[APPLICATIONS FOR THIS FUND ARE NOW CLOSED]
The Community Play Fund, aimed at supporting childhood health and wellbeing through play, opened in May 2019.
Outdoor play improves childhood health and wellbeing, helps to raise attainment and aspiration, thereby addressing inequality and improving the life chances of Scotland’s most vulnerable and disadvantaged children and families. The Community Play Fund will provide financial and development support to eligible Scottish charities delivering outdoor play-based interventions for children.
This funding is targeted at areas of high deprivation within local authority areas that have not already received significant funding. Applications for up to £35,000 will be considered, though the average award is likely to be less than this.
Unfortunately, any charity currently receiving funding from the Children, Young People and Families Early Intervention Fund (CYPFEIF) provided by Scottish Government and managed through the Corra Foundation is not eligible.
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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