Sam brings more than 30 years’ business development and organisational acumen to managing Scottish Government’s CashBack for Communities programme.
With experience at executive level and across a variety of banking industry disciplines, Sam has adapted his commercial knowledge and ability garnered at RBS and Lloyds TSB to the voluntary sector to help CashBack-supported organisations dramatically develop efficiency, capacity and impact.
His experience in relationship building and managing multiple projects simultaneously has helped to foster a fruitful collaborative environment within the programme – contributing to its continued success in investing in Scotland’s young people and tackling inequalities.
We are pleased to share that Equalities Minister, Kaukab Stewart has announced a £2.4 million funding uplift for over 100 organisations supported by our Delivering Equally Safe fund. The funding boost will bring the total Scottish Government investment in Delivering Equally Safe (DES) up to £21.6 million for 2025/26. The announcement was made during Ms.
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The Scottish Government’s recent public consultation on Developing a Universal Definition of ‘Care Experience’ presents a critical opportunity to address the imbalance of support available to those experiencing the ‘care system.’ intandem, managed by Inspiring Scotland is a national mentoring programme for young people in, or at risk of experiencing the ‘care system’, is well
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If Elaine Crichton has a specialist topic, it would be diversifying Scotland’s Boards through recruitment and bespoke training of Trustees. It’s an area she is not just enthusiastic about but also well placed to offer guidance and training, having provided 46 organisations in-depth governance and board development support in the last year. She also walks
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