National Youth Work Awards 2019 Nominations Open

Posted on November 23, 2018

Nominations for the National Youth Work Awards 2019 are now open.

Organised by YouthLinkScotland, the awards run across 15 categories, including Youth Worker of the Year, Team of the Year, Community-based Youth Work, and the Lifetime Achievement Award.

Nominees can be entered in more than one category, and young people are also encouraged to nominate youth workers or youth work groups.

The deadline for nominations is Monday 26^th November.

To submit your nominations, or for further information (including guidance notes), please visit the YouthLink Scotland website.

Alternatively, for further information, contact YouthLink Scotland by email: awards@youthlinkscotland.org

Safe and Fun Falkirk Halloween Activities During COVID-19

This year’s Halloween will be a bit different for everyone. Some of our local people and community groups are organising alternative outdoor Halloween activities and sharing their crafty ideas so everyone can still enjoy the holiday safely across Falkirk. Our team has gathered some of them on our website, including costume competitions, spooky recipes, pumpkin trails, crafty ideas and old Scottish traditions that might be worth reviving this strange year.

Jupiter Community Upcycling Catalogue Available

Jupiter Community Upcycling is a new social enterprise run by The Conservation Volunteers (TCV) Scotland, which supports people from different backgrounds to learn new skills by recycling and upcycling using wood diverted from landfill, and has now launched their new catalogue with items for sale.

Creative Scotland Youth Arts Emergency Funding

Creative Scotland have released new funds to support project activity with children and young people, including the Youth Arts Small Grants Scheme (allows organisations and local authorities to apply for small grants funding of up to £50,000, to distribute £500 – £5,000 to freelance artists and creative practitioners, to deliver youth arts activities; deadline for applications is Monday 2nd November) and the Youth Arts Access Fund (offers grants of £5,000 – £30,000 to those who run youth arts programmes, to support activity from March 2021 onwards. Applications proposing specific actions and partnerships to tackle inequality will be prioritised; deadline for applications is Thursday 12th November).

Weekly Funding Insight Bulletin: w/c Monday 19th October

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.