27/10/17 11:04

Supporting local communities

Funding to tackle poverty.

Community and third sector projects have been allocated a share of £29 million, to find new ways to tackle poverty and improve people’s lives.

The funding, which includes £12.5 million from the European Social Fund, supports the Fairer Scotland Action Plan, published last year. It will benefit around 170 community and third sector groups who will use the investment to deliver projects tackling inequality and supporting inclusion.

The new projects will enable communities to design, test and deliver innovative approaches to combat poverty and improve people’s lives, with each project having a longlasting impact for their community.

Communities Secretary Angela Constance announced the allocation during a visit to West Calder and Harburn Community Development Trust. The organisation will receive £247,000 to employ five development workers to engage with some of the most deprived communities in the area, working to identify and address barriers to participation and accessing community facilities.

Ms Constance said:

“We aim to create a more equal Scotland and want communties to play a part in that. This funding will support local organisations to develop their own ways to address poverty and inequality, in their own areas.

“The successful projects will deliver tangible but innovative approaches to improve lives, based on local people’s priorities, and ensure a genuine impact for individuals and communities.

“For West Calder, that means new jobs, working with their most deprived communities. In other areas it will mean community food and health projects, tackling social isolation, providing nursery and crèche facilities, and increasing access to and use of community assets.

“What ties every project together is empowering and enabling people facing disadvantage to tackle it, with a positive and longlasting impact in their communities and on their lives.”

Matt Pearce, Manager of West Calder & Harburn Community Development Trust, said:

“This funding will allow community development workers to be employed by five of the most disadvantaged communities in West Lothian.

“This new resource will allow each community to be able to make positive changes and

improvements in a way that is decided by the local communities themselves and develop the local organisations to enable this to continue and grow.

“Working together accross communities to share experiences, this will help those individuals and families most in need to have a say in the design and provision of initiatives in their own area and to support exisiting community organisations in their important work.”

Background

The £29 million consists of the £18.9 million Aspiring Communities Fund which supports projects that will tackle poverty and inequality at a local level and the £9.7 million Growing the Social Economy Programme which will invest in third sector organisations and promote the development and testing of social innovation approaches to tackling poverty.

Examples of successful projects include:

With Kids: Calders Children’s Zone

Will establish a Children’s Zone, a neighbourhood based model which raises community aspirations and provides a birth to adulthood approach to improving attainment through lifelong learning, improved mental health and employment.

Maryhill Mobile Children’s Services

To provide and support new childcare places within Evergreen outdoor nursery, opening a fourth day per week. In addition, it will provide long-term support to the respite service, mobile crèche and Dunard after school care.

Move On: Glasgow Holiday Hunger Network

To build relationships with partners and address holiday hunger for families across Glasgow whose children rely on free school meals through community initiatives such as food gardens.

North Kelvin Sports Development Group: North Kelvin Academy – After School Club

To address the need of affordable child-care in the local area, North Kelvin Sports will work with partner schools to deliver a daily after-school club programme in three key delivery sites across the North-West of Glasgow.

To date, more than £13m of ACF has been committed as has £3.3m of the GSEP, with the rest being committed in future funding rounds.

Both funds are supported through European Structural Funds to enhance social inclusion and combat poverty across Scotland. The awards will not be affected by Brexit as HMT have guaranteed EU Funds to projects approved before the UK leaves the EU and SG has passed on this guarantee to all approved projects.

The Fairer Scotland Action Plan is available online.

More information on the Growing the Social Economy Programme and Aspiring Communities Fund is available online.

Contact Information

Scottish Government
Suzanne Hart
Scottish Government
07503288667
noreplycomms@gov.scot

Out of hours please contact 0300 244 0222.

Notes to editors

A full breakdown of successful recipients is below.

Aspiring Communities Fund

A project funded at stage 1 will receive up to £50,000. A project funded at stage 2 will receive between £50,000 and £250,000.

Local Authority Area	Lead Organisation	Project Name	Funding Stage
Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Moray	Community Food Initiatives North East (CFINE)	Food Access Regeneration Education/Enterprise (FARE)	Stage 2
Aberdeen, Dundee, East Lothian	Voluntary Action East Renfrewshire	Collaboration for Transformation	Stage 2
Aberdeenshire	Deveron Projects	The Al-Nofara Café	Stage 1
Aberdeenshire	Tomintoul & Glenlivet Development Trust	Community Participation project	Stage 2
Angus	Voluntary Action Angus	Together Angus: Combating Poverty	Stage 2
Angus, Dundee	Dundee and Angus ADHD Support Group	Research into ADHD Support Needs in Dundee and Angus	Stage 1
Argyll & Bute Dumfries & Galloway East Ayrshire South Ayrshire	AddAction	The Stations Project	Stage 1
City of Aberdeen	Aberdeen Council of Voluntary Organisations	Mentoring Project	Stage 2
City of Dundee	Abertay Housing Association	Enhancing the quality of life in our communities	Stage 2
City of Dundee	Dundee Social Enterprise Network	Childcare for All	Stage 1
City of Dundee	Dundee Voluntary Action	Lochee Community HUB	Stage 2
City of Dundee	RockSolid Dundee	RockSolid Destinations	Stage 1
City of Dundee	The Yard Adventure Centre	The Yard Dundee	Stage 1
City of Edinburgh	Citizens Advice Edinburgh	Improving outcomes through Citizens Advice	Stage 1
City of Edinburgh	Dr. Bell’s Family Centre	Breaking Barriers for Families in Leith	Stage 2
City of Edinburgh	Edinburgh Food Project	Edinburgh Money Advice Centre Research	Stage 1
City of Edinburgh	ELREC	Young People Against Hate	Stage 2
City of Edinburgh	Inch Park Community Sports Club	Creating a hub for the community to thrive	Stage 1
City of Edinburgh	Muirhouse Millennium Centre	Supporting Lone Parents & Low Income Families in North Edinburgh	Stage 2
City of Edinburgh	Nari Kallyan Shangho (NKS)	Assessing Capacity Building Needs of South Asian Women	Stage 1
City of Edinburgh	Old Kirk & Muirhouse Parish Church	Community Action North	Stage 2
City of Edinburgh	Prospect Community Housing	Tasting Change	Stage 2
City of Edinburgh	Thistle Health and Wellbeing	Craigmillar: Community of Wellbeing	Stage 2
City of Edinburgh	With Kids	Calders Children’s Zone	Stage 1
City of Glasgow	Aberlour Childcare Trust	Govan Community Consultation	Stage 1
City of Glasgow	Cassiltoun Stables Nursery	Active Children Active Communities	Stage 2
City of Glasgow	Castlemilk Law Centre	Foodbank Support Project	Stage 2
City of Glasgow	Cernach Housing Association	Drumchapel Community Connecting Plan	Stage 1
City of Glasgow	Community Central Hall	C Squared	Stage 2
City of Glasgow	Community InfoSource	Developing W-ASH Sustainbly	Stage 1
City of Glasgow	Deaf Connections	Sharing and Co-working for an Inclusive Community	Stage 1
City of Glasgow	Elderpark Housing Association	Integrating Built Assets into Alleviating Poverty	Stage 1
City of Glasgow	Food Fruition	Bridge the Gap	Stage 2
City of Glasgow	Fuse Youth Café	Fusemploy Engagement Enterprise	Stage 2
City of Glasgow	GalGael	Weans Work Wisdom	Stage 1
City of Glasgow	Glasgow Homelessness Network	Tenancy Sustainment	Stage 1
City of Glasgow	Glasgow Homelessness Network	Community Budgeting: Building capacity in Thriving Places	Stage 2
City of Glasgow	Glen Oaks Housing Association	Community Connections	Stage 2
City of Glasgow	Govan Workspace	Using Community Assets to Promote Employability and Local Heritage	Stage 2
City of Glasgow	Govanhill Housing Association	South West Govanhill: raising and meeting aspirations	Stage 2
City of Glasgow	Govanhill Housing Association	Enterprising Green Govanhill	Stage 2
City of Glasgow	Maryhill Mobile Children's Services	Maryhill Mobile Children's Services	Stage 2
City of Glasgow	Move On	Glasgow Holiday Hunger Network	Stage 2
City of Glasgow	New Gorbals Housing Association	Community development to support Gorbals Thriving Place	Stage 2
City of Glasgow	Next Step Initiative	Dream to Reality	Stage 2
City of Glasgow	North Kelvin Sports Development Group	North Kelvin Academy - After-School Club	Stage 2
City of Glasgow	North West Women’s Centre	Changing Lives Shaping Futures	Stage 2
City of Glasgow	Possobilities	Possobilities Life Skills	Stage 2
City of Glasgow	Radiant & Brighter	Bright Futures Women’s Groups	Stage 2
City of Glasgow	Simon Community Scotland	Maryhill peer-led landlord model	Stage 1
City of Glasgow	South West Community Cycles	Southside Volunteer Support Services	Stage 2
City of Glasgow	Studio Pop C.I.C.	DOT TO DOT© Maryhill Station [www.dots.scot] Community Development & Social Innovation	Stage 1
City of Glasgow	Task Gorbals Childcare	Family and Childcare Services in Gorbals	Stage 2
City of Glasgow	The Pollokshields Trust	Mark Makers	Stage 1
City of Glasgow	The Village Storytelling Centre	Pollok 80/20	Stage 1
City of Glasgow	Tollcross Housing Association	Glasgow East End Parks Community Led Regeneration Project	Stage 1
City of Glasgow	Toonspeak Young People’s Theatre	Hello Barmulloch: Research & Consultation	Stage 1
City of Glasgow	Whiteinch & Scotstoun Housing Association Limited	WSHA Social Enterprise	Stage 2
Clackmannanshire	Play Alloa	Bowmar Community Development Worker	Stage 2
Dumfries & Galloway	Action for Children	Growing Our Own	Stage 2
Dumfries & Galloway	Cunninghame Housing Association	Lemon Aid Fuel Poverty	Stage 2
Dumfries & Galloway	Dumfries & Galloway Citizens Advice Service	Financial Fitness & Resilience	Stage 2
Dumfries & Galloway	Furniture Project Stranraer	Re Use Plus	Stage 2
Dumfries & Galloway	Moffat Town Hall Redevelopment Trust	Monday well-being centre	Stage 2
Dumfries & Galloway	Sacro	Antisocial Behaviour Reduction Scoping Project	Stage 1
Dumfries & Galloway	Soul Soup	Community Heart and Soul	Stage 2
Dumfries & Galloway	Third Sector Dumfries & Galloway	Community Food Growing Network	Stage 1
Dumfries & Galloway, Glasgow, West Dunbartonshire	SURF	Exploring Community Assets & Aspirations in Three Disadvantaged Places	Stage 1
Dundee, Edinburgh, Midlothian	Bethany Christian Trust	Building Stronger Communities	Stage 1
East Ayrshire	Darvel Community Trust	Darvel & Newmilns – a Hub to Deliver Improved Life Chances and Social Inclusion	Stage 1
East Ayrshire	Support In Mind Scotland	Well Connected Communities	Stage 1
East Ayrshire, Falkirk, Fife	Coalfields Regeneration Trust	Reclaiming Our Coalfield Communities	Stage 1
East Ayrshire, North Ayrshire, South Ayrshire	Centrestage Communities Ltd	EAT (Eat And Train) on the Road	Stage 2
East Renfrewshire	Barrhead Housing Association	Make It Your Own	Stage 2
East Renfrewshire	Young Enterprise Scotland	Pathways Development	Stage 1
Edinburgh Glasgow	Saheliya	Saheliya Enterprise	Stage 2
Edinburgh North Ayrshire Stirling West Lothian	Scotland's Learning Partnership	SALT Project	Stage 2
Falkirk	CVS Falkirk & District	Community Capacity Building in Falkirk	Stage 2
Falkirk	Cyrenians	PSS – Prepare, Support and Sustain	Stage 1
Falkirk	Falkirk & District Association for Mental Health	Prevention is better than cure	Stage 2
Fife	Brag Enterprises Ltd	The Fairer Fife Consortium Project	Stage 1
Fife	ClearFife	Methil & Buckhaven Green Regeneration	Stage 2
Fife	Collydean Community Centre	Collydean Community Centre Development Project	Stage 2
Fife	Dunfermline Advice Hub	Dunfermline Advice Hub	Stage 1
Fife	FEAT Trading CIC	Silverburn Community Development	Stage 1
Fife	Glen Housing Association	Balmaise Community Centre	Stage 1
Fife	Kirkcaldy YMCA	Aspiring Gallatown	Stage 1
Fife	Ore Valley Housing Association	Ore Valley Community Growing Project	Stage 1
Fife	PAS (Planning Aid for Scotland)	Making Places – Bridging the Gaps	Stage 1
Fife	Transform Community Development	FareShare Fife	Stage 2
Glasgow Renfrewshire	West Of Scotland Regional Equality Council (WSREC)	Minority Ethnic Advocacy Project (MEAP)	Stage 2
Highland	Action for Children	Catalyst	Stage 2
Highland	Birchwood Highland	Highland Migrants & Refugee Advocacy Alliance	Stage 2
Highland	Broadford and Strath Community Company Ltd	Broadford & Strath Forest School	Stage 1
Highland	Calman Trust	Your Voice	Stage 1
Highland	Ecologia Youth Trust	Growing 2gether	Stage 2
Highland	Gairloch and Loch Ewe Action Forum	GALE Centre Capacity Building and Employability Services	Stage 2
Highland	Highland Homeless Trust	Invergordon Foyer, Employment, Training & Social Hub	Stage 1
Highland	Kyle of Sutherland Development Trust	Business Development	Stage 2
Highland	Kyle of Sutherland Development Trust	Community Engagement Across Sutherland	Stage 2
Highland	North Lands Creative Glass	Glass Collective: Getting Creative with Glass Skills	Stage 1
Highland	Tighean Innse Gall	Gluasad Comhla	Stage 2
Inverclyde	Branchton Community Centre Association	Greenock South West Community Activators	Stage 2
Inverclyde	Cloch Housing Association	Community Art Works	Stage 1
Inverclyde	CVS Inverclyde	Our Place Our Future	Stage 1
Inverclyde	Inverclyde Community Care Forum	Places, People & Peers	Stage 2
Inverclyde	Parklea Playing Fields	Parklea Branching Out	Stage 2
Midlothian	Midlothian Voluntary Action	Woodburn & Central Dalkeith Development Project	Stage 1
North Ayrshire	Irvine Community Sports Club	Get up and Go Irvine	Stage 1
North Ayrshire	The Ayrshire Community Trust	Be Inspired	Stage 1
North Lanarkshire	Airdrie CAB	North Lanarkshire Tribunal Representation Unit	Stage 2
North Lanarkshire	Love Learning Scotland	Inside Out	Stage 2
North Lanarkshire, South Lanarkshire	Money Matters Money Advice Centre	Money MAP	Stage 1
Orkney	Voluntary Action Orkney	Community Led Care	Stage 1
Perth and Kinross	Churches Action for the Homeless (CATH)	Homeless Employability Research	Stage 1
Perth and Kinross	Forward Coupar Angus	Community Led Education and Training	Stage 1
Perth and Kinross	Letham Wellbeing Community Hub Project team	Letham Wellbeing Community Hub - Consortium and Community Capacity Building Development	Stage 1
Perth and Kinross	PKAVS Mental Health & Wellbeing Hub	Lost in Transition – Improving Mental Health Outcomes for Young People, with Creative Action	Stage 2
Renfrewshire	Active Communities	Feel good Ferguslie	Stage 1
Renfrewshire	Impact Arts	Creative Ageing Volunteer Development Programme	Stage 2
Renfrewshire	Linwood Community Development Trust	Woodland Nursery	Stage 2
Renfrewshire	New Tannahill Centre	New Tannahill Campus	Stage 1
Renfrewshire	Paisley Housing Association	West End Transformation (WET)	Stage 2
Renfrewshire	RAMH	Connectedness in Our Communities	Stage 1
Renfrewshire	The STAR Project	Support, Equip, Include	Stage 2
South Ayrshire	Aspire2Access	Tandem	Stage 1
South Lanarkshire	CCI Scotland	Supported Woodcraft Social Enterprise	Stage 2
South Lanarkshire	Childcare in The Community	Sharing the Voice of Single Parents	Stage 1
South Lanarkshire	Community Links (South Lanarkshire)	HUB Legacy Project	Stage 2
South Lanarkshire	Families Like US	Juniors Child & Adult Activity Centre	Stage 2
South Lanarkshire	Healthy n Happy CDT	Understand Imagine Create	Stage 1
South Lanarkshire	Regenfx Youth Trust	INFORM	Stage 1
South Lanarkshire	The Haven CCC Centre	Be Included Be Involved	Stage 2
The Scottish Borders	Outside the Box	Borders Happiness Habits	Stage 2
West Dunbartonshire	Clydebank HA	Connecting Clydebank	Stage 2
West Dunbartonshire	Sacro	Sacro's Positive Intervention Programme (PIP)	Stage 2
West Dunbartonshire	Visibility	Listen & Link West Dunbartonshire	Stage 1
West Dunbartonshire	West Dunbartonshire CVS	Social Prescribing Network	Stage 2
West Lothian	Craigshill Good Neighbour Project	Connected Good Neighbour Networks	Stage 2
West Lothian	West Calder & Harburn Community Development Trust	Aspiring West Lothian	Stage 2
Western Isles	Harris Development Limited	Harris Marina Hub – Developing the Vision	Stage 2

Growing the Social Economy Programme

Social Innovation Fund: Projects funded at stage 1 received an award between £30,000 and £50,000, and at stage 2 between £100,000 and £150,000.

Project Partners	Project Name	Funding Stage	Local Authority Area
Glasgow Caledonian University	Cool Music (Community Orientated & Opportunity Learning Music Project)	2	Edinburgh & Lothians
Heavy Sound Community Interest Company
Community Renewal Trust	New Affordable Cremation Social Enterprise	2	Various
Heriot Watt University
Mydex CIC	Improving Equality & Empowerment through Person Centred Energy Advice Service	2	Renfrew
Scottish Transport Studies Group
Kibble Education & Care Centre	Children's Shared Living Care Home	2	Glasgow
University of Strathclyde
University of Glasgow	Safespot: A Stepped Wedge Study of an Innovative App & Mental Health Support Package for Scottish Schools	2	Glasgow
Safespot Ltd
Shelter Scotland	Time for Change	2	Dundee
Heriot Watt University
Glasgow Homelessness Network	Housing First Transition	1	Glasgow
Heriot Watt University
Peoples Development Trust	The Community Food Hub	1	Glasgow
University of Glasgow
Shelter Scotland	Supported Lodgings Pilot	1	Various
Heriot Watt University
Abertay University	Breaking the Chain	1	Dundee
Showcase the Street
Glasgow Bike Station	Bike Share for All	1	Glasgow
Edinburgh Napier University
University of Edinburgh	Community Music Workshops for Social Integration among Individuals with Impairments	1	Glasgow
Limelight Music Ltd
High Life Highland	The Learning Ladder of Possibilities: Engaging Strategies to Address Social Exclusion & Rural Poverty	1	Highland
UHI – Inverness College
Friendly Access	Dynamic Interactive Navigation for Familiarisation & Desensitisation	1	Moray
Glasgow School of Art
Communities Along the Carron Association	Cycling Without Age	1	Falkirk
Heriot Watt University
Social Enterprise Academy	School-to-Community Social Enterprise Hub	1	Various
Institute for Public Policy Research
West Fife Enterprise Ltd	Keep Fife Moving		Fife
Robert Gordon University
Dundee City Council on behalf of 5 local social economy partners	Tackling Funeral Poverty in Dundee through Social Enterprise	1	Dundee
University of Dundee
Fed of City Farms & Community Gardens	Community Growing Learning Alliances	1	Edinburgh
University of Gloucestershire

Social Economy Growth Fund: minimum award £100,000 and maximum award £250,000.

Local Authority Area	Organisation	Project Title
Argyll & Bute	Argyll & the Isles Coast and Countryside Trust	ACT Argyll
Argyll & Bute	Recycling - Jura/Islay Group	Islay Pollinator Initiative - WorkerBee Project
Dumfries & Galloway	Apex Scotland	CoRE (Community Resilience)
Edinburgh	Grassmarket Community Project	GRAFT
Edinburgh & Lothians	Working Rite	Rite On
Fife	Fife Gingerbread	Gateway to Inclusion
Glasgow	Braveheart Industries	BHI Phase 2 Developments
Glasgow	Govan Home & Education Link Project	Growing Govan's Workforce
Glasgow	Govanhill Baths Community Trust	Rags to Riches
Highland	Albyn Housing Association	Reducing Financial & Housing Disadvantage
North & South Lanarkshire	Access to Industry	Growing Passport Polmont
North, South & East Ayrshire	Cunninghame Furniture Recycling Company	Better Homes Ayrshire (BHA)
Renfrew	Williamsburgh Housing Association	Work/Life Service
Various	Action on Hearing Loss	Hear for Welfare
Various	Spruce Carpets Ltd	Real Works