Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations

Falkirk Communities Mental Health and Wellbeing Fund

Currently Closed

Managed by CVS Falkirk & District, the Falkirk Communities Mental Health and Wellbeing (CMHW) Fund aims to support community-based projects and initiatives to help address local mental health and wellbeing needs for adults across Falkirk communities. The Fund has a strong focus on prevention and early intervention and aims to support local activities tackling mental health inequalities and addressing priority issues of social isolation and loneliness, suicide prevention and tackling poverty and inequality with an emphasis on responding to the ongoing cost of living crisis and on those facing socioeconomic disadvantage.

https://funding.scot/funds/a0RP1000005gYnBMAU/falkirk-communities-mental-health-and-wellbeing-fund

South Lanarkshire Council - Community Grants

Currently open

The main aims of the Community Grants Scheme are to fund activities and projects which bring community benefit and involve people in the community by bringing them together to enjoy educational, recreational, leisure and other community activities or improve local environment. Organisations running local gala events and summer festivals can apply for financial help and "in-kind" assistance in the run up to and during these events. They can provide support for play schemes that are run by parents and volunteers to provide activities for children during school holidays.

https://funding.scot/funds/a0Rb0000003iZ3VEAU/south-lanarkshire-council-community-grants

Shumpeter comes to Whitehall - a discussion paper

To address the perilous state of our public finances, the UK Government has begun the task of significantly,to consider how Government should approach the cuts in ways that prompt innovation.

https://scvo.scot/research/reports/evidence-library/shumpeter-comes-to-whitehall-a-discussion-paper

Policies towards poverty, inequality and exclusion since 1997

associates of the LSE's Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion, surveys the impact of the Labour Government's,policy areas and draws on more than 500 separate sources from evaluations of policy initiatives, government

https://scvo.scot/research/reports/evidence-library/policies-towards-poverty-inequality-and-exclusion-since-1997

British Social Attitudes Survey: Welfare

But as the coalition government begins to apply extensive reforms to the benefit system, is that still,behaving in a far from uniform way, they are generally moving in line with the current direction of government,We see that the public is becoming less supportive of the government taking a leading role in providing

https://scvo.scot/research/reports/evidence-library/british-social-attitudes-survey-welfare

For the Public Good: How people want their public services to change

The views revealed in this research present some strong challenges to the government?s ?,Some of the main findings were: - Only a minority support the government?,agencies. 62 per cent of people thought that public services should be provided mainly or only be government

https://scvo.scot/research/reports/evidence-library/for-the-public-good-how-people-want-their-public-services-to-change

The Local Wellbeing Project

The Local Wellbeing Project is a three-year initiative to explore how local government in England and,the Improvement and Development Agency (IDeA), which supports improvement and innovation in local government,The project is supported by a number of key central government departments who will provide financial

https://scvo.scot/research/reports/evidence-library/the-local-wellbeing-project