Access to Industry’s ‘Passport CashBack’ will provide a service for young people aged 16 to 22 in HMP YOI Polmont that increases their employability skills prior to liberation. On liberation from Polmont, it will support them into jobs, college and training. The project will consider all young people in Polmont as having the potential to build skills towards employment, regardless of length of sentence.
We are pleased to have recently become a member of the Association of Charitable Foundations (ACF), the leading membership association for foundations and independent grant-makers in the UK. Commenting on joining, Celia Tennant, Inspiring Scotland Chief Executive said: “As an established funder and grant maker operating at scale in Scotland, we are committed to
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This blog shares some practical tips from our Survivors of Childhood Abuse Support (SOCAS) fund teams’ experience alongside resources you can use to develop your grantmaking practice. It follows on from a presentation to the 4th Meeting of the Trauma-Informed Grantmaking Community of Practice on 27 Feb 2025. Trauma happens when we experience very stressful,
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Today (Thursday 27 February 2025) the Support in the Right Direction fund team launched a report focusing on the last round of funding, which ended in March 2024, and lasted almost six years. During this time, 31 organisations received funding of £15.8 million to provide independent support to people navigating the social care system to
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