Organisations awarded share of £3.2 million fund.
Greater than 50 initiatives tackling social isolation and loneliness all through Scotland have obtained a share of a brand new fund.
Actions delivered by the organisations embody neighborhood choirs, strolling soccer, Males’s Sheds and volunteering alternatives.
Equalities Minister Emma Roddick visited Inverness Foodstuff, one of many profitable initiatives, to see the affect of their work and listen to how help via the Social Isolation and Loneliness Fund will profit the local people.
Ms Roddick stated:
“Social isolation and loneliness can have an effect on anybody, however particularly these most affected by the price of residing disaster equivalent to disabled individuals, youthful individuals, and people who stay alone.
“The Social Isolation and Loneliness Fund is offering help to a variety of initiatives throughout Scotland which ship very important providers of their communities. Inverness Foodstuff is a superb instance of how this Scottish Authorities funding will assist to carry extra individuals collectively, creating stronger social connections and enhancing public well being.
“We’re decided to deal with the hurt brought on by this hidden drawback and this Fund is simply one of many actions we’re taking to assist deal with social isolation and loneliness via our plan, Recovering our Connections.”
Inverness Foodstuff has been awarded a grant of £72,000 to ship their lunch membership twice per week within the Hilton space of Inverness. The lunch membership will profit an estimated 2,400 homeless and susceptible individuals within the space over the period of the Fund.
Chair of Inverness Foodstuff Stuart Black stated:
“Inverness Foodstuff has operated from Ness Financial institution Church since 2015 providing sizzling meals thrice per week, utilising surplus meals. However, it’s greater than only a meal. We provide entry to clothes, debt aid, IT help, psychological well being help, housing and homelessness help and entry to hairdressing. Inverness Foodstuff additionally supplies 75 volunteering alternatives.
“Over the previous yr we’ve got served 8,500 meals in our metropolis centre premises, a rise of 58% in comparison with 2021-22. This displays the price of residing disaster and the extent of poverty in our metropolis. We’re delighted to achieve Scottish Authorities funding to broaden our service into Hilton, a recognised space of want, in partnership with Highlife Highland.”
Background
The Social Isolation and Loneliness Fund will ship £3.2 million to 53 neighborhood initiatives and organisations between August 2023 and July 2026.
The initiatives have a selected concentrate on assembly the wants of individuals most liable to social isolation and loneliness together with younger individuals, disabled individuals, these with a psychological well being situation, older individuals and other people residing in areas of deprivation or on a low earnings.
The Fund is being managed by Impression Funding Companions on behalf of the Scottish Authorities.
Organisations receiving a grant Native Authority areas Abbey Church of Dunfermline Fife Huge Hearts Neighborhood Belief Edinburgh Caithness Voluntary Group Highland Look after Carers Edinburgh (some exercise throughout Scotland) Contact Level in East Dunbartonshire SCIO East Dunbartonshire Cowal Aged Befrienders SCIO Argyll and Bute Cumnock Juniors Neighborhood Enterprise East Ayrshire Cunninghame MS Drop-In Centre North Ayrshire Denny Neighborhood Assist Group Falkirk Easthall Residents Affiliation Glasgow Edinburgh Device Library Edinburgh Forth Neighborhood Useful resource Centre Steering Group South Lanarkshire Freedom Of Thoughts Neighborhood Choir Falkirk Gilded Lily Inspiring Enterprise CIC Glasgow Good Morning Venture Restricted (often known as Good Morning Service) Glasgow (South Ayrshire) Grampian Hospitals Artwork Belief Aberdeen (Aberdeenshire) Helensburgh Lunch Membership Argyll and Bute Dwelling-Begin East Lothian East Lothian Inverkip Neighborhood Initiative Inverclyde Inverness Foodstuff Highland Letham4All SCIO Perth and Kinross Lochside Neighbourhood Group South Ayrshire Maryhill Integration Community Glasgow Mearns & Coastal Wholesome Dwelling Community Aberdeenshire Merkinch Partnership Ltd Highland North Argyll Carers Centre Argyll and Bute Our Neighborhood Kitchen East Lothian Guardian to Guardian Ltd Dundee Pilmeny Improvement Venture Edinburgh Pilton Neighborhood Well being Venture Edinburgh Venture Potential Glasgow (attendees from Glasgow and surrounding LA areas) Sanday Afternoon Membership Orkney Scottish Males’s Sheds Affiliation Highland (focusing on this space and the Islands) Stepping Out East Lothian The Linda Tremble Basis (buying and selling as SupportED) Fife (Edinburgh, Glasgow, Stirling & on-line throughout Scotland) The Dwelling Reminiscence Affiliation Edinburgh (West Lothian) The City Roots Initiative Glasgow The Properly Multi-Cultural Useful resource Centre Glasgow Woodlands Neighborhood Improvement Belief Glasgow Beith Neighborhood Improvement Belief North Ayrshire British Deaf Affiliation Glasgow (Aberdeen, Inverness, Elgin, Dundee, Ayrshire, Glasgow, South/North Lanarkshire, Dumfries and Galloway, Borders, Edinburgh) Carers Hyperlink East Dunbartonshire East Dunbartonshire Down’s Syndrome Scotland Glasgow (Edinburgh,Dundee, Highland, Aberdeen, Glasgow and Perth & Kinross) ENABLE Scotland Glasgow (Renfrewshire, East Dunbartonshire) Fife Society for the Blind aka Seescape Fife Glasgow Affiliation for Psychological Well being Glasgow Glasgow Incapacity Alliance Glasgow Grampian Society for the Blind, working as North East Sensory Companies (NESS) Aberdeen (Moray) Dwelling-Begin Glasgow South Glasgow Kibble Training and Care Centre Renfrewshire (Glasgow) Lanarkshire Affiliation for Psychological Well being (LAMH) North Lanarkshire Tagsa Uibhist Na h-Eileanan Siar The Nationwide Autistic Society Glasgow (neighbouring Native Authorities, on-line throughout Scotland)
Recovering our Connections
