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Awards for 2025/26

A breakdown of our funding in 2025/26 so far.
June 2025
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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.
July 2025
Blog

£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.
April 2025
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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.
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.
July 2025
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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.
September 2020
Blog

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.
July 2025
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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.
July 2025
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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.
July 2025
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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.
May 2025
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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.
July 2025
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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.
July 2025
Blog

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.
June 2025
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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.
July 2025
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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.
July 2025