Our Future Now (OFN) is a 10-year committment for Scotland’s young people. Here for young people whose start in life isn’t equal. Affected by poverty and disadvantaged by where they live or their family circumstance they must work unfairly hard to overcome a wide range of challenges.
In addition to the statistics for the last year you will find piercing insights from charity leaders in the report, describing the challenges young people face at this time together with their confidence that the situation can be improved significantly given time and support.
This report covers April 2022 to March 2023 – year four of the fund.
2011 marked the three year milestone for the 14:19 Fund and I am pleased to report it is successfully achieving exactly what it set out to – supporting disadvantaged young people across Scotland into employment, education or training. These initial three years have provided £19.2 million of direct cash investment in the ventures in the
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