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Cyrenians’ ‘Keeping Families Together with CashBack for Communities’ project held its first cross-sector advisory board meeting on Wednesday, 15th September. Experts from across the sector, including Cyrenians, The Centre for Youth and Criminal Justice, Scottish Government, Aid and Abet, Police Scotland Violence Reduction Unit, University of Strathclyde, East Lothian Council, the Care Inspectorate and Good […]

Spark of Genius Caledonian School in Glengarnock, North Ayrshire, are a leading provider of education and residential care for children and young people aged 5-18 with social, emotional, and behavioural difficulties. The school offers individualised pathways to empower and enable pupils, including a combination of residential and day placements. The school receives CashBack funding through the […]

With summer almost over, it’s a good time to look back at what the young people attending the Impacts Arts summer programme got up to during the warmer months. Despite the challenges of Covid-19 restrictions, nearly 100 young people from across Scotland took part in the programme, where they worked with artists, performers and youth […]

Ocean Youth Trust Scotland (OYTS) has been hit by the Coronavirus restrictions perhaps harder than most CashBack partners. For 15 months, it has been impossible to take young people out on voyages, which is at the heart of OYTS youth work.  Undaunted, Barry McLaughlin, the Trust’s Youth Development Worker, has worked hard to adapt the […]

A former pupil of the Scottish Football Association’s School of Football has signed for Celtic FC Women. 16-year-old striker London Pollard took part in the CashBack-funded programme whilst attending St Machar Academy in Aberdeen. Jo Murphy, Girls and Women’s Club Development Officer with the Scottish FA, commented: “London had a great attitude when involved in […]

Players from Hawick’s CashBack School of Rugby took part in a community clean-up on Sunday 16th May, dedicating their time in a bid to tidy up the town’s streets. The young people, who play with Hawick Youth Rugby, joined Hawick Volunteers, Community Councillors and members of the public in clearing rubbish from outdoor spaces around […]

Funded by the Scottish Government’s CashBack scheme, Off the Bench will begin in Spring 2021, initially with five clubs across the Scottish Premiership and Scottish Championship. Off the Bench’ is a 16-week programme for 18-24-year-olds who have committed, or are considered likely to commit offences or engage in anti-social behaviour, particularly, but not limited to offences in and […]

CashBack for Communities seeks to bring real and lasting change to young people.  Sometimes the impact and change can be life-changing.  For three young people from Rangers Charity Foundation’s CashBack – Towards New Futures course, this was life-saving!  Putting new lifesaving skills from this course to good use and helping save a woman’s life.  Marco, […]

More than 100,000 young people supported by the scheme. CashBack for Communities is a youth programme unique to Scotland has helped transform the lives of 106,000 young people in the past three years. The CashBack for Communities scheme reinvests seized criminal assets into community projects which support young people into positive destinations, diverting some away […]