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Home | News | Young people secure £200,000 for Covid-19 response

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Young people secure £200,000 for Covid-19 response

School students from throughout Scotland have secured a total of £200,000 for their communities’ efforts tackling the far-reaching impacts of Covid-19.

The 50 successful ‘Your Community Fund’ submissions will each receive £4000 from The Wood Foundation. The local charities, represented by teams of young people through creative digital packages, address social issues including food poverty, social isolation, homelessness, alongside physical and mental health.

Sir Ian Wood, Chairman of The Wood Foundation, said:

“Your Community Fund had to be put together very quickly to support the disruption to our YPI programme in a large number of schools and I congratulate The Wood Foundation staff on the great work they’ve done.

“It’s clear the young people have really enjoyed the role they can play to help the world outside their front door while they’ve had to remain at home.

“Many of the submissions were really very impressive. It was great to see how much young people cared about their causes and the different ways they told the charities stories and the difference the money would make to them.”

Your Community Fund is an adaptation of The Wood Foundation’s Youth and Philanthropy Initiative (YPI) and was offered as an opportunity to schools who could not complete their planned programme of activity due to school closures. More than 90 submissions were received from the length and breadth of the country.

Jonathan Christie, Deputy UK Director at The Wood Foundation, said:

“Empowering #generationchange at a generation-defining time was really important to us and we knew we had to adapt quickly in order to do this in a meaningful way. We wanted to support Scotland’s communities in a way that allowed young people to retain the delegated responsibility which is the central to our YPI programme. Your Community Fund gave them a platform to advocate and create, applying their research, remote teamworking, and skills to a real-world context.

“Our close partnerships with schools have been key in the success of securing these submissions. Because of these efforts funds can now be granted to organisations that young people passionately believe need it most in their local areas to tackle the far-reaching impacts on coronavirus.”

The funds will be sent to charities in the coming weeks.

YPI will return to schools after the summer holidays with a number of key adaptations, informed by the Your Community Fund process, put in place to ensure the opportunity for young people to make a difference in their communities while developing a host of skills can continue during periods of blended learning and social distancing.

YPI was introduced to Scotland by The Wood Foundation in 2008. The programme has granted more than £4.5m to charities and engaged 200,000 young people in each of the country’s 32 local authorities.


The successful schools and charities are:

Mental Health Aberdeen – Albyn School                  

AFC Community Trust – Banchory Academy            

Feeling Strong – Carnoustie High School

Radio Tay CFK – Carnoustie High School

Steps to Hope – Craigmount High School

Health in Mind – Craigmount High School

Cyrenian – Fettes College

SAMH – St Augustine’s High School

Thistle Foundation – Stewart’s Melville College

Vintage Vibes – The Mary Erskine School

Craigmillar Literacy Trust – The Mary Erskine School

Forth Valley Men’s Shed – Lornshill Academy

Western Isles Cancer Care Initiative – Sir E Scott School

Soul Soup – North West Community Campus

D&G Mental Health Association – North West Community Campus

Food Train Dumfries – North West Community Campus

Dumfries Hospital League of Friends – St Joseph’s College

Showcase the Street – Grove Academy

Feeling Strong – Grove Academy

Dalmellington Band – Doon Academy

Ayrshire Cancer Support – Kilmarnock Academy

Govan Community Project – Bearsden Academy

Carers Link – Bearsden Academy

Drumchapel Foodbank – Douglas Academy

Social Bite – Lenzie Academy

East Dunbartonshire Voluntary Action – Turnbull High School

Falkirk Autistic Bairns – St Mungo’s High School

The Butterfly Trust – St Mungo’s High School

Eats Rosyth – Dunfermline High School

Fife Voluntary Action – Dunfermline High School

Toby’s Magical Journey – St Andrew’s RC High School

St Margaret of Scotland Youth – Notre Dame High School

Mikeysline – Dingwall Academy

Ross-shire Womens Aid – Dingwall Academy

Thurso Community Development Trust – Thurso High School

Social Bite – Lasswade High School

SIMBA – Lasswade High School

Alzheimer Scotland – Buckie High School

Abbie’s Sparkle Foundation – Keith Grammar

Ayrshire SANDS – Auchenharvie Academy

Fullarton Community Association – Greenwood Academy

Break the Silence – St Matthew’s Academy

Spina Bifida Hydrocephalus Scotland – Greenfaulds High School

North Lanarkshire Womens Aid – Greenfaulds High School

Jack and Jill – St Margarets High School

Samaritans – Stromness Academy

Renfrewshire Foodbank – Renfrew High School

TD1 Youth Hub – Galashiels Academy

Hansel Foundation – Kyle Academy

Steps to Hope – Balfron High School

For more information, contact ypi@thewoodfoundation.org.uk

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by Lynsey Brosnan | Posted on June 22nd, 2020October 27th, 2020

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