Boost for Scottish children from Communities and Families Fund
29 Apr 2014 03:47 PM
Children and families in Scotland were yesterday
(29 April) celebrating grants worth £81,327 from the Communities and
Families fund, an initiative supported by the Scottish Government and Big
Lottery Fund.
Amongst
the 10 successful groups is Govanhill Nursery School, in Glasgow. The award of£9,000 will allow the school to create a “secret
garden” especially for the children to play, to learn and to grow food
in.
Based in Chirnside in the
Scottish Borders, Chirnside Whizzkidz will use
their £1,940 award to help them to continue to
run their breakfast club which is attended by around 40 of the village’s
200 pupils. The money will pay for activity materials and cover staff
costs.
In Broughty Ferry an award
of £7,100 to Links Park Community Trust means
they will be able to run a project where parents and children can take part in
a wide range of supervised activities together from football sessions to arts
and crafts. Sessions will be held weekly and will be free to all who take
part.
Announcing the awards, Maureen McGinn,
Chair of the Big Lottery Fund Scotland Committee, said: “The
Communities and Families Fund helps projects give Scotland’s future
generations a good start in life. I’m delighted to announce funding for
today’s wide ranging initiatives which will develop children’s
social skills and learning abilities, creativity and confidence. We’re
keen to hear from groups across the country which could benefit from this
funding. Full details of our simple application process can be found on our
websitewww.biglotteryfund.org.uk/scotland.”
Aileen Campbell, Minister for Children and Young
People, said: “The Scottish Government wants Scotland to be the
best place in the world for children to grow up and a key part of achieving
that involves helping families and communities to flourish.
“This joint venture with the Big Lottery Fund will help make that happen
by allowing communities to bid for funding to deliver the kind of projects they
need to improve the lives of local children and families. It’s good to
see once more, the great success of the project with these latest
announcements.”
The
Communities and Families Fund has a budget of £4.5 million from The
Scottish Government and £1.5 million from the Big Lottery Fund. Groups
can apply for funding from £250 to £10,000. To find out more about
the scheme and how to apply phone 0300
1237110.
Groups can find full details of the programme and how to
apply atwww.biglotteryfund.org.uk/prog_communities_and_families_fund.
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Other awards announced today are:-
Group
|
Project
|
Amount Awarded
|
Newbattle Community Nursery -
Midlothian
|
The
project will improve their outdoor area so that the children can benefit all
year round from a challenging and varied outdoor space.
|
£9,950
|
Handmade Arts - Glasgow
|
Handmade Arts will deliver a programme of activity in
Castlemilk and Govan in Glasgow for pre-school age children along with their
parents/carers. Delivered in partnership with Glasgow Life, sessions involving
parents will be held across 36 weeks and will include physical exercise, dance,
singing, baby massage and storytelling.
|
£10,000
|
Community First - East
Dunbartonshire
|
The
project will provide early and single-parent and baby centred services within
the village of Lennoxtown. These services will mainly focus on baby massage and
yoga and will help build positive parent/child relationships for 24 new parents
and their babies.
|
£8,432
|
Mid
Argyll Youth Development Services – Argyll & Bute
|
The
project will run a second year of a programme of activities for children aged 6
to 8 who are referred from schools and social services. This will provide
health based activities, the opportunity to take part in sports, free food
nights to learn about healthy eating and recreational trips for children and
their families. In addition the group will run a young parents support group
for parents aged 28 or younger with children aged up to five years of
age.
|
£9,912
|
Seashells Nursery – Scottish
Borders
|
The
project will expand its provision for children aged two to three. At present,
the group is limited in how many children in this age group it can cater for
due to financial constraints, limited staffing, and to the equipment, toys and
facilities being more geared to the slightly older age group.
|
£8,521
|
Fauldhouse Playgroup – West
Lothian
|
The
project will redevelop the playgroup's outdoor garden area so that their 13
children can better access and play in this outside space and make better use
of this potential resource. It will provide a play surface which will replace
the existing hard landscaping.
|
£6,472
|
Young People’s Futures –
Glasgow
|
The
project will bring children aged up to eight years and their
families/parents/carers together to deliver a programme of activities for
carers and their child to learn new skills which will help build family bonds.
Programmes will include creative arts, environmental programmes, healthy eating
and outdoor play. The project will benefit 50-75 local
families.
|
£10,000
|
Big
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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.