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The Crowdfund Scotland programme comes to an end this year. The team wants to share as much knowledge as possible, both to help those who might work with crowdfunding projects into the future, and those who might run their own crowdfunder. They will be running a series of final online events, including free Train the Trainer sessions, with the Kelvin Valley and Falkirk event taking place Monday 26th October, 2pm – 3pm. The team has also set up a series of public webinars, aimed at those going to run their own crowdfunder; the first is next Wednesday 30th September at 10am.

This week’s Funding Insight Bulletin is now live! The insight bulletin is generated by the Grantsonline Funding Portal, the UK’s most comprehensive and up to date UK grant funding information service.

Venture Trust’s Inspiring Young Futures programme supports young people to develop sustainable lifestyles and reach positive destinations in employment, education, training and volunteering. The main aim of the programme, and the wilderness journey, is to equip and prepare young people to access mainstream support while being open to further learning and more able to sustain employment.

Outside the Box is expanding their Permission to Dream project, a mental health peer support project which works with small groups of people, enabling them to support each other by improving the quality and quantity of social connections they have. They are looking to start new groups across the Falkirk district for people living with mental health issues, who are also former carers, adoptive parents, or young people. There will also be 3 geographical groups.

Trading Standards Scotland (TSS) has released various social media materials aimed at targeting and combating Energy Marketing Scams. The frequent changes in the availability of energy efficiency incentives make it easy for dishonest companies to scam consumers. Scammers say that funding or grants are available, yet ask consumers to pay for the products up front or take out a loan.

National Work Life Week 2020 takes place Monday 12th October – Friday 16th October, aiming to act as an opportunity for both employers and employees to focus on wellbeing at work and maintaining a healthy work-life balance.

The Scottish Women’s Convention (SWC) will hold their “Women and Social Care in Scotland” online conference on Monday 5th October, 3pm – 5pm, via Zoom. The conference is free to attend, covering everything from women’s experiences before and during the COVID-19 pandemic, to what needs to be done in future to make social care work for everyone in Scotland.

Self Management Week 2020 takes place Monday 28th September – Friday 2nd October, with this year’s theme being My Wellbeing, My Life. The national week highlights and recognises self management approaches happening across Scotland, raises awareness across health, social care and the third sector, and engages people to think about how self management can support their health and wellbeing. To celebrate, the Health and Social Care ALLIANCE Scotland has released a toolkit to support people getting involved in the week.

In addition to their other events, Diabetes Scotland is holding: Diabetes UK Learning Zone: An Introduction on Wednesday 30th September at 7pm (with Senior Clinical Advisor, Karen Davis, who will talk about their Learning Zone platform) and Living with Diabetes Q&A for Urdu and Punjabi Speakers on Monday 28th October at 7pm (with Dr Kashif Ali and Dr Naz Ghouri, which will be conducted in English, Urdu and Punjabi).