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Single Parents and Higher Education: Barriers to access and recommendations for change

Commissioned by The Robertson Trust, this report explores the barriers faced by single parents (SP) in accessing higher education (HE) and offers targeted recommendations to improve inclusivity and support. This research by One Parent Families Scotland (OPFS), through consulting single parents, outlines the financial, structural, and emotional challenges encountered by single parents and highlights necessary policy and institutional reforms.
July 2025

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Single Parents and Higher Education: Barriers to access and recommendations for change

Commissioned by The Robertson Trust, this report explores the barriers faced by single parents (SP) in accessing higher education (HE) and offers targeted recommendations to improve inclusivity and support. This research by One Parent Families Scotland (OPFS), through consulting single parents, outlines the financial, structural, and emotional challenges encountered by single parents and highlights necessary policy and institutional reforms.

PDF 503.2 KB July 2025

Impact and Insights Report: Financial Security

Through our Financial Security theme, we want to see a Scotland where people are financially secure and able to live lives free of poverty and poverty-related trauma. This report starts to tell the story about the differences we are contributing to as we seek to prevent and reduce poverty and trauma in Scotland.

PDF 30.9 MB May 2025

Funder Commitment on Climate Change 2024 Report

Our 2024 report as part of the Funder Commitment on Climate Change is now available.

PDF 11.5 MB April 2025
Evaluation of the Robertson Scholarship

Evaluation of the Robertson Scholarship

Eexternal evaluation which carried out by the Scottish Centre for Social Research (ScotCen). The purpose of this evaluation was to build a fuller picture of how the schoalrship is perceived by scholars and externally and to gain a stronger understanding of which elements contribute to the biggest changes.

PDF 709.8 KB February 2025
2023 Grant Holder Survey - Social Change

2023 Grant Holder Survey - Social Change

In June 2023, we hosted a survey for our grant holders. To ensure anonymity for respondents, we commissioned NPC to analyse the findings. The findings from this survey have been divided into two reports. One focuses on customer service questions which allow us to see how we were are working as a funder, and what we could improve to be more effective. The other shows what our grant holders are doing (if anything) around broader issues of social change. It also helps us to see where we might be able to offer better support to organisations. This publication is the report on social change. We have also included a link to the customer service report below.

PDF 502.9 KB October 2024
2023 Grant Holder Survey - Customer Service Report

2023 Grant Holder Survey - Customer Service Report

In June 2023, we hosted a survey for our grant holders. To ensure anonymity for respondents, we commissioned NPC to analyse the findings. The findings from this survey have been divided into two reports. One focuses on customer service questions which allow us to see how we were are working as a funder, and what we could improve to be more effective. The other shows what our grant holders are doing (if anything) around broader issues of social change. It also helps us to see where we might be able to offer better support to organisations. This publication is the customer service report. We have also included the link to the report on social change below.

PDF 345.9 KB October 2024