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Scottish Government’s Community and Third Sector Recovery Programme funding stream is now open, offering both organisational support and funding to deliver services. The Community and Third Sector Recovery Programme aims to support charities, community groups, social enterprises and voluntary organisations that are supporting people and communities through the shift from lockdown to recovery. The programme has two strands: the Adapt and Thrive programme (running until March 2021), and the Communities Recovery Fund.

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.