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.
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
Read MoreWe 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
Read MoreEarlier 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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