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CashBack Green Futures is a new trauma-informed, needs-led, employability service for disadvantaged young people. It provides community-based 1-1 and group support combining employability training alongside developmental and outdoor/environmental activities. The service works to reduce the risk of (re)offending, improve mental health and wellbeing, and prepare young people for work. CashBack Green Futures has a strong […]

The Anchor Highland CashBack Project officially launched on July 4th 2023 in Inverness. The Anchor is a community-based hub with a targeted, assertive outreach/response team focusing on individuals subjected to exploitation. The project, which received £453,218 from the Scottish Government’s CashBack for Communities scheme, aims to support 135 young people aged 13 to 18 over […]

Siobhian Brown MSP, the Minister for Victims and Community Safety visited the Rangers Charity Foundation to meet with the CashBack – Towards New Futures team and participants. The Minister and her team were met by Foundation Chief Executive, Connal Cochrane, and Community Programmes Manager, Jamie Duncanson, for a presentation of the CashBack activity before the […]

Nine young people set sail for five days as part of their On Board with CashBack programme. The young people from G15 Youth Project in Drumchapel stayed on board 72-foot sail training yacht, Alba Explorer, for five days of intensive sailing with Ocean Youth Trust Scotland. The young people undertook all aspects of the voyage, […]

CashBack – Towards New Futures commenced on the 10th of April with 24 engaged and a core group of 18 attending every day. CashBack – Towards New Futures, delivered by Rangers Charity Foundation, is three weeks into its first course of Phase 6. It has been an action-packed start for the 24 candidates participating, where […]

More than £130 million from proceeds of crime invested to support young people to date. Projects supporting young people are to receive up to a total of £20 million of funding recovered from the proceeds of crime. The funding, which reinvests criminal assets recovered through the Proceeds of Crime Act, aims to provide support to […]

The CashBack for Communities Impact Report for 2021/2022 highlights the valuable support the CashBack programmes provided for 30,106 young people across Scotland. CashBack for Communities projects provide a range of activities for young people which: In welcoming the 2021/2022 Impact Report, Keith Brown, Cabinet Secretary for Justice and Veterans, said: “I am pleased to welcome […]

Young people from CashBack MoveForward’s Youth Media Project took over shmu’s social media accounts to share what Youth Media means to them. CashBack – MoveForward programme engages the most vulnerable and disadvantaged young people in Aberdeen, using media as a key tool to overcome their personal barriers in order to avoid becoming involved in anti-social […]

The CashBack for Communities programme aims to recognise, respect and promote children’s rights. These include rights to be treated fairly, to be heard and to be as healthy as possible. The Scottish Government’s vision is a Scotland where children’s human rights are embedded in all aspects of society. With support from Inspiring Scotland, CashBack for […]