COMMUNITY ASSET PROJECT  

towards the costs associated in delivering activities in your local community.

towards the gardening project for families.

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To arrange deliveries of food, groceries and toiletries to over 189 hard-to-reach families in the African communities in North East Glasgow who experience high levels of poverty. Please do keep ....more

To arrange deliveries of food, groceries and toiletries to over 189 hard-to-reach families in the African communities in North East Glasgow who experience high levels of poverty. Please do keep receipts as we reserve the right to request evidence of spen

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purchase of bicycles and helmets for a charity which works with disadvantaged young people in Glasgow

We are seeking funding to help us recruit a Sessional staff and five volunteers to undergo training in Universal Credit Course, City & Guild Energy Awareness course and Elementary Cooking Course ....more

We are seeking funding to help us recruit a Sessional staff and five volunteers to undergo training in Universal Credit Course, City & Guild Energy Awareness course and Elementary Cooking Course to delivered by CPAG, Energy Action Scotland and REHIS respectively. The training will give them the skills to help the community affected by welfare reforms to develop effective coping strategies that will improve their day-to-day lives. Below is the course content. 1. CPAG-Universal Credit course-The roll out of Universal Credit (UC) full service is due to be completed by the end of this year. Roll-out takes place in West Dumbartonshire and Edinburgh on 28 November and Castlemilk, Drumchapel and Shettleston on 5 December. The course will give the five volunteers and support staff the opportunity to learn about UC in order to support our community of interests. By drawing on experience from areas where UC full service is operating, they will learn who is affected and how best to support them, particularly those who are vulnerable or in difficult circumstances. They will also have the chance to refresh their knowledge of UC entitlement and calculations. 2. Energy Action Scotland-City & Guild Energy Awareness Course-The course is aimed at those providing energy advice to community and wishing to have a greater understanding of domestic energy efficiency. Modules Heating and Preventing Heat Loss: • Use of heating and hot water systems • Effective use of heating controls • Heat loss from buildings • Methods of home insulation • Renewable energy in the home Lifestyle and Housekeeping: • Fuel poverty and health • The causes and control of condensation and dampness • The need for adequate ventilation • "No cost" energy saving measures • Health risks from the lack of affordable warmth Finance and Budgeting: • Understanding tariffs, meters and budgeting for fuel • Comparative costs and system efficiencies • Costs of running household appliances • Payment methods for fuel • Services from fuel suppliers and consumer bodies • Grants and financial help available for energy efficiency improvements and fuel payments 3. REHIS- Elementary Cooking Course-Provide participants with basic cooking skills that increases confidence, skills and knowledge. The project will engage 280 households in poverty due to benefit sanction and welfare reforms and are from deprived, hard-to-reached households of Portuguese speaking community living in social housing to help them cope and deal appropriately with the welfare reform. The project will be robust and help increase participants financial skills, energy awareness skills and the skills to deal with the factors to overcoming poverty. The project will target and work with members of the PALOPs residing in Castlemilk, Shettleston, Bridgeton Cross, Calton, Mile End, Gallowgate, Haghill, South Camtyne, Parkhead, Dalmarnock/Stadium and South Dalmarnock. The Steering group comprising of 10 people at different stage of their life with respect to welfare reform engaged with other benefits claimants to discuss the issues facing them that required urgent attention. The biggest threats highlighted is the effect the welfare reform & benefit sanctions and the cascading effect on their mental health and wellbeing, No digital skills, Lack of budgeting and cookery skills and the Health risks from the lack of affordable warmth. Other problems highlighted: • that the communication from Department of Works and Pensions to them can be poor and it is often difficult to contact the appropriate person who has made the decision to sanction and to find out the reason why. • that there is little information available to claimants about hardship payments or the ability to appeal a sanction decision. • that claimants are expected to search for work online (using the Universal Jobmatch facility), however many claimants are not computer literate or do not have easy access to a computer or internet. The ability to make and maintain claims online is central to Universal Credit. Individuals with limited access to online facilities or who find new technology challenging are at a significant disadvantage. UC can also provide help with housing costs and a landlord portal is being distributed to social landlords. Evidence suggests that the current DWP systems are not adequately developed. In particular, there is no alignment between deductions from UC and housing costs. This can lead to arrears and threaten tenancy sustainment. In 2016 the UN declared access to broadband to be a basic right. Despite this, home internet access varies considerably by household income. In 2016, 63% of households in Scotland with an income of £15,000 or less had home internet access rising to 98% in households with incomes over £40,000 (Scottish Household Survey, 2016). Additionally, only 65% of social housing tenants have home internet access, compared to 88% of home owners or private rented tenants. Older people, those with disabilities, and those in social housing or on low incomes are all more likely to be digitally excluded. • The threat of benefit sanctions being applied, and the conditionality requirements can be a constant source of stress. If a sanction has been applied, then all the Job Seekers Allowance is lost for a certain period. Claimants can get into further debt or have to borrow from friends and family. The volunteers, Sessional staff and the management committee will be able to offer one to one advice on accessing benefits online and how to avoid their benefits from been sanctioned by DWP (and, if Sanctioned what to do seek redress), budgeting, cookery and digital skills to access benefit online. Volunteers will also visit homes for Energy Audit- checking for the installation of thermostatic valves on radiator; Insulation of hot water tank, loft and wall; checking to know whether fridge is 15 years old (Modern fridge are come with better energy efficient rating); Checking whether boiler is too old requiring more energy efficient condensing boiler. We want to raise the knowledge and the skill level of our volunteers, who more often than not, would be asked a wide range of questions by the participants they are trying to help. The project will provide low cost, nutritional meals for all ages in the community and it serves as a hub whereby people can access support and information on benefits, fuel and energy, bill paying, support services on specific days provided by partner agencies e.g. CAB, Advocacy projects etc. We would deliver cookery activities in conjunction with welfare and benefit checks, Financial literacy & budgeting workshops. Households have expressed an interest in learning to cook but felt that it was too expensive. We will demonstrate with our service users that with budgeting skills and cookery skills that they can maximise their income. We will deliver the cooking in conjunction with activities. other wider benefits include improve mental wellbeing and whilst we are delivering the energy advice visits to all the households we also expect that we may come across African householders not engage with the current project that are in fuel poverty due to welfare reforms. In these cases, we hope we can help alleviate these issues by making their energy usage more efficient but may also help them spend less money by changing supplier or tariff. We will monitor this by asking these households if they are comfortable to either be a case study for the project, or at least to be counted as a household that the project has helped with making their bills more manageable. We will also monitor how many people are successful in applying to grants to help them install energy efficiency measures in their homes. The project will work closely with other Local Home Energy Scotland representatives to setup up a robust referral process so that our community can take advantage of the national grants that are available

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This group will use the funding to run a programme of activities for young Portuguese speaking Africans. Young people aged 10-17 living in the East End of Glasgow will have the opportunity to try new ....more

This group will use the funding to run a programme of activities for young Portuguese speaking Africans. Young people aged 10-17 living in the East End of Glasgow will have the opportunity to try new activities including Zumba, archery, judo, photography and videography.