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Access to Industry

2023 - 2026 Grant Offer

£547,781

2023 - 2026 Young People Target

280

Project name: CashBack Passport

Age range: 16-25 years

CashBack Passport provides skills based employability training and one-to-one holistic support to young people aged 16-25 residing in HMP YOI Polmont and in communities across Scotland.

In HMP YOI Polmont we provide:

  • Skills training in construction and hospitality through employability hubs
    This supports their chances of employability regardless of length of sentence or nature of offence.
  • Individual caseworkers
    Each young person’s caseworker works with them to build a positive relationship, develop an action plan, and identify goals to support them to progress post liberation.
  • Programme and one-to-one support for young people held on remand

Within the community, caseworkers continue to engage with young people post liberation to access and sustain employment, education, and further training.

Our caseworkers collaborate with local authority Community Justice teams to identify young people aged 16-25 who are subject to community based sentences and benefit from the support and employability opportunities of CashBack Passport.

  Read S’s journey participating in the CashBack Passport project in Polmont and in the community: “If it wasn’t for the support I probably wouldn’t be working.”

Local authority areas:

Aberdeen City; Aberdeenshire; Angus; Argyll & Bute; Clackmannanshire; Dumfries & Galloway; Dundee City; East Ayrshire; East Dunbartonshire; East Lothian; East Renfrewshire; Edinburgh City; Eilean Siar; Falkirk; Fife; Glasgow City; Highland; Inverclyde; Midlothian; Moray; North Ayrshire; North Lanarkshire; Orkney; Perth & Kinross; Renfrewshire; Scottish Borders; Shetland; South Ayrshire; South Lanarkshire; Stirling; West Dunbartonshire; West Lothian.