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Community Renewal - lifting Neighbourhoods Together (CRLNT).
Community Renewal: Lifting Neighbourhoods Together (CRLNT) is an innovative approach, grounded in 20 years of expertise from Community Renewal Trust, ending persistent poverty in the most deprived neighbourhoods in Edinburgh and Newcastle. Currently active in Bingham, Magdalene, and The Hays (Edinburgh), with partner organisation Building Futures East replicating it in Walker (Newcastle), the proj…
WG13 - social enterprise café offering affordable meals, hospitality training and work experience support.
WG13 is a local restaurant café with an event space and gift shop. It has been set up as a social enterprise offering training and work experience to those in the community who may face barriers to employment. It offers part time courses of up to 26 weeks designed to enhance trainees’ work and life skills. The course is aimed at a diverse range of trainees including those that have additional supp…
Networks of Wellbeing - strengthening social bonds and mental health in rural communities.
Networks of Wellbeing (NoW) is a Huntly-based charity focused on improving mental health and community wellbeing. Rooted in the Five Ways to Wellbeing, it offers free counselling, peer support, mindfulness, gardening, walking groups, veterans’ breakfasts, and more—both in person and online. NoW works with local GPs, schools, care homes, and organisations to reduce isolation and build resilience. I…
Using Data to Inform and Direct Intervention and Support - evidence-informed planning to improve poverty outcomes in Aberdeen.
Aberdeen City Council's project, ‘Using Data to Inform and Direct Intervention and Support’, combines data held by the Revenue and Benefits Manager and other organisations to identify levels of financial exclusion and unclaimed benefits faced by residents. The project also seeks to provide money, advice, and support to people who find themselves homeless. The data collected is used to advise on su…
Midlothian Peer Research - A Case for Change through a Placed-Based Approach, Building Skills and Influencing - peer-led insights informing service improvements in Midlothian communities.
The project was led by Midlothian Sure Start in partnership with Midlothian Council. It was one of nine successful applicants to the Child Poverty Practice Accelerator Fund–which was set up to explore promising approaches or redesign services to maximise their impact on child poverty. The project supported low-income families to take part in community action and advise on improvements in local ser…
The Hub (Coatbridge) – a community space offering free meals, wellbeing sessions and support services to reduce poverty, tackle food insecurity and strengthen local connections
The Hub, launched by the Manorview Foundation in October 2023, is a community space in Coatbridge, dedicated to supporting people experiencing poverty. It offers essential services such as youth groups, adult wellbeing sessions, and a teenager safe space, providing warmth, free meals and social support, while regularly adapting services based on community feedback. Under the Manorview Foundation’s…
Pollokshaws Community Hub and Garden - empowering residents through practical support, skills and wellbeing.
Pollokshaws Community Hub and Garden offers a variety of community-based activities to foster a sense of camaraderie within the Pollokshaws area. These activities include a community meal every Monday, practical skills classes such as woodworking and sewing, and programmes focused on personal health development. Additionally, the Hub provides support for individuals facing wellbeing challenges, of…
Community Guiders (Ninewells Hospital, Dundee) – hospital-based support linking patients in financial and food crisis to small grants and wider advice networks
The Community Guiders project identifies adult inpatients at Ninewells Hospital, Dundee (NHS Tayside) who are experiencing financial difficulties. Volunteers and staff are trained, using NES Raising the Issue training with additional local input, to recognise signs of food and financial insecurity. They engage patients in conversations about their circumstances and, where appropriate, offer small …
No Recourse North East Partnership and NRPF - tackling and preventing destitution Project.
The No Recourse North East Partnership (NRNE) was established to provide support and guidance to partner agencies assisting non-UK nationals with NRPF in the Grampian region. The original motivation in forming the group was to support survivors of domestic abuse with insecure immigration status. With recent increasing numbers of people seeking asylum residing in Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire and Moray, …
CHANCES-6 - understanding the Impact of Cash-First Approaches on Poverty, Mental Health, and the Life Chances of Young People.
Chances-6 brings together an interdisciplinary team of researchers to work with communities and stakeholders in enhancing cash transfer programmes, aiming to improve their impact on mental well-being as a pathway to optimising returns on investment. The project integrates research with policy engagement across six low- and middle-income countries (Brazil, Colombia, South Africa, Mexico, Liberia an…