Hot Chocolate Trust is a city centre youth work organisation in Dundee supporting 300-400 young people each year with their journeys into adulthood. We blend responsive, holistic youth work with specialist work and resourcing (e.g. creative arts, education, employment and training support, activism) to maximize young people’s participation, agency, responsibility and outcomes.
Our Future Now Fund investment supports flexible youth work which helps each young person build the confidence, support and opportunities they need to move into and through positive destinations in education, employment and training.
Today (30 April 2025), the Perinatal and Infant Mental Health (PIMH) fund team published a report sharing insights from four years of managing funding to support parents’ and infants’ mental health and wellbeing across Scotland. Inspiring Scotland managed £3.8 million of Scottish Government funding through the PIMH Fund between October 2020 and September 2024. This
Read MoreMore funding has been announced for the Scottish Government’s Autistic Adult Support Fund and is available to third sector organisations providing services to autistic adults – promoting wellbeing and helping them to understand what neurodivergence means for them. Since 2023, the Scottish Government has allocated £1.5 million to 15 organisations, including those helping autistic adults
Read MoreMore funding has been announced for the Scottish Government’s Autistic Adult Support Fund and is available to third sector organisations providing services to autistic adults – promoting wellbeing and helping them to understand what neurodivergence means for them. Since 2023, the Scottish Government has allocated £1.5 million to 15 organisations, including those helping autistic adults
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