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Oldham Positive Action Network (OPAN) - working alongside communities to shape responsive support.
The Oldham Positive Action Network comprises volunteers, residents, and professionals who work together to transform existing systems and services in the area. OPAN collaborates across sectors, working with communities across Oldham to empower unheard voices, tackle systemic issues relating to poverty, pave pathways into employment, and nurture community pride. At its core, this project wants to s…
Support for Families with Disabilities – supporting families living with disabilities across Moray through lived experience feedback.
The project focuses on improving support for families with disabled children who may be experiencing financial hardship. It aims to better understand their needs through direct engagement while also exploring how the current support systems can be improved. Although income support continues to be provided, the project highlights the ongoing challenges families face and the gaps in current services…
Pan Agency Decision Making Panel - embedding lived experiences and community voices in local child poverty action efforts.
North Ayrshire Council’s Child Poverty Strategy Team was established in January 2025 following the award of funding through the Scottish Government’s Fairer Futures Partnerships programme. The programme supports local authorities to test place-based approaches, with a clear emphasis on co-design with local communities. This case study focuses on the first stage of the work: the Pan Agency Decision…
Big Noise - amplifying Young Voices Through Music, Creativity and Community.
Big Noise is a social change programme that works intensively with children, young people and families within targeted communities that experience poverty. There are five Big Noise programmes in Raploch and Fallin (Stirling), Govanhill (Glasgow), Torry (Aberdeen), Douglas (Dundee), and Wester Hailes (Edinburgh), supporting around 4,000 children and families every year. Big Noise uses the symphony …
Dundee Child Poverty Pathfinder – a collaborative, place-based approach to tackling Child Poverty.
The Dundee Child Poverty Pathfinder tests innovative, sustainable approaches that support disadvantaged families and tackle child poverty in Dundee. Its four core partners—Dundee City Council, Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), the Scottish Government and Social Security Scotland—engage with and provide person-centred support for local families. The project initially targeted families in Dund…
DAWSUN Sewing Hub and Free Clothing Exchange Hub – Providing ethnic minority women community sewing skills, language practice, and pathways to employment.
DAWSUN Sewing Hub and Free Clothing Exchange Hub provided free textile training for ethnic minority and low-income women. The project helped in building confidence and supporting pathways into employment, with some clients progressing into paid sewing and alteration roles. The Sewing Hub has now ended. The Free Clothing Exchange Hub continues to run monthly, offering free clothes, shoes and bags t…
Flourishing Families - group-based family support programme building resilience, communication and positive relationships for young people and families.
The Flourishing Families Project is one of COVEY’s initiatives for families and young people. It provides group-based support, activities and experiences aimed at building communication, team building, positivity, and stronger relationships amongst participants. Recent activities include activity based outings, positivity workshops, team games and creative projects for new members. The project pro…
Maternity Matters - improving wellbeing in pregnancy through targeted, joined-up support.
The Maternity Matters programme tested whether the established Money Matters service could effectively support women identified by midwives as having Special Needs in Pregnancy (SNIP). The programme aimed to help pregnant women who were identified by staff as having potential or confirmed additional vulnerabilities, to access and act on targeted financial advice. Building on long-standing partners…
Flexible Childcare Services Scotland - empowering Scotland’s workforce through adaptable childcare.
The project delivers flexible, affordable childcare, allowing families to book only the hours they need, use funded early learning and childcare hours flexibly, and adapt childcare around irregular or changing work and study patterns. The project helps to mitigate childcare as a barrier to parental employment, particularly for families on low incomes or in insecure work. The model operates on a pa…
Challenging Poverty Related Stigma. Supporting Local Authorities to Develop Poverty Stigma Awareness Programmes.
The City of Edinburgh Council’s, Challenging Poverty Related Stigma project aims to reduce poverty stigma through the delivery to organisational staff a series of ten short awareness videos funded by the Scottish Government’s Child Poverty Accelerator Fund. Released monthly, the videos explore poverty, stigma, empathy, and supportive practice. The project seeks to improve staff understanding of ho…