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Over £1.6M awarded to organisations across Scotland in January
We are delighted to announce our funding recipients from January 2023. 47 organisations received just over £1.6M to support their work to alleviate poverty and trauma across Scotland.
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Talking about your funding
You are welcome to publicly acknowledge funding from us. In most cases we are happy to help with promotional activities and material.
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Over £2.2M awarded to organisations across Scotland in December
We are delighted to announce our funding recipients from December 2022. 59 organisations received just over £2.2M to support their work to alleviate poverty and trauma across Scotland.
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Invitation to Tender: Evaluation of The Robertson Scholarship
The Robertson Scholarship aims to support young people aged 16 to 25 to overcome financial and social barriers to gain the university education and career they aspire to. We are commissioning an independent, participatory evaluation of the Robertson Scholarship. This will help us to understand what differences it is contributing to and how our work in this area could have the greatest impact on poverty and trauma in Scotland.
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Voices: Young Enterprise Scotland
In our Voices series, we share the stories and opinions from our funded organisations that are helping to find solutions to poverty and trauma in Scotland. The latest group is Young Enterprise Scotland, an East Renfrewshire based charity that supports young people aged 5-25 years to develop business knowledge, entrepreneurial skills and financial literacy through accredited training and practical experience across Scotland.
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The Robertson Trust at 60
This booklet tells the story of Scotland's largest independent grant-maker, The Robertson Trust: its formation in 1961 by three remarkable sisters, its core values and shifting funding priorities down the years, and its present strategic focus: to fund, support and champion those seeking solutions to poverty and trauma in Scotland. Published to mark the Trust's 60th year.
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Research: Maternal Mental Health
This research was commissioned by The Robertson Trust to highlight what works, what doesn’t work and why in non-clinical maternal mental health interventions that are delivered by the third sector. It focuses specifically on three areas of practice: parenting support, peer support, and counselling/psychological support.
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Issue 5 – Heart & Soul: from a community-led women’s space to a women-led community space
This is the fifth in a series of short thematic summaries in which we share what we have heard and learnt
from the people that have taken part in our research into our Women’s Centre Programme.
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Issue 1 – Introducing the Women’s Centre Programme
The Women’s Centre Programme has been developed to demonstrate how a gender-specific,
community-led, multi-agency approach can support women to achieve positive outcomes at a
community, individual, and agency level. Our first report is now available to view.
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Issue 3 – Heart & Soul: reflecting on participation
The Centre for Youth & Criminal Justice (CYCJ) and the University of Strathclyde were commissioned by The Robertson Trust in 2015 to undertake an exploration of the development of women’s spaces. The latest reports are now available to download.
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Issue 2 – Kairos: developing a community-led women’s space
The Centre for Youth & Criminal Justice (CYCJ) and the University of Strathclyde were commissioned by The Robertson Trust in 2015 to undertake an exploration of the development of women’s spaces. The latest reports are now available to download.
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Changing Lives Through Sport and Physical Activity - Two page summary
A two-page guide introducing the Changing Lives Through Sport and Physical Activity programme.
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Issue 4 – Lochaber Hope: a person-centred approach
The latest thematic summary from our Women's Centre programme is now available.
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MCR Pathways evaluation
The Robertson Trust in partnership with the Life Changes Trust and the STV Appeal, began working with the MCR Foundation and MCR Pathways in 2015 to support the expansion of its mentoring programme for care-experienced and disadvantaged young people in Glasgow beyond the initial pilot schools.
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Poverty and trauma briefing paper
Our literature and policy review of poverty and trauma in Scotland shows what has informed our new strategy for 2020-2030 and how this has shaped our thinking in this area.