CashBack for Change uses dance and drama to engage and positively influence those most at risk of displaying anti-social behaviours and/or entering the criminal justice system. In partnership with theatre company Glass Performance, YDance will deliver a 3-strand programme which will benefit young people aged 11-21.
Read MoreCashback Off The Bench is a 16 week programme for young people aged 18-24, which will be delivered by 5 Scottish Professional Football League Club Trusts within their local communities. With support from key partners Police Scotland, Scottish Fire & Rescue and the Procurator Fiscal, trained coaches will work to encourage positive behaviour change in
Read MoreA bespoke employability programme that re-engages people with offending backgrounds into the community and supports their aspirations towards a sustained positive destination, including the labour market, by giving them the confidence, resilience and skills required. The Foundation will also delivery employability workshops and information sessions in HMYOI Polmont, HMP Addiewell, HMP Greenock and HMP Barlinnie.
Read MoreA collaborative project across Edinburgh involving police officers, working alongside inspirational Peer Mentors and TYLAC volunteers, who use their lived experience of the criminal justice system, trauma, and adversity to make a real difference to the lives of young people. The team use their unique skillset to engage and work with vulnerable young-people aged 16–24
Read MoreEarly support and prevention service for young people (11-18) involved in offending, antisocial or risky/self-harming behaviours. 12-week programmes delivered with mixed or single-sex groups as well as 1:1 support as appropriate.
Read MoreAn early intervention, one-to-one support service for young people aged 10-15 years on the edges of offending, delivered in West Dunbartonshire. Young people will engage in one-to-one support in their community with partner support brought in to address need, combined with significant backing to strengthen intergenerational family relationships.
Read MoreA multi-layered, progression and outcome focussed arts project, for young people (aged 12 – 24 years) in the Highlands. Working with a network of partners who support young people and families who have, or are at risk of, encountering crime, our project aims to help reduce offending, strengthen our communities and improve lives.
Read MoreOver three years we will work alongside Scotland’s five secure units supporting young people and families to rebuild their relationships with the aim, where possible, of enabling young people (aged 12+) to return to their family home. Cyrenians will offer a combination of mediation, practical support and conflict resolution workshops at two stages: the point
Read MoreAchieve More Scotland will provide weekly, early intervention and diversionary based activities for young people, aged 10-24, across 6 identified areas in Glasgow and South and North Lanarkshire. This project will involve sports coaching and youth work activities being delivered on a weekly basis in targeted communities. In addition to the weekly activities, we will
Read MoreAccess to Industry’s ‘Passport CashBack’ will provide a service for young people aged 16 to 22 in HMP YOI Polmont that increases their employability skills prior to liberation. On liberation from Polmont, it will support them into jobs, college and training. The project will consider all young people in Polmont as having the potential to
Read MoreThe National Autistic Society Scotland is a charity for autistic people and their families. Through its Moving Forward with CashBack for Communities programme, it offers support to young people from areas of deprivation with autism who are furthest from the work force and provides follow up support to sustain positive destinations.
Read MoreThe Prince’s Trust helps young people aged 13 to 30 get into jobs, education and training. Its CashBack for Communities project is CashBack Awards in the theme of Journey to Employment. The project is designed to provide grants to disadvantaged young people aged 13 -24 who are ready for positive destinations but cannot access education,
Read MoreOne of the UK’s largest children’s charities, Barnardo’s provide a number of services which include family support, befriending, mentoring, parenting groups and many more. Barnardo’s is supported by CashBack for Communities.  More information is available on the CashBack.scot Barnardo’s East Ayrshire is one of the 13 charities in the Intandem portfolio. For more information see
Read MoreYouth Scotland is the network of youth clubs and groups across Scotland. Its CashBack for Communities project is Generation CashBack in the theme of Diversionary Youth Work and works within a consortium of Youth Scotland, Girlguiding Scotland, Boys’ Brigade and Scouts Scotland.
Read MoreThe Wise Group is a social enterprise founded that tackles social, economic and environmental problems. It’s CashBack for Communities project, CashBack Connections, is a two-year programme which will target young people in stage 1 and 2 of the employability pipeline.
Read MoreYouthLink Scotland is the national agency for youth work. It is a membership organisation and represents the interests and aspirations of the whole of the sector both voluntary and statutory. Through CashBack for Communities it administrates an annual small grant scheme to resource community-based youth work organisations to provide diversionary activities for disadvantaged young people.
Read MoreVenture trust works with disengaged young people aged 16 to 25 years by giving them time and space in a wilderness setting, enabling them to progress into employment, education or training. 14:19 Fund investment supports Inspiring Young Futures, a personal development programme for young carers and those leaving care aged between 16 and 19 years.
Read MoreAction for Children delivers services aimed at young people who are unemployed and who may have other issues restricting their ability to access the job market. OFN investment supports a number of important programmes that improve young people’s ability to move into a positive destination such as Youthbuild, Hospitality, Aiming High and STAY. CashBack for
Read MoreEstablished in 1994, Impact Arts is a forward-thinking community arts organisation which uses the arts and creativity to enable and empower social change. Impact Arts aims to help people and communities transform their lives through creativity and the arts. In 2017, Impact Arts started to receive investment through CashBack for Communities.  More information is available
Read Morebasketballscotland is the governing body for basketball in Scotland. It’s CashBack for Communities project is CashBack for Communities Basketball Vs Disadvantage in the Sport for Change theme. The project will support disadvantaged young people through the Schools of Basketball programme.
Read MoreBridges Project is a charity which works with young people in East Lothian and Midlothian to help them manage the transition from adolescence to young adulthood and life beyond school. It’s #Way2Work#CashBack project is in the Journey to Employment theme and will provide intensive 1:1 mentoring and group work to those young people furthest from the work force.
Read MoreCeltic FC Foundation, the charity arm of Celtic Football Club, runs CashBack Gateway to Employment in the Journey to Employment theme with funding from CashBack for Communities. The project provides developmental opportunities that will increase confidence and self esteem, change behaviours and attitudes and improve physical and mental well-being.
Read MoreCreative Scotland is the development body for the arts and creative industries in Scotland and will run the CashBack for Creativity programme. Through CashBack for Creativity, it will deliver two grant initiatives open to all 32 local authority areas to support art organisations to provide disadvantaged young people with pathways to increase attainment, positive destinations
Read MoreOcean Youth Trust Scotland is a youth work charity, delivering a programme of residential youth work voyages aboard its fleet of sail training vessels. It’s CashBack for Communities project is On Course with CashBack in the Diversionary Youth Work theme.
Read MoreScottish Rugby Union is the national body for rugby union in Scotland and through CashBack for Communities runs the CashBack Schools of Rugby in the theme Sport for Change. The project will form 15 new CashBack Schools of Rugby at host secondary schools in some of the most deprived areas in Scotland.
Read MoreScottish Sports Futures delivers Education Through Sport programmes in communities across Scotland using inclusive sport and physical activity as a means of engagement. It’s CashBack for Communities project is CashBack Active Journeys in the theme Sport for Change.
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