Support in the Right Direction
This partnership between Lothian Centre for Inclusive Living and The Action Group supports people who have a social care package across Edinburgh and the Lothians through peer support groups and learning opportunities to promote self-directed support. User led peer support groups help disabled people, older people, people with long-term health conditions, and carers to share their lived experience around self-directed support and generate collective mobilisation on issues affecting people’s lives and their experience of self-directed support. Training and workshop sessions are provided on SDS and related topics for social care users, care providers and local authorities. LCIL lead on delivery of the peer support groups, while The Action Group co-facilitates peer support for carers from BAME communities with LCIL.
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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