Star Project (Renfrewshire) - holistic community development project delivering a range of creative services to tackle poverty

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Poverty impact


Poverty driver


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Aim

The aim of the project is to tackle poverty by building stronger and more resilient community members through a creative, person-centred and trauma informed approach.

Summary

Star Project is a holistic community development project in Paisley that takes a person-centred approach to deliver a range of services to tackle poverty. The services include for example counselling, a Befriending Scheme, workshops, Men’s Shed for mental health support, targeted activities for children, a community fridge and a pantry. Community members with lived experience of poverty are involved in the development and delivery of the project shaping the direction of Star. Star Project utilises creativity, culture and playfulness, and they take a trauma informed approach. Star’s mental health support is popular in the community, and the Project has contributed to forming a lived experience panel to inform the Renfrewshire Council on policy.

What difference does it make?

The Star Project is a charity that provides comprehensive support to the Renfrewshire community. They recognise that this support is not just based on individual components but are comprehensively connected. They are person-centred and operate on a case-by-case basis, recognising individual needs. Star Project contributes to research outputs and local governance structures through for example their participation in informing the Renfrewshire Council on the establishment of a lived experience panel and contributions to Renfrewshire Tackling Poverty Commission’s research on local poverty issues. Their positive impacts on local mental health issues are evidenced through provision of services like the Befriending Scheme where service users have reported increased confidence to access other forms of support and social spaces as a result of the Scheme.

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Organisations

Star Project

Location

Renfrewshire, with some referrals from Glasgow, Ayrshire and Falkirk

Status:

Live

Start date:

  1999

No planned end date

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