We support strong, caring relationships within families and communities to help break cycles of poverty and trauma, and enable people to recover and thrive.
We want to see a Scotland where people, families, and communities can thrive, not be trapped in cycles of poverty and trauma. Nurturing relationships within families and communities is a crucial way to reduce the impact of trauma and support recovery.
Evidence shows that poverty is a significant factor in stress, family disruption, and adverse childhood experiences, which can lead to long-term disadvantage. Persistent poverty can itself be traumatic, increasing risks of further trauma and reducing protective factors. Breaking these cycles requires addressing both material hardship and relational wellbeing together.
Through our Nurturing Relationships work, we aim to support solutions that strengthen connections within families and communities, addressing the relational and material impacts of poverty and trauma in tandem.
We recognise that relationships intersect with our other themes and that holistic approaches are most effective in helping people and families thrive.
1. Preventative support for families in poverty (including children and their caregivers), to help build and maintain strong family relationships, and reduce the risk of intergenerational trauma.
2. Whole family support for families (including children and their caregivers) in care, or on the edges of care, to address the impacts of persistent poverty and intergenerational trauma. We will also fund services for young people who have experience of care who are not in a family setting.
3. Crisis support at the point of family breakdown, including support for women and children experiencing domestic abuse. We particularly want to support:
4. Recovery and restorative approaches to address the impacts of childhood trauma, homelessness, substance misuse and/or contact with the criminal justice system. We are particularly interested in work which takes a holistic approach, also addressing individuals’ financial and wider needs. This could be directly delivered by the applicant organisation or through relationships with specialist partners.
Under this theme, we are looking to fund work which is focused on the following groups of people who experience higher rates of poverty and associated trauma, or who are at higher risk, than the population as a whole:
Please click here to read about why we developed the Nurturing Relationships theme, as well as some examples of work we’ve recently funded.
Find out more and how to apply here.
If your work is focused on children and young people’s mental health or broader gender- based violence (rather than domestic abuse specifically), which were priorities under our previous Emotional Wellbeing & Relationships theme, please click here to read more about our shift in focus.
We currently do not have any open calls for our Programme Awards.
To keep informed of future funding opportunities, you can sign up to our mailing list or follow our social channels.
1. Preventative support for families in poverty (including children and their caregivers), to help build and maintain strong family relationships, and reduce the risk of intergenerational trauma.
2. Whole family support for families (including children and their caregivers) in care, or on the edges of care, to address the impacts of persistent poverty and intergenerational trauma. We will also fund services for young people who have experience of care who are not in a family setting.
3. Crisis support at the point of family breakdown, including support for women and children experiencing domestic abuse. We particularly want to support:
4. Recovery and restorative approaches to address the impacts of childhood trauma, homelessness, substance misuse and/or contact with the criminal justice system. We are particularly interested in work which takes a holistic approach, also addressing individuals’ financial and wider needs. This could be directly delivered by the applicant organisation or through relationships with specialist partners.
Under this theme, we are looking to fund work which is focused on the following groups of people who experience higher rates of poverty and associated trauma, or who are at higher risk, than the population as a whole:
Please click here to read about why we developed the Nurturing Relationships theme, as well as some examples of work we’ve recently funded.
Find out more and how to apply here.
If your work is focused on children and young people’s mental health or broader gender- based violence (rather than domestic abuse specifically), which were priorities under our previous Emotional Wellbeing & Relationships theme, please click here to read more about our shift in focus.
We currently do not have any open calls for our Programme Awards.
To keep informed of future funding opportunities, you can sign up to our mailing list or follow our social channels.
