Part of Organised Outdoor Community Play Fund.
PLUS supports children and young people with disabilities and additional support needs, across the Forth Valley. They provide opportunities and support for children and young people to access social, community, leisure and recreational activities of their choosing, similar to those of their non-disabled peers. Pre Covid-19 this including accessing public facilities e.g. the park, swimming, and day trips.
Parents and carers benefit from a vital break while their child or children are at PLUS, which increases both their capacity and resilience to continue in their caring role.
The Outdoor Fund is helping PLUS achieve their vision to create an attractive and inviting outdoor environment that fully supports social, learning and recreational opportunities for the children and young adults who use our services.
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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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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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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