Youth

Following a hugely successful pilot with the Young Islanders Challenge, Youth Scotland will to continue their work with Scotland’s young people from island communities to build the Young Islanders Network.

The new online platform and youth network has been launched to help young people from all the Scottish islands share their voices, views and experiences.

Thousands of businesses can now apply for up to £15,000 to help retrain and upskill their workforce.

The Scottish Government’s Flexible Workforce Development Fund provides workers in organisations of all sizes with access to training courses through local colleges, the Open University in Scotland and Skills Development Scotland.

The Helping it Happen Awards 2022, run by Scottish Land & Estates, have announced the finalists within five of their nine categories. Each of the categories focuses on an area in which rural businesses are positively impacting Scotland’s economy and environment.

The overall focus of the Helping it Happen Awards is on recognising the role estates, farms and rural businesses play in enabling and supporting success in rural communities, rural businesses and rural landscapes.

The Scottish Rural Childminding Partnership (SRCP) pilot project, led by SCMA, is supporting the recruitment and training of more than 100 new professional childminders in rural and remote communities within ten areas of Scotland, which have been identified as having an urgent need for more high-quality, flexible childcare.

The importance of water safety awareness was marked by Community Safety Minister Ash Regan on World Drowning Prevention Day last week.

Are you interested in advancing equality across rural and island Scotland? Help us understand what support is already out there by taking part in this survey.

The Scottish Government has published SRUC research ‘Improving our Understanding of Child Poverty in Rural and Island Scotland' -

Youth Scotland have recently launched the Young Islanders Network website – you can visit it here.

The website is an online space to help develop and grow a network of young islanders where they can express themselves, their views and experiences. It comes as part of a partnership with the Scottish Government and the National Islands Plan.