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Awards for 2025/26
A breakdown of our funding in 2025/26 so far.
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Recruitment: External members for key governance committees
We are recruiting for individuals to join two of our key governance committees as independent members. These roles offer the opportunity to bring your expertise to an organisation committed to preventing and reducing poverty and trauma across Scotland.
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£1.4M awarded to 40 organisations across Scotland in June
We are delighted to announce our latest funding recipients, with 40 organisations awarded £1.4M to support their work to prevent and reduce poverty and trauma across Scotland.
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£2.3M awarded to 76 organisations across Scotland in April (1)
We are delighted to announce our latest funding recipients, with 76 organisations awarded over £2.3M to support their work to prevent and reduce poverty and trauma across Scotland.
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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.
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Facilities hire
Find out about hiring conferencing facilities, meeting venues and office space at Robertson House in Glasgow and The Barracks in Stirling.
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Expanding our scholarship: Introducing three new support offers to enhance diverse student pathways
Our scholarship programme is evolving to better meet the needs of students who face significant barriers to accessing and succeeding in Higher Education.
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Issues affecting mature students in higher education
This report, produced by the Scottish Wider Access Programme (SWAP), explores the experiences of adults considering, entering, or progressing through higher education in Scotland. Commissioned by The Robertson Trust, the research draws on survey responses and focus group discussions with prospective, current, and former students. SWAP, a longstanding widening access partnership of all colleges and universities in Scotland, supports adult returners - many of whom are first in their family to attend university, single parents, or from areas of high deprivation - to access higher education. This report shares insights into the barriers these students face and what supports have helped them on their educational journey.
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Bursaries, scholarship programmes and the benefits system
This report, produced by Child Poverty Action Group in Scotland, explores how scholarship and bursary offers interact with Universal Credit and other key benefits for students. It focuses primarily on mature full-time university students, particularly lone parents, new parents, care-experienced students, and carers. The report also considers these groups in higher education at college, with reference to Carer Support Payment where relevant. A secondary focus is on prospective students earlier in the learner journey, such as school pupils and adult returners. Part-time students, college FE students, and apprentices are covered briefly.
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Voices: Teresa Sutherland (CHAI)
In our Voices series, we spotlight the stories and insights of the incredible organisations we support - those driving real change in the fight against poverty and trauma in Scotland. The latest group is CHAI (Community Help & Advice Initiative), which supports and empowers people and communities across Edinburgh through free, confidential, high-quality, impartial advice, information, and representation on welfare benefits, money, housing, and employability.
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Impact and Insights Report: Financial Security
Our first Impact and Insights report, focused on our theme of Financial Security, is now available.
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Head of Funding appointed
We are pleased to announce Patrycja Kupiec's appointment as the new Head of Funding of The Robertson Trust.
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Briefing and Analysis Fund - Scottish Parliament Elections
The Robertson Trust has launched a call for project proposals to inform policy and public debate related to the financial well-being of people living on low-to-middle incomes in the run-up to the Scottish Parliamentary Elections of 2026.
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Update on Briefing and Analysis Fund - Scottish Parliament Elections
Update on the application process for this fund followed recent changes at the abrdn Financial Fairness Trust.
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Making our learning useful: Introducing our Impact and Insights Framework
Funders gather a lot of information and learning from grant holders - but how do we use it well? In this blog, our Learning and Communications Manager, Cassy Rutherford, introduces our Impact and Insights framework.