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Our Future Now Midpoint Fund Report - Inspiring Scotland

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Our Future Now Midpoint Fund Report

This report celebrates reaching the midpoint of Inspiring Scotland’s 10-year fund – Our Future Now (OFN).

The midpoint report of the Our Future Now fund reveals in five years the fund has supported almost 25,000 young people worst affected by the past five years with over 62% successfully secured an employability outcome of work, education, training or volunteering.

The fund achieves this by making financial and non-financial investment to a portfolio of 12 voluntary sector organisations active across Scotland.

The young people involved in Our Future Now experience barriers to education, training and employment including low confidence, anxiety, mental health issues and challenges at school. These issues can be exacerbated by family and home life, poverty and wider health, and wellbeing challenges.

The fund value has totalled £45m making it the only third sector collaborative and long-term investment programme operating in Scotland at this scale and meeting the needs of a unique group of young people. Inspiring Scotland has raised investment from public and private sources using an investment model that multiplies the value of every pound invested.

 

02.05.2017

Guide: Easy-read guide to Self-directed Support law

Download an easy-read version of the Scottish Government’s statutory guidance to the Social Care (Self-directed Support) (Scotland) Act 2013.

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12.04.2017

Organisational transformation – Murton Trust video

Having worked with Inspiring Scotland as part of the 14:19 Fund since 2009, Murton Trust in Angus has transformed from an under-used outdoor education facility to a a thriving, SQA-accredited vocational training centre.

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23.03.2021

A Practitioner’s Guide: Connection to Nature

  In this week’s #TuesdayTips guest blog we hear from our very own Jo Fitzpatrick- Learning Outdoors Development Officer here at Thrive Outdoors. Jo has extensive experience in outdoor education with the subject of her final masters thesis being on ‘Connection to Nature’. In this blog Jo shares some handy tips and activities you can

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