The Scottish Executive is injecting more than £2m in a new strategy to improve young people’s chances through youth work.
The new Moving Forward initiative will encompass 200 youth projects, including sports programmes and competitions, music lessons, arts and theatre projects and film production programmes.
Children and early years minister Adam Ingram said: “Having fun and learning new skills are key to enhancing young people’s lives and broadening their horizons.
“These projects open opportunities for young people, giving them the chance to try new things and develop their confidence in the process. These grants will make a real difference to young people across Scotland.”
The grant is one part of the scheme’s £8m Year of Action for Young People package. The other initiatives include £500,000 to build the capacity of youth organisations and improve training for volunteer youth workers, the creation of a £2.5m Youth Opportunities Fund to encourage young people to run local events and campaigns, a £5m investment to improve facilities for young people and the appointment of a coordinator to strengthen links with schools and youth workers.
The Scottish Executive is injecting more than £2m in a new strategy to improve young people’s chances through youth work.
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– and that wellbeing rests with
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and healthy ageing champion.
He talks to Kate Cracknell
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to innovators about how their
products are meeting this demand
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its focus on reducing health inequalities and improving healthy life expectancy.
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targeted physical activity interventions.
The Scottish Executive is injecting more than £2m in a new strategy to improve young people’s chances through youth work.
The new Moving Forward initiative will encompass 200 youth projects, including sports programmes and competitions, music lessons, arts and theatre projects and film production programmes.
Children and early years minister Adam Ingram said: “Having fun and learning new skills are key to enhancing young people’s lives and broadening their horizons.
“These projects open opportunities for young people, giving them the chance to try new things and develop their confidence in the process. These grants will make a real difference to young people across Scotland.”
The grant is one part of the scheme’s £8m Year of Action for Young People package. The other initiatives include £500,000 to build the capacity of youth organisations and improve training for volunteer youth workers, the creation of a £2.5m Youth Opportunities Fund to encourage young people to run local events and campaigns, a £5m investment to improve facilities for young people and the appointment of a coordinator to strengthen links with schools and youth workers.
The Scottish Executive is injecting more than £2m in a new strategy to improve young people’s chances through youth work.
As the entrepreneur who started Wexer, Fresh Fitness, Fitness DK and Repeat, as well as being a former elite athlete, Rasmus Ingerslev’s life looked perfect from the outside, but onthe inside it was a different story. He talks to Kath Hudson about healing old wounds
If the health service is to
survive, we must recognise
that it is a disease service
– and that wellbeing rests with
us, says the activity advocate
and healthy ageing champion.
He talks to Kate Cracknell
Strength training is evolving,
driven by changing consumer
preferences. Julie Cramer talks
to innovators about how their
products are meeting this demand
Collaborations with the medical profession and greater aspirations around wellbeing are creating a need for more experts in our sector. It’s time to reboot our thinking around the workforce
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Elevate is set to celebrate its 10th anniversary in style this June, with organisers
confirming the event’s largest-ever drinks reception as registrations continue to run more
than 10% ahead of last year.
Active Blackpool is deploying Cornerstone Connect, a new digital interface allowing
disparate information from multiple systems to be aggregated into one dataset, to support
its focus on reducing health inequalities and improving healthy life expectancy.
STA's The Ripple Effect initiative has reached an important milestone after learners
completed the charity's first fully funded swimming teacher training programme, resulting in
seven newly qualified swimming teachers.
Pulse Fitness’ digital solution, Trakk, is helping Walsall Council transform community
health engagement into measurable outcomes by combining body composition tracking with
targeted physical activity interventions.