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Additional support for Scottish families thanks to cash injection
More support for Scottish families is being made available, thanks to the latest awards announced yesterday (27 MAY) by the Big Lottery Fund.
Six projects providing practical help for parents bringing up their children are sharing in£1,629.008 from the Fund’s Investing in Communities programme.
Announcing yesterday’s investment, Big Lottery Fund, Scotland Chair, Maureen McGinn, said: “Many families will, at some point in their lives, need that bit of extra support to help them through difficult periods. Feelings of isolation, the effects of low income or the risk of homelessness, for example, are just some of the issues which today’s projects will help to tackle. They also have a common goal of helping people live healthy, more positive lives, which will benefit families both now, and in the future.”
Inverurie based Home-S tart Garioch will use a grant of £257,964 to provide a one-to-one volunteer home-visiting service for families with a child under five.
Mhairi Philip, Senior Co-ordinator, said: “This award will allow us to continue helping families who are disadvantaged by low income, rural isolation and disability. We match individual volunteers with each family so that they can receive both practical and emotional support. The resulting improved relationships within the families in turn ensure better outcomes for the children.”
A grant of £380,241 for the Growing Together project from Cornerstone Community Carewill provide support to the families of children with special needs.
Susan Lorimer, Cornerstone's Children's Services Manager said: “We are delighted to have been awarded this funding. Each family will have their own unique journey and support will be tailored to meet their individual requirements and personal challenges. By providing this valuable support service Cornerstone can lend assistance to people in times of need and enable families to enjoy fulfilled and valued lives."
Home-Start Lorn will use the award of £108,649 to develop and extend its current service which helps isolated and vulnerable families on the Isle of Mull, improving family relationships, reducing isolation and increasing confidence in parents.
Aileen Binner, Co-ordinator Home-Start Lorn, said: "This is wonderful news. I am delighted that families throughout the Island of Mull will now be able to benefit from the unique support Home-Start offers to families with young children. I am looking forward to recruiting a new member of staff to our team and building closer links to the communities on Mull."
A
grant
of £246,948 for roshni’s Minority Ethnic Parenting Network will provide intensive, tailored
family support to disadvantaged minority ethnic families
in Glasgow on an outreach basis, working with the
family in their home environment.
Ali Khan, Executive Chair, roshni, said: “Roshni is
delighted to receive funding to develop a unique, bespoke and culturally
sensitive service which reflects roshni’s commitment to supporting
minority ethnic families. Roshni will help support parents to bring up
confident, healthy and responsible children, and improve relationships within
the family and the wider community. We would like to thank Big Lottery Fund
Scotland for their support and believing in roshni and the positive impact the
project will bring not only to the families we work with but also the wider
community.”
An award of £405,576 for Shelter will support families in Edinburgh with children under 11 years, and affected by homelessness, by delivering a range of personalised support packages designed to help family relationships and support tenancies.
Graeme Brown, Director of Shelter Scotland, said: “The Building Families project combines our housing support and homelessness expertise with CHILDREN 1ST‘s broad range of skills and knowledge of working with children. Educational and social development are key to a child’s long-term health and wellbeing, so by supporting children to make the most of their family life, schooling and leisure time, Building Families will make a real difference to the life chances of all those it works with.”
Signpost Recovery in Clackmannanshire has been awarded a grant of £229,630 to provide in-depth support to families who are adversely affected by parental substance misuse.
Norrie Moane, Operations Manager, Signpost Recovery, said: “The Time4Us project works with children and families affected by their parents’ drug and/or alcohol use in Forth Valley. The award will ensure we are able to continue this vital service and will really help to make a difference in people lives.”
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Notes to editors
- The Big Lottery Fund is responsible for giving out 40% of the money raised for good causes by the National Lottery.
- The Fund is committed to bringing real improvements to communities and the lives of people most in need and has been rolling out grants to health, education, environment and charitable causes across the UK. Since its inception in 2004 it has awarded close to £6bn.
- In the year ending 31 March 2013, 28% of total National Lottery revenue was returned to the Good Causes. Since the National Lottery began in 1994, £31 billion has been raised and more than 400,000 grants awarded.
- The Scotland Committee makes Big Lottery Fund decisions on Scottish projects. As well as taking devolved decisions on Lottery spending, the Committee, led by Chair, Maureen McGinn, has and will continue to play a strategic role in the future direction of BIG in Scotland.
- The Big Lottery Fund is investing in Scotland’s communities through its Investing in Communities portfolio, as well as a number of small grants schemes.
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