Working Together: Inspiring Scotland in 2019
? We support essential charities to become extraordinary charities, enabling them to support the people and communities in Scotland that experience inequality and help them to change their lives for the better. We do it because we want a healthy, happy and thriving Scotland, without poverty or disadvantage. Introducing Working Together, the 2019 Annual Review of our
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Support In The Right Direction Progress Update
This Progress report provides an update on  project activity from October 2019 to 31 March 2020. As the Covid-19 pandemic and subsequent lockdown started to take effect in the last couple of weeks of the latest report period. In June 2020 we asked projects what the impact of lockdown was on their activities and how
Read MoreSupport in the Right Direction Progress Report: Year 1 April – September 2015
This report for the Support in the Right Direction Fund reviews the progress  between April and September 2015. Download the Resource
Read MoreSupport in the Right Direction Innovation Fund Progress Report: Year 1 April – September 2015
This report for the Support in the Right Direction Innovation Fund reviews the progress of the fund between April and September 2015. Download the Resource
Read MoreSupport in the Right Direction Fund: Year 2 Report 2016/17
The Self-directed Support: Support in the Right Direction Fund (2015 – 2018) aims to build the capacity and availability of independent support services across Scotland. In this second year £2.9 million was spent by 36 funded projects delivering Independent Support and this report outlines reported progress to March 2017. Projects are delivering a range of activity
Read MoreSupport in the Right Direction Fund Interim Progress Report: Year 2 April-September 2016
The Support in the Right Direction Fund (2015-18) aims to build the capacity and availability of independent support services across Scotland. £1.36 million has been invested in 36 projects in the first half of Year 2 (1 April 2016 – 30 September 2016).
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Self-directed Support Innovation Fund Progress Report: Year 2 2016/17
Innovation Fund Progress Report April 2017 The Self-directed Support Innovation Fund (2015-2018) aims to support innovation and piloting of different service models as well as help develop the capacity of practitioners and providers to implement Self-directed Support. In Years 1 and 2 of the Fund (April 2015 – March 2017) 21 projects spent a total
Read MoreSelf-directed Support Innovation Fund Interim Progress Report: Year 2 April-September 2016
The Innovation Fund (2015-2018) aims to support innovation and develop the capacity of providers to develop the workforce and to support people to directly or indirectly purchase support. £0.58 million has been invested in 21 projects in the first half of Year 2 (1 April 2016 – 30 September 2016).
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Research Scotland Evaluation of Creative Communities Phase 1 November 2021
The Creative Communities Programme is based on the belief that it is communities themselves who are best placed to articulate their needs and how to meet them. The Programme is therefore deliberately flexible, supporting a range of different initiatives and outcomes. We commissioned an independent evaluation of the programme from Research Scotland. The evaluation
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Research into Digital Exclusion in Scotland
During Covid-19 we knew the levels of digital exclusion across Scotland would become forefront. Our calls with charity leaders and frontline staff highlighted what we knew: Pre-existing inequality meant that people across Scotland were excluded from accessing support services and that many of these services were compromised, reduced or couldn’t be delivered due to lack
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Link Up: Local People Building Flourishing Communities
For people to thrive, three things really matter: supportive relationships, confidence and self-esteem. Seven years of Inspiring Scotland’s Link Up programme has demonstrated beyond doubt that these three things are not only fundamental human needs essential for individual wellbeing, they are the foundations on which individuals and communities can change things for the better. Find out
Read MoreLink Up Phase 1 Independent Evaluation
This evaluation of Link Up by ODS Consulting has found that Inspiring Scotland has successfully delivered its asset-building approach in ten communities in Scotland. There is clear evidence that this has had significant positive personal impacts for those residents who have been actively involved in these communities.
Read MoreLink Up – Background, rationale and logic model
Link Up looks at how strengthening social networks and facilitating opportunities for people to help each other through an activity, builds trust. It also explores how supporting others through these activities increases the confidence and capacity of individuals to seek solutions to their own problems instead of outsourcing their needs to external organisations.
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Inspiring Scotland – What we do
We strive for a Scotland without poverty or disadvantage. Through our thematic funds, covering issues from youth employment to childhood health and wellbeing to community development, we work with and fund the organisations and people who can have the greatest impact. We want to make Scotland a better place and everyone at Inspiring Scotland, and
Read MoreInsights: Disadvantaged young people: the depth of the impact of Covid 19
Disadvantaged young people: the depth of the impact of Covid 19 is the third in a series of insight papers around youth unemployment.
Read MoreFree to Play: A guide to creating accessible and inclusive public play spaces
Free to Play: A guide to creating accessible and inclusive public play spaces is designed to ensure that all children and young people, including those with additional support needs, can exercise their right to play in their local communities. Written by play, children’s rights and inclusive play space experts, Theresa Casey and Harry Harbottle, the guide has
Read MoreEvaluation of Active Play in Glasgow by Blake Stevenson – Dec 2016
Read the independent evaluation by Blake Stevenson into the impact of Active Play in Glasgow. This report covers the first cohort of pupils to take part in the programme from August 2016 and was completed in December 2016.
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