Project name: CashBack Kirkcaldy Connections
Age range: 10-25 years
CashBack Kirkcaldy Connections will deliver targeted and universal youth work across Kirkcaldy, for young people aged 10-25 living in communities affected by deprivation and crime.
The project applies a public health approach to preventing anti-social behaviour and youth offending by reducing risk factors and strengthening protective factors in young people’s lives. It combines early identification, consistent relationships and safe community provision to prevent escalation into more serious harm.
In partnership with the Kirkcaldy Together collaboration, we will work intensively with 300 young people over three years who are identified by schools, police and community partners as being at increased risk of disengagement, anti-social behaviour or involvement in offending. Each young person will receive structured weekly one-to-one mentoring and small group or sustained support, typically delivered over 6 to 12 months. Together with a youth worker, they will create a personal action plan focused on building confidence, emotional regulation, literacy, communication skills and positive decision-making. Support will be sustained and progression-focused, enabling young people to move into volunteering, training, education or employment.
The young people will engage in universal youth work delivered weekly in trusted community venues and street-based engagement in identified hotspot areas. Drop-ins, sports and creative programmes will provide safe spaces, positive peer networks and constructive activities that reduce isolation and offer alternatives to risk-taking behaviour.
Young people will shape delivery through a Youth Advisory Group, strengthening belonging, responsibility and community connection. Addressing underlying causes and promoting protective factors, the project supports long-term wellbeing and safer communities.
Local authority areas:
Fife
