Generation CashBack – Youth Scotland, Scouts Scotland, Girlguiding Scotland and the Boys Brigade
Support Type:
Need supported:
- Young People
Aim/Purpose:
Generation CashBack ensures that young people from areas of deprivation can benefit from high quality community based youth work and opportunities. The programme is delivered by a consortium of Youth Scotland, Scouts Scotland, Girlguiding Scotland, and the Boys’ Brigade, and funded by CashBack for Communities. Each consortium partner delivers two strands of work: Grow – We help new and existing youth groups to grow their offer for young people. Using a needs-analysis approach, we support Grow groups to increase their focus on tackling anti-social behaviour, delivering diversionary activity, and providing activities that improve young people’s mental health and wellbeing. This support includes: helping groups recruit new volunteers; training youth workers; providing advice and guidance; and delivering new activities, alongside small scale capacity-building funding for essential resources and running costs. Lead – Generation CashBack staff support young people to develop new skills which improve their educational and employability options. Young people will be supported to put these skills into practice in their communities, developing their leadership skills, while gaining a range of youth awards through each consortium partner. These awards are designed to meet young people’s needs; enabling them to develop their pathways into further learning and employment. If you are looking for support for a young person you work with, contact Youth Scotland and we can signpost you to local groups supported by this programme.
Suitability criteria:
- All genders
- Adolescent (17 and under), Young adult (18-35)
Exclusions:
Generation CashBack supports young people aged 10 – 25 who are based in areas of multiple deprivation, or who are involved in or at risk of being involved in antisocial behaviour or criminal activity.
Assessment/referral process:
- Any agency, Self-referral
Generation CashBack is a national programme that supports local youth groups. This means that if a young person is referred to us centrally, we will signpost them to a local group that would best meet their needs.