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Grassmarket Community Project - Inspiring Scotland

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Grassmarket Community Project

The Grassmarket Mission was founded in 1890 and has historically provided a variety of services to homeless people in the Grassmarket area of Edinburgh where they traditionally gathered. Grassmarket Community Project takes an innovative approach to creating community and providing sanctuary and support to participants, many of whom are amongst the most vulnerable of our citizens. Through mentoring, social enterprise, training and education in a nurturing environment, the Project develops skills which enable participants to develop to their full potential and move away from cycles of failure.

With funding from BBFF, Grassmarket Community Project hired a Youth Engagement Officer who works with young people with multiple complex barriers, helping them toward sector-based training opportunities.

Invitation to tender
08.07.2024

Invitation to tender

Inspiring Scotland invites tenders to undertake a locality needs assessment for services responding to violence against women and girls. Glasgow East Women’s Aid in Easterhouse recently ceased operating bringing to an end their domestic abuse service and delivery of community gender-based violence (GBV) services in the area. This leaves a gap in direct frontline service

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Kinship Learning and Collaboration
27.06.2024

Kinship Learning and Collaboration

We recently brought together organisations to host an event looking at where kinship care currently is in Scotland and where it needs to be to support young people and their wider families to thrive.     The kinship care landscape in Scotland “We need to do more for kinship carers and children”    Since 2016, Inspiring

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The Power of Sport and Physical Activity since the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow
26.06.2024

The Power of Sport and Physical Activity since the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow

Earlier this month, some of the  Inspiring Scotland Thrive Outdoors team, alongside partners   hosted a workshop at the Power of Sport and Physical Activity Conference. The conference, held at Easterhouse Community Hub, marked 10 years since the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games, and looked to celebrate the power of sport and physical activity for people to

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