Perinatal and Infant Mental Health
Action for Children delivers services aimed at young people who are unemployed and who may have other issues restricting their ability to access the job market.
OFN investment supports a number of important programmes that improve young people’s ability to move into a positive destination such as Youthbuild, Hospitality, Aiming High and STAY.
CashBack for Communities supports employability programmes. For more information visit cashbackforcommunities.org.uk
Action for Children is also one of the 13 charities part of the intandem portfolio. For more information visit intandem.scot
Perinatal and Infant Mental Health: Action for Children’s non-clinical, community based parenting and peer support service provides support for women and families affected by or at risk of perinatal and mental health issues. Focussing particularly on young parents, lone parents, and other parents who have experienced trauma or lack support networks, the PIMH Fund grant will support delivery of services in Western Isles for three years and West Dunbartonshire for one year.
The first 14 projects supported by the Neighbourhood Ecosystem Fund will kick start their local nature restoration projects this month. Ecological surveys, wetland restoration, pond excavations, peatland restoration and biodiversity surveys are just some of the projects that will benefit from the £146,000 of funding. Additionally, each project will receive £1,500 to be spent on
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(Tuesday 26th August) the First Minister and Minister for Higher and Further Education Graeme Dey, joined Inspiring Scotland to launch the mid-point impact report of its 10-year youth employment fund. The fund, Our Future Now (OFN), delivered by charity Inspiring Scotland is focused on supporting the bedrock of circa 40,000 young people in Scotland that
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Minister for Equalities Kaukab Stewart and COSLA ‘s Community Wellbeing Spokesperson Councillor Maureen Chalmers launched the latest Equally Safe Delivery Plan yesterday (Tuesday 13 August 2024) at an event hosted by Glasgow and Clyde Rape Crisis Centre. Inspiring Scotland manages the Delivering Equally Safe fund on behalf of the Scottish Government, which supports third sector
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