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Celebrating Young Scot, our longest partnership!
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It’s been 15 years since we started funding Young Scot, Scotland’s youth charity. Find out more about our partnership and the latest project we’ve funded.

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Empowering young people at risk of homelessness 

Learning & Impact Report 2022: Depaul UK is creating more prosperous future communities by using funding from our Astra Foundation partnership to help young people at risk of homelessness get back on their feet.

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Supporting Fal Fishery to create more sustainable communities

Learning & Impact Report 2022: We’re supporting Fal Fishery Co-operative CIC to deliver new ways of protecting native oyster populations as part of our work to build more sustainable future communities.

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Working in partnership to build communities of the future together

Learning & Impact Report 2022: We’re proud that our #iwill Fund is helping to share power and develop the next generation of activists in line with our youth co-designed Future Communities Vision.

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Young people have shown us how it’s done 

Learning & Impact Report 2022: Lonely Not Alone enjoyed another record breaking year in 2022. Read about their inputs, and the incredible legacy they’ll leave for their peers.

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Fighting fit and helping each other at Boxing Futures

Learning & Impact Report 2022: Our £47k grant for Boxing Futures is giving young people the chance to get fit and talk about the issues they face, all in line with our plans to build healthier, future communities.

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‘We’re building a movement of young trustees’ 
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Learning & Impact Report 2022: Our flexible funding for the Young Trustees Movement is helping them raise youth influence in civil society so we can build more equitable and inclusive future communities.

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Helping refugees find safety
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Learning & Impact Report 2022: Our amazing partner, Refugee Action, is using our unrestricted funding to support asylum seekers like Sami and Mohammad find safer communities.

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Working in partnership to help homeless young people and those at risk of homelessness 

Tackling the root causes of homelessness, one step at a time

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Helping young people navigate their world

Young people with additional needs are buzzing with ideas about how they can change public transport for the better in Greater Manchester.

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Supporting bereaved young people in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland 

We’re proud to have provided £20,000 to Barnardo’s New Horizons peer mentoring project, in Ayrshire, Scotland, which helps young people dealing with bereavement.

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Bangladeshi Women’s Association

Funding from our Space to Connect partnership with DCMS helped the Bangladeshi Women’s Association to bring different communities together.

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Acting quickly and funding flexibly to support Refugee Action

We committed our largest single grant to date to help Refugee Action respond to the Afghan refugee crisis and fund longer-term support.

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Improving youth wellbeing during bereavement

Our #iwill funding for Let’s Talk About Loss is helping bereaved young people support others though grief so they can improve their mental wellbeing and help others.

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Developing the leaders of tomorrow
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Our funding for Oxfordshire Youth is helping to develop leaders and boost mental wellbeing by encouraging young people to support others as they move up to secondary school. 

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