Investment theme: Building skills and confidence
Purpose:
to contribute towards salary costs, travel expenses and overheads.
Year of grant: 15/6/2018
FR Number: FR-0044271
Amount awarded: £5000
Location: EDINBURGH
Full description
BCT requests £5,000 towards the £6,418 cost of capacity-building their long-term, Self Reliant Groups strategy. This includes £4,790 to support a Community Development Worker in coordinating the initial set-up, £711 towards core staffing support from an Administrator and Regional Manager and £917 towards running costs. This builds upon a pilot group founded in 2015, in which 9 unemployed women in Edinburgh learned how to make rugs and cushions, going on to sell the items and learn business skills. The group are now operating independently. This grant will allow them to start new groups benefitting a total of 25 women across Aberdeen, Dundee, Edinburgh and Midlothian ? who will come together to decide on craft and products before following the same model of sustainability.
