"WPC"},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S03000039","geoCodeType":"CCG"}],"addressCountry":"Scotland","url":"http://www.maxwelltowninformationcentre.co.uk"}],"beneficiaryLocation":[{"latitude":56.470159,"longitude":-2.971087},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S13002548","geoCodeType":"WD"},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S14000016","geoCodeType":"WPC"},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S03000039","geoCodeType":"CCG"}],"fundingOrganization":[{"name":"Scottish Council For Voluntary Organisations","id":"GB-SC-SC003558","charityNumber":"SC003558","department":"Policy","streetAddress":"Caledonian Exchange, 19A Canning Street","addressLocality":"Edinburgh","addressRegion":"City of Edinburgh","postalCode":"EH3 8EG","addressCountry":"Scotland","description":"The Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations is the membership organisation for Scotland's charities, voluntary organisations and social enterprises.","url":"http://scvo.scot","location":[{"latitude":55.959611,"longitude":-3.190946}]}],"grantProgramme":[{"code":"scvo-ccrf-r4-strand-2","title":"Community Capacity & Resilience Fund - R4 Strand 2","description":"Funding to help local voluntary sector groups and organisations across Scotland tackle poverty and mitigate against UK government welfare changes.","url":"https://scvo.scot/funding/community-capacity-resilience-fund"}],"fromOpenCall":"Yes","dateModified":"2019-11-29T14:17:01+00:00","dataSource":"https://scvo.scot/funding/data/archive/community-capacity-resilience-fund.json"},{"amountAppliedFor":4290,"amountAwarded":5790,"awardDate":"2016-12-02","description":"Our project will provide local community members accessing our centre for a food bank referral with not only access to a supply of fresh fruit and vegetables but the knowledge, ability and confidence to grow their own in the future. We will develop a dedicated plot and raised beds in our community garden for this sole use. An average of 30 individuals come to the centre for a food bank referral each month. Our project is innovative in that we will not only provide these individuals and families the support and assistance needed for the referral but much needed access to fresh fruit and vegetables. What makes this project special is we will also provide the equipment and know-how for participants to grow their own in future. A diet of tinned and packet food can lack the required amount of vitamins and minerals that are essential to fitness and well-being. In addition to improving diet, the benefits of gardening are well documented to have a positive effect not only on physical but mental health. We will offer fresh garden produce to each referee and the space, tools, equipment and support to anyone wishing to learn how to grow their own. We will do this by running workshops which will focus on all aspects of growing your own fruit and vegetables. We will also incorporate workshops that will focus on cooking with recipes using the food bank parcel contents and seasonal garden produce to make nutritious, home cooked meals. Our project will allow participants of all ages, facing the challenges of a welfare system that provides little income access to a safe, green space. They can grow their own food and interact in a pleasant, social environment, building on learning experiences and increasing social inclusion.","title":"Every1's Garden - Grow, Care & Share","id":"360G-SCVO-a0gb000000QAUatAAH","currency":"GBP","plannedDates":[{"startDate":"2017-03-01","endDate":"2017-08-11","dateModified":"2019-11-29T14:11:24+00:00"}],"recipientOrganization":[{"name":"Maxwelltown Information Centre","id":"GB-SC-SC028820","charityNumber":"SC028820","description":"Our vision is completely focused upon improving the quality of life for the local community. We work with the community to ensure they are involved in influencing the services provided to meet their changing needs. We provide a vibrant community centre, well utilised by groups and individuals, young and old. We have specific expertise working with young people, minority groups, the long term unemployed, individuals recovering from drug and alcohol misuse and vulnerable groups. An ambitious community garden project has transformed a derelict builder’s yard at the centre into a fertile garden. Community consultation identified a need for a green space and the resources to grow fruit and vegetables and we created the facility to do so. Every1’s garden will always be open to all members of our community at all times.","streetAddress":"St Salvador Halls","addressLocality":"Carnegie Street","addressRegion":"Dundee","postalCode":"DD3 7EW","location":[{"latitude":56.470159,"longitude":-2.971087},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S13002548","geoCodeType":"WD"},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S14000016","geoCodeType":"WPC"},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S03000039","geoCodeType":"CCG"}],"addressCountry":"Scotland","url":"http://www.maxwelltowninformationcentre.co.uk"}],"beneficiaryLocation":[{"latitude":56.470159,"longitude":-2.971087},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S13002548","geoCodeType":"WD"},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S14000016","geoCodeType":"WPC"},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S03000039","geoCodeType":"CCG"}],"fundingOrganization":[{"name":"Scottish Council For Voluntary Organisations","id":"GB-SC-SC003558","charityNumber":"SC003558","department":"Policy","streetAddress":"Caledonian Exchange, 19A Canning Street","addressLocality":"Edinburgh","addressRegion":"City of Edinburgh","postalCode":"EH3 8EG","addressCountry":"Scotland","description":"The Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations is the membership organisation for Scotland's charities, voluntary organisations and social enterprises.","url":"http://scvo.scot","location":[{"latitude":55.959611,"longitude":-3.190946}]}],"grantProgramme":[{"code":"scvo-ccrf-call-2","title":"Community Capacity & Resilience Fund - Call 2","description":"Funding to help local voluntary sector groups and organisations across Scotland tackle poverty and mitigate against UK government welfare changes.","url":"https://scvo.scot/funding/community-capacity-resilience-fund"}],"fromOpenCall":"Yes","dateModified":"2019-11-29T14:11:24+00:00","dataSource":"https://scvo.scot/funding/data/archive/community-capacity-resilience-fund.json"},{"amountAppliedFor":9888,"amountAwarded":9888,"awardDate":"2017-08-09","description":"-Increased project participation and resulting participant benefits. The target group we are approaching is in its vast majority not accustomed to eating a lot of fresh fruit and vegetables, gardening or cooking. Our pilot project took place in our most productive months which was positive because participants saw an abundance of produce from the garden and the plot they planted but it had the drawback of being overwhelming to some, due to the fact that it was too much information too fast and thus it was difficult to retain. The fast pace of the project both in the manner of material taught as well as the creation of partnerships with other organisations to bring us more new participants well after the project started meant that there could not be a specific schedule that would allow a complete introduction, overview, progression and refinement of a specific module. The additional funding would allow us to surpass this challenge by pacing down the speed of the teachings and ensuring the more essential adoption of habits in the participants' everyday lives. As one participant commented; \"You cannot push these things on people, you have to take time\" - Allow a full seasonal cycle to take place. This point is very important to expand and develop the project. The pilot has highlighted the need for the project to run all year not just the 6 month 'growing' season. Gardening is not a short term endeavour for the most experienced for gardeners, let alone a group of completely inexperienced individuals. We have tried to incorporate as much gardening and cooking knowledge as possible in the pilot project but a full 12 month growing season that includes late harvests in the autumn storage and conservation, soil preparation and plot design during the otherwise slow winter months, cultivar selection and seed germination during the spring and intensive planting, thinning out, harvesting, pest control, feeding etc. during the busy summer. An all year project will allow the participants to get the full picture of the growing cycle, the best harvesting and storing methods as well as the nutritional and financial benefits they can get from seasonal produce. Further funding will also help us expand and build on the benefit from the newly formed partnerships with other organisations as it would allow additional the time will be provided for exchange of participants, ideas and collaborative events. As mentioned in the previous section, we have approached and decided to collaborate with many local organisations, complementing each other's activities in a manner that will ensure longevity of our projects. That however is an endeavour that takes greatly benefits from time as partnerships are built from common events, common workshops, exchange of participants and setting common goals. -Lastly, Running a year round this year would allow us to record and document a full cycle for the project which, along with the bi-weekly feedback from our participants would provide excellent material for the creation of a case study for this pilot project. It would include our full cycle of operations with pictures, data, challenges, successes, all the issues that were covered monthly and suggestions for improvement. This would greatly benefit other community centres, third sector organisations and even governmental organisations that would be interested to run a similar project as it would set a precedent of good practice to follow. We believe that it would further help our community in a larger sense.","title":"Every1's Garden - Grow, Care & Share","id":"360G-SCVO-a0gb00000127f8tAAA","currency":"GBP","plannedDates":[{"endDate":"2018-08-31","dateModified":"2019-11-29T14:17:01+00:00"}],"recipientOrganization":[{"name":"Maxwelltown Information Centre","id":"GB-SC-SC028820","charityNumber":"SC028820","description":"Our vision is completely focused upon improving the quality of life for the local community. We work with the community to ensure they are involved in influencing the services provided to meet their changing needs. We provide a vibrant community centre, well utilised by groups and individuals, young and old. 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Since then, we have had 28 clients who we directly look after by providing vouchers. Most of them are homeless while a few are asylum seekers. A few also have dependants who we help care for. We issued 226 vouchers altogether since November 2015, out of which 188 have been redeemed. We want to expand our services to support more referred clients in 2017: 1. Hire a part time social worker who would 1.1 conduct drop in clinics at our new office to expand the number of clients 1.2 interview and assess their needs and give out our meal vouchers/bus tickets. With more clients, we will need more vouchers and bus tickets. 1.4 refer them to our partner organisations for more specific needs 2. 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This independent living project allows our clients: 1. get an emergency provisions to tide them 2. allow them to move forward with their lives equipped with skills while allowing a better synergy between the various participating organisations, where each organisation can leverage other organisations' knowledge, expertise, and strengths.","title":"Independent Living","id":"360G-SCVO-a0gb000000QAf2wAAD","currency":"GBP","plannedDates":[{"startDate":"2017-02-01","endDate":"2017-07-31","dateModified":"2019-11-29T14:11:24+00:00"}],"recipientOrganization":[{"name":"Meal on Me","id":"GB-SC-SC045311","charityNumber":"SC045311","description":"Meal on Me is a SCIO, started in July 2013, inspired by the Suspended Coffee scheme originated in Italy. Our aim is to ensure that vulnerable people needing a hot tasty meal can get it. We provide the relief of those in need by reason of age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage by 1.1.Providing free meal vouchers which the beneficiaries can redeem at participating cafés. 1.2.Allowing the beneficiaries further access to interactions with the society through the free meal, enhancing their self-confidence and well-being. Other than working with our partner organisations in distributing the vouchers, we also take in referrals from various organisations. For these, we extend a few services linked to our voucher scheme: Bus passes for those who really have difficulty in accessing the cafes, Emergency food parcels for those who are forced to stay in hostels and have no recourse to cooking facilities.","streetAddress":"26 Linden Avenue","addressLocality":"Edinburgh","addressRegion":"Midlothian","postalCode":"EH16 6FA","location":[{"latitude":55.906597,"longitude":-3.155634},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S13002934","geoCodeType":"WD"},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S14000024","geoCodeType":"WPC"},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S03000042","geoCodeType":"CCG"}],"addressCountry":"Scotland","url":"http://mealonme.webs.com/"}],"beneficiaryLocation":[{"latitude":55.906597,"longitude":-3.155634},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S13002934","geoCodeType":"WD"},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S14000024","geoCodeType":"WPC"},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S03000042","geoCodeType":"CCG"}],"fundingOrganization":[{"name":"Scottish Council For Voluntary Organisations","id":"GB-SC-SC003558","charityNumber":"SC003558","department":"Policy","streetAddress":"Caledonian Exchange, 19A Canning Street","addressLocality":"Edinburgh","addressRegion":"City of Edinburgh","postalCode":"EH3 8EG","addressCountry":"Scotland","description":"The Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations is the membership organisation for Scotland's charities, voluntary organisations and social enterprises.","url":"http://scvo.scot","location":[{"latitude":55.959611,"longitude":-3.190946}]}],"grantProgramme":[{"code":"scvo-ccrf-call-2","title":"Community Capacity & Resilience Fund - Call 2","description":"Funding to help local voluntary sector groups and organisations across Scotland tackle poverty and mitigate against UK government welfare changes.","url":"https://scvo.scot/funding/community-capacity-resilience-fund"}],"fromOpenCall":"Yes","dateModified":"2019-11-29T14:11:24+00:00","dataSource":"https://scvo.scot/funding/data/archive/community-capacity-resilience-fund.json"},{"amountAppliedFor":4720,"amountAwarded":6220,"awardDate":"2016-12-02","description":"We want to improve access of individuals affected by welfare reform to affordable healthy food in Midlothian by namely: • Linking into the work of existing voluntary organisations, community groups (such as community gardens) and the community food map; • Piloting a voucher scheme for access for benefit claimants to free fruit and vegetable, working in partnership with the local Toot for Fruit van (operated by a local Food Bank); • In partnership with other agencies produce a “Guide to healthy Eating on a Budget in Midlothian”, that can be distributed to individuals and families experiencing food poverty, including those accessing homelessness services, emergency food parcels from the Foodbank or Crisis Grants from the SWF. (The guide will include tips for example on how to reduce food waste, where to access low cost fresh produce including fruit and vegetables, e.g. details at what times of the day chain stores reduce prices of fresh produce by up to 70%, how to save energy with quick cook and “one pot”, weekly timetable and routes for the Toot 4 Fruit Mobile Fruit and Veg Mobile shop, etc.) • Working with community planning partners to identify the opportunities for improving access to healthy food arising from the Community Empowerment Act. Innovative: Access to non-perishables is provided by food bank but not fresh fruit and veg, and local residents have identified that produce in local shops is overpriced and poor quality. 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Current activities are undertaken by a Development Worker (14 hpw) funded by Midlothian Council. Key activities include: Responding to Welfare Reform: We established joint referral systems, and a range of information resources. We have also commissioned training, and undertaken research in this area. ICT Support: We recently completed a year-long project to improve access to ICT for jobseekers and benefit claimants. Banking: We ran a project researching how well local banking services meet the needs of people on low incomes. 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What we want to do: There are three areas that will be developed, and will be user led: 1. A Shed in Tranent will be set up and be based at The Heugh and will focus more on the health and wellbeing of the members; focusing on self-management and reducing social isolation. 2. Purchase a Shed for the members to build (which will give them their first project and allow them to customise it for their future use and projects.) 3. 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We work in partnership with other agencies and organisations to identify opportunities to use and/or reuse natural materials and provide training, support, practical education and awareness sessions.","streetAddress":"56 High Street","addressLocality":"Tranent","addressRegion":"East Lothian","postalCode":"EH33 1HH","location":[{"latitude":55.943698,"longitude":-2.950723},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S13002910","geoCodeType":"WD"},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S14000020","geoCodeType":"WPC"},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S03000031","geoCodeType":"CCG"}],"addressCountry":"Scotland"}],"beneficiaryLocation":[{"latitude":55.943698,"longitude":-2.950723},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S13002910","geoCodeType":"WD"},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S14000020","geoCodeType":"WPC"},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S03000031","geoCodeType":"CCG"}],"fundingOrganization":[{"name":"Scottish Council For Voluntary Organisations","id":"GB-SC-SC003558","charityNumber":"SC003558","department":"Policy","streetAddress":"Caledonian Exchange, 19A Canning Street","addressLocality":"Edinburgh","addressRegion":"City of Edinburgh","postalCode":"EH3 8EG","addressCountry":"Scotland","description":"The Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations is the membership organisation for Scotland's charities, voluntary organisations and social enterprises.","url":"http://scvo.scot","location":[{"latitude":55.959611,"longitude":-3.190946}]}],"grantProgramme":[{"code":"scvo-ccrf-call-2","title":"Community Capacity & Resilience Fund - Call 2","description":"Funding to help local voluntary sector groups and organisations across Scotland tackle poverty and mitigate against UK government welfare changes.","url":"https://scvo.scot/funding/community-capacity-resilience-fund"}],"fromOpenCall":"Yes","dateModified":"2019-11-29T14:11:24+00:00","dataSource":"https://scvo.scot/funding/data/archive/community-capacity-resilience-fund.json"},{"amountAppliedFor":7500,"amountAwarded":7500,"awardDate":"2019-12-17","description":"NCAT will deliver a Community Welfare Champion (and purchase an ICT Tablet with Software) to support all UC claimants and potential claimants via appointments at local community offices (Local Surgeries) or in their own house dwellings (Outreach) within the ex-coalfield rural community of Netherthird. Added value activities such as local money advice campaigns and attendance at community support groups will ensure that the maximum number of residents are aware and engaged with this unique user friendly initiative. Specifically the CWC will offer the following: • Benefit Maximization, • Advice & Guidance, • Advocacy, • Registration and Support for Digital Banking usage • Support Scottish Welfare Fund applicants • Support Crisis Grant applicants • Support with Form Completion and • Sign posting to local Credit Unions. Our CWC service will deliver the following outcomes: • Increase residents' knowledge of the welfare benefits landscape, • Maximize their welfare benefits, • Increase local Credit Union Membership • Increase local usage of Digital Banking facilities • Increase community resilience through knowledge transfer & volunteering and • Deliver a genuine bottom up community service. WHY DWP has now introduced Full Universal Credit for all of East Ayrshire back in October 2017. This means many financial changes and challenges to our resident welfare recipients. One of the big changes is that instead of benefits being paid weekly, they will now be paid monthly in arrears. UC recipients will also be responsible for paying rent directly to landlords, whether they are a Council tenant, in Social Housing, or in a private tenancy. The reality is that this is having a devastating impact on our communities, leading to rent arears, increased debt, benefit sanctions and forcing people to increasingly rely on crisis services to simply put food on the table and keep a roof over their head. Rural Bank Branch Closures. Since 2015, bank branches have been closing at an average of 70 closures per month across the UK, with Scotland seeing 403 banks permanently shut during this period. Scotland has been disproportionately hit by these closures; with Citizens Advice Scotland finding that Scotland suffered 12% of branch closures despite only having 8.3% of the population. As well as losing branches some communities are seeing their banks operating reduced hours. Closures mean that individuals are having to travel further to access banking services which is both time-consuming and expensive especially for those more reliant on cash including the elderly and those on low incomes. We heard from Citizens Advice Scotland and Scottish Rural Action that these negative impacts are felt far more greatly in rural areas where there are: fewer branches to start with; less alternative provision such as Post Offices or 24 hour ATM access; accessibility issues due to reduced public transport and weak mobile phone signal and slower broadband speeds making online banking more difficult. Rural communities have reacted negatively to the closure of their local bank which in some cases has led to protests. Finally, our NCAT Development Manager attended the recent DTAS Conference, where he met up with staff from the nearby Auchinleck Development Initiative (ACDI) charity who currently deliver a local Community Welfare Champion service. This was followed up with a learning and knowledge session at ACDI premises to see first-hand the delivery method and activities of a genuine locally led community welfare champion service. WHO During the initial 35 week grant funded delivery period, the Netherrhird CWC will engage and support the following: • Netherthird residents claiming or wishing to claim Universal Credit • Unemployment benefits • Medical benefits • Senior Citizens • Lone Parents • Residents experiencing \"in work poverty\" • One off payments (Crisis Loans, Community Care Grants, School Clothing Grants) • Long term unemployed • Claimants on transitional benefits (ESA, DLA etc) • Claimants who struggle to maintain Universal Credit commitments; commonly due to; - Low literacy levels - Low IT skills - Lack of understanding of the Benefits System • Residents who are experiencing housing Issues • Claimants who are unable/have difficulty understanding complex forms • Claimants who are going through appeal processes • Residents who have never claimed entitled benefits In addition, 2 volunteers from Netherthird will be mentored over this period to learn and provide Welfare advice beyond the grant funding period. WHERE The Netherthird Community Welfare Champion service will delivered primarily in the ex-coalfield community of Netherthird, located within the rural part of East Ayrshire. (Our service will focus on disadvantaged local Netherthird residents, however, we will NOT discriminate any individual who requires support who may reside out with our community)","title":"Netherthird Community Welfare Champion","id":"360G-SCVO-a0g3z00000HpNn1AAF","currency":"GBP","plannedDates":[{"startDate":"2020-03-02","endDate":"2020-10-30","dateModified":"2020-02-11T08:24:12+00:00"}],"recipientOrganization":[{"name":"Netherthird Community Action Training","id":"GB-SC-SC043242","charityNumber":"SC043242","description":"Netherthird Community Action Training is a charity focused on the improvement and regeneration of the Netherthird and surrounding community in East Ayrshire. NCAT are focused on the regeneration of the area by developing green spaces, providing training and employment opportunities, running events and activities and providing support to those who are in poverty and in danger of heading into poverty. Established in 2012 we have had 7 years experience of running these projects in our area. We have provided training to over 80 young people. We have transformed over 4 acres of land into green spaces. We have provided outdoor education spaces for over 300 school children per year. And free activities and events for over 1000 people each year. Netherthird Community Action Training is a base for the community development in this area and has a high reputation for running successful projects.","streetAddress":"Netherthird Community Centre, Ryderston Drive","addressLocality":"Cumnock","addressRegion":"East Ayrshire","postalCode":"KA18 3AR","location":[{"latitude":55.44184,"longitude":-4.25011},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S13002899","geoCodeType":"WD"},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S14000006","geoCodeType":"WPC"},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S03000001","geoCodeType":"CCG"}],"addressCountry":"Scotland"}],"beneficiaryLocation":[{"latitude":55.44184,"longitude":-4.25011},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S13002899","geoCodeType":"WD"},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S14000006","geoCodeType":"WPC"},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S03000001","geoCodeType":"CCG"}],"fundingOrganization":[{"name":"Scottish Council For Voluntary Organisations","id":"GB-SC-SC003558","charityNumber":"SC003558","department":"Policy","streetAddress":"Caledonian Exchange, 19A Canning Street","addressLocality":"Edinburgh","addressRegion":"City of Edinburgh","postalCode":"EH3 8EG","addressCountry":"Scotland","description":"The Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations is the membership organisation for Scotland's charities, voluntary organisations and social enterprises.","url":"http://scvo.scot","location":[{"latitude":55.959611,"longitude":-3.190946}]}],"grantProgramme":[{"code":"scvo-ccrf-round-5","title":"Community Capacity & Resilience Fund - Round 5","description":"Funding to help local voluntary sector groups and organisations across Scotland tackle poverty and mitigate against UK government welfare changes.","url":"https://scvo.scot/funding/community-capacity-resilience-fund"}],"fromOpenCall":"Yes","dateModified":"2020-02-11T08:24:12+00:00","dataSource":"https://scvo.scot/funding/data/archive/community-capacity-resilience-fund.json"},{"amountAppliedFor":3549,"amountAwarded":3549,"awardDate":"2018-10-31","description":"We are requesting funding to recruit a volunteer outreach officer in order to operate our \"growing a better future for those most at risk in our communities\". We aim to build a project which focuses on supporting those at risk of the deprivation in our local community through developing their skills and confidence. Our project focuses on building better communities by focusing on improving lifestyles and health. This is done through a project based on gardening, horticulture and healthy eating. It will be target in the 6 areas of Netherthird, Craigens, Skerrington, Cumnock, Logan and Lugar area a population of around 10,000 people. The area \"growing a better future for children, young people and families will cover are 5 area's which are in the bottom 20% of the social deprivation scale in Scotland • Lugar, Cumnock Rural (S01001901) • Logan, Cumnock Rural(S01007900) • Barshare, Cumnock South and Craigens,(S01007914) • Cumnock Central, Cumnock South & Craigens(S01007913) • Netherthird, Cumnock, South & Craigens(S01007913) The village in which the Project is based \"Netherthird\" is actually in the bottom 10% of the social deprivation scale in Scotland. Unemployed people People excluded from education People suffering from social isolation Mental and Physical health issues People suffering from a lack of training and employment opportunities. Our Project will offer the chance of new learning experiences, improved community relationships, a sense of pride in the local area and improved mental and physical well being through volunteering opportunities. The volunteers recruited will get the opportunity to participate in Food growing opportunities in Netherthird Healthy eating sessions, using the seasonal fresh produce grown General gardening duties Constructing new planting area's within the community garden Using our project as a base to signpost volunteer's onto other organisations who will be able to assist volunteer's and prevent themselves reaching crisis point. Working with partners to provide employ ability opportunities. The existing resources of Netherthird Community Garden will provide a platform that is accessible and attractive for a wide range of people in the community. This will bring people into contact with each other and share experiences, whilst developing and improving their knowledge and understanding of food growing, making healthier choices and improving their well being. NCAT has consulted the public from the planning stage of the project in 2010, shaping and designing the activities and projects NCAT has done based on local consultations and large scale surveys. NCAT has further shaped its service by taking part in the Netherthird, Craigens and Skerrington Local 5 year plan(2015-2020) undertaken by East Ayrshire Council's Vibrant Communities and Netherthird Community Action Plan committee this took place between. We worked in partnership with the local steering group who carried out the most wide ranging survey ever carried out in our local area. • 419 community surveys were returned from over 1044 households in the local area • 99 Survey forms were returned from the primary school • 70 survey forms were returned from young people aged between 12-17 years old • 29 Stakeholder meetings and focus groups were held with local groups, businesses and support organisations. • 262 people attending community voting event. The survey results stated that the members of the public had identified a number of \"Main Priorities\" that they wanted to see actioned in the local community. Among these were \"Provide more activities for young people\" \"Develop an inter-generational community project\" \"provide access for training for work opportunities locally\" NCAT has acted upon these requests from the public and has put projects in place to address these issues as well as planning future projects to further improve these issues, we have been careful to speak to our service users who are using the project and have received feedback and evaluated our performance to see if we are meeting our objectives. More than 100 responder's rated NCAT's service of being \"great\" of \"excellent\". With 100% agreeing that there is a lack of support for young people.","title":"\"Growing a better future for those most at risk in our communities\"","id":"360G-SCVO-a0g0N00001gBTs8QAG","currency":"GBP","plannedDates":[{"startDate":"2019-03-01","endDate":"2019-09-27","dateModified":"2018-12-24T10:13:42+00:00"}],"recipientOrganization":[{"name":"Netherthird Community Action Training","id":"GB-SC-SC043242","charityNumber":"SC043242","description":"NCAT is a positive community-led group and has been involved in projects and activities which over the past five years have not only improved the environment and community well-being of the town’s 10,000 residents but have also improved the quality of life for the townsfolk and help to regenerate the local area. NCAT was formed in June 2012 following a community wide survey detailing “how to improve the local community” with the public overwhelmingly stating that an improvement in opportunities for local people, an improvement in local facilities, and activities which improve the quality of life for local people. NCAT has a key remit to improve and assist, specifically in the following 3 areas: • Disadvantaged People • Local Facilities • Quality of Living for local people Key activities are as follows: • Netherthird Community Garden • Youth Employment and Skills Development • Development of Community Led Personal Development Project","streetAddress":"Netherthird Community Centre, Ryderston Drive","addressLocality":"Cumnock","addressRegion":"East Ayrshire","postalCode":"KA18 3AR","location":[{"latitude":55.44184,"longitude":-4.25011},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S13002899","geoCodeType":"WD"},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S14000006","geoCodeType":"WPC"},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S03000001","geoCodeType":"CCG"}],"addressCountry":"Scotland"}],"beneficiaryLocation":[{"latitude":55.44184,"longitude":-4.25011},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S13002899","geoCodeType":"WD"},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S14000006","geoCodeType":"WPC"},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S03000001","geoCodeType":"CCG"}],"fundingOrganization":[{"name":"Scottish Council For Voluntary Organisations","id":"GB-SC-SC003558","charityNumber":"SC003558","department":"Policy","streetAddress":"Caledonian Exchange, 19A Canning Street","addressLocality":"Edinburgh","addressRegion":"City of Edinburgh","postalCode":"EH3 8EG","addressCountry":"Scotland","description":"The Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations is the membership organisation for Scotland's charities, voluntary organisations and social enterprises.","url":"http://scvo.scot","location":[{"latitude":55.959611,"longitude":-3.190946}]}],"grantProgramme":[{"code":"scvo-ccrf-r4-strand-3","title":"Community Capacity & Resilience Fund - R4 Strand 3","description":"Funding to help local voluntary sector groups and organisations across Scotland tackle poverty and mitigate against UK government welfare changes.","url":"https://scvo.scot/funding/community-capacity-resilience-fund"}],"fromOpenCall":"Yes","dateModified":"2018-12-24T10:13:42+00:00","dataSource":"https://scvo.scot/funding/data/archive/community-capacity-resilience-fund.json"},{"amountAppliedFor":9954,"amountAwarded":9954,"awardDate":"2018-10-29","description":"We are seeking funding to provide a new service in the North Lanarkshire area that will help alleviate poverty amongst new kinship carers referred to us , self referred to us or already supported by us who suddenly become in crisis particularly from the new benefit changes within the rural areas of North lanarkshire. As kinship carers become carers during a family crisis finances become stretched. For those Kinship carers who have been approached by agencies to care, they have complained to us many times that kinship funds are not processed efficiently or quickly enough, thus causing financial problems. For those informal carers we have been advised that their finances are even more stretched as they are unknown to authorities and they are oblivious to their welfare and financial rights. For both formal and informal carers, household difficulties to accommodate new bodies can also cause anxiety and stress. Gaining access to the correct advice and support can be difficult especially to those in rural areas. Especially now that DWP offices are closing, rural transport is limited and access to children and young people's groups restricted. We would like to provide outreach advice and support to kinship carers living in rural areas and anticipate supporting 15 families. This service will provide one to one visit to kinship carers homes to assess their needs, support them to try to meet their needs and to reduce isolation. We want to ensure that all kinship carers are receiving the correct income maximisation advice available, that all funding via statutory sector responsibility is met and that all relevant agencies that can improve kinship carers needs are utilised. We will also ensure that kinship carers supported by us are referred into other, newly available to us, funding streams and food initiatives . We wish to be in a position via staff to successfully refer into these funding streams eg the Buttle Trust Kinship Grant and the Family Fund. These are robust applications which require an in depth assessment of need are means tested and require a staff member to make an online application . We want to employ an existing qualified volunteer to this new position. Their existing skills and knowledge will benefit them when training, to provide the new service, to help alleviate poverty, reduce isolation and improve social and emotional needs.","title":"Kinnect","id":"360G-SCVO-a0g0N00001gBVOeQAO","currency":"GBP","plannedDates":[{"startDate":"2018-12-01","endDate":"2018-11-30","dateModified":"2018-12-24T10:14:43+00:00"}],"recipientOrganization":[{"name":"Nurture Scotland","id":"GB-SC-SC041690","charityNumber":"SC041690","description":"Nurture Scotland support Kinship carers through the many obstacles they face. We assist Kinship Carers and their families to welcome and help successfully integrate cared for children and young people into their homes and communities. Kinship Carers tend to become carers unexpectedly and at a time of crisis. This can make kinship carers feel isolated , lack confidence and be put into financial difficulty. Their household needs may change causing many problems and changing the family dynamics can also cause difficulties. Poverty and mental health issues can become difficult situations to address on their own. By keeping children at home with people and families they know, helps keep children feel protected ,safe and feel secure. By supporting kinship carers we are ensuring the carers have the correct tools and environment to provide a caring placement for children and young people.","streetAddress":"NURTURE SCOTLAND, 55 Alexander Gibson Way","addressLocality":"Motherwell","addressRegion":"Lanarkshire","postalCode":"ML1 3FA","location":[{"latitude":55.784998,"longitude":-3.998593},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S13003058","geoCodeType":"WD"},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S14000047","geoCodeType":"WPC"},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S03000029","geoCodeType":"CCG"}],"addressCountry":"Scotland","url":"https://www.nurture-scotland.org"}],"beneficiaryLocation":[{"latitude":55.784998,"longitude":-3.998593},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S13003058","geoCodeType":"WD"},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S14000047","geoCodeType":"WPC"},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S03000029","geoCodeType":"CCG"}],"fundingOrganization":[{"name":"Scottish Council For Voluntary Organisations","id":"GB-SC-SC003558","charityNumber":"SC003558","department":"Policy","streetAddress":"Caledonian Exchange, 19A Canning Street","addressLocality":"Edinburgh","addressRegion":"City of Edinburgh","postalCode":"EH3 8EG","addressCountry":"Scotland","description":"The Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations is the membership organisation for Scotland's charities, voluntary organisations and social enterprises.","url":"http://scvo.scot","location":[{"latitude":55.959611,"longitude":-3.190946}]}],"grantProgramme":[{"code":"scvo-ccrf-r4-strand-3","title":"Community Capacity & Resilience Fund - R4 Strand 3","description":"Funding to help local voluntary sector groups and organisations across Scotland tackle poverty and mitigate against UK government welfare changes.","url":"https://scvo.scot/funding/community-capacity-resilience-fund"}],"fromOpenCall":"Yes","dateModified":"2018-12-24T10:14:43+00:00","dataSource":"https://scvo.scot/funding/data/archive/community-capacity-resilience-fund.json"},{"amountAppliedFor":5000,"amountAwarded":6500,"awardDate":"2016-12-02","description":"Options in Life was established in 2011 by members of our community who were passionate about finding solutions to the segregation of our community’s learning disabled. We responded to this issue by working to develop a service which would help people with learning disabilities build the skills, confidence and knowledge needed to integrate more fully with mainstream society. Our efforts came to fruition in February 2013 with the launch of our social inclusion and skills development program. Our program currently runs two days each week and involves supporting our participants through a diverse program of confidence and skill-building activities. The project we hope to secure funding to help support is the expansion of our current service from two days to three days each week so that we can meet with increases in demand. The reason our service has quickly become so popular is because we operate slightly differently from most other disability service providers in our area. We do not own premises or operate from a central building, instead our work takes place out in the community, allowing us to focus all of our funds directly on the service that we provide. We use a group model of support rather than the more common “one-to-one” model of support which we believe allows us to achieve higher social outcomes. We have also established strong relationships with local service providers which has enabled us to develop quite an extraordinary activity portfolio which is unlike any other we have come across. People with learning disabilities attending our service will build confidence and team-working abilities as they learn to rock-climb, drive tanks or kayak. The will learn new skills through specialist workshops such as this years’ maritime skills course and they will gain work experience which, this year, took place in Ikea.","title":"The Recreation Programme Expansion","id":"360G-SCVO-a0gb000000QAbqpAAD","currency":"GBP","plannedDates":[{"startDate":"2017-01-23","endDate":"2017-08-25","dateModified":"2019-11-29T14:11:24+00:00"}],"recipientOrganization":[{"name":"Options In Life","id":"GB-SC-SC042319","charityNumber":"SC042319","description":"Options in Life runs a social inclusion and skills development programme for isolated adults (aged 18-30) with learning disabilities in Fife. We take groups of adults with learning disabilities out each week and support and encourage them as they participate in a diverse programme of confidence and skill-building activities. This may include confidence and team-building activities such as rock-climbing, work experience activities, activities which help them achieve accredited qualifications such as last years’ stable management course and various training exercises such as basic first aid. We give people with learning disabilities the additional support and training they need to progress to more fulfilling things in life, whether that is employment, volunteering or just achieving a greater level of independence. It is our goal to help marginalised individuals with a learning disability become more integrated with their communities by the removing the social barriers that are restricting their participation in society.","streetAddress":"27","addressLocality":"St. Andrews","addressRegion":"Fife","postalCode":"KY16 8LG","location":[{"latitude":56.330106,"longitude":-2.786442},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S13002962","geoCodeType":"WD"},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S14000049","geoCodeType":"WPC"},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S03000007","geoCodeType":"CCG"}],"addressCountry":"Scotland","url":"https://optionsinlife.org/"}],"beneficiaryLocation":[{"latitude":56.330106,"longitude":-2.786442},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S13002962","geoCodeType":"WD"},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S14000049","geoCodeType":"WPC"},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S03000007","geoCodeType":"CCG"}],"fundingOrganization":[{"name":"Scottish Council For Voluntary Organisations","id":"GB-SC-SC003558","charityNumber":"SC003558","department":"Policy","streetAddress":"Caledonian Exchange, 19A Canning Street","addressLocality":"Edinburgh","addressRegion":"City of Edinburgh","postalCode":"EH3 8EG","addressCountry":"Scotland","description":"The Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations is the membership organisation for Scotland's charities, voluntary organisations and social enterprises.","url":"http://scvo.scot","location":[{"latitude":55.959611,"longitude":-3.190946}]}],"grantProgramme":[{"code":"scvo-ccrf-call-2","title":"Community Capacity & Resilience Fund - Call 2","description":"Funding to help local voluntary sector groups and organisations across Scotland tackle poverty and mitigate against UK government welfare changes.","url":"https://scvo.scot/funding/community-capacity-resilience-fund"}],"fromOpenCall":"Yes","dateModified":"2019-11-29T14:11:24+00:00","dataSource":"https://scvo.scot/funding/data/archive/community-capacity-resilience-fund.json"},{"amountAppliedFor":10000,"amountAwarded":10000,"awardDate":"2017-08-09","description":"The funding will help us to continue utilising the peer support model to give older people in Falkirk the opportunity to help each other. It will give them the opportunity to learn, share and grow, in a safe and welcoming environment, surrounded by people with similar experiences. The funding will help us build on challenging social isolation of older people in Falkirk and the ways in which they can maintain and improve their well-being. Additional funding would mean the original group could grow in capacity and plan how they will sustain the group after the funding ends and that a new group can be established in Falkirk town centre. The funding will help us ensure the 2 groups can have a space to meet and participate in opportunities in their community that supports their overall well-being. The proposed group in the town centre might offer a new perspective and an opportunity to gain more knowledge, as it is a more urban area comparing to Dennyloanhead. All of this learning would be incorporated in the co-produced guide. The guide could also raise awareness about the issues that serve as barriers to well-being and social isolation in rural and urban areas. This might also provide a comparison of how geographical settings can have an impact on older people's well-being environment. The funding would allow us to continue working towards the 5 outcomes for the participants: 1. Increased self-confidence and self-awareness, allowing them to better deal with issues they are facing 2. Improved mental and physical well-being 3. Increased knowledge and skills around food 4. Improved social networks 5. Increased skills, including around running a group This additional funding would also allow us to work towards the new objective of co-producing a guide with the participants, which would make it easier for other individuals or groups to set up a project like this. 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We work with people who get support to develop Tips and other resources that can be used locally and through websites to provide support to a much larger number of people. The people with whom we work are mostly those affected by disadvantage or who feel that they do not have a voice. 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Recap will supply these new Housing association tenants with an essential furniture pack which when they are offered new house. The starter packs will consist of a mixture new and second hand furniture. Essentially it will give the new tenant furniture to cook, sleep and sit on. The Furniture packs will include Bed, Settee, Fridge Freezer or Washing Machine or Cooker, Bedding, Pots & pans, Cutlery and Kettle. The project will help new tenants many who are homeless, on benefits and are affected by welfare reform and living in poverty. Recap has established a partnership with Sanctuary a local Housing Association to help new tenants. Currently Recap does supply a limited number of tenants with furniture. The funding would enable Recap to expand and develop the service and help an increased number of tenants. The project will help the tenants to settle into their new home in the longer term sustain their tenancy. 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The children and young people will also go shopping for ingredients (introducing them to learn about food marketing, labelling and budgeting) initially at the early introductory sessions at each workshop. Children and young people will also improve their literacy and numeracy capabilities through the reading of recipes, menus and measuring and weighing ingredients. Additionally, we are aware that many attending children and young people to our playground are fending for themselves in regards to feeding themselves and do not have access to regular home cooked meals or snacks. We believe our sessions are also a discreet way of ensuring that children and young people have access to regular, free nutritious food and will also gain independence skills in choosing and preparing nutritious snacks and dishes and therefore can apply these learned skills in their everyday lives. Children and young people will also engage in practical discussion on kitchen safety; food hygiene; good sugar v bad sugar; portion sizes; and the importance of physical activity and the importance of eating nutritious foods and snacks to help them achieve positive diet and lifestyle choices. We aim to discuss and incorporate the Fork to Table theme in our Big Chef little Chef cookery sessions to help the children and young people gain a better understanding of where food comes from and encourage them to further understand the food selection process. We have our own fruit, vegetable and herb growing area at our Garden Area in our playground. 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To recognise food as a central component in achieving this aim and to share and re-distribute food in a way that is easily accessible, and which provides dignity for all. As an established community project growing in recognition for the work we do, we are receiving an increasing number of to requests to extend our services beyond the existing sites and core services- community hub, garden and orchard - into education in schools and other local community agencies around healthy growing and eating and reducing food waste. Coupled with this, in our experience in the project over the last 2 years, it has become apparent there is a need for some work targeted at improving mental health and building healthy relationships - with our volunteer base in the first instance then, potentially our service users and the wider community. Around 70% of our volunteers in the hub struggle with their emotional wellbeing. In keeping with the values of our mission statement we have some aspirational developments we would would like your help in funding. For us to be able to deliver these extensions to our existing services we will need an increase in resources. We are very fortunate to have both the expertise and appetite in our small staff group but would need to be in a position to purchase additional cover for the Community Hub which currently opens 43.5 hours over Monday to Saturday and delivers community meals on a Thursday and Friday. We have a Project Manager covering 24 of these and a Volunteering Development Co-ordinator working 14 hours across all sites - but mainly the hub due to the demands on this part of the service. Driving forward the merits of healthy eating and growing at home, what we would like to be able to do with the help of additional funding is to canvas the 4 local primary schools (to achieve earliest possible intervention in attitudes) and 3 secondary schools and offer: ● Cooking together - we have already been in discussions, planning family learning activities with a local primary school. This is basic cooking skills classes delivered by Food Project Manager to parents and children based in the school. We have already had some class visits to the school to do presentations and practical activities with the children, eg. showing and tasting samples of community garden produce, planting seeds, discussing healthy eating. We have also delivered fun practical activities during school holiday programmes in collaboration with local council. This is a way of providing healthy snacks tackling school holiday hunger but in a fun accessible way. There are opportunities to extend this work to other classes and schools if resource allows. ● Growing together - We have been running after school activities in collaboration with local council adult learning teams and local primary schools to bring young children and families to the community garden to participate in family learning practical activities, eg. planting, watering, building dens, learning about ecology, harvesting fruit and veg. We are now exploring with local social work and criminal justice team the possibility of delivering a men's activity group to engage them in an educational programme, e.g. helping in the orchard and beekeeping. Again there would be more opportunity to develop proposals if the project could secure more investment. Work placement opportunities for schools and colleges - We have just agreed our first college placement for a student who moved to the town some months ago. She is completing an HNC in Working With Communities and came to us looking for a volunteering opportunity to help get to know people. It feels appropriate to support her need for a work placement but again this takes time and resource. We would like to do more to support students from the community in achieving their goals Arranging visits, meetings and delivery of workshops means time out of the core of our work. Volunteers cover many of the tasks and opening hours but the nature of the challenges the volunteers bring means the cover can sometimes be unreliable and sporadic. We need more reliable cover in form of paid hours to be able to do more. The other arm of growing what we do educationally to help people avoid reaching crisis, would be in piloting a project supporting our volunteers to achieve good mental health and healthy relationships, complimenting what they learn about food here. This work is the idea of our Volunteering Development Co-ordinator who has spent many years working counselling people struggling with their mental health. We would propose to run a series of Psychoeducation Workshops in the evening. She feels she knows from her experience what has been reported as most insightful by her past clients. The content would be drawn from the recommended self-help work of many renowned psychologists/psychotherapists: ● Understanding and managing anxiety - what the brain does; how it affects the body; how to manage it ● Boundaries in relationships - learning what's okay and not okay in healthy relationships ● Knowing, Enjoying and Protecting yourself - how to use boundaries for your future happiness ● Understanding your inner critic and how to deal with it - reducing self-doubt and changing negativity into positivity ● Positive self-assertion - how to get the best out of every situation through effective communication; knowing what to say and how to say it It is widely accepted that those who are likely to struggle the most under welfare reform and social inequality are people who are experiencing mental ill-health, because they struggle to engage and meet commitments. We know around 70% of our volunteers in the hub have challenges with their emotional wellbeing and can struggle to develop healthy relationships - bringing its' own challenges to the project. The material we propose to use is complex and very personal so, we would envisage the groups being limited to 6. Sessions will last 2 hours and each of the topics will need 3 sessions to allow the participants room for discussion and reflection. Individual support may be offered if the need becomes apparent in the sessions. Taking all of this into account would indicate running one small group pilot could demand at least 30 hours work excluding preparation and materials. We would propose to use an established evaluation tool to monitor changes in emotional wellbeing during the programme and to assess change or recovery at the end. We recognise we could not deliver what we do without volunteers and would like to do everything we can to support them to become the best they can be in every way. We believe our volunteers would embrace this opportunity and be a great group to pilot with and receive feedback and learn from. The motivation for offering these new developments to our service is in our belief that these extra activities would help increase capacity in participants: contribute to helping them cope with the effects of welfare reform; help reduce poverty; help reduce the social inequality experienced by those struggling with their mental health. People who will benefit from this project will include current volunteers, new volunteers, local school-children of primary & secondary school age as well as older people. We estimate this programme will be able to reach an estimated 350 people of all ages across all strands of the project. The project will be delivered in Rosyth at our Community Hub, Community Garden and Community Orchard as well as at the local community centre.","title":"Education for Healthy Mind and Body","id":"360G-SCVO-a0g0N00001gBVVGQA4","currency":"GBP","plannedDates":[{"startDate":"2018-12-01","endDate":"2019-12-31","dateModified":"2018-12-24T10:17:26+00:00"}],"recipientOrganization":[{"name":"Rosyth Community Projects Limited","id":"GB-SC-SC048688","charityNumber":"SC048688","description":"The project was initiated by Rosyth Community Council who formed Rosyth Community Projects Limited and developed Edible & Tasty Spaces EATS Rosyth after acquiring two plots of land from Fife Council. A community garden and orchard were developed. We then rented the former local Post Office and built an onsite kitchen. We grow food for the local community and provide help, advice and resources for people to cultivate their own gardens. Our aim is to teach people how to plant, grow and harvest their own food and to train them in preparing healthy meals whilst raising awareness of environmental issues. We currently provide free healthy meals for children on Thursday and Friday evenings with a “Pay as you feel” option for adults. We have a volunteer team who help us collect and distribute surplus food from local businesses, reducing food waste and helping us feed local people in food insecurity.","streetAddress":"8 Aberlour Street","addressLocality":"Rosyth","addressRegion":"Fife","postalCode":"KY11 2RD","location":[{"latitude":56.040526,"longitude":-3.423671},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S13002949","geoCodeType":"WD"},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S14000017","geoCodeType":"WPC"},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S03000006","geoCodeType":"CCG"}],"addressCountry":"Scotland","url":"http://www.eatsrosyth.org.uk"}],"beneficiaryLocation":[{"latitude":56.040526,"longitude":-3.423671},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S13002949","geoCodeType":"WD"},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S14000017","geoCodeType":"WPC"},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S03000006","geoCodeType":"CCG"}],"fundingOrganization":[{"name":"Scottish Council For Voluntary Organisations","id":"GB-SC-SC003558","charityNumber":"SC003558","department":"Policy","streetAddress":"Caledonian Exchange, 19A Canning Street","addressLocality":"Edinburgh","addressRegion":"City of Edinburgh","postalCode":"EH3 8EG","addressCountry":"Scotland","description":"The Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations is the membership organisation for Scotland's charities, voluntary organisations and social enterprises.","url":"http://scvo.scot","location":[{"latitude":55.959611,"longitude":-3.190946}]}],"grantProgramme":[{"code":"scvo-ccrf-r4-strand-3","title":"Community Capacity & Resilience Fund - R4 Strand 3","description":"Funding to help local voluntary sector groups and organisations across Scotland tackle poverty and mitigate against UK government welfare changes.","url":"https://scvo.scot/funding/community-capacity-resilience-fund"}],"fromOpenCall":"Yes","dateModified":"2018-12-24T10:17:26+00:00","dataSource":"https://scvo.scot/funding/data/archive/community-capacity-resilience-fund.json"},{"amountAppliedFor":5000,"amountAwarded":6500,"awardDate":"2016-12-02","description":"We would like to employ a part time community development worker to increase the project's capacity to support local people to develop their own projects and increase self confidence and move towards employment,if appropriate. Our cafe manager had not worked for 10 years prior to working for Open Space. He learned to manage volunteers, control stock and manage cash and provide a welcoming entry point to other services and activities. During the past two years we have worked with volunteers with additional support needs and health needs. Our manager has now moved to full time employment and we would like to develop the cafe as a space to try new things, meet new people, engage with local issues and connect with welfare support, employabilty support and access to IT. We take a person centred approach and we are special because we have had great success through encouraging 18 people to complete Glasgow University's Activate course, from which we gained 2 new community initiatives (Tenants' Action group and Parent and Toddler Group) and 4 people have gone to further education. 6 other people are currently taking part in Activate and we expect that further support will be needed as they pursue their own personal or community interests. Our project manager is an Activate tutor. Through Activate people begin to find their voice and have the confidence to speak out and challenge unjust decisions, and know how to understand power and approach authority. This increased capacity allows people to seek help sooner and avoid reaching crisis point. Our success means we need more community development support because we have more people wanting to do things for themselves and their community. The cafe development will depend on skillful person-centred support to develop as a volunteer-led community hub.","title":"Open Space","id":"360G-SCVO-a0gb000000QAf2NAAT","currency":"GBP","plannedDates":[{"startDate":"2017-01-16","endDate":"2017-08-31","dateModified":"2019-11-29T14:11:24+00:00"}],"recipientOrganization":[{"name":"Ruchazie Parish Church","id":"GB-SC-SC003149","charityNumber":"SC003149","description":"Ruchazie Parish Church Open Space is a community hub which is open to all members of the community. We currently specialise in children's and youth work but for the past 2 years have operated a community cafe , employing a local man as manager. The cafe is a gateway allowing people to connect with others, be signposted to other services, and through partnership with Glasgow Kelvin College Click and Connect and Cranhill Development Trust's outreach employability service has helped people search for work, complete CV's and access training. Programmes develop in response to local need and as far as possible using local people as volunteers. 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Through our direct contact with clients in our Bureau and also through our 9 Community Advice Hubs in local neighbourhoods, we have identified a significant need for \"hands on\" practical assistance, to help vulnerable and \"digitally disadvantaged\" clients access Welfare Benefits and other crucial online services. Whilst there are local internet access points available within our area, we find that many of these, based in local libraries for example, do not have suitably qualified staff to assist with the often complex welfare benefits system. Resources at Job Centre Plus offices are limited and we find that clients can sometimes feel a little intimidated in this environment, preferring to access free and impartial advice via Citizens Advice. With the recent introduction of full service Universal Credits in South Lanarkshire, clients must now make their own on line applications. For many clients this will involve setting up an email account for the first time, accessing the internet and completing a digital claim. Currently we have no resource to assist with this and can only signpost clients to local internet access points. Having a dedicated Digital Adviser, means that we can not only assist clients make a timely application, but we can also assist them with accessing their \"Journal\" which they will be required to do in order to manage their online account and satisfy their Claimant Commitment. After having set up a claim, clients will then be expected to frequently access their Journal to update their To Do Lists, Add notes, report changes etc and failure to do so could result in benefit delays or even sanctions, pushing clients and their families into crisis. We feel it is crucial not just to assist with the benefit application, but to also provide on-going help to clients, as the proceed along the journey to Digital Independence. This consistent support will also help to build the confidence and digital expertise of the most vulnerable clients which will in turn help their life chances and skills in other areas. Our Digital Advice Hub will operate from our Bureau one day per week and whilst we will prioritise Universal Credit Applications, we will also provide assistance to clients to claim other Benefits such as Council Tax Reduction and crucially, Crisis Grants from the Scottish Welfare Fund. There is no doubt that the waiting time of at least 6 weeks is causing real hardship for clients. Whilst benefit advances are available, these are often deducted at punitive rates, meaning clients are continually running out of money even when Universal Credit is in payment. Clients may find themselves having to apply for Crisis Grants for essential food and heating and these are more quickly accessed online. Similarly should clients build up Energy Arrears or run out of fuel on a prepayment meter, we will also assist them to apply for Emergency Credits and also to make online applications to the various Trust Funds, which exist to help clients in crisis.","title":"Digital Advice Hub","id":"360G-SCVO-a0gb000001KQcCUAA1","currency":"GBP","plannedDates":[{"startDate":"2018-01-08","endDate":"2019-01-07","dateModified":"2019-11-29T14:18:28+00:00"}],"recipientOrganization":[{"name":"Rutherglen & Cambuslang Citizens Advice Bureau","id":"GB-SC-SC003214","charityNumber":"SC003214","description":"Rutherglen and Cambuslang Citizens Advice Bureau has provided an independent advice service to the communities of Rutherglen and Cambuslang since 1967. As well as our main bureau, we also work in partnership with local Community Groups, Housing Associations and a Primary Care Centre, to meet the needs of our clients in the heart of their community. This is achieved via a number of Community Advice Hubs in local neighbourhoods. Our main aim is to ensure that individuals do not suffer through ignorance of their rights and responsibilities or the service available; or through an inability to express their needs To this end we provide advice, information and support on a wide range of often complex issues relating to Welfare Benefits, Health and Disability, Debt and Money, Family and Relationships. 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This project will increase the number of beneficiaries from just women to focusing on the entire African families who are lonely and isolated to help them get involved in community work through gardening activities and volunteering. The funding will help us increase the hours for the sessional worker from 12 hours per week to 20 hours per week which will enable the worker to create 3 project delivery groups: a group for young people, men and women; recruit an additional 9 volunteers to help with the project delivery and deliver 12 training and awareness sessions for young people, men and women for 12 months. The sessional worker will bring in new specialists from garden specialists, welfare specialists, employability/volunteering specialists and welfare people to help the African people in Dundee to overcome the negatives as a result of welfare reforms. The sessions will be attended by 10 men, 10 young people and 15 women monthly. The sessional worker will also invite gardening specialists to help the 35 people with weekly gardening activities. The sessional worker will also organise and coordinate outreach work involving 5 women going out in the community to recruit that hard to reach and isolated African families in Dundee to get involved in the project. The sessional worker will have more time to help the women, men and young people build support networks that will help them cope with the negative outcomes of welfare reforms. By supporting the whole African families in Dundee to overcome their loneliness and isolation through the gardening activities, community outreach, training sessions and awareness sessions, community events and volunteering will help such families to integrate easily in the society.","title":"ENGAGING DUNDEE AFRICAN FAMILIES IN GARDENING AND VOLUNTEERING ACTIVITIES","id":"360G-SCVO-a0g0N00001gAR2GQAW","currency":"GBP","plannedDates":[{"startDate":"2017-12-01","endDate":"2019-08-31","dateModified":"2019-11-29T14:17:01+00:00"}],"recipientOrganization":[{"name":"STRIDE","id":"GB-SC-SC044225","charityNumber":"SC044225","description":"STRIDE aims to relieve poverty and alleviate the suffering of African people in Scotland. STRIDE aims to advance the education of and about African people in Scotland on the difficulties encountered by such people and how to best support them. STRIDE organises and coordinates events aimed at bringing together both African people and other people in the local neighbourhoods in planning on things like local community engagement activities, business start-ups, helping young people with career choices, signposting Africans to other agencies for support with problems such as abuse, gender-based violence, mental health and other social/economic problems. The organisation is also on the forefront of raising awareness among African people on the dangers of the harmful traditions and cultures of African people and how to overcome them through planned outdoor activities and focus group discussions. 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The main problems encountered by African women in Dundee city are: • Through funding from Voluntary Action Fund (VAF) Social Isolation and Loneliness Funds (SIALF) we reached out to more than 100 African families in Dundee through community events, outreach work and a variety of indoor activities. • Feedback from the participants indicated that African women were very much lonely and socially isolated as a result of child-caring responsibilities, no recourse to public funds due to their immigration status, poor communication skills due to lack of English language, very poor networks of friends due to lack of a common community project that could bring such women together. • There is a problem of high levels social isolation and loneliness among African women and their families living in some of the most deprived neighborhoods of Dundee city and nearby towns. • Their social isolation and loneliness is made worse for lack of an African led community project and the welfare reforms that are impacting negatively to such families. In response to the demand from African people especially women for STRIDE to set up a community project that can bring them together, we have recently acquired an allotment at the Dundee Law Hill. The allotment is managed by Kinnaird Gardens Association located at Committee Hut, Kinghorn Road, (at the west end of allotments) in Dundee. • We would like to set up a volunteering project aimed at bringing together African women and their families in gardening activities to improve their health, reduce social isolation and loneliness amongst such women and their families. • We will recruit a sessional worker with some gardening skills working 12 hours per week for 9 months to coordinate and bring together 10 African women and their families in Dundee City to engage in gardening activities aimed at encouraging them into volunteering. • We will recruit the sessional worker from some of our volunteers who have been doing some gardening, and they have skills on how to do gardening. • We will also recruit an occasional gardening professional to come and deliver 8 gardening sessions to the participating African women, their families and other volunteers. • The sessional worker will train the 10 African women on the basic skills of gardening helping them to understand the crops, vegetables, and fruits that they can grow in the Scottish weather. The sessional worker will organise 18 gardening sessions (which will be busy during the summer time). The women will engage in weekly gardening sessions. During winter time in the month of December to March, the sessional worker will be busy recruiting the African women to be involved in the project through church groups, ethnic minority organisations and by relying on our STRIDE members to reach out to the hard to reach families to get involved in the project. The sessional worker will publicise the project widely to community centres in Dundee, GP surgeries, mum groups, African women groups and any other gathering where African women can be reached. We will put posters in the local shops and supermarket to reach out to many women. • We will use the funds to buy seeds and gardening inputs. • We will also use the funds to buy gardening tools and equipment. • By bringing together African women living in Dundee area to engage in volunteering through gardening activities will help them and their families learn how to grow food, it will help the women to get out and connect hence reducing levels of social isolation and loneliness. • This project will also help African families to easily talk to other families at the allotments hence helping to increase community integration. • Gardening is a very good starting point to engage lonely and isolated African women into volunteering. • By the women growing some vegetables at the allotment will help to supplement their nutritional needs of their families. With the welfare reforms now affecting many vulnerable people, some families cannot afford to buy fresh vegetables for their families. By growing their own greens and fresh vegetables in the allotment, it will help the women to make savings. • The allotment will also enable women who are lonely and isolated in their own homes due to lack of support with childcare will be able to come out and meet other women at the allotments and share parenting skills. The welfare reforms have resulted in reduced support for families with children forcing the women to stay home and look after children exacerbating their loneliness and social isolation. • By the women engaging in the gardening activities, they will meet other women and learn from them about volunteering opportunities, further education, and job opportunities to help them improve their lives. • The women who participate in this project will be motivated to start small gardening projects in their back gardens as a source of food and earning extra income.","title":"ENGAGING DUNDEE AFRICAN WOMEN IN GARDENING ACTIVITIES","id":"360G-SCVO-a0gb00000129Tq9AAE","currency":"GBP","plannedDates":[{"startDate":"2017-12-01","endDate":"2018-08-31","dateModified":"2019-11-29T14:18:28+00:00"}],"recipientOrganization":[{"name":"STRIDE","id":"GB-SC-SC044225","charityNumber":"SC044225","description":"STRIDE aims to relieve poverty and alleviate the suffering of African people in Scotland. 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Our project is aimed at ethnic minority women with young children and not in employment due to child care responsibilities. This project is also focused on ethnic minority women with no recourse to public funds due to their immigration status. Most ethnic minority women this project will target to work with are people who have come to the UK as asylum seekers, refugees or spouses joining their husbands coming to study in the UK. Such women lack proper skills and training to get employment within the Scottish economy. Furthermore, due to the welfare reforms such women have been denied access to child benefit, employment support allowance and house benefits. Such women and their children have endured negative outcomes with their children not having enough food to eat, some women cannot afford childcare hence they are isolated, lonely and locked in their houses with no social networks and support. The outcome to some women has been very negative with some women developing mental health problems. We would like to recruit a Sessional Worker to bring together 10 ethnic minority women affected by the welfare reforms to help them to develop their skills through volunteering and groups support sessions. The Sessional Worker will recruit 5 volunteers to help deliver the networking and volunteering sessions for the women. The sessional worker will also organise merry go around child care sessions which will enable ethnic minority women to go out and meet other people, engage in volunteering and socialise. This is an innovative project as it will help such women overcome loneliness and isolation.","title":"TRANSFORMING THE LIVES OF ETHNIC MINORITY WOMEN IN DUNDEE CITY THROUGH VOLUNTEERING","id":"360G-SCVO-a0gb000000QAapnAAD","currency":"GBP","plannedDates":[{"startDate":"2017-01-23","endDate":"2017-08-23","dateModified":"2019-11-29T14:11:24+00:00"}],"recipientOrganization":[{"name":"STRIDE","id":"GB-SC-SC044225","charityNumber":"SC044225","description":"STRIDE aims to relieve poverty and alleviate suffering of African people in Scotland. STRIDE aims to advance the education of and about African people in Scotland on the difficulties encountered by such people and how to best support them. 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As the Welfare Officer will have no such affiliations, clients will be more at ease in disclosing the information needed to complete benefit applications. Senior Citizens Scotland has the benefit of guidance and support from its parent charity, Glasgow Old People’s Welfare Association which has been working with older adults for over 65 years. 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Shopper-Aide are looking to provide a service of social activities to reduce loneliness for older people living in the community and unable to access community based support, this could include people who don’t wish to participate in group based activities. ‘Evoking Memories’ could encompass all areas that the client wishes to pursue with or without family friends, volunteers etc and can be achieved in many ways e.g. • Making a personal memory book • Providing and developing activities for an individual to use in their own home • Arranging for friends to meet up • Recording memories in sound and pictures A scoping exercise is already planned to ascertain numbers and types of activities to set up a pilot project as there is already indication from a variety of sources for a need for this. 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Benefits or sympathetic grant funders can help, but families are often unaware of these, or unable to navigate the application process. Other assistance such as council tax concessions or support with fuel costs is available, but in our experience even fewer families know about these. 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It is our aim to assist in reducing food poverty and inequality in our local area. This project is intended to benefit those who are marginalised and face inequalities as a result of welfare reform, providing skills in cooking and budgeting as well as basic equipment for home use. Savvy Sisters is an 8 week introductory cooking and budgeting course for women in the East End of Glasgow who struggle with food insecurity and lack the confidence and skills to cook low cost, nutritious meals. We would be particularly targeting women at risk of social isolation, such as new mums or those in the 55+ age bracket. Currently, we do not have the capacity to support the local community outwith our current offer of low cost meals and paid cookery workshops. We have identified the need for an informal space that welcomes women to learn new cooking skills, receive peer support and create pathways with other services. 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The project will be run by a co-ordinator who will be responsible for setting up the project, networking and partnership working, recruiting and supporting participants, supporting the chef, managing the budget, purchasing supplies and monitoring and evaluation. All sessions will be led by one of our chefs, who is from a migrant background. The chef will use their extensive cooking knowledge to lead the session, working alongside the project co-ordinator to create recipes and session plans which meet the needs of the group. At the end of the project, participants will leave with a box of tools which will enable them to continue cooking at home. This will range from kitchen utensils, scales, bowls and tupperware. They will also receive a folder containing recipes as well as a budget planner for future use. Each session will contain a mix of teaching and practical hands-on experience. 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The project will offer an opportunity to a group of Souper Saturday's guests to take part in regular and scheduled physical activity with the aim of helping them to achieve a degree of social structure, leading to improved physical and mental well-being. Through participation in this project people will engage in regular physical exercise, form positive peer relationships, manage their goals and have more structure in their lives all of which will help them to improve their mental health and make it more likely that they will be able to sustain positive lifestyle changes and re-engage with mainstream society. The strength of the proposed project is that it will build on firm, trusting relationships formed over three years with people who make use of Souper Saturday's weekly food and social drop-in activities. These relationships provide us with a unique opportunity to further engage with people who are falling through the net because they are wary of accessing mainstream fitness and sports facilities and/or are experiencing a degree of social isolation making it difficult for traditional fitness, health and well-being services to reach them. In keeping with Souper Saturday's overall philosophy of inclusiveness the people who take part will be encouraged to take part in the decision making process and have ownership of their experience with the group and with the project; we feel that people will be more engaged and will get more from the experience as a social activity of they have had a real and significant part in designing and managing it.","title":"Choose to Move","id":"360G-SCVO-a0gb000000QAf49AAD","currency":"GBP","plannedDates":[{"startDate":"2017-01-17","endDate":"2017-08-30","dateModified":"2019-11-29T14:11:24+00:00"}],"recipientOrganization":[{"name":"Souper Saturday","id":"360G-SCVO-001b000003Xx91aAAB","description":"Souper Saturday is a drop-in service in Edinburgh which runs from 8.20am-2pm every Saturday and provides a warm, friendly and informal environment where adults who are homeless or otherwise vulnerable can engage in social interaction and relax and feel safe and warm. 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While this was successful, there were lessons learned that SAF wishes to address in future courses. These include: learning from the course must be reinforced by practice. participants often do not possess the necessary implements for the most basic cooking participants should learn to cook fresh food, not only the canned food provided by SAF SAF therefore proposes that future courses should: provide each participant with the ingredients for the meal cooked on each day of the course to enable them to prepare it themselves at home, thus increasing their confidence: previously they only received the recipe card provide a starter pack of pot, utensils, etc., for each participant on completion of the course accept the offer from The C-op in Maybole to supply fresh food, eg, meat and vegetables, for the course and ask shops in other areas to do likewise. Another new feature is that SAF volunteers who deliver the courses will also give presentations on nutrition, its importance for health and how cooking from scratch is cheaper than ready meals, coupled with cookery demonstrations, to groups at risk of poverty in the expectation that some of them will then participate in one of the courses. To date, there has been interest from Ayrshire College and our other partner organisations, Girvan Youth Trust, Hansel Community, Shelter and Enable. Discreet assistance will be available for those who may have literacies difficulties. 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What we want to do, therefore, is increase capacity within the community by raising awareness of the need to be in a position to deal with crises before they happen. Our project is to increase the amount of information available in the general population in a particularly economically challenged area by producing a booklet about money management in general (including, but not exclusive to the benefits of credit union membership). We will then arrange its distribution and also promote it through links to other organisations in the local community including identifying groups and events in the local community where talks can be given to support awareness of the booklet, or additional copies can be made available.","title":"Money Management Information Campaign","id":"360G-SCVO-a0gb000000QAbR2AAL","currency":"GBP","plannedDates":[{"startDate":"2017-01-17","endDate":"2017-08-30","dateModified":"2019-11-29T14:11:24+00:00"}],"recipientOrganization":[{"name":"Sovereign Credit Union","id":"360G-SCVO-001b000000SsxdjAAB","description":"We are a credit union. Our objects are: • Promotion of thrift among the members by the accumulation of their savings • Creation of sources of credit for members at a fair and reasonable rate of interest • Use and control of members’ savings for their mutual benefit • Training and education of members in the wise use of money and in the management of their financial affairs. We have the following additional social goals: • To contribute towards the alleviation of poverty within the community • To contribute towards the economic regeneration of the community provided that these social goals are pursued within the scope of the objects of the Credit Union.","streetAddress":"11 The Square","addressLocality":"Cumnock","addressRegion":"East Ayrshire","postalCode":"KA18 1BG","location":[{"latitude":55.453933,"longitude":-4.265934},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S13002899","geoCodeType":"WD"},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S14000006","geoCodeType":"WPC"},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S03000001","geoCodeType":"CCG"}],"addressCountry":"Scotland","url":"http://www.sovereigncu.co.uk"}],"beneficiaryLocation":[{"latitude":55.453933,"longitude":-4.265934},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S13002899","geoCodeType":"WD"},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S14000006","geoCodeType":"WPC"},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S03000001","geoCodeType":"CCG"}],"fundingOrganization":[{"name":"Scottish Council For Voluntary Organisations","id":"GB-SC-SC003558","charityNumber":"SC003558","department":"Policy","streetAddress":"Caledonian Exchange, 19A Canning Street","addressLocality":"Edinburgh","addressRegion":"City of Edinburgh","postalCode":"EH3 8EG","addressCountry":"Scotland","description":"The Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations is the membership organisation for Scotland's charities, voluntary organisations and social enterprises.","url":"http://scvo.scot","location":[{"latitude":55.959611,"longitude":-3.190946}]}],"grantProgramme":[{"code":"scvo-ccrf-call-2","title":"Community Capacity & Resilience Fund - Call 2","description":"Funding to help local voluntary sector groups and organisations across Scotland tackle poverty and mitigate against UK government welfare changes.","url":"https://scvo.scot/funding/community-capacity-resilience-fund"}],"fromOpenCall":"Yes","dateModified":"2019-11-29T14:11:24+00:00","dataSource":"https://scvo.scot/funding/data/archive/community-capacity-resilience-fund.json"},{"amountAppliedFor":10000,"amountAwarded":10000,"awardDate":"2018-11-02","description":"Need To quote Deborah Vickers of moneyguru.com again, \"the fact that our finances are so taboo is adding to the rising stress levels and financial angst in the UK.\" Only this month in Open Access Government, Mastercard point to a 2017 Freedom of Information request by The Observer, showing that rent arrears are significantly higher amongst Universal Credit recipients than those receiving 'old' Housing Benefit because of the money management challenges involved and the limitations of the Post Office Card Account (to which 'unbanked' people have been directed) because it cannot make non-cash payments. This is one of a cluster of poverty-related factors driving people towards the poverty premium of having no option except the most expensive option for eg fuel purchase as well as driving them in the direction of being evicted. People need transaction accounts such as the one we are promoting through this project. In other words, people in our target area live in a financially destructive environment. What we want to achieve The difference we hope to make is in improving the financial inclusion of the target numbers of people set out below. We also want to increase our own understanding of how to use the prepaid card to mitigate the effects of welfare reform and withdrawal of bank services in rural areas. As explained above, we are going to try some new approaches to engagement and we are also going to 'aim higher' in reporting what we have learned to politicians and policy makers. Making a difference, numbers, impact Over the year of the extension project we will continue to have OTB input 2 x person days per month to: - continue to investigate residents' needs, - promote the card, - develop further actions as appropriate, including looking at ways to support people who need help in the use of the card, particularly with IT - gathering information for a report to politicians and policy makers. From this we aim to make a difference by: • using various publicity to continue to raise awareness of the money management options we can provide, by reaching at least 4,000 people (more than once per person if necessary – marketing and publicity tend to require repeated exposure to ideas) to the relevant information. • adding to the existing partnership at least 2 from the 5 potential partnerships listed above, or an equivalent number of new partnerships established • engaging with a further 60 individuals, either directly or via partnerships, with a view to understanding more about their financial inclusion needs and whether/how the prepaid card could help. • increasing individuals with the prepaid card to a total of 15 and continue to obtain feedback from them and adjust our service accordingly. • producing a report on our findings that is suitable for forwarding to policy makers. As regards longer term impact we want the reporting referred to above to feed more developed findings into the national debate about financial exclusion, bank services and the implications of bank closures on society eg via politicians at national and local level.","title":"Financial services in a deprived rural area - action research","id":"360G-SCVO-a0g0N00001gBGWqQAO","currency":"GBP","plannedDates":[{"startDate":"2018-01-01","endDate":"2019-12-31","dateModified":"2018-12-24T10:24:31+00:00"}],"recipientOrganization":[{"name":"Sovereign Credit Union","id":"360G-SCVO-001b000000SsxdjAAB","description":"We are a credit union. Our objects are: • Promotion of thrift among the members by the accumulation of their savings • Creation of sources of credit for members at a fair and reasonable rate of interest • Use and control of members' savings for their mutual benefit • Training and education of members in the wise use of money and in the management of their financial affairs. We have the following additional social goals: • To contribute towards the alleviation of poverty within the community • To contribute towards the economic regeneration of the community provided that these social goals are pursued within the scope of the objects of the Credit Union.","streetAddress":"11 The Square","addressLocality":"Cumnock","addressRegion":"East Ayrshire","postalCode":"KA18 1BG","location":[{"latitude":55.453933,"longitude":-4.265934},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S13002899","geoCodeType":"WD"},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S14000006","geoCodeType":"WPC"},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S03000001","geoCodeType":"CCG"}],"addressCountry":"Scotland","url":"http://www.sovereigncu.co.uk"}],"beneficiaryLocation":[{"latitude":55.453933,"longitude":-4.265934},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S13002899","geoCodeType":"WD"},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S14000006","geoCodeType":"WPC"},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S03000001","geoCodeType":"CCG"}],"fundingOrganization":[{"name":"Scottish Council For Voluntary Organisations","id":"GB-SC-SC003558","charityNumber":"SC003558","department":"Policy","streetAddress":"Caledonian Exchange, 19A Canning Street","addressLocality":"Edinburgh","addressRegion":"City of Edinburgh","postalCode":"EH3 8EG","addressCountry":"Scotland","description":"The Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations is the membership organisation for Scotland's charities, voluntary organisations and social enterprises.","url":"http://scvo.scot","location":[{"latitude":55.959611,"longitude":-3.190946}]}],"grantProgramme":[{"code":"scvo-ccrf-r4-strand-4","title":"Community Capacity & Resilience Fund - R4 Strand 4","description":"Funding to help local voluntary sector groups and organisations across Scotland tackle poverty and mitigate against UK government welfare changes.","url":"https://scvo.scot/funding/community-capacity-resilience-fund"}],"fromOpenCall":"Yes","dateModified":"2018-12-24T10:24:31+00:00","dataSource":"https://scvo.scot/funding/data/archive/community-capacity-resilience-fund.json"},{"amountAppliedFor":10000,"amountAwarded":10000,"awardDate":"2017-11-14","description":"The project will focus on southern East Ayrshire i.e. Cumnock and environs (Auchinleck, Mauchline, Muirkirk, Catrine, New Cumnock) and the Doon Valley (including Dalmellington, Patna, Drongan). This rural, post-industrial area is deprived in terms of several socio-economic factors and in addition most residents have to contend with isolation and the costs of overcoming distance when carrying out everyday functions. \"It tends to be that people who are less well off will use cash as a budgeting technique. If you were in a situation where you saw more people were struggling, you would expect to see a higher demand for cash.\" Victoria Cleland, Bank of England Chief Cashier, Observer 15.10.17 Some years ago this area had already been identified by the Financial Inclusion Champions project (funded, we believe, by the Scottish Government) as one of the most financially excluded in Scotland. The situation has now got worse. This area has recently lost almost all its bank branches. At time of writing there are only two branches left in the whole area, both of them in Cumnock. One bank has recently published a mobile bank schedule which allows some communities which are fortunate enough to be visited as little as 10 minutes per week visiting time (and a wait in the rain for the privilege). Access to banking services in general and cash in particular is a significant issue. It is a problem for the poorer members of any community, but is even more of an issue in a deprived area where not everyone is in a position to access modern, IT-based banking options and for whom cash is in any case the most appropriate budgeting option. If banks don't think they can afford to maintain branches, then we as a small credit union certainly cannot set any up. We provide weekly outreach savings collections in some villages but these cannot carry cash into the villages. We are therefore trying to think laterally about how we can help people with the practicalities of the new situation. Via our trade body, ABCUL (Association of British Credit Unions Limited), we are in the process of making available a prepaid card called the Change Account. ABCUL advises that the charges for use of the card are modest. Some of our Board members are trialling it at the moment. Publicity material has been prepared but not yet distributed. The card can be used in shops, including obtaining cashback, and for making cash withdrawals at ATMs, as well as for online purchases. It thus provides a method of access to cash, even if it is not everyone's ideal method. Since it is prepaid and cannot go overdrawn it does not require credit checking and is therefore accessible to everyone over the age of 18, including those who do not have bank accounts. Loading of the card can be done by the cardholder or, if they prefer or they lack the (IT or other) resources to do so, from one of our accounts. Benefits can be received into credit union accounts if the claimant so wishes. However, we suspect that simply issuing a prepaid card is not the end of the matter, because if it were there wouldn't be the level of opposition that there is to bank closures. There is doubtless more to it than innate conservatism. What we need to find out is: • What information do people need about the card in order to match it up to their own needs and use it most effectively? How can we tailor our information and publicity accordingly? • How should our credit union services be adjusted to support use of the card so that people can get the best use from it? Will there be implications for any of our services or appropriate responses that we could make? • The issues experienced will vary between groups and individuals. Age and income level are likely factors, along with access to transport. However, there may be ways in which we can encourage people to adjust their ways of doing things, if we can find out what they are. Thus, the activity for which we are seeking funding is as follows: We wish to engage support work to enable us to establish how our intended introduction of the Change Account prepaid card as part of our money management service can best be used to meet the needs of people in an area which was already financially excluded and which is, as we write this, becoming more so. The grant will be spent on worker costs, publicity, travel costs, stationery/postages/consumables and incentives/rewards for participating in the research and venue/hospitality when required. The project will have the following main stages. However, since people will decide to use the card at different times, the stages will overlap, with some members at Stage 2 while others are at Stage 1. The whole thing will be drawn together at a unified Stage 3 because of the fixed finish time of this grant fund. Stages 1. Promote the card to the population of the target area, offer help with the online application process if necessary, ask applicants whether they will be willing to participate in the research and, if so, do an initial survey of their needs, requirements and expectations with particular reference to how they are being impacted by bank closures. Prepare a programme of when Stage 2 will apply to each card user. Emphasise the importance of data security. Establish a suitable database for the findings. If issues emerge which can be responded to by SCU immediately, identify them as the information emerges, consider how to respond and take action accordingly. Give feedback to participants on any changes arising. 2. At the midpoint between each card user joining and the end of the project, contact each to ascertain how they have been using the card and other financial services, their experience of using the card, how they have been managing financial transactions and accessing spending money. If information is emerging about people's experience which is within the power of SCU to change, identify it as our understanding develops, consider how to respond and take action accordingly. Give feedback to participants on any changes arising. 3. As the end of the project approaches, repeat the Stage 2 survey for all participants and draw final conclusions. If the findings include actions which are within the power of SCU to change, consider whether/how to respond and take action accordingly. Produce final report and give feedback to participants.","title":"Financial services in a deprived rural area - action research","id":"360G-SCVO-a0gb000001KQeMbAAL","currency":"GBP","plannedDates":[{"startDate":"2018-01-01","endDate":"2018-12-31","dateModified":"2019-11-29T14:18:28+00:00"}],"recipientOrganization":[{"name":"Sovereign Credit Union","id":"360G-SCVO-001b000000SsxdjAAB","description":"We are a credit union. Our objects are: • Promotion of thrift among the members by the accumulation of their savings • Creation of sources of credit for members at a fair and reasonable rate of interest • Use and control of members’ savings for their mutual benefit • Training and education of members in the wise use of money and in the management of their financial affairs. We have the following additional social goals: • To contribute towards the alleviation of poverty within the community • To contribute towards the economic regeneration of the community provided that these social goals are pursued within the scope of the objects of the Credit Union.","streetAddress":"11 The Square","addressLocality":"Cumnock","addressRegion":"East Ayrshire","postalCode":"KA18 1BG","location":[{"latitude":55.453933,"longitude":-4.265934},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S13002899","geoCodeType":"WD"},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S14000006","geoCodeType":"WPC"},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S03000001","geoCodeType":"CCG"}],"addressCountry":"Scotland","url":"http://www.sovereigncu.co.uk"}],"beneficiaryLocation":[{"latitude":55.453933,"longitude":-4.265934},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S13002899","geoCodeType":"WD"},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S14000006","geoCodeType":"WPC"},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S03000001","geoCodeType":"CCG"}],"fundingOrganization":[{"name":"Scottish Council For Voluntary Organisations","id":"GB-SC-SC003558","charityNumber":"SC003558","department":"Policy","streetAddress":"Caledonian Exchange, 19A Canning Street","addressLocality":"Edinburgh","addressRegion":"City of Edinburgh","postalCode":"EH3 8EG","addressCountry":"Scotland","description":"The Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations is the membership organisation for Scotland's charities, voluntary organisations and social enterprises.","url":"http://scvo.scot","location":[{"latitude":55.959611,"longitude":-3.190946}]}],"grantProgramme":[{"code":"scvo-ccrf-r3-strand-1","title":"Community Capacity & Resilience Fund - R3 Strand 1","description":"Funding to help local voluntary sector groups and organisations across Scotland tackle poverty and mitigate against UK government welfare changes.","url":"https://scvo.scot/funding/community-capacity-resilience-fund"}],"fromOpenCall":"Yes","dateModified":"2019-11-29T14:18:28+00:00","dataSource":"https://scvo.scot/funding/data/archive/community-capacity-resilience-fund.json"},{"amountAppliedFor":7430,"amountAwarded":7430,"awardDate":"2019-12-17","description":"a) What? We intend to employ Financial Inclusion Officer(s) with the remit of doing outreach work to contact people affected by Welfare Reform, particularly those on Universal Credit or likely to be put on it, in order to help them to: • receive their incoming payments, which is an issue for people who do not already have bank accounts; • find the best way to obtain their money in cash, if or when that is what they prefer; • manage online transactions if they wish to do so, including understanding and managing options for bill paying and other money management, particularly for people who are not already familiar with online options and how to use them. The options identified will include those offered by high street banks, the new wave of online banks, and services offered by credit unions such as ourselves - face to face, by phone (not a call centre), by prepaid card, website and app, ordinary savings, Christmas savings and affordable loans; • understand the pros and cons of the various borrowing options that they may be presented with; • know where to go for help. There will be a publicity element in the project to ensure that local residents and organisations have forewarning of what we are doing and that people with whom we come in contact have some information to take away with them including memory-joggers and pointers on how to get in touch with us or other agencies. The where, the why, the how and the uniqueness of this proposal are all closely linked because the project is a response to the nature of the target area, which is both economically disadvantaged and a hostile money management environment for people on low incomes. b) Where? This work will focus on southern East Ayrshire ie Cumnock and environs (Auchinleck, Mauchline, Muirkirk, Catrine, New Cumnock) and the Doon Valley (including Dalmellington, Patna and Drongan). The most recent available information indicates that there are 35,000 people in the target area occupying 16,000 homes, although it may be that this figure has fallen slightly in the interim due to people who are able to do so leaving the area to go to places that offer better economic opportunities. This serves to reduce demand and intensify the loss of economic infrastructure in the local area – bank branches, shops, ATMs, employment opportunities etc. This rural, post-industrial area is deprived in terms of several socio-economic factors and in addition most residents have to contend with isolation and the costs of overcoming distance when carrying out everyday functions. On top of that, social exclusion tends to be related to IT-exclusion and it is our day to day experience that there is a significant section of the community which is not moving seamlessly to internet banking. Some years ago this area had already been identified by the Financial Inclusion Champions project (funded, we believe, by the Scottish Government) as one of the most financially excluded in Scotland. The situation is now worse. The area has lost almost all its bank branches. At time of writing there are only two branches left in the whole area, both of them in Cumnock. According to word of mouth, mobile bank services visiting villages have yet to prove a satisfactory substitute so access to banking services in general and cash in particular is a significant issue. The number of ATMs to provide cash is limited, word of mouth continues to report that they don't always have enough cash to service the demand, some are behind shutters so that when the shop or other building where they are located closes the ATM is inaccessible, and announcements suggest that fewer of them will offer a free service. c) Why? People in our society are currently living through a revolution in financial methods and technology and as with all change, some get left behind and those who do are often those who were disadvantaged to start with. This particularly applies to people affected by Welfare Reform, so this project seeks to address that situation in this particularly disadvantaged area. Our organisation having the social goals described above, we are the organisation based in this particular locality which is most focussed on financial services in the context of the alleviation of poverty. We get up in the morning because we believe in that task and we want to do as much as we can in that respect. Our reasons for wanting to carry out this project are covered in the sections below on how we came up with the idea and how local people were involved, and why the idea is unique, imaginative, innovative and creative. Basically, the project proposal arises from our previous work and our conclusions about going forward. d) How we came up with the idea and how local people were involved This project is a progression from what we have already done under the Capacity & Resilience Fund and uses what we have learned from that work. However, it is a new and separate project. The previous work on which this application builds is as follows: • The project implemented in calendar year 2017 produced and circulated information about money management. The main thrust of this first project in relation to Welfare Reform was to put out the message of 'fixing the roof while the sun shines' i.e. doing things now which may be useful to you if you go onto Universal Credit, particularly joining a credit union. • The project implemented in calendar years 2018 and 2019 involved engaging support work to promote a prepaid card and establish to what extent this technology can help people overcome the challenging local environment if they are given support to access the technology and use it. It sought to promote the card as an entry to IT-based banking for those with no previous experience of it or with an unsatisfactory/non-existent credit rating (the card is available to all regardless of credit rating because there is no overdraft facility). It is therefore particularly appropriate for people on Universal Credit or low incomes in this rural area. The project also included a learning element to increase our own understanding and develop our own responses accordingly. It involved talking to local people at events and by working in partnership with local organisations in order to reach their service users. The project raised awareness of the prepaid card as an option for obtaining cash and as a way to become financially included. Every person who was spoken to agreed that the card is an appropriate response to the situation and feedback showed that use of the card was viewed positively. However, the project also showed up contradictions and stresses between the advantages of an automated system and the barriers it throws up for people who are not yet ready to manage the automation. We also faced hurdles arising from the widespread reluctance to discuss money at the personal level. As we learned from this experience we divided promotion of the prepaid card into two strands – one towards people who are not IT-excluded, mainly via social media; and the other towards people who are IT-excluded, by traditional methods including offering to help them sign up for the card by using outreach work and a laptop. This work highlighted inertia reluctance to engage at a personal level in discussing banking issues. It also found that the people who were taking the prepaid card tended to be under the pressure of immediate 'push' factors – having no bank account and moving on to Universal Credit which is paid by bank transfer. Since the project looked at on the ground experience in this particularly financially excluded area whose circumstances may not be fully appreciated by decision makers, it includes a project report to be compiled with a view to it being suitable for forwarding to policy makers. e) How is this idea unique, imaginative, innovative, creative? To the best of our knowledge this project work is unique because it is endeavouring to mitigate financial exclusion in a largely ignored area of post-industrial blight and rural isolation and is thus particularly interested in the implications of Welfare Reform in this setting. We would argue that this work is imaginative/ innovative/creative because this sort of area seems to be largely forgotten in the design and development of financial inclusion activities. The banks' arguments in favour of branch closures often hinge around online and mobile banking solutions being satisfactory substitutes but local responses suggests that these are only partial solutions. We are trying to find ways to serve the people who are left in banking limbo. This idea is also unique, imaginative, innovative and creative because it builds on our own findings from the previous Capacity & Resilience Fund work (see above). These findings, which will appear in the report to policy makers (see above) are: o people still need to use cash, particularly as a budgeting tool for those on low incomes, although, even for the digitally included, digital banking does not do away with the need for cash; o there are difficulties getting cash – absence of banks and problems with cash machines (not enough of them, often in locations which are inaccessible once shop shutters come down, often running out of money at times of high demand such as long weekends). In addition, small shops and individuals are in competition with each other over an inadequate cash supply and hence use of cashback is not proving to be the solution one might have hoped. Quite simply, the cash supply system doesn't work properly; o inadequate broadband speed and mobile signals are being reported; o people often want to retain their existing bank account even when service is poor or hard to reach or doesn't offer what they want. This is linked to the following point about perception of risk; o it is emerging that the less money people have, the longer it takes them to make a decision and the less likely they are to make a change due to the high impact of a wrong decision, but this leaves them retaining bank accounts that aren't particularly appropriate for them or which cost them money; o people with complex and difficult finances engage with support organisations when they are in crisis but then disengage until there is another crisis. These factors mean that progress in helping people to improve their financial management is slow and there are no quick fixes but we believe that it is important to keep working on it and to try to mitigate 'the devil taking the hindmost'. We will also make creative links as follows: o we suspect that there may be issues for Welfare Reform clients around the additional financial demands of the school summer break and we will investigate through the contacts made by the project, whether there is a demand for a specific summer break saving account similar to our Christmas saving account; o links between unemployment and mental health issues are already recognised and following a recent report by the Money and Mental Health Policy Institute looking at how health professionals can help prevent financial problems associated with mental illness, we will particularly focus on trying to grow partnership work with the health sector. The report highlights, for example, that people with depression and problem debt are over four times more likely to still have depression 18 months later, than those with depression who do not have financial difficulty. f) How will the project be done? The budget shows that over the time-limited funding period it will be possible to provide nearly 400 hours of Financial Inclusion Officer time to make contact with people through partner organisations and to discuss ways in which the financial challenges of Welfare Reform and the attendant life experiences can be managed. Because we already know about the cultural reluctance to engage in discussing money at a personal level, the project will focus on making contact in group situations at partner organisation venues to share group information-giving and discussion on modern money management in the generality and thence to invite/encourage people to move the situation to personal issues if/when they wish to do so. Thus, the project will raise overall awareness within the target area and will also provide a way by which individuals can, if they wish, be helped or signposted to go further. This might be in the form of encouragement to take up other services eg debt advice, help with setting up an online account such as the prepaid card, referral to the Credit Union etc. Whenever this work throws up new information about needs and issues we will look at how we might adjust our service to respond. g) Delivery within a limited funding period. The project can be delivered within a limited funding period because it will have a short lead-in time. Financial Inclusion Officer(s) to work the available hours will be employed on a sessional basis and we already know that there are people based within a reasonable travelling distance of the target area who have appropriate skills. Use of sessional workers means that recruitment can take place quickly and work can start promptly. Similarly, we are aware of local organisations which are likely to be interested in building partnership working and we can do preliminary work in this regard before the sessional worker(s) start. h) Increase partnership working Our previous Capacity & Resilience Fund projects have built links and/or partnerships with local organisations including Auchinleck Community Development Initiative, East Ayrshire Homelessness Network, Community Routes Hub and Buns R Us Cafe as well as making contact with the Health & Social Care Providers Network, the Alcohol & Drugs Prevention Network and the Community Connectors Network. We will use this project both to increase the level of work with these, particularly the mental health-related networks (see above) and to involve other organisations not previously involved in the Capacity & Resilience Fund projects such as the Job Centre. i) Increase our capacity to mitigate the impact of Welfare Reform by providing people with the support and skills they need, promote social inclusion and combat inequality A classic problem for credit unions is that we do not have the marketing and publicity budgets of the commercial finance sector so we cannot reach people or build our services in the way that we would like. This project will increase our capacity to reach more people and thence to help them to know more about their options and choices, to access more personal information if required, and to get more in control of their financial situation. The project will do this more economically and effectively than the private sector can, by working at a face to face level in the local area through local channels of communication and local networks, as described above.","title":"Helping people to take control of their finances","id":"360G-SCVO-a0g3z00000HpNOTAA3","currency":"GBP","plannedDates":[{"startDate":"2020-02-03","endDate":"2020-10-31","dateModified":"2020-02-11T08:23:16+00:00"}],"recipientOrganization":[{"name":"Sovereign Credit Union","id":"360G-SCVO-001b000000SsxdjAAB","description":"We are a credit union. Our objects are: • Promotion of thrift among the members by the accumulation of their savings • Creation of sources of credit for members at a fair and reasonable rate of interest • Use and control of members’ savings for their mutual benefit • Training and education of members in the wise use of money and in the management of their financial affairs. We have the following additional social goals: • To contribute towards the alleviation of poverty within the community • To contribute towards the economic regeneration of the community provided that these social goals are pursued within the scope of the objects of the Credit Union.","streetAddress":"11 The Square","addressLocality":"Cumnock","addressRegion":"East Ayrshire","postalCode":"KA18 1BG","location":[{"latitude":55.453933,"longitude":-4.265934},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S13002899","geoCodeType":"WD"},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S14000006","geoCodeType":"WPC"},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S03000001","geoCodeType":"CCG"}],"addressCountry":"Scotland","url":"http://www.sovereigncu.co.uk"}],"beneficiaryLocation":[{"latitude":55.453933,"longitude":-4.265934},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S13002899","geoCodeType":"WD"},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S14000006","geoCodeType":"WPC"},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S03000001","geoCodeType":"CCG"}],"fundingOrganization":[{"name":"Scottish Council For Voluntary Organisations","id":"GB-SC-SC003558","charityNumber":"SC003558","department":"Policy","streetAddress":"Caledonian Exchange, 19A Canning Street","addressLocality":"Edinburgh","addressRegion":"City of Edinburgh","postalCode":"EH3 8EG","addressCountry":"Scotland","description":"The Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations is the membership organisation for Scotland's charities, voluntary organisations and social enterprises.","url":"http://scvo.scot","location":[{"latitude":55.959611,"longitude":-3.190946}]}],"grantProgramme":[{"code":"scvo-ccrf-round-5","title":"Community Capacity & Resilience Fund - Round 5","description":"Funding to help local voluntary sector groups and organisations across Scotland tackle poverty and mitigate against UK government welfare changes.","url":"https://scvo.scot/funding/community-capacity-resilience-fund"}],"fromOpenCall":"Yes","dateModified":"2020-02-11T08:23:16+00:00","dataSource":"https://scvo.scot/funding/data/archive/community-capacity-resilience-fund.json"},{"amountAppliedFor":5000,"amountAwarded":5000,"awardDate":"2016-12-02","description":"The proposal would provide one to one advocacy for those most in need, and to do so, we would deploy a trained and experienced worker to develop and to deliver this element of our service provision. Speak Out has experienced a significant upturn in requests to support people to appeal benefit sanctions, to support visits to disability employment advisors and to meet with other members of staff who work within job centres and other related locations. These visits/appointments are often very daunting and stressful for the people that we support, and feedback strongly suggests that people derive great benefit from advocacy support. An unexpected outcome is also that job centre staff express personal benefit and increased understanding of the challenges that many people face when an advocate is available to provide support. We already have experienced the impact of Personal Independence Payments implementation, and are acutely aware of the stress many experience through the application and assessment process for this benefit. Advocacy input aims to ensure that the person receives the necessary supports to navigate their way through this. 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This service is not available currently in Argyll, and many are experiencing a mix of poor budgeting and poor diet exacerbated by the choices they make to cook and eat. Many people we have spoken to are suffering from welfare reform effects and do not have skills to provide low cost fresh food, which can still be affordable on extreme low incomes. For a lot of people 'fast food' is seen as the cheapest alternative but is nutritionally often a poor choice, and in fact more expensive. Sessions will also have money management advice, energy saving and benefits information available and volunteers can connect people to any o these agencies for assistance and support. We want to do this because numbers on 'suspended' benefits are rising in Argyll,as well as those in food poverty, existing on the welfare system and with low pay and seasonal employment it can be almost impossible to regain a living wage employment, particularly for those supporting a family of those with disabilities. Sessions will be provided locally, at Kintyre and Mid Argyll locations to avoid travel for those in poverty. We are seeing a serious impact on communities and a growth in social inequality which we wish to work to reduce and prevent further decline - to redress the balance. The project will require one sessional staff member, four volunteers at each location equating to a total available 'pool' of 12 volunteers, and sessions will be held weekly. We will work with the local TSI office to support and train new volunteers. Any volunteers preparing food will hold a food hygiene certificate enabling them a learning opportunity. we will use kitchens at community venues and have negotiated very low 'peppercorn' rate to ensure costs are kept low and thus the proejct offers value for its objectives. The idea came from volunteers themselves, some of whom has volunteered at a local lunch club. They felt they had skills in cooking and seeing waste from the local Tesco combined with awareness of those struggling to feed themselves and survive on a limited or suspended benefits income, discussed the idea with us, and the plan was born.Volunteers also cited examples of younger people on benefits being turned away from a lunch club but having nowhere else to turn. There is no foodbank in Mid Argyll. We spoke with two focus groups, each of 8 people and food poverty was clearly an issue and concern – some talked of living on pizza or other ready meals (which are an expensive option) and then not eating some days each week. This is neither healthy or best use of very limited income. It is an accepted fact that those living in poverty very often have the poorest diets. Over recent years there has been a focus on older people in particular and there are a number of community resources to support older people. There has been little to support working age families and single people struggling with the benefits system, and welfare reform. We would not be exclusive, and will work with anyone in need, but are keen to help those most affected by an unfair system which is exacerbating poverty. Activities will take place in Campbeltown which is a rural and remote settlement, and in Lochgilphead which serves the mid Argyll population. Lochgilphead has no Jobcentre, and few services for those on benefits. Campbeltown residents have limited access to any services, and extremely low work opportunities exist in both areas. South Kintyre has a sizeable ethnic minority and they are often amongst the poorest residents. 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One woman in Helensburgh, who had heard of the project from a volunteer at the foodbank, told us 'I take my handbag for a walk; I make excuses not to meet anyone for coffee; I search for out of date ready meals and I cry at home because I feel trapped' - it is these sorts of circumstance brought about by welfare in many cases which we seek to change. We cannot wave a magic wand and make people rich, but we can make them better off with good cooking skills, fresh food, and importantly we are helping to preserve dignity. Contrast this quote with one from a participant who told us 'I have hope that I can feed my family, and that I know how to make a meal that is good for us all and hasn't cost all my cash. I feel in control and it is good to know we won't have to go without - I am determined we won't make bad choices again. Even the kids are happier and eating vegetables and some of the fruit dishes' In addition, we will use some small funds to create materials which will support the legacy of the initial pilot project and further support the extension work. This has been suggested by both volunteers and participants including the production of a recipe book for distribution. This could be produced as an e-book and printed as required. In this way we could leave a lasting legacy which can be distributed and accessed by all. 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We wish to respond to the poverty and lack of confidence this group have expressed by offering a combined project offering 1) financial and budgeting workshops providing information and support in areas without CAB provision; 2) benefits advice and support and 3) confidence building workshops to equip survivors with the emotional strength and confidence to challenge decisions impacting on their lives and rebuild their lives. There are a significant number of survivors particularly in western Argyll and estimates of around 1400 do not include those who are 'hidden'. Poverty and welfare reform, they tell us, ae impacting hugely in their lives and their attempts to rebuild their lives. As one woman told us; 'this is stripping me of any last dignity. I feel I am answering questions and giving details that make me feel naked in front of staff. I am trying to prove how impossible my situation is and they are trying to prove that I am worth nothing if I don't work' Or another woman who was being sanctioned, ' I tried to explain, explain the things I just cannot face. This man just said 'well you're not living with him now so you're alright then' and then he gave me the address for the nearest foodbank 53 miles away' Experiences such as this and feedback from holding four focus groups have formed this project. We recognise that domestic abuse is not a popular issue but it is rising in parts of Argyll, and support most often ceases once someone is rehoused. Often though, that is when problems begin and we can see desperation in the faces of those we have met. We want to offer practical and emotional support that can equip survivors to face the future stronger and armed with the information and resources they need. How we will deliver this By partnering with other organisations we can identify those who would benefit and supplement our support with other resources. This partnership approach includes organisations working with young people, (Young Carers, youth centre) and also those working with victims and survivors (Rape Crisis, Argyll Therapy Rooms) and connecting and with agencies such as JobCentre to help increase staff understanding. To deliver the financial and budget support, and the benefits advice and information we have a staff member who is a WiserAdvisor, previously working with a major bank as a financial advisor. Our plan is to train volunteers over the period of the project to enable this support to continue. The confidence building is a short course and will bb delivered iby one of our staff who has experience as a STEPS accredited facilitator, a Diploma in Counselling and is also a Mindfulness Practitioner. Again, we would aim over the project period to train volunteers thus building our capacity to offer support after the project completes. The project plan is designed over a seven month period from 1st March to 30th September 2020. During that time we would deliver the following: Six volunteer training sessions 14 workshops on finance and budgeting; 14 sessions of benefit advice, 7 confidence and personal development building courses each of four days duration. We would train 6 volunteers in both the finance / benefits work and a further 5 to deliver the confidence building courses. A referral system will be established for service users within the project and thereafter. People may also self- refer. To do this we would need to increase hours for two staff members by 6 hours per week each over the project period. We would equip volunteers with 6 tablets that can be used anywhere to access information to offer the advice and support relating to finance, budgeting and benefits. This ensure in future that our volunteers can reach people without service users needing to pay for travel and that information and contact details are readily to hand. There will also be cost of materials and of travel during the project period. By building our own capacity and with our volunteers fully trained the work will have far reduced delivery costs at the end of the project and can be integrated within our work. The future shape will be refined as necessary based on evaluation, feedback and monitoring over the seven month period. Why we want to do this Women, and a limited number of men, who have suffered abuse, often fled for their lives or sanity, experienced stress, depression and anxiety are simply treated as lone parents for benefits purposes. They are expected, when their children whom they have struggled to keep with them need them most, to actively seek work and are subjected to sanctions if they fail these tests. At the lowest point in their lives we have met women who feel they are being asked to explain what has happened to them – however intimate - they feel they have to 'prove' entitlement. Little is said about this group of people – and we recognise that domestic abuse is an uncomfortable subject. However, as we have become more aware of this double suffering, we are seeking help to provide this project. Research from CPAG and IPPR already shows that welfare and benefits cuts mean lone parents are amongst the very worst off with an income estimated at 44% below the Minimum Income Standard on which to exist, and assuming no sanctions are applied. The new system according to national research states that lone parents are amongst the very worst affected losing an average of £40 per week under the new systems. This is a monumental amount for anyone on a very low income and if sanctions are applied then crisis can be almost inevitable. This is exacerbated where someone previously had received Disability Living allowance, and now has reduced payments from Personal Independence Payments. Moving, as most survivors have to to escape abuse, is a change of circumstances which affects the benefits available. Worse still, there are cases considered fit for work in what have been described as ''unreasonable ways, MS for example is a fluctuating condition what can be accomplished one day may be impossible the next. Little or no account is taken of this'' (MS Society caseworker) Amongst lone parents local research identifies a significant number who have fled domestic abuse and violence. Frequently women and most often parents they and their children have suffered deeply. To expect that quite young children can be left by a mother when they are trying to rebuild a shattered life seems inhuman, and yet it is happening. The impact of abuse leaves most without confidence or self-esteem, both children and parent, and least able to manage their household budget or to tackle the decisions being made about them. Most support ceases at the point where they can be safely rehoused, and yet that is often where the problems begin. We aim to give people the tools to sustain a new life and the skills to grow in confidence. We have heard from a number of women just how belittled, and powerless they feel, and how they fear being unable to support their children and that they may lose them. When self- esteem is at rock bottom, and people have suffered trauma they are less empowered, and less likely to be able to work or challenge decisions. Anxiety, low mood and depression often result and a cycle of helplessness created. We want to intervene as early as possible and give people the tools to rebuild and repair their lives as well as manage on a minimum income. We also want to help them avoid sanctions and to understand their entitlements. We also believe, and evidence supports that if those who engage are more confident they will be able to engage or re-engage with their communities. Often this will be a new community since having to uproot and resettle is an outcome of fleeing domestic abuse. To reach and connect with the community requires sufficient confidence to integrate. We can also assist this by signposting to local services, activities and even making introductions. These are the reasons for this blended approach of the very practical assistance, information and support combined with building the lost confidence. In this way we can make a sustainable difference to life and combat the impacts and poverty exacerbated by welfare reform and the feelings of social isolation. Who will benefit This project is targeted at lone parents who have survived domestic abuse and their children. This group are particularly poorly equipped emotionally and often physically to deal with the complex benefits system and frequently find themselves in or approaching crisis. This can extend to using foodbanks, where they exist (there are only two in Argyll, over 100 miles apart) and to losing a tenancy, plunging the small family unit into homelessness and greater insecurity. The impacts can be devasting. We understand that this a very specific target group but it is also a group where their own personal needs are high and their children are at risk of suffering huge detriment as a result of welfare reform in addition to existing issues. Beneficiaries are likely to be 90% women although men are not at all excluded. This is based on available figures within west Argyll & Bute. We would work across the western area (the area of highest levels of domestic abuse and violence and also most likely areas of resettlement in a new community). Geographically this extends from south Kintyre to Oban and Lorn in the north. We believe if we can give parents the tools to have confidence in their abilities, and their right to speak for themselves and challenge decision coupled with the financial and benefits knowledge we can achieve a very high impact on a group of people frequently overlooked.","title":"Becoming Stronger","id":"360G-SCVO-a0g3z00000HpM45AAF","currency":"GBP","plannedDates":[{"startDate":"2020-03-01","endDate":"2020-09-30","dateModified":"2020-02-11T08:16:01+00:00"}],"recipientOrganization":[{"name":"The Community Bureau","id":"GB-SC-SC045866","charityNumber":"SC045866","description":"The Community Bureau was formed to respond to identified needs and the interests of vulnerable people, young people and focusses on developing and building capacity and strength in communities. We work across age groups, support local democracy and respond to needs with a small staff and a string volunteer force. Our activities include employability where we support younger people, befriending those most isolated and vulnerable and several pieces of work supporting learning, financial inclusion and social inclusion. We also carry out some work raising environmental and conservation knowledge. We have a community space in south Kintyre and listen to people’s needs. We support and work with other organisations and are keenly interested in combatting poverty, injustice and inequality. We have previously worked extensively with survivors of domestic abuse supporting emotional health. 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In 2015, The First Base Agency expanded the reach of our food bank activities by making emergency food parcels available from a network of collection points across the region we endeavour to support. We now have a chain of 25 such collection points. These are local libraries, social work offices, homeless department offices, housing association offices and partner charities. Nine of these collection points are situated in and around the small town of Annan. They are as follows. The Social Services, The Homeless Department, Annan Library, Citizen's Advice, Shelter, Kate's Kitchen, DGHP Homeless Accommodation, Eastriggs Library, Lochmaben Library. In October 2018, the Pinneys fish factory closed down causing 700 job losses. Annan's population is 8000 which means the impact of the factory closure has been huge. Demand for emergency food has risen dramatically as a result. Between 1 December 2018 and 31 March 2018 we anticipate this increase demand will mean an additional 400 emergency food parcels will be picked up from our nine collection points in the area. Each of our emergency parcels contains enough food to provide three meals per day for four days. We work on a set ingredient list and include a suggested menu to help make the items last four days. Before the Pinneys closure, 60% of the food we require was donated by churches, schools, offices, food businesses and families. The additional parcels we will be issuing in Annan will dilute this percentage to 50%. Basically, in order to meet the new demand in Annan we will have to buy in 100% of the required food. The ingredient cost of each emergency parcel is £9 giving a total additional cost of £3600. The food is contained in a strong cardboard box, each of which costs us 25p - £100 for 400 parcels. A further 25 delivery trips will be required to move the parcels from our main base in Dumfries – 1000 miles at 45p per mile - £450. WHY ARE WE DOING THIS WORK? The committment which drives our emergency food project is very simple: we do all we can to meet demand. We strive to raise the funds we need to ensure every food parcel we issue is made up with a set number of items which provide sufficient for three meals per day for four days. We do not 'ration' our food stocks. We have been issuing emergency food parcels for fifteen years and never once have we ever turned anyone away due to a lack of food. The impact the Pinneys closure will have on the small town of Annan could be as severe as the impact felt by small coal mining towns in the 1980s when they lost their pits. Our goal is to continue to meet demand, no matter how quickly the demand might grow. WHO WILL BENEFIT? 400 individuals and families in Annan and its surrounding area who find themselves in a position where they lack the means to purchase food. WHERE WILL THE PROJECT BE DELIVERED? Within a ten mile radius of Annan town centre.","title":"OPERATION ANNAN","id":"360G-SCVO-a0g0N00001gBSO2QAO","currency":"GBP","plannedDates":[{"startDate":"2018-12-01","endDate":"2019-03-31","dateModified":"2018-12-24T10:12:33+00:00"}],"recipientOrganization":[{"name":"The First Base Agency","id":"GB-SC-SC033690","charityNumber":"SC033690","description":"The First Base Agency is a an independent charity based in Dumfries, South West Scotland. We were established in 2003. We operate a number of projects. We support families affected by a loved one's drug and/or alcohol dependency. We support women at risk of violence as a result of their drug and/or alcohol dependency. We support Veterans who are suffering PTSD type mental health issues. We support foreign nationals experiencing poverty and destitution. We are the main food bank in SW Scotland. We issue 5000 emergency food parcels per annum via a network of 25 collection points spanning a geographical area of 3400 square miles. As well as emergency food we also provide emergency sanitary ware, dog and cat food, toiletries and emergency power.","streetAddress":"6 BUCCLEUCH ST","addressLocality":"DUMFRIES","addressRegion":"DUMFRIES AND GALLOWAY","postalCode":"DG1 2AH","location":[{"latitude":55.069771,"longitude":-3.61434},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S13002888","geoCodeType":"WD"},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S14000013","geoCodeType":"WPC"},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S03000005","geoCodeType":"CCG"}],"addressCountry":"Scotland","url":"http://www.first-base.org"}],"beneficiaryLocation":[{"latitude":55.069771,"longitude":-3.61434},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S13002888","geoCodeType":"WD"},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S14000013","geoCodeType":"WPC"},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S03000005","geoCodeType":"CCG"}],"fundingOrganization":[{"name":"Scottish Council For Voluntary Organisations","id":"GB-SC-SC003558","charityNumber":"SC003558","department":"Policy","streetAddress":"Caledonian Exchange, 19A Canning Street","addressLocality":"Edinburgh","addressRegion":"City of Edinburgh","postalCode":"EH3 8EG","addressCountry":"Scotland","description":"The Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations is the membership organisation for Scotland's charities, voluntary organisations and social enterprises.","url":"http://scvo.scot","location":[{"latitude":55.959611,"longitude":-3.190946}]}],"grantProgramme":[{"code":"scvo-ccrf-r4-strand-3","title":"Community Capacity & Resilience Fund - R4 Strand 3","description":"Funding to help local voluntary sector groups and organisations across Scotland tackle poverty and mitigate against UK government welfare changes.","url":"https://scvo.scot/funding/community-capacity-resilience-fund"}],"fromOpenCall":"Yes","dateModified":"2018-12-24T10:12:33+00:00","dataSource":"https://scvo.scot/funding/data/archive/community-capacity-resilience-fund.json"},{"amountAppliedFor":3300,"amountAwarded":3300,"awardDate":"2017-11-10","description":"As the region's largest foodbank, our main task is to ensure emergency food is readily available and accessible to any member of our community who finds themselves or their family in a position where they lack the means to feed themselves. For our first ten years we were only able to deliver this service from our main base in Dumfries. We were very much aware of the limitations of this situation. The region we endeavour to support is huge and rural - 3400 square miles. If a potential client in Sanquhar, Castle Douglas, Moffat or Langholm is unable to afford food, they will certainly also be unable to afford a £10 bus ticket to come to Dumfries. Thanks to an award from the Big Lottery, we were able to address this. We have established an excellent working partnership with Dumfries and Galloway Council whereby they have made ten of their libraries and customer service centres available to store and issue our emergency food parcels. We also now have stocks of parcels with numerous agencies and fellow charities - Social Work offices, Homeless Department offices, Citizens Advice branches, RSL's, Homeless hostels and various charities. We have now achieved a coverage which ensures no citizen living in the area we support lives more than 10 miles from a stock of our emergency food parcels. We also make home deliveries to clients who for whatever reason are unable to leave home to collect emergency food. Over the last fourteen years we have established a comprehensive network of partner agencies who refer their clients to us when they are in need. We have always worked very closely with the local print and broadcast media and they have given our emergency food project project considerable coverage. As a result, the service we offer is now very well known throughout our local community. This is born out by the £45,000 worth of donated food we now receive every year from our local community. It is also born out by the huge and generous financial support we have received over recent years from the local community: without this support there would have been no way we could have kept up in the huge increase in demand we have experienced since the implementation of government usterity and the Welfare Reforms. The support we receive from the local community comes in several forms - Donated food from the public, donated food from local food businesses, food collection points in supermarkets, churches, schools and offices, 50 volunteers, food parcel stores in 23 locations. The result of this expansion of our service is that we now have an efficient and extremely effective distribution system capable of providing emergency food throughout the 3400 square miles of South West Scotland we support. We now feel it is important for us to make sure this network is used to its full potential. We are confident we are in a position to make sure nobody who finds themselves facing dire circumstance should be left hungry. Now we would like to extend our service to include the provision of emergency sanitary ware. If female clients lack the means to buy food for themselves, they will most certainly also lack the means to purchase sanitary ware. Sanitary ware is every bit as essential as food. For five years we have carried a stock of sanitary ware in our main base in Dumfries. Some of this is donated. If we do not receive enough donations, then we buy in what is needed. Now we hope to launch 'The First Base Emergency Sanitary Ware Project'. The project will be rolled out in several stages. 1. We will purchase enough sanitary ware to create 150 emergency packs. 100 of these packs will be distributed to our 23 collection points. 50 will be held at our main base in Dumfries. 2. We will deliver the packs to all of our satellite stores in person and describe the new project to the staff responsible for issuing our emergency food parcels. 3. We will contact all of the partner agencies who refer their clients to us and make them aware of the availability of emergency sanitary ware. 4. We will inform all of the churches, schools and offices who collect food donations on our behalf and make them aware we are now hoping to also receive donations of sanitary ware. 5. We will issue press releases to the local media and we are confident they will help to advertise the availability of emergency sanitary ware throughout all of our satellite collection points. 6. We will take up West Sound Radio's offer of subsidised radio advertising and invest £1000 in a rolling advertising campaign over a month which will inform the community of the availability of emergency sanitary ware. 7. We will heavily promote the new service through our social media platforms which have a growing reach. Our managers blog - https://marksimonfrankland.blogspot.co.uk/ - regularly describes the difficulties our clients face and at the time of writing the page has been visited 700,000 times. 8. We already have one volunteer who has committed to set up a campaign to secure donations of sanitary ware to make sure we do not have to continue purchasing what we need as the project becomes established. 9. 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Our 'Bridge Project' supports foreign nationals facing extreme poverty. Our 'Veterans Project' supports ex service personnel, the majority of whom are suffering from PTSD type mental health problems. Our 'Safe Havens Project' supports women at risk of violence as a result of their drug/alcohol dependency. 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This project will offer weekly dining and volunteering experiences for individuals and families who have been impacted by welfare reform, are on low incomes and who are experiencing food insecurity. These dining experiences will provide access to high quality nutritious meals made by existing volunteers and trainees from The Larder cook school, supported by chefs from The Larder and visiting Chef's from local businesses across West Lothian and beyond. The food will be sourced from the Fare Share Cloud system working in partnership with the local Tesco store. Our own suppliers will be asked to sponsor events as will local businesses. Each week we will offer 20 dining experiences, for individuals and families, in our bespoke cook school and café/bistro, rising to 30 per week by the end of the project. Diners will be referred from a range of partners including; social work, advice shop, Whole Family Support, youth Action project, West Lothian Drug and Alcohol Service, Women's Aid, Homeless organisations, WLC Housing services, Family and Community Development West Lothian, youth Services, Adult Education, criminal justice, Housing Associations. As the project progresses diners will be asked to volunteer in the kitchen, preparing and cooking the food. They will learn how to cook the meals for other diners and will have a meal themselves. Those willing to volunteer will then go on a cooking rota and will participate in future dining experiences either as a volunteer cook or as a diner. In addition to cooking for diners the new cooking volunteers will be offered access to free cookery classes at The Larder which will provide a bespoke programme for each based on their needs i.e. it will take into consideration their current living circumstances, family set up, their physical ability and their existing skills in food planning, budgeting and cooking. Initially the dining events will operate once per month, increasing to weekly by the end of the project. The project will be delivered from the Larder's bespoke cook school in Livingston. We recognise that transport may be an issue for some so we will recruit volunteer drivers and seek sponsorship from First Bus and Blue Bus who are the two main transport operatives servicing the area. At each dining event partner organisations will be on hand to provide advice on income maximisation, social security, job search opportunities and signpost to relevant organisations. Larder staff will be available to offer advice on planning meals and cooking of a budget. Recipes will be handed out each week and will be incorporated into a recipe booklet at the end of the project. The recipes and the recipe book will include hints and tips on cooking on a budget, cooking for one, cooking for large families, cooking without a cooker, one pot cooking, slow cooker cooking and general advice on how to cook in a variety of living circumstances. This process will enhance partnership working to address food insecurity in West Lothian and increase each partner's understanding of what people are experiencing in relation to food insecurity and why. This process will also facilitate the development of life skills such as cooking, social activities for those in financial hardship and build resilience for individuals and families to respond to the financial circumstances that they are living in. The approach that we have adopted will facilitate a 'normalisation' of food for those that do not normally have the opportunity to access high quality restaurant food, reducing food inequality that is creeping into our society. Overall the project will work with a minimum of 300 people over the year and will provide over 1000 meals. We will recruit a minimum of 40 new cooking volunteers, 5 volunteer drivers and a minimum of 5 visiting chefs. We recognise that many of the diners will return more than once, until they no longer require the service. We will provide 3 x 3 days cookery courses for a maximum of 30 individuals and will provide a minimum of 15 fee places for referred children into our kids cookery classes Why we want to do this The reason for the development of this pilot project is based on our own recent experiences and local and national research. Household food insecurity (HFI) has become a subject of policy concern in Scotland and the UK in recent years with research evidence indicating that there are an increasing number of households which are unable to sustain normal patterns of food shopping and eating, and are seeking charitable food aid (or other support) to help them do so. In addition to this policy concern, increasingly food is being polarised in our society, becoming a social focus for those with a higher disposable income whilst increasing numbers have to turn to emergency food aid, do not enjoy food and it plays no part in social activity for them. At a local level a recent report commissioned by West Lothian Council (FOOD INSECURITY IN WEST LOTHIAN 2016) recognised that foodbanks are the most visible indicator of food insecurity but are not necessarily the best measure as they specifically limit support to food packages for three days on a maximum of three occasions. The report identified that West Lothian has nine food banks; Bathgate, Boghall, Blackburn and Seafield, Broxburn, Deans, Dedridge, Knightsridge, Linlithgow and Whitburn. These are largely staffed by volunteers and have different days and hours of opening, ranging from two to three hours per day and one to three days per week. None are open at the weekend. Estimates of food insecurity in West Lothian vary and range from: • the 2,011 adults and 2,534 children benefitting from Trussell Trust food bank support in the 12 months to September 2016. Another way to estimate need is to use the results of the Insecurity and Social Exclusion (PSE) research project and apply these to West Lothian so that; • the PSE reports that around 1 in 20 people are unable to afford an adequate diet which, applied to the West Lothian population of 178,550 would amount to 10,713 people. • the PSE report that 7% of adults in Scotland lack adequate key food items (two meals a day, fresh fruit and vegetables daily; and meat/fish or vegetarian alternative equivalent every other day) – which applied to the West Lothian adult population of 143,448 is 10,041 adults. • the PSE report that 3% of households in Scotland with children lack key food items (three meals a day, fresh fruit and vegetables every day; and meat, fish or a vegetarian equivalent at least once a day) which for the 22,806 West Lothian families with children amounts to 684 households with children (all of whom will have adults skipping meals to enable children to eat better). Food insecurity in West Lothian is therefore likely to amount to between 3,300 based on the food bank statistics up to over 10,000 people based on national research. The report states 'The latter figure is probably closer to an accurate assessment'. The report concludes that: • Awareness of food insecurity and client capacity for cooking can often be missing and needs go unidentified. • There may be additional partnership working which could be developed with distributors, retailers and independent businesses. • The value placed upon budgeting and cooking skills when delivered at the right time is invaluable for those experiencing food insecurity. • The main contributory factors behind food insecurity include various life transitions (e.g. relationship breakdown, illness, retirement, ageing etc) • There are many good organisations working with vulnerable clients but awareness of what other organisations do and how they might work together are sometimes lacking – the Food Insecurity Group should consider how to increase networking around food insecurity, cooking and food production. • There should be a focus on food insecurity within the West Lothian Anti-Poverty Strategy to raise the profile of the issue and the need for action around it. The report provides evidence that food insecurity is still a rising issue in West Lothian and that all partners have to work together to identify and address this issue in a sustainable way. This project will provide an opportunity for increased partnership working, joint needs identification and increased access to wrap around support and skills development for those most in need of access to good quality food. The Food for All project builds on work that the Larder has developed over a three year period. On 2nd September 2014 The Larder brought together 50 individuals from across West Lothian at a conference called More Than Food Banks. The conference provided an opportunity for participants to discuss the impact that food insecurity is having on individuals and communities across West Lothian, to explore solutions to these issues and to look ahead to a more equal and inclusive West Lothian. It was agreed by those attending that there was a need for food budgeting, food planning and cooking programmes to be offered to those using food banks and beyond. The Larder then applied to and was successful in accessing funding from the SG Community Capacity and Resilience Fund to pilot this idea. The pilot was successful in that we worked with a range of partners, delivered what we said we would but identified that there is a lack of facilities in West Lothian that can facilitate effective cookery classes. Those that participated in the pilot found the classes useful but due to other pressures in their lives at that point of crises they couldn't always attend. They did value the budgeting and food planning aspects as well as the cooking on a budget. The conclusion from the pilot was that there is a need for access to food planning and budgeting, cooking and a general increase in access to high quality food and that recipients of such services should be beyond those accessing food banks and if a more relaxed and informal environment. Who will benefit? The main beneficiaries of the project will be individuals and families who have been impacted by welfare reform and/or are on low incomes. The report carried out by West Lothian Council on food insecurity stated: 'Over two-thirds of the participants (of the survery) have cause to worry about not having enough food (70%) or the quality of food (61%) they consume. Although a slightly lower proportion worry about the quality of food they consume the proportion remains high. This would suggest that many clients are aware that their food choices are not as healthy and nutritious as they would like them to be but make sacrifices in order to manage on tight budgets.' The report further commented that 'Participants were aware of the need to make benefits or wages last until the next payment day but that was often difficult due to receiving a lower income than expected e.g. delay in benefit payments, lower wages and unanticipated expenses. The rise of zero hours contracts for people in low paid and insecure employment makes budgeting very difficult as there is no regular income.' In recognition of findings in the report we are also keen to target those who have multiple barriers to food equality so some beneficiaries may also have mental health problems, be homeless, be long term unemployed, be on zero hour contracts, be in transition in their life where there has been dramatic change, have experience of drug and alcohol problems, have care experience, be ex-offenders, be socially isolated etc. We will take referrals for individuals and families. Where families are concerned we will provide an opportunity for children to learn to cook by providing some free places on our kids cookery classes throughout the year. Where the family has a baby we will provide instruction on how to wean the baby with pureed fruit and vegetables. This cradle to grave approach will build family resilience and hopefully prevent younger generations experiencing food insecurity. Referrals for individuals will be for any age and they will benefit by being able to access high quality healthy food in a social setting, potential to volunteer which will build skills, confidence and provide real life work experience. We will seek referrals from organisations supporting older people who may be experiencing isolation or lacking in cookery skills. Participating in the programme will reduce isolation for older people through eating with others, potentially volunteering and eating healthy food. Existing volunteers with The Larder will benefit from increased volunteering opportunities and a greater opportunity to expand their own skills and confidence. The new volunteers will benefit as they will learn how to cook, plan and budget for food, they will be more confident with food in general and will develop skills that are transferable to the workplace. Trainees will benefit as they will have increased work experience opportunities and develop a greater understanding of food insecurity and how communities can come together to prevent this is in the future. The trainees whilst cooking for others are developing their own skills and confidence to prevent the potential of them experiencing food poverty in the future as they will have a greater understand of food and budgeting. Overall the project will increase access to professional financial and practical advice and support in an informal environment, reduce social isolation, build capacity and resilience to be able to manage food better, increase equality of opportunity for all to enjoy good quality food in relaxed yet professional restaurant environment. The Larder as an organisation will build our capacity to be able to respond in a positive needs led way to food insecurity and make food are more sociable experience for all. The West Lothian Food Poverty Group will have an opportunity to respond to many of the recommendations in its report through increased partnership working, seamless advice and support services and a greater capacity to respond to food insecurity across the region, it will also increase its capacity to effectively respond to food insecurity across the county. The sustainability of the project will be supported through the introduction of a Pay it Forward scheme where commercial customers or general donors will have the opportunity to 'bank' a meal in one of our cafes or through our website. Whilst the project is funded for one year we will build up a reserve that will continue the project each year thereafter.","title":"Food For All","id":"360G-SCVO-a0gb000001KQeimAAD","currency":"GBP","plannedDates":[{"startDate":"2017-12-01","endDate":"2018-11-30","dateModified":"2019-11-29T14:18:28+00:00"}],"recipientOrganization":[{"name":"The Larder West Lothian","id":"GB-SC-SC042554","charityNumber":"SC042554","description":"The Larder was founded in 2010 as a result of two main drivers; youth unemployment and society's detachment from food and cooking. It operates as a social enterprise and is based in West Lothian. 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Since 2013 we have been trying to develop an effective response to food poverty with local communities that provides access to quality food whilst developing skills and resilience.","streetAddress":"Unit 6 Brewster Square","addressLocality":"Livingston","addressRegion":"West Lothian","postalCode":"EH54 7AR","location":[{"latitude":55.885888,"longitude":-3.547365},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S13002822","geoCodeType":"WD"},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S14000044","geoCodeType":"WPC"},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S03000035","geoCodeType":"CCG"}],"addressCountry":"Scotland","url":"https://www.thelarder.org"}],"beneficiaryLocation":[{"latitude":55.885888,"longitude":-3.547365},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S13002822","geoCodeType":"WD"},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S14000044","geoCodeType":"WPC"},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S03000035","geoCodeType":"CCG"}],"fundingOrganization":[{"name":"Scottish Council For Voluntary Organisations","id":"GB-SC-SC003558","charityNumber":"SC003558","department":"Policy","streetAddress":"Caledonian Exchange, 19A Canning Street","addressLocality":"Edinburgh","addressRegion":"City of Edinburgh","postalCode":"EH3 8EG","addressCountry":"Scotland","description":"The Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations is the membership organisation for Scotland's charities, voluntary organisations and social enterprises.","url":"http://scvo.scot","location":[{"latitude":55.959611,"longitude":-3.190946}]}],"grantProgramme":[{"code":"scvo-ccrf-r3-strand-1","title":"Community Capacity & Resilience Fund - R3 Strand 1","description":"Funding to help local voluntary sector groups and organisations across Scotland tackle poverty and mitigate against UK government welfare changes.","url":"https://scvo.scot/funding/community-capacity-resilience-fund"}],"fromOpenCall":"Yes","dateModified":"2019-11-29T14:18:28+00:00","dataSource":"https://scvo.scot/funding/data/archive/community-capacity-resilience-fund.json"},{"amountAppliedFor":10000,"amountAwarded":10000,"awardDate":"2018-11-02","description":"The Larder currently delivers hospitality training and employability services for those furthest from the job market and we teach commercial customers to cook, including children and adults. Our professional staff team and volunteers deliver these services from our bespoke cook school in Livingston. Over the last three years we have also started to hone our response to food insecurity and to identify our input into the West Lothian Anti-Poverty Strategy. These services are mainly delivered during the day mid-week and evenings at the weekend with some weekend days being used too. This Food for All project will allow us to: • maximise the use of community resources (including our own) and develop a more inclusive and sustainable response to poverty and inequality in general. • Develop and evidence a more sustainable response to food insecurity than previously piloted • increase our partnership working • Increase volunteering opportunities • Increase work experience opportunities for our hospitality trainees, moving them closer to the job market • Provide a response to the recommendations set out in the aforementioned research report into food insecurity, which in turn will: o Identify, at an earlier stage, needs in relation to food planning, budgeting and cooking o Improve and increase partnership opportunities to respond to welfare reform and food insecurity, including with retailers, distributors and independent businesses o Increase access to food budgeting and cooking support at the time that is right for the individual o Increase networking opportunities around food insecurity, cooking and food production. o Raise the profile of food insecurity across the county and widen the parameters of who can contribute to an inclusive, more sustainable and resilient model. Importantly, for The Larder, The continuation of the Food for All project will provide additional work experience opportunities for our trainees who are mainly aged 14 to 24 and who themselves very often experience food insecurity. By increasing their ability to cook for themselves and others we will build their resilience and capacity to manage their finances and cook high quality food with the minimum amount of money. By opening our doors on evenings and days that it would normally lie empty and by accessing under utilised community facilities, we will provide a high end dining experience in a non-threatening and supportive environment. This will bring people together break down barriers and reduce stigma about food insecurity at the same time as offering real and achievable support to move out of it. Those experiencing food insecurity will have: • Increased access to healthy nutritious food • Have their food planning, budgeting and cooking skills development needs identified at an earlier stage • Those that volunteer will increase their cooking skills and build personal resilience. • Reduced social isolation • An opportunity to enjoy socialising with high quality food in a restaurant setting, therefore reducing food inequality • Increased food planning, budgeting and cooking skills • Increased access to advice and support services • Increased access to volunteering • Increased access to work experience opportunities The Food for All project will deliver a minimum of 50 dining experiences for over 300 people, provide over 1000 meals and develop a minimum of 10 volunteering opportunities. The overall impact that this project will have in West Lothian is that those experiencing food insecurity as a result of low income or welfare reform will have better access to a more seamless set of services that enable them to build their individual and community capacity to prevent future food insecurity. The Third, public and private sectors will be more linked and are able to develop more collaborative responses to social problems. The impact for the West Lothian Anti-Poverty Strategy group is that organisations will be better connected, make better use of resources to create transformational change, have a greater understanding of how each organisation can contribute to a joint response. Finally the Food for All project will make good quality food more inclusive for all residents of West Lothian. The sustainability of the project will be supported through the introduction of a Pay it Forward scheme where commercial customers or general donors will have the opportunity to 'bank' a meal in one of our cafes or through our website. Whilst the project is funded for one year we will build up a reserve that will continue the project each year thereafter.","title":"Food For All","id":"360G-SCVO-a0g0N00001gBGX5QAO","currency":"GBP","plannedDates":[{"startDate":"2017-12-01","endDate":"2019-12-31","dateModified":"2018-12-24T10:24:55+00:00"}],"recipientOrganization":[{"name":"The Larder West Lothian","id":"GB-SC-SC042554","charityNumber":"SC042554","description":"The Larder was founded in 2010 as a result of two main drivers; youth unemployment and society's detachment from food and cooking. It operates as a social enterprise and is based in West Lothian. 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The bus will support the practical delivery of services and the range of stakeholders involved will support the content of what is provided. The communities themselves will decide what/who is most relevant to be on the bus. The bus will, in addition, be able to connect those living remotely from others in their communities, supporting them to develop their own local networks and solutions. The aim of the pilot is to test and evaluate an innovative delivery method, establish long term partnerships with a range of strategic stakeholders (public, private and third sectors) and develop a sustainable model for long term delivery of the service. The bus will initially take the form of a mobile motor home that can facilitate groups of 6-8 people with the option to extend externally with an extension tent. The facilities of the motor home will additionally provide tea/coffee and toilet facilities, be mobile broadband MIFI enabled, have information/resource areas and digital tablet devices for community use. A similar resource is owned and run by NHS Grampian and the internal space of the vehicle has been converted to provide additional seating areas. It has been used across Moray and Aberdeenshire successfully with public sector partners. (It is not currently available for use in the Highlands or with private or third sector organisations). A mobile home approach to reducing social isolation in rural Essex has proved very successful. Starting off as the \"coffee caravan\" the initiative now provides information and resources on a variety of issues affecting people impacted by the welfare reform and regularly tours remote and rural communities with a range of stakeholders. The bus will initially be sourced from local Motorhome providers during their quiet season between December to April to enable us to maximise grant funding available. All maintenance, insurance and breakdown costs will be included within the rental costs of the vehicle. The Community Outreach Bus will visit up to 60 remote and rural locations throughout the Highlands reaching around 6 people each visit. Multiple locations can be achieved in a single day using this approach. In addition, the bus will aim to visit at least 8 large community events throughout the year reaching around 250 people at each event. The total number of people who will benefit from the bus will be around 360 in small groups or on a one to one basis and 2000 people at larger community events. The bus will be able to accommodate up to 2 stakeholder attendees per visit (which can be chosen by the communities) and a range of information resources from a broader range of services. Expressions of interest have already been received from DWP, social housing providers, energy efficiency advisors, community fire and police, addiction services, legal and consumer advice workers, local charities and voluntary groups. The bus will be able to accommodate transport of essential supplies from foodbanks, energy saving trusts and other providers to those who would not otherwise be able to access this support. The range of support services offered by us will ultimately be driven by the local communities but could include online basics and digital training, digital life skills including managing money, staying safe and being better connected (and less isolated), exploring issues such as community food schemes, developing basic enterprise skills to generate an income, how to navigate the complex DWP benefits and online systems. We want to pilot this idea because we want communities to be empowered to come up with their own solutions to mitigate the effects of the welfare reform. We also realise that a \"one size fits all\" approach doesn't always work, especially given the unique nature of the geography and radical remoteness of the Highlands. We know through our existing partnerships that access to services is one of the single most impactful barriers to people receiving support and the costs of transport are sometimes prohibitive in people accessing help when they need it. Through our digital rural outreach workshops in local village halls and community centres we have heard directly from communities about how unconnected and unaware of the available support they feel. We have spoken to young families, older people, unemployed, homeless, offenders and ex-offenders, disabled people and carers and they have amazed us with their creative solutions and ideas generated when they have access to the right information and support. The majority of advice, support and information services don't reach or have a presence in these remote communities and this is why we have developed the idea of the community outreach bus, a resource for all that can be community led, delivered locally and sustained by a partnership member model in the long term. The development of the partnership membership model would be part of this pilot, as would the options for long term leasing or purchase of a made to measure community bus. The community outreach bus will benefit up to 60 local communities across the Highlands and the emphasis will be on visiting those areas that have social housing, unemployment, reduced access to public services and over 30 minutes travelling distance from the nearest services. The people who will benefit will include those in social housing, unemployed, older people, disabled people, carers and anyone else affected by the impact of welfare reform. We plan to build on our existing models of measuring outputs and outcomes to include information questionnaires and feedback on issues such as \"what have you been able to achieve that you couldn't before\" and \"what has helped you the most in terms of mitigating the impact of the welfare reform\". We will use attendance records, in accordance with GDPR guidelines, feedback questionnaires, partner feedback, case studies, group discussions, peer feedback and online surveys and polls to evaluate our outcomes and outputs. We will also have a project timescale and schedule and monthly reports to monitor progress towards achieving these outcomes and to enable us to take early action to remedy any situations if we are not.","title":"Highland Community Outreach Bus","id":"360G-SCVO-a0g0N00001gBVbEQAW","currency":"GBP","plannedDates":[{"startDate":"2018-12-01","endDate":"2019-12-31","dateModified":"2018-12-24T10:19:35+00:00"}],"recipientOrganization":[{"name":"The Libertie Project Ltd","id":"360G-SCVO-001b000000hXe3FAAS","description":"The Libertie Project is a social enterprise that takes a creative approach to working with disadvantaged and disabled groups to improve life chances, journey towards employment and reduce offending. Through our community studio and prison enterprise programme we offer a range of creative training opportunities, employability programmes, volunteering, work experience, life skills and social activities. We run an online learning centre and provide digital life skills activities throughout the Highlands to reduce the inequalities caused by digital exclusion. 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Individuals in temporary accommodation for example have limited access to food storage and preparation facilities and have a limited budget to buy fresh food. Food banks locally provide essential supplies of long life or processed food but not fresh food. Creating a daily menu of freshly prepared nutritious soups, breads, pastas, salads and smoothies that are delivered to those in need will help mitigate the effects of the welfare reform, reduce food poverty, increase health and well being and reduce social isolation. Working in partnership with the local hospitality industry will enable the shared use of catering facilities, food storage and staff to create varied and nutritious menus. It will also provide training and volunteering opportunities for individuals. Working in partnership with other third sector organisations will enable us to pilot a delivery service for the food which will help to break down the barriers of accessibility and the stigma or embarrassment of using a service. It also means we have a much better chance of reaching more vulnerable individuals in homeless accommodation including families in refuges or other temporary bed and breakfast accommodation. This is a completely new approach, innovative in it's ambition to use surplus food that would otherwise got to waste and which is tailor made to suit a remote and rural area and the individual needs of people at grass roots level. This pilot will also enable us to build a platform to develop a social enterprise café that will benefit the community beyond the funding period.","title":"Creative Food","id":"360G-SCVO-a0gb000000QAG4WAAX","currency":"GBP","plannedDates":[{"startDate":"2017-01-17","endDate":"2017-08-30","dateModified":"2019-11-29T14:11:24+00:00"}],"recipientOrganization":[{"name":"The Libertie Project Ltd","id":"360G-SCVO-001b000000hXe3FAAS","description":"Our aims and objectives are to: * improve health, well-being and life chances * develop life skills, pre-employability skills and journey towards work * reduce offending, re-offending and risk of offending We do this by engaging with hard to reach groups and adults affected by inequalities and experiencing disadvantage through alcohol and substance misuse, prisoners, ex-offenders and those in contact with the criminal justice system, homelessness and young people not in education, training or employment.","streetAddress":"58 Denny Street","addressLocality":"Inverness","addressRegion":"Highlands","postalCode":"IV2 3AR","location":[{"latitude":57.475728,"longitude":-4.220724},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S13003003","geoCodeType":"WD"},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S14000039","geoCodeType":"WPC"},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S03000044","geoCodeType":"CCG"}],"addressCountry":"Scotland","url":"https://www.libertie.co.uk"}],"beneficiaryLocation":[{"latitude":57.475728,"longitude":-4.220724},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S13003003","geoCodeType":"WD"},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S14000039","geoCodeType":"WPC"},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S03000044","geoCodeType":"CCG"}],"fundingOrganization":[{"name":"Scottish Council For Voluntary Organisations","id":"GB-SC-SC003558","charityNumber":"SC003558","department":"Policy","streetAddress":"Caledonian Exchange, 19A Canning Street","addressLocality":"Edinburgh","addressRegion":"City of Edinburgh","postalCode":"EH3 8EG","addressCountry":"Scotland","description":"The Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations is the membership organisation for Scotland's charities, voluntary organisations and social enterprises.","url":"http://scvo.scot","location":[{"latitude":55.959611,"longitude":-3.190946}]}],"grantProgramme":[{"code":"scvo-ccrf-call-2","title":"Community Capacity & Resilience Fund - Call 2","description":"Funding to help local voluntary sector groups and organisations across Scotland tackle poverty and mitigate against UK government welfare changes.","url":"https://scvo.scot/funding/community-capacity-resilience-fund"}],"fromOpenCall":"Yes","dateModified":"2019-11-29T14:11:24+00:00","dataSource":"https://scvo.scot/funding/data/archive/community-capacity-resilience-fund.json"},{"amountAppliedFor":5000,"amountAwarded":6500,"awardDate":"2016-12-02","description":"Building on the success of healthy eating healthy lifestyles for the children and young people. This project will promote, healthy eating & lifestyle choices alongside a keep fit programme and will instil in them the long term benefits of this to parents and the general adult population of Shettleston and the surrounding area. The project will organise weekly cooking and fitness classes for the adults in order for them to gain new skills as well as benefiting from the knowledge gained by learning about a healthy lifestyle. The cooking classes will involve the parents / adults choosing what they cook and they will use the Internet to find the recipes and explore what is in the food they eat as part of this process. They will be tasked with sourcing the food from local shops and costing the items to get the best deal possible. The food required and the residual benefits from it will form an integral part of the learning process for them as well as making them aware of what they are putting in their bodies at the moment and what effect this is having on their weight etc. This will be a weekly session held on various days in order to fit in with parents / adults work & family commitments every week for a year. Alongside the healthy eating will be a session for them to keep fit with a fun keep fit session and will include various keep fit activities to complement their improved diet. We will run this for 6 months.","title":"Kicking and Cooking","id":"360G-SCVO-a0gb000000QAf2IAAT","currency":"GBP","plannedDates":[{"startDate":"2017-02-06","endDate":"2017-08-25","dateModified":"2019-11-29T14:11:24+00:00"}],"recipientOrganization":[{"name":"The Pavillion (Greater Easterhouse)","id":"GB-SC-SC028534","charityNumber":"SC028534","description":"The cornerstone of our work has historically been our drop in club. 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At the end of the year, we want these partners to be fully behind our efforts to ensure the service continues thereafter Another year will allow us to develop further our efforts to widen financial support for the Plenty Project, to ensure that it is able to continue. Demonstrating its value further to eg schools will encourage them to seek to find funds to pay for continued provision. In this way, we seek to ensure the continuing beneficial impact of the Plenty Project in mitigating the effects of welfare reform, combating poverty and inequality, promoting social inclusion and having a preventative impact in our community. We are working right across age groups, from the youngest to the oldest members, and expect to see the impact of our work have a strong positive ripple effect, as children locally grow up having had the opportunity to try different foods, to learn about nutrition and to make delicious meals from scratch. This will impact their own health and wellbeing, and that of generations to come. The positive impacts already evident from reduction in social isolation and improved inclusivity will also continue to be felt. Relationships have been and will continue to be formed across very disparate parts of the local community, where eyes have been opened to the extent of deprivation and genuine suffering locally. In addressing our local Area Partnership about the Plenty Project, we referred to some of the issues faced by our clients/volunteers, including heroin addiction, prostitution and child abuse, and one individual lying in a diabetic coma for 3 days un-missed because he had no friends or family, and no involvement in any community groups. Members of the committee were incredulous that such lives were being lived under their noses, and we have seen a marked increase in levels of support for our work as a result of this, including attendance at community meals and involvement in hosting the Xmas lunch. This is a very important part of building a more equal society at a local level, removing stigma and reducing the tendency towards ghetto-isation, which is so damaging to all. The Plenty Project is a vibrant and flexible response to the needs of the local community, with outstanding results and reach. 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In addition to continuing the format already on offer, offering 4 x 5-week courses based at the Bleachingfield Community Centre, we will be able to bring training and other supports specifically to families and young people, via agencies working specifically with them, including schools. We will be able to address the specific barriers identified by some of those who wanted to engage but were unable to - in particular childcare (we will offer at least 2 courses including a creche) and issues with getting to the community centre at the time offered (we will take our course out 'on the road', using either the facilities available on site or bringing our own basic cooking facilities with us. We will purchase basic table top hobs and any other equipment required to facilitate delivery where it is needed. We will be able to continue development of the supplementary aspects of our project - yoga, creative writing and Sunny Soups, which we see as a vital aspect of the success of the project. 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Participants will be encouraged to take a stake in running the programme, to ensure it offers what is needed/wanted locally, and to give it the best chance of enduring beyond the grant period. Peer training will be developed, improving social and work skills, improving self esteem/confidence. The current welfare cuts have left many local people struggling to feed themselves and their families on totally inadequate income. What we propose is a creative alternative support system, where people develop skills (including from each other) to get the most out of what is available locally, to help each other out and to gain satisfaction from focusing on their health and on contributing to local environmental benefit, rather than feeling overwhelmed by their powerlessness and having to rely on handouts.","title":"The Plenty Project","id":"360G-SCVO-a0gb000000QAQJ1AAP","currency":"GBP","plannedDates":[{"startDate":"2017-01-17","endDate":"2017-08-25","dateModified":"2019-11-29T14:11:24+00:00"}],"recipientOrganization":[{"name":"The Ridge SCIO","id":"GB-SC-SC047116","charityNumber":"SC047116","description":"The Ridge: a training social enterprise, with community cafe, garden and employability training provision We aim to: •help local people overcome issues around geographical isolation, which inhibits access to training and other supports. • build resilience of individuals and the community, training in skills, increasing work readiness and helping people on their journey into paid employment. •signpost/facilitate access to other supports Individuals' further issues locally include: • social exclusion/isolation • substance abuse • mental health • food poverty • homelessness In addition to formal employability training contracts, we offer volunteer programmes, often for those further from the jobs market, allowing us to support people in a more holistic way, including training in basic lifeskills. 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We anticipate approx. 30 individuals per month. Our worker will be able to offer support and advice on a wide variety of issues including: • Challenging benefit decisions and providing appeal representation • Providing benefit checks • Income maximisation checks • Completing benefit forms • Assisting individuals to make benefit claims. • Advising on training opportunities within the Ridge and partner organisations • Assisting with digital skills through our digital champion We shall provide a drop-in service (day TBC) at our local library/community centre/medical centre with home visits available on request and subject to availability. The Ridge is very much trusted within the local community and has a proven track record in providing (excellent) support for our clients. Our local knowledge gives us a unique and privileged insight into the lives of the people we work with allowing us to provide independent, tailored support for each individual. It is through our many services and working partnerships with CAB and DWP that we know there is an overwhelming demand for this service. Our Support Team– already over-stretched and beyond capacity are often having to divert energy, time and focus from the needs of other clients to help people who are feeling stressed and insecure – vulnerable to even the tiniest changes in income. Given our grassroots approach that we are known and respected for in Dunbar, we want to bolt this service onto our existing provision and use our solid base to leverage the strong local community trust we enjoy. Providing this hyper-local, flexible approach will break down barriers and reduce the stigmas associated with accessing the benefit system and asking for help to ensure fair treatment by it. The CAB provision that has been in place locally was intermittent at best and is no longer available. The DWP provide a weekly drop in service but are time pressured and not in a position to provide the sort of tailored 1:1 support required and in fact already rely on us to step in here. This is an untenable situation and we need to formalise this offering. Provision of this service within the Medical Centre as well as the Community Centre and Library is both innovative and creative. For many people who are subject to the mercy of the welfare system or facing in-work poverty the detrimental impact on their health and wellbeing leads them time and time again to the GP and whilst GPs clearly have a duty of care here this is not their area of expertise. We can provide direct help and support to those who need it and alleviate pressures on our primary care services. The instability of having no income is punishing. People are living on a cliff edge daily as they make brutal choices between eating and paying for heating. At the Ridge we can offer solidarity, advice and signposting to other services either internally within The Ridge – • Budgeting – Cooking – Nutrition • Essential Digital Skills • Employability Skills • Volunteering for Health and Wellbeing • Opportunities for paid employment within The Ridge Foundations CIC Or we can signpost externally if further support is required that we cannot provide. This benefits system as it stands is failing people because it was never built to help them but at the Ridge, we are built not only to help people with the long and complicated benefits process, but to help move them FROM DEPENDENCY TO CONTRIBUTION. Our worker will be someone who is fully aware of The Ridge and its social ethos and the wrap around support that it can provide so the process of signposting to further services will be a shorter and more personal journey. Dunbar is the fastest growing down in the country and although it does not score 'highly' on SIMD ratings as a community we suffer from the effects of rural isolation. The west end of the county with its larger (for now) population attracts a greater amount of funding that supports provision and services such as we are looking to pilot here. Our clients with their limited financial capability and sometimes chaotic lifestyles are in no position to make the two hour two bus journey trek across the county to ask help from someone unfamiliar with their personal situation. Our services users require accessibility, consistency, hyper local and familiar help. 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The Well would pay SHA for one whole day per week to cover both the surgery and the time dealing with the cases outwith the surgery, for example when preparing for and representing a client at an appeal. For the past five years, a Welfare Rights Specialist from SHA had run a surgery at The Well every Friday morning. This was the Association's most successful outreach surgery with an average of eight appointments every week. In November this year, SHA regretted to inform us that they no longer had the funding to hold any outreach welfare rights surgeries. The Well's volunteer Advisors are trained to be able to give first tier advice and support regarding benefits. This may involve checking eligibility, helping the client through the application process and supporting the client in maintaining their benefits. However, on the occasions that benefits have been refused, they were previously able to refer clients to this specialist surgery. At the specialist surgery clients could be assisted with mandatory reconsideration as well as representation at appeals and tribunals. Without this specialist surgery, The Well can only refer people to their Housing Associations for specialist welfare rights advice. There can be very long waiting lists and the appointments are outwith the familiar culturally-sensitive environment that The Well provides. Furthermore, The Well now has nowhere to refer clients who rent from private landlords, of whom there are many, as the Housing Associations only deal with their own tenants. Private tenants' cases have to be dealt with quickly as private landlords cannot/will not wait for cases to be resolved before demanding rent payment. The only place locally that can help with these cases is Govanhill Law Centre and they generally only deal with the most complex cases and have long waiting lists. This is likely to lead to desperate situations and evictions for some families. 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We provide information, support and communication between our members and the broader community and facilitate direct engagements and consultation.","streetAddress":"Clyde Business Centre  Unit 10  31 Clyde Street","addressLocality":"Clydebank","addressRegion":"West Dunbartonshire","postalCode":"G81 1PF","location":[{"latitude":55.895692,"longitude":-4.398458},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S13003127","geoCodeType":"WD"},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S14000059","geoCodeType":"WPC"},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S03000023","geoCodeType":"CCG"}],"addressCountry":"Scotland"}],"beneficiaryLocation":[{"latitude":55.895692,"longitude":-4.398458},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S13003127","geoCodeType":"WD"},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S14000059","geoCodeType":"WPC"},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S03000023","geoCodeType":"CCG"}],"fundingOrganization":[{"name":"Scottish Council For Voluntary Organisations","id":"GB-SC-SC003558","charityNumber":"SC003558","department":"Policy","streetAddress":"Caledonian Exchange, 19A Canning Street","addressLocality":"Edinburgh","addressRegion":"City of Edinburgh","postalCode":"EH3 8EG","addressCountry":"Scotland","description":"The Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations is the membership organisation for Scotland's charities, voluntary organisations and social enterprises.","url":"http://scvo.scot","location":[{"latitude":55.959611,"longitude":-3.190946}]}],"grantProgramme":[{"code":"scvo-ccrf-r3-strand-2","title":"Community Capacity & Resilience Fund - R3 Strand 2","description":"Funding to help local voluntary sector groups and organisations across Scotland tackle poverty and mitigate against UK government welfare changes.","url":"https://scvo.scot/funding/community-capacity-resilience-fund"}],"fromOpenCall":"Yes","dateModified":"2019-12-12T14:14:13+00:00","dataSource":"https://scvo.scot/funding/data/archive/community-capacity-resilience-fund.json"},{"amountAppliedFor":5000,"amountAwarded":5000,"awardDate":"2015-07-03","description":"Detailed information not yet available.","title":"Building Capacity at WestGAP","id":"360G-SCVO-a0gb0000003cuiVAAQ","currency":"GBP","plannedDates":[{"startDate":"2015-08-03","endDate":"2016-01-29","dateModified":"2019-11-29T14:11:24+00:00"}],"recipientOrganization":[{"name":"West Glasgow Against Poverty (Westgap)","id":"GB-SC-SC030367","charityNumber":"SC030367","description":"Anti-poverty community group - providing a free, independent and confidential welfare fights advice and advocacy service, achieving income maximisation for thousands of individuals and families across Glasgow."}],"fundingOrganization":[{"name":"Scottish Council For Voluntary Organisations","id":"GB-SC-SC003558","charityNumber":"SC003558","department":"Policy","streetAddress":"Caledonian Exchange, 19A Canning Street","addressLocality":"Edinburgh","addressRegion":"City of Edinburgh","postalCode":"EH3 8EG","addressCountry":"Scotland","description":"The Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations is the membership organisation for Scotland's charities, voluntary organisations and social enterprises.","url":"http://scvo.scot","location":[{"latitude":55.959611,"longitude":-3.190946}]}],"grantProgramme":[{"code":"scvo-ccrf-call-1","title":"Community Capacity & Resilience Fund - Call 1","description":"Funding to help local voluntary sector groups and organisations across Scotland tackle poverty and mitigate against UK government welfare changes.","url":"https://scvo.scot/funding/community-capacity-resilience-fund"}],"fromOpenCall":"Yes","dateModified":"2019-11-29T14:11:24+00:00","dataSource":"https://scvo.scot/funding/data/archive/community-capacity-resilience-fund.json"},{"amountAppliedFor":4450,"amountAwarded":5950,"awardDate":"2016-12-02","description":"We would deliver cooking in conjunction with different activities, number of young families have expressed an interest in learning to cook , but felt that it was too expensive. We will show these parents and children that with budgeting skills , blind tasting and cooking together that they can maximise their income . Often cooking classes only concentrate on the parents this is different as we would encourage them to cook together. We will deliver the cooking in conjunction with activities - welfare and benefit checks, Financial literacy budgeting workshops.The children would be engaged during the whole process from cooking to eating.Activities -catch the bug , how many sugars, crafting opportunities e.g making their aprons .Improve nutritional choices via blind tasting .At the end of each session everyone will leave with a recipe card and the confidence to replicate the meal at home, all delivered in a fun and interactive way. Often it is the children who dictate the household meals - By engaging the children and teaching them the cooking skills they will be the driving force in changing the weekly shop. By working in local communities it is easier to market this opportunity and have parents and children participate, often only the parents are engaged, by engaging with both it gives them the opportunity to explore this option together. By making the whole process fun, entertaining and interactive , by building competency and resilience to make choices ,build on information and signposting options if required.","title":"Crafty with food","id":"360G-SCVO-a0gb000000QAOwUAAX","currency":"GBP","plannedDates":[{"startDate":"2017-04-01","endDate":"2017-08-31","dateModified":"2019-11-29T14:11:24+00:00"}],"recipientOrganization":[{"name":"West Lothian Financial Inclusion Network","id":"GB-SC-SC039867","charityNumber":"SC039867","description":"West Lothian Financial Inclusion Network is a SCIO registered charity which aims to ensure that all West Lothian residents are aware of their financial choices and promotes access to financial advice, financial products and other services, particularly for the most excluded social groups. We aim to minimise the effects of the changing welfare reforms by providing income maximisation advice and form filling support . By having locally place advisers sitting in local community centres , with drop in sessions to assist with information and signposting for local residents.","streetAddress":"17H Burnhouse Industrial Estate","addressLocality":"Bathgate","addressRegion":"West Lothian","postalCode":"EH47 0LL","location":[{"latitude":55.860737,"longitude":-3.697888},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S13002826","geoCodeType":"WD"},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S14000043","geoCodeType":"WPC"},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S03000035","geoCodeType":"CCG"}],"addressCountry":"Scotland","url":"http://www.wlfin.org.uk"}],"beneficiaryLocation":[{"latitude":55.860737,"longitude":-3.697888},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S13002826","geoCodeType":"WD"},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S14000043","geoCodeType":"WPC"},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S03000035","geoCodeType":"CCG"}],"fundingOrganization":[{"name":"Scottish Council For Voluntary Organisations","id":"GB-SC-SC003558","charityNumber":"SC003558","department":"Policy","streetAddress":"Caledonian Exchange, 19A Canning Street","addressLocality":"Edinburgh","addressRegion":"City of Edinburgh","postalCode":"EH3 8EG","addressCountry":"Scotland","description":"The Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations is the membership organisation for Scotland's charities, voluntary organisations and social enterprises.","url":"http://scvo.scot","location":[{"latitude":55.959611,"longitude":-3.190946}]}],"grantProgramme":[{"code":"scvo-ccrf-call-2","title":"Community Capacity & Resilience Fund - Call 2","description":"Funding to help local voluntary sector groups and organisations across Scotland tackle poverty and mitigate against UK government welfare changes.","url":"https://scvo.scot/funding/community-capacity-resilience-fund"}],"fromOpenCall":"Yes","dateModified":"2019-11-29T14:11:24+00:00","dataSource":"https://scvo.scot/funding/data/archive/community-capacity-resilience-fund.json"},{"amountAppliedFor":6561,"amountAwarded":6561,"awardDate":"2019-12-11","description":"Due to local demand via our community volunteer advisers we are seeking funding to pilot a new service in the West Lothian Area that will provide those in the community access to individual money budgeting related assistance and support. Due to the Semi-rural nature and poor transport links some of the area's residents require to travel to the nearest large town, up to 15 miles from some villages, to access national or local advice services i.e. CAB. Providing they can get an appointment and are able to coordinate the public transport links and appointment times. This also has a financial cost which can often be unaffordable for the resident. Our communities of interest experience higher levels of unemployment, fuel and food poverty and high levels of debt. Assistance is often required to complete DWP forms , housing forms but access to internet is sporadic in the rural areas of West Lothain, both in digital coverage and lack of affordability for residents. Recent changes in the welfare and benefit system has had a huge impact in the areas , the areas are slipping down the index of multiple deprivation, mainly due to the welfare and benefit changes , the roll out of Universal credit and the changing method of PIP assessments and awards. Compounding the lack of capacity in handling personal finances and ability to safeguard income. We would deliver one to one session, group sessions and tapping in to specialisms of our local partners, ensuring our participants accessed the correct level of assistance.Form filling assistance would also be available via our trained volunteer advisors. We would work with local community management boards to access local community centres or halls within the communities to make the service accessible to those in the more rural communities. We will be asking participants via surveys and evaluations how we can mould the service to their needs. These services will be available West Lothain Wide in communities of need.","title":"Money and Confidence  (MAC)","id":"360G-SCVO-a0g3z00000HpNIkAAN","currency":"GBP","plannedDates":[{"startDate":"2020-03-02","endDate":"2020-10-30","dateModified":"2020-02-11T08:19:40+00:00"}],"recipientOrganization":[{"name":"West Lothian Financial Inclusion Network","id":"GB-SC-SC039867","charityNumber":"SC039867","description":"West Lothain Financial Inclusion Network is a SCIO registered charity. We assist families and individuals within West Lothain with poverty related issues. By offering : • To help Build financial capability and competency, by using group workshops or individual interventions • Maximise Income by Providing Welfare and benefit advice and employability skills, by offering training options, group workshops or individual assistance • Reduce spending through Budgeting Classes and energy advice switching options • Volunteering opportunities to build employability skills • By identifying gaps in service provision and by developing projects to fulfil the need • By providing short term relief in a dignified way We are a charity who respects the individual’s choice and way out of difficult financial situations, by providing a network of volunteers welfare and benefit advisers offering level one advice and signposting to appropriate organisations and services to meet the individuals need.","streetAddress":"Unit 5-7, Norwood Industrial Estate","addressLocality":"29 Longridge Road, Whitburn","addressRegion":"West Lothian","postalCode":"EH47 8HB","location":[{"latitude":55.861311,"longitude":-3.689246},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S13002826","geoCodeType":"WD"},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S14000043","geoCodeType":"WPC"},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S03000035","geoCodeType":"CCG"}],"addressCountry":"Scotland","url":"http://www.wlfin.org.uk"}],"beneficiaryLocation":[{"latitude":55.861311,"longitude":-3.689246},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S13002826","geoCodeType":"WD"},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S14000043","geoCodeType":"WPC"},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S03000035","geoCodeType":"CCG"}],"fundingOrganization":[{"name":"Scottish Council For Voluntary Organisations","id":"GB-SC-SC003558","charityNumber":"SC003558","department":"Policy","streetAddress":"Caledonian Exchange, 19A Canning Street","addressLocality":"Edinburgh","addressRegion":"City of Edinburgh","postalCode":"EH3 8EG","addressCountry":"Scotland","description":"The Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations is the membership organisation for Scotland's charities, voluntary organisations and social enterprises.","url":"http://scvo.scot","location":[{"latitude":55.959611,"longitude":-3.190946}]}],"grantProgramme":[{"code":"scvo-ccrf-round-5","title":"Community Capacity & Resilience Fund - Round 5","description":"Funding to help local voluntary sector groups and organisations across Scotland tackle poverty and mitigate against UK government welfare changes.","url":"https://scvo.scot/funding/community-capacity-resilience-fund"}],"fromOpenCall":"Yes","dateModified":"2020-02-11T08:19:40+00:00","dataSource":"https://scvo.scot/funding/data/archive/community-capacity-resilience-fund.json"},{"amountAppliedFor":9821,"amountAwarded":9821,"awardDate":"2018-10-31","description":"A community based call centre in Whitburn, West Lothian We are seeking funding for office space in West Lothian, part time staffing costs and volunteer expenses, to enable us to pilot a community-based call centre to provide support for local residents particularly in the rural and semi-rural areas of West Lothian who are struggling with the roll out of Universal credits. This call centre would be staffed by volunteers, who would be trained to deliver support and advice in dealing with Universal credit and other welfare reforms changes over the phone. The part-time member of staff would train and supervise any telephonic services. It is envisaged that we will provide a telephone service Monday to Friday, 10 am until 3pm, these times will be constantly monitored to ensure the best fit for the need and adapted as required. There will be 4 lines available via the call centre package. Volunteers would be given scheduled slots to provide the phone service depending on their availability. Continual evaluation of this pilot service will be required as the roll out of universal credits continues throughout this area. The call centre would have two purposes: 1. To provide information about Universal credit to the West Lothian Area. This could be two fold, general information i.e. time scales for roll out or perhaps a more personal request for information regarding their forthcoming change to universal credit and how to prepare for it. Possibly by signposting to a budgeting workshop or a \"better off \"or \"what if \"calculation which the volunteer could carry out. Also, to explain the pitfalls of agreeing to Universal credit before a mandatory change. 2. Support and assistance when the transition to Universal credit is being made. Ensuring that they minimise the time without benefit. There may be additional help required to ease this journey. To ensure they have an option to discuss issues raised when applying for universal credit and the impact there might be if they have to take a crisis loan, which has to be paid back and understanding the rate of payback applicable. Increase in enquiries due to the changing benefit system Through volunteer feedback and evaluation of our current service, it has been highlighted that there is a large amount of uncertainty surrounding the changing face of welfare benefits. The roll out of Universal credits locally making West Lothian a full-service area for Universal credits, residents are unsure as how to proceed, this has almost doubled the number of enquiries we have had relating to universal credits. This would be a support line dealing with issues around the introduction of Universal credits to residents. We are now receiving requests from health professionals; local key workers and it is difficult for us to continue to handle these enquiries as we are currently lacking in resources to address the concerns. Another issue highlighted was that West Lothian due to its geography is a fragmented county, is populated by a large number of mining communities which are quite isolated from each other and the larger 4 towns. These small villages do not readily interact with each other. Local transport links are poor, there are advice services available in Bathgate and Livingston. However, to access these services is not always possible due to the limited new bus routes, limited access, new timetables and in certain situations, residents experiencing this change in benefits cannot afford the bus fare. This has a greater impact to those with disabilities as the changing bus routes means they must cover a greater distance on foot. Additionally there is the perceived embarrassment of being seen accessing advice , but the telephone service allows the residents the option of gaining support and information almost anonymously. Presently within West Lothian there is no comparable service offered and as such local residents are getting into financial and emotional difficulties dealing with these changes. Universal credit is being rolled out in West Lothian and as a full-service area, any change in domestic or personal situations will mean that the residents will be changed on to Universal credit and the issues this change will bring. For instance, this change will bring a minimum of a five-week period of no income from that benefit. It will mean a change from fortnightly to monthly benefits and due to the nature of universal credit, they may lose some benefit entitlement from the old system to the new system. E.G. ESA being reassessed. Debt is easily accumulated during this period as housing benefit and council tax reduction ceases during this assessment period. For Example : Parents of twins, recently turned to their health visitor, who in turn referred them to us at one of our community based advice sessions. Because of an extended transition to Universal credits, they had used up the food bank option of three vouchers and now had no food and were unable to heat the family home as they had no income, they were facing debt as housing benefit and council tax reduction was not be paid during this transition time. They needed a supportive ear to listen and suggest any possible ways to mitigate their situation. Our volunteer was able to suggest a number of differing ways to minimise their dilemma, checking to see if they could gain an advance on forthcoming payment, assisting in finding out if there is a particular reason for the holdup of the payment. This family through support and intervention now have additional food and nappies for the twins. Negotiating with their energy supplier to ensure they had a continue supply of fuel, the energy supplier was not aware they were a vulnerable family. Not everyone in West Lothian has access to this type of service. We are very limited in the number of areas we can provide this community service, but this type of support could be more readily available to the wider community from a call centre, providing a listening ear, signposting and direction to appropriate agencies, making it easier to follow up, ensuring the best level of service and best practice is followed. Often it is the opportunity to talk to someone who is not an official or representative of a government agency. It is being able to ask the silly question, to gain understanding of the new situation, it is being able to feel that you are not being judged, to having someone who will listen not judgementally, but be informed enough to guide you to the appropriate place or person. Having the option to call from home and not be embarrassed by accessing advice at a known centre. For example, a new mum with a 5 week old baby girl, asked what she could do as DWP had closed her claim. She was visibly distressed, limited money, homeless and unsure what to do. Was told by DWP to claim Universal credit to supplement her maternity allowance which she did, received a text from DWP to say look at your account. Her message from the DWP, \"as you failed to attend your interview, your claim has now been closed\" This was two weeks after making her initial Claim. By chatting to this young mum, we were able to explain the system to her, the reasons for the closure and how she could challenge this decision. In the young mum's defence, she had not received an invitation to an interview, so we could challenge the decision of the DWP. Her doctor suggested she speak to us, we have been able to secure universal credit for her. Her homelessness issue was also addressed and with her health visitor and doctors support she has gained sufficient points to be allocated a council house. Beneficiaries from this service would be those with changing personal circumstances, those invited to have their current benefits reassessed or those who have changing health needs, everyone in the community who needs a listening ear and signposting when universal credit comes to call. During this initial transition period, but ultimately at the point of full migration to this new system. There needs to be help, knowledge and emotional support with this forced change, the fear people feel when tackling something new. The lack of digital inclusion for some will also become a reality when this change happens, but with a non-judgmental voice at the end of a phone, this journey can be manged and assisted. Our volunteers will be given training in active listening, benefit knowledge to guide our residents forward and support to deliver this service. The volunteers will gain confidence in working with other volunteers, feel a belonging to the community, ownership of the ability to assist. Build peer support from other volunteers at offered training opportunities and monthly volunteer meetings. Although the call centre would be based in West Lothian and initially we will assist West Lothian residents, this will not be at the exclusion of anyone else, from outside West Lothian.","title":"Friendly Ear","id":"360G-SCVO-a0g0N00001gBVSMQA4","currency":"GBP","plannedDates":[{"startDate":"2019-01-01","endDate":"2019-12-31","dateModified":"2019-11-29T14:18:28+00:00"}],"recipientOrganization":[{"name":"West Lothian Financial Inclusion Network","id":"GB-SC-SC039867","charityNumber":"SC039867","description":"West Lothian Financial Inclusion Network is a SCIO registered charity which aims to ensure that all West Lothian residents are aware of their financial choices and promotes access to financial advice, financial products and other services, particularly for the most excluded social groups. We seek to address poverty through providing the necessary skills, knowledge and ability through face to face contact, via group options by building capacity to safeguard household income. Via group sessions and one to one session participants gain skills to budget and adapt their budget as circumstances change. During school holidays we deliver, a breakfast club ,organised cooking session in local communities to alleviate the additional financial burden on parents . We offer advice and information in rural communities . Volunteer Friendly Award, Project Manager awarded Volunteer Manager of the year PQASSO quality management systems award. Currently completing our Scottish legal aid board level one accreditation.","streetAddress":"Unit 19 Burnhouse Industrial Estate, Burnhouse Industrial Estate","addressLocality":"WHitburn","addressRegion":"West Lothian","postalCode":"EH47 0LQ","location":[{"latitude":55.859941,"longitude":-3.701512},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S13002826","geoCodeType":"WD"},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S14000043","geoCodeType":"WPC"},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S03000035","geoCodeType":"CCG"}],"addressCountry":"Scotland","url":"http://www.wlfin.org.uk"}],"beneficiaryLocation":[{"latitude":55.859941,"longitude":-3.701512},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S13002826","geoCodeType":"WD"},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S14000043","geoCodeType":"WPC"},{"countryCode":"GB","geoCode":"S03000035","geoCodeType":"CCG"}],"fundingOrganization":[{"name":"Scottish Council For Voluntary Organisations","id":"GB-SC-SC003558","charityNumber":"SC003558","department":"Policy","streetAddress":"Caledonian Exchange, 19A Canning Street","addressLocality":"Edinburgh","addressRegion":"City of Edinburgh","postalCode":"EH3 8EG","addressCountry":"Scotland","description":"The Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations is the membership organisation for Scotland's charities, voluntary organisations and social enterprises.","url":"http://scvo.scot","location":[{"latitude":55.959611,"longitude":-3.190946}]}],"grantProgramme":[{"code":"scvo-ccrf-r4-strand-3","title":"Community Capacity & Resilience Fund - R4 Strand 3","description":"Funding to help local voluntary sector groups and organisations across Scotland tackle poverty and mitigate against UK government welfare changes.","url":"https://scvo.scot/funding/community-capacity-resilience-fund"}],"fromOpenCall":"Yes","dateModified":"2019-11-29T14:18:28+00:00","dataSource":"https://scvo.scot/funding/data/archive/community-capacity-resilience-fund.json"},{"amountAppliedFor":9930,"amountAwarded":9930,"awardDate":"2018-10-30","description":"We are seeking funding to pilot a new service in West Lothian that will provide those in the community, with the greatest financial need, immediate access to bespoke money management services. All clients referred to our foodbank service are experiencing critical financial problems. They are referred to us by any of our 130 partner referral organisations, such as schools, council agencies and third sector organisations. Our service users engage with us when they are at crisis point and in immediate need of help. They literally cannot afford to put food on the table. Unfortunately, many of these clients have been re-referred to our service, after months or years have passed, as they have been unable to improve their desperate financial situation sufficiently. We want to help people manage their finances in such a way that they can avoid returning to a crisis point and perhaps navigate their way out of poverty. Our Financial Triage and Debt Advice project will provide a framework through which we can assist in identifying and acting on the financial needs of individuals referred to the foodbank service, with a view to assisting them to improve their financial capacity and no longer be in a position where they need to be re-referred to our service. This includes help managing or avoiding debt, help setting a budget and making sure that people are accessing any finance available through grants or benefits. Our aim is to have financially trained staff and volunteers to be present in all ten of our distribution centres throughout West Lothian, allowing support, advice and budgeting training to be provided immediately. In order to achieve that, we believe we will need to provide training for 32 volunteers, as well as training for our full-time Foodbank Manager and part-time Development Officer. We will also require to extend the hours of the Development Officer to achieve the recruitment of new volunteers and the co-ordination of training and implementing this new project. In 2015, The Trussell Trust ran a pilot project called 'More Than Food' in eight foodbanks across the UK, to investigate the practicalities of foodbanks directly engaging with financial intervention. The results of the study were very positive, with many clients taking up the offer of immediate financial advice and 90% of them made significant progress after three months. A client who spoke to a financial adviser at Cardiff foodbank said, \"Before I met the advisor at the foodbank I was too scared to go to the advice centre as I felt like such a fool. It feels like a weight off my shoulders, they are helping me do a weekly budget, which I have never done before.\" The pilot project was funded by Martin Lewis, founder of MoneySavingExpert.com, who commented on the success of the pilot, \"It was always my hope that this scheme would provide the financial equivalent to 'give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime' – and it seems to be doing just that. Just having someone to sit and talk to, who's got a bit of authority and knowledge about a situation can make a massive difference and that's what 'More Than Food' is all about.\" The pilot project used training from CAP, a charitable organization who has been helping people to budget, get free from debt and improve their finances for over 20 years. Last year alone, they helped 21,500 people throughout the UK. This is the model we propose to use. As a similar project (More Than Food) has been trialed in a similar organisation to ourselves (The Trussel Trust) and has proved successful to their service users, we are highly motivated to pilot a similar service within our organisation for the benefit of our service users. We will need to recruit new volunteers for this project, provide various training dates from CAP, provide venues for the training, coordinate the rolling out of this service to all ten of our distribution centers in West Lothian and communicate the provision of this new service to our 130 partner referral agencies, volunteers/supporters and service users. We propose to either increase the working hours of the part-time Development Officer to provide 8 hours per week towards the coordination and delivery of this new project, or employ a new part-time member of staff.","title":"Financial Triage & Debt Advice","id":"360G-SCVO-a0g0N00001gBVUDQA4","currency":"GBP","plannedDates":[{"startDate":"2018-12-14","endDate":"2019-12-13","dateModified":"2018-12-24T10:16:54+00:00"}],"recipientOrganization":[{"name":"West Lothian Foodbank SCIO","id":"GB-SC-SC048112","charityNumber":"SC048112","description":"In six years, West Lothian Foodbank has provided over 207,000 meals to West Lothian people in crisis, thanks to our 180 local volunteers, serving at our warehouse, charity shop and ten distribution centres throughout West Lothian. We have working partnerships with 130 referral agencies in West Lothian working with people in poverty, such as schools, council agencies, churches and other third sector organisations. Alongside emergency food for people in crisis, we provide advice and support for people looking to break free from poverty. 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As such we need to continue to refine how we work, our premises and equipment. Specifically we need funds for the following: 1. In order to deal with the increased number of deliveries of food parcels to drop off points at our distribution and emergency centres as well as collection of donations, we need to hire a van one more day a week. 2. We need to purchase new trolleys. We simply do not have enough of these in either the warehouse or our 8 distribution centres. They are vital for the movement of crates for our volunteers, in particular for our older volunteers. We must ensure we have the appropriate equipment so our volunteers can work safely. 3. Due to the number of sites we now have, we require more signage. We would like to, at a minimum, procure a new banner and to get more flexible signage for each foodbank, so that we have consistent signs making it easier for our clients to locate each foodbank. 4. Due to the increased demand for volunteers to run this service, we require to purchase new branded aprons and fleeces. 5. Due to the increased demand for our services and the widespread rural areas within West Lothian, we also need to open at least two new centres in 2017. We would anticipate these to be East Calder and Armadale/Blackridge. 6. As we need to hire additional staff in 2017, we require more IT equipment. 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We want to deliver a new service that will be community orientated and one that promotes social inclusion as we hope to encourage people to volunteer to provide meals and share their other skills and resources to help us reduce the costs of everyday living for families in need of our support. However, the main focus of this new service will be to offer support with Welfare Advice and Health and Wellbeing activities for residents of the Whiterose area of Parkhead who may be struggling with issues as a result of welfare reform and poverty. We have come up with the name of \"MA MAWS\" after we formed a small focus group and discussed some ideas and we came up with the fact that when someone hits a crisis in life the best person to go to would most likely be their mother who would support the and feed them. So \"MA MAWS\" sums up what we are trying to offer which is to create a friendly family orientated service that will offer food, advice and support in financial training and health and wellbeing. So, the acronym stands for Meals Advice Money Awareness &Wellbeing Support. This area is in the most deprived 5% in SIMD 2016 in terms of overall ranking and it is also all in the most deprived 5% for the Income, Employment and Health Domain Rankings for 2016. In SIMD 2016 overall rankings, this area is in the most deprived 5% and in the most deprived 5% for the Income, Employment and Health Domain Rankings. The Whiterose neighbourhood has been fragmented due to redevelopment. The Whiterose Community Hall sits in the centre of newly built houses with older houses around them. The area is now populated by a mixture of previous tenants and new tenants with a mixture of nationalities and capabilities. This neighbourhood used to be a densely populated area and it has experienced many societal issues and in particular it has witnessed the deaths of 2 young people due to gang fighting which can also be associated with the impact of decades of poverty. Those residents who remember the past do not wish to see this a similar culture of return and these like-minded residents are now taking a lead role in re-shaping their community by developing the Whiterose Community Hall's Management Committee to offer more positive alternatives to what previously existed, and this will include a service that helps to combat the impact that welfare reform polices is having on residents. Before the regeneration of the area there used to be a primary school on our doorstep (St. Mark's) which has since closed. This has had an effect on people's lives as it has added further to the effects of poverty as families have had to cope with added travel expenses and or reduced time to go to work by taking their children to and from school which for most of them can mean over an hour per day. The neighbourhood has shown great resilience over the years with many families experiencing the negative effects of welfare reform policies. However, there are many new residents moving into the area and the Community Hall's Management Committee has now been re-formed over the past year and they are pro-active in developing the services that they can offer to residents. They have done a marvelous job in keeping the hall in the possession of the local community, with the support of Glasgow City Council, and the hall is a fantastic local venue that can be utilised to offer services that can help the neighbourhood flourish again, which is needed as the number of people living in the area continues to grow. Some of the regular activities that have taken place throughout the year were: • Lunch club for over 50's • Kids Club. • Happy Feet Dancing. • Community Fun Days. • Community Consultation Events. • Walking Football Group. • Men's Health Promotion Programmes. • Men's Groups. • Youth Club (over 12's.) • Tai Kwon Do. • Kettle Bells Classes. • Young People's Music Group. These programmes have been supported by partners such as: • MENSELF +. • Age Scotland. • Playbusters. • Parkhead Youth Project. • Thriving Places. • Glasgow Disability Alliance. • Glasgow Kelvin College. This new service will also act as a first point of contact for local people and will give them direct access to an informal neutral base to challenge and explore issues and topics such as: • Un/Employment. o Assisting with and linking people to other agencies for C. V's, form filling and interview techniques etc. which will be a valuable service as the local Job Centre is about to be relocated to another area away from Parkhead. • Advocacy support. • Community issues. This new service will be of particular benefit to residents who are unemployed, lone parents, people with disabilities and those who have relocated here from a different country. Those who work can also benefit by contacting us when the service is not being offered, as the Hall is open most nights and at weekends, and they will be prioritised by staff to ensure that they receive support at a time that is suitable for them to tackle with access barriers. The new service will be managed by the Whiterose Hall's Management Committee and we aim to deliver the following: • 1 session per week x 4 hours x 50 weeks for 1 year = 200 service hours. We require funding to employ: • 2 x sessional staff for 50 weeks. • MENSELF + to deliver the health and wellbeing part of the service for 50 weeks. The idea originated from an initial community consultation day event in 2016 and after a further 3 consultation events since then where it has been clearly identified by residents that there is a need for them to have easy access to support in relation to welfare and health and wellbeing. There are similar services available in the wider Parkhead are however there are access issues for many of our local residents and this leaves them disadvantaged regards these valuable support services. The Welfare Reform Committee visited Parkhead Citizens Advice Bureau in March 2014 to meet claimants affected by benefit sanctions and highlighted that: • Communication from Department of Works and Pensions to clients can be poor and it is often difficult to contact the appropriate person who has made the decision to sanction to find out reason why. • There is little information available to claimants about hardship payments or the ability to appeal a sanction decision. • Claimants are expected to search for work online (using the Universal Jobmatch facility), however many claimants are not computer literate or do not have easy access to a computer or internet. • The threat of benefit sanctions being applied, and the conditionality requirements can be a constant source of stress. If a sanction has been applied, then all the Job Seekers Allowance is lost for a certain period of time. Claimants can get into further debt or have to borrow from friends and family. • The use of food banks has increased. Citizens Advice Bureau said that the main reason for the increase in food banks was the maladministration of benefits. The nature of the service will be such that anyone wishing to access immediate crisis support can do so with the support of the staff available on the day and there will also be structured programmes available to offer people the opportunity to develop their existing skills in areas of finance, health and wellbeing to enable them to affect positive change in their own lives to help combat and minimise the impact of welfare reform. These sessions will offer the following: Made of Money: Made of money provides coaching, training and resources that help to build the skills for financial confidence, while uniquely focussing on the personal values, emotions and pressures which impact our decision making. The course covers: - Better budgeting - Building your savings - Understanding credit and debt - Exploring values and attitudes towards money - Coping with consumer ultra - Teaching children about money and improving family communication By delivering the made of money course to individuals/ families we aim to: - Help families talk, listen and learn about money - Enable families to have more open communication around money and the issues it raises within the home. - Empower adults to feel more in control of their finances and the wider emotional impact that these have - Equip children and young people with the skills needed to make informed choices about money. We will carry out 5 x 7-week courses over a period of 12 months. Each course will work with a maximum of 12 individuals and will also include a session where the whole family are involved. Participants will take part in fun activities which will get them thinking about how they spend their money and look at practical ways of saving. They will complete a spending diary throughout the course which will help with budgeting and planning. Health and Wellbeing: MENSELF + is a partner who will provide their MOT 4 MEN programme which is proving to be hugely successful in engaging men in health promotion activities and affecting change in their help seeking behaviours. This programme will be adapted to offer men and women a health and wellbeing service as well as having other health agencies in attendance on an ad-hoc and identified need basis. This programme is based around the premise that people sometime look after their cars more than they do themselves and the idea is to attach the concept of regular tune-ups to their bodies and mind as well. This service will focus on key areas of health and wellbeing that are directly impacted by welfare reform and they include: • Shock Absorbers – Coping Skills; o Here people complete a questionnaire on how they cope with their daily life. • Exhaust Fumes – Smoking: o Questionnaire on if and why they smoke. This is enhanced with 3D Models of the effects of smoking on people bodies. • Fuel Consumption – Alcohol Consumption: o Again. a questionnaire is completed asking if, how often and how much they dink and what they like or dislike about it. This is also enhanced with the use of 3D Models on the effects of alcohol on their body. • Oil Pressure – Blood Pressure. o This section checks people's blood pressure and develops discussions around concerns of lifestyles and stress levels. • Chassis – Waist Measurement. o This section is based around wait measurement and develops discussions around healthy eating and lifestyles. These stations generate discussions around lifestyles and help seeking behaviours and set out to encourage people to affect and manage positive changes. Just as a car fails an MOT, improvements that are needed will be identified on the day of the Service and changes made will be identified at regular intervals after the Service as people come back to the Drop-In and changed that have been made and or maintained will be recorded to measure the impact of the service. This will be complemented by workshops on the areas above where we will facilitate an educational journey in: • Developing coping skills. • The effects of smoking and passive smoking on health and wellbeing and people's budgets. • The effects of alcohol on health and wellbeing and on family members and how this links in with family budgets. • Healthy eating and lifestyles and how this impacts on family's budgets and health and wellbeing. Employability and Skills + IT Club: This will be an informal resource offering unemployed people support with completing CV's, job search, filling out application forms, preparing for interview and access training opportunities. We will also offer support to access Wellbeing courses that will provide support with: • Confidence building. • Communication skills. • Team working skills. • Identifying personal strengths. • Motivational techniques. • Exploring barriers and developing resilience. • Relating personal strengths to employability skills. Additional Targeted Support: Thriving Places will partner with us to complement and enhance this new service by offering additional support to young people and families by delivering a Homework and Cooking sessions each week. Thriving Places is the name given to an intensive approach that targets specific areas of the city of Glasgow to make better use of existing assets and resources, such as the Whiterose Hall, as our area has been identified by the Glasgow Community Planning Partnership as having consistent levels of inequality relative to other parts of the city including, when you look at child poverty, health indicators and levels of unemployment and require a targeted approach. This new service is also our attempt at a targeted approach to combat the impact welfare reform on our community. We will also recruit volunteers to contribute to making food and supporting families to create affordable healthy eating menus as well as providing healthy free eating options throughout the sessions. Ad Hoc Agencies: We will host days where external agencies will complement our service by presenting information, advice and workshops on issues such as: • Being a Carer. o East End Community Carers. • Household power. o Scottish Power. • Benefits. o Welfare Rights Services. • Disability support. o Glasgow Disability Alliance. • Healthy lifestyles. o NHS. The Project will be further supported by the local youth project, Parkhead Youth Project, as they have agreed to support the delivery of any family orientated events and they have committed to giving us the use of their mini-bus whenever it is needed, subject to availability. 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Currently the project delivers 3 days of CAB advice on an outreach basis in the resource centre. This provides access to welfare benefits advice delivering one to one appointments. Ensuring client income is maximised, to prevent arrears, legal action and eviction through relevant benefit and credit entitlements. Increasing the capacity by providing an additional day of outreach to provide a focused support to clients who are/have transferring/transferred to universal credit. This will allow for more time to be spent on those clients requiring additional support through transition. Why - This is increasing the capacity of an already successful existing outreach advice service. The idea came from the fact that the project is already very well utilised and there is currently already a 2 week waiting time for appointments. With the universal credit roll out happening this month this will be further exacerbated. By providing an additional day of outreach support dedicated to those needing help with issues relating to universal credit will help to prioritise the support and alleviate the pressure on the current essential resource. Consultation on this service has reported 99% satisfaction with its accessibility, length of time for appointment and length of time for follow up support. 89% reported very good when rating the service. Further consultation carried out by Healthy n Happy CDT in July 2017 also evidences why WCRC want to expand this project. Almost 200 residents were consulted about a range of issues in the community. Over 80% believe unemployment is the biggest issue, with 74% indicating poverty as a significant concern. Over 50% were concerned about the changes to welfare reform. Who - This will benefit the residents of the community of Whitlawburn. It will focus on those clients who as a result of being transferred onto universal credit are finding their situation increasingly difficult. For example mounting debt including arrears, struggling to cope with the financial responsibilities and/or sanctions. Increasing this capacity will provide the more specific advice and allow for the existing service to provide its more general welfare benefit advice. Where - The project is aimed at the community of Whitlawburn. Whitlawburn has a population of almost 2000 and is an area of multiple deprivation comprising 145th and 153rd most deprived datazones of 6505, placing it in the 5% most deprived neighbourhoods in Scotland. The income and employment statistics for Whitlawburn comparative to South Lanarkshire and Scotland as a whole according to SIMD 2016 illustrate the extent to which the people in the area are disadvantaged and suffering hardship. 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