£100 million of Communities Fund already delivered to key support services

Organisation

Amount

Brief outline of project

Young Scot

£46,992

Young Scot will deliver Covid-19 information and social media support for young people.

Who Cares?

£175,132

Support for the Care Experienced Community.

British Deaf Association Scotland

£26,212.50

Public health information to be translated into British Sign Language (BSL) and for there to be an easy, one-stop shop approach for BSL users to find official information

Scottish Women’s Aid

£1,350,000

Deliver increased provision of support

Rape Crisis Scotland

£226,309

Deliver increased provision of support

Child Poverty Action Group

£104,877

Ensure the most up to date advice and support is disseminated to advisors to support families in need through increasing staffing levels; provision of IT equipment to facilitate the move to home provision of support; development and delivery of webinars to a group of front line advisors; subscription costs, development of benefit advice bulletins and increased advice line capacity. 

One Parent Families Scotland

£100,000

Deliver increased provision of support

Simon Community

£296,000

Securing emergency accommodation in Glasgow and Edinburgh to support vulnerable people through the COVID 19 Crisis. Their actual funding proposal shows this is for two months

Simon Community

£21,290

Extra accommodation in Edinburgh

Glasgow Night Shelter

£153,500

Destitute Asylum Seekers – Emergency accommodation response for destitute asylum seekers

Age Scotland

£80,000

Helpline costs

Gypsy/Travellers - Various Partners

£73,600

Deliver increased provision of support

LGBT Health and Wellbeing

£10,000

Provide telephone support to more isolated members of the LGBT community, with a particular focus on older LGBT people and those experiencing digital exclusion, and expand their LGBT Helpline Scotland from 2 to 4 days per week.

LGBT Youth Scotland

£41,500

To improve support for the LGBTI community in Scotland, particularly those aged 13-25, throughout Covid-19 through accelerating development of a Digital Youth Work platform, including learning hub to offer improved support, help them develop greater resilience in relation to their mental health and in time, new skills and strengths.  

BEMIS

£56,100

To provide access to essential food to diverse minority ethnic communities across Scotland through a network of organisations via a Small Grant Sustenance Fund and emergency grant relief to individuals and families or those supporting them directly such as foodbanks.

Befriending Network

£6,333

Additional staff costs to support befriending organisations

Glasgow Disability Alliance

£85,800

Additional staff costs for telephony and online support

Equality Network

£3,932.82

To provide Zoom accounts to allow regional LGBT groups to stay in contact, many of whom have members who are socially isolated for a number of reasons

SCoJeC

£4,650

The proposal has 3 parts: 1. Connecting with Jewish Communities (£2,750), 2. Crisis Hardship Fund (£2,000) and 3. Providing food packages urgently for Passover (£1,900) totalling £6,650.

DeafBlind Scotland

£30,000

To produce information in Braille, Moon, XXL print, BSL videos or audio CDs; increase access to advocacy and advice staff to help people understand what support is available to access grants and support; and to increase home visits for Deafblind people who don’t have self-directed support.

Social Bite

£500,000

The provision of food and essential supplies to vulnerable groups in Edinburgh, Glasgow and Aberdeen through the Covid-19 crisis 

FareShare

£500,000

To purchase and distribute ambient food

Cash For Kids

£500,000

To give vouchers/cards to families for essential items including food and fuel

Food Train

£241,515

To respond to the increased demand for older people seeking home delivery of food

Coalition with support from the Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations (SCVO)

Up to £3,000,000

The Scottish Government is working with SCVO as part of a coalition programme to ensure funding gets to community groups

Intercultural Youth Scotland

£22,296

Provides for a range of activity to support young minority ethnic people, particularly around mental health support and careers support

Barnardo’s

£178,000

To provide direct support to 2,100 children, young people and families with an estimated distribution of £23k per week, plus £40k across the period to support capital spend (e.g. laptops/phones/activity packs to support school work and reduce social isolation). Barnardos’ is working with Action for Children to ensure a cohesive approach is taken across Scotland.

Action for Children

£202,000

To support over 20,000 children and young people, including disabled children, care experienced young people, and young carers, and their families, through a two-tier response: i. Welfare Response and Emergency Fund which will distribute funding support to young people and families and ii. Wellbeing Response and Safeguarding Capacity which will increase the organisation’s capacity to protect children, young people and families at greatest risk who may be more isolated than ever due to the current situation.