Member News: Intandem Funding Announcement
25 November 2016
The Scottish Government and Inspiring Scotland has announced the 13 charities it will support through its intandem programme which aims to help Scotland's most vulnerable young people to build positive, supporting relationships with caring adults.
intandem was co-created by the Scottish Government and Inspiring Scotland and launched by John Swinney, Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Education, earlier this year. The programme will offer young people a chance to build a relationship with a volunteer adult mentor who will support them as they deal with difficult experiences and challenges.
Existing mentoring projects have demonstrated that the relationship between a mentor and young person is extremely valuable. intandem charities will carefully screen and match mentors with mentees based on individual circumstances to best suit the needs of the child or young person.
This is the first national programme specifically for children who are looked after at home in Scotland and Inspiring Scotland is looking forward to working with the selected charities to improve outcomes for these children and young people.
After a rigorous three-month selection process, 13 charities have been invited to form the initial intandem portfolio. The intandem portfolio of charities ranges from large national organisations to smaller charities operating within a single local authority or town. They bring a range of experience of mentoring, delivering through volunteers and working with vulnerable children and young people.
Inspiring Scotland will begin to work with the charities immediately to recruit an intandem volunteer co-ordinator who will then recruit, select and train volunteer mentors.
The following charities have been selected to join intandem:
- Aberlour - covering East Dunbartonshire and Inverclyde
- Action for Children - covering Highland
- Barnardo's - covering South and East Ayrshire
- Befriend a Child - covering Aberdeen
- Children 1st - covering Argyll and Bute
- Community Volunteers Enabling You (COVEY) - covering South Lanarkshire
- Kirkcaldy YMCA - covering Fife
- Move On - covering Edinburgh, East Lothian, Midlothian and West Lothian
- Quarriers - covering Stirling, Falkirk and Clackmannanshire
- Volunteer Centre - covering Glasgow
- Y People - covering Glasgow and North Lanarkshire
- YMCA Edinburgh - covering Edinburgh
- Y Sort It - covering West Dunbartonshire
More information is available from the new intandem website.
