Case studies

ACS Training and Development Programme offers a holistic poverty mitigation strategy to diverse populations who may struggle to find employment in normative work environments. The eco-friendly, circular fashion-modelled business utilises accredited training and development to help lift employees out of poverty by providing a living wage and living hours. ACS partner with multiple external agencies…

Fa'side Community Kitchen (FCK) is a volunteer led COVID-19 legacy charity. The community-based group began offering hot meals and emergency food provision to residents of Fa’side in East Lothian during the first COVID lockdown. Today FCK has a local base within Fa’side bowling club two days a week. Hot and nutritious meals and social interaction are provided at no cost to a diverse community popu…

The Boosting Budgets project is a 7-week financial capability group for parents and carers across various schools across Fife with a weekly class covering a different topic every week. It addresses issues from fuel poverty, saving and borrowing, to benefits and rights as well as cooking on a budget with separate sessions dedicated to budgeting, benefit support and cooking. The service can provide …

Grafix Design Studio & Print Shop is a social enterprise located in Kilmarnock, East Ayrshire. It aims to help those with barriers to employment (many of whom are living with poverty). Grafix Design Studio & Print Shop provides work experience placements and volunteering opportunities. These can be adapted to individual needs and can focus on design, manual printing processes or a mixture of both.…

The Private Rented Sector Housing and Welfare Team (PRS Support Hub) works in the City of Glasgow to prevent homelessness and to address child poverty by providing a holistic support service that helps families sustain their PRS tenancies. Taking a proactive Housing Options approach, the service combines financial and housing services to ensure families who are referred to them for being at risk o…

The Children’s Scorecard was developed following research commissioned by Perth and Kinross Council on the lived experience of Priority Families experiencing poverty. The research, which, was conducted by the Poverty Alliance and the Scottish Poverty & Inequality Research Unit, Glasgow Caledonian University gathered information on how poverty impacted the lives of Priority Families and captured th…

Tayside Family Financial Wellbeing Project supports families struggling with public debt by testing new approaches to financial advice and support. It strives to implement innovative ways of delivering financial wellbeing support within Aberlour Children’s Charity’s family support model. It combines this model with approaches from Tayside’s statutory and third sector to empower families and reduce…

The project strives to identify unmet need in Argyll and Bute, informing the Council’s work to target existing resources towards tackling poverty. It is a pilot project, involving four schools that will soon merge into two schools. It uses additional CACI datasets and overlays these with existing council and DWP information to help identify pockets of unmet and unsupported need. It will then infor…

The Household Support Fund was developed by Falkirk Council to provide cash-first support to low-income families living in the Falkirk Council area. Its primary objective is to help reduce the need for crisis support, encourage engagement with advice services, and break the stigma often associated with receiving other types of support such as vouchers or food parcels. The fund is overseen by the F…

North Lanarkshire Carers Together (NLCT) are an information and advice service for unpaid carers and professionals, offering a range of services ensuring carers rights and needs are known, upheld, and considered as part of local and national policy and guidance development. NLCT launched their “Tackling the Cost-Of-Living Emergency for Unpaid Carers in North Lanarkshire WE ASKED, YOU SAID, WE DID”…