A huge thank you to Garfield Weston Foundation for the £20,000 grant towards our Skills for Life provision!

This grant will contribute to enabling our #S4L Team to support around 200 young people to overcome barriers & build the skills they need to reach their potential over the coming year🤗

Yesterday, we said goodbye to our Community Education placement student Stuart!

Stuart has left a lasting legacy by being integral to launching the Bridges Rocks project and Gaming Group and we wish him all the best of luck with the rest of his studies at UWS 🌟

Thanks to Venture Scotland for organising a brilliant #TeamBuilding Day for our whole staff team at Beecraigs Country Park last week 🙌

Staff were challenged to a wide range of fun team building tasks, laughed a lot and learned a lot about both each other and themselves!

🔁 This #ThrowbackThursday 's quote is from the Social Worker of a young person supported by our #InclusionSupport Service 🤗

The Inclusion Support Service is funded by East Lothian Council - latest info, news & events!

#GIRFEC

Just completed the 1st session of our annual litter pick, which is part of our wider #NetZero plans ♻️ The 1st session was at #Musselburgh Beach, where many bags were filled!

A special thanks to Scott from Musselburgh AP & East Lothian Council’s Connected Communities for joining our staff & young people 🤝

Thank you to the East Lothian Council - latest info, news & events Employability Grant Programme & the UK Government's UK Shared Prosperity Fund for another year of funding for Spark Your Future, enabling us to continue to provide vital one-to-one & group #employability support to 16-24-year-olds from #EastLothian 🙌

Our Practice Manager Natasha met with Tracey Kerr, Widening Participation Manager at Heriot-Watt University yesterday🤝

Great to hear about how the University supports care experienced students & students with caring responsibilities to access university courses & funding!

We will be closed tomorrow for a Team Building Day run by our friends from Venture Scotland at Beecraigs Country Park!

We will be back to normal on Monday ☺️

#Closed #SeeYouSoon #BackSoon

This email from a grandparent of a young person supported by our Education & Employability Coordinator Lynne reminds us of the wider impact our support can have on families!

#ThrowbackThursday #MakingADifference

The Gannochy Trust BoS Foundation
GoFibre Cruden Group

Some good tips from Mental Health Foundation on managing stress this #StressAwarenessMonth !

#WellbeingWednesday #MentalHealthMatters

We're supporting the thousands of people who will be registering to vote today on #NationalVoterRegistrationDay ! If you know a young person who hasn't registered to vote yet, they can do it through the link below✅🔽 It only takes 5 minutes ⏰

#GiveAnX

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Are you or someone you know preparing for #SQAexams ? 📚

Our partners Young Scot have shared tips on how to de-stress and look after your emotional wellbeing. ☕️

Take a look 👉 bit.ly/SQA-LearnerHub.

We use numeracy every day, often without realising it. Our confidence and ability with numbers can impact us financially, socially, and professionally. If you would like to improve your skills and confidence get in touch to find out more.

There's still time to contribute to our Young Ambassadors' research on support for neurodiverse pupils in #EastLothian schools!

#PowerOfYouth

Thanks to Scott Anderson, Principal Software Engineer at Smartsheet, for taking time out of his schedule to have a video call with one of our young people and our #PersonalDevelopment Worker Grant to talk about #careers in software development and coding 👨‍💻 🤝

BBC Children in Need

A great example of the flexible and tailored approach of our one-to-one sessions! One of the young people supported by our BBC Children in Need funded Personal Development Service decided to spend his recent session making a pizza while talking about personal development 🍕

#YouthLed

A huge thank you to Josh & MyBnk Scotland for coming to Bridges Project to deliver the two-day Money Works course to our young people 🤝

Eight young people completed the course & gained an SCQF Level 4 Money Management qualification 🌟

#FridayFeeling #MakingADifferenceTogether

📢 New volunteering opportunity

We're looking for young people to join our Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Champions Panel to lead, support & challenge us on the journey to make sure we achieve diversity, equity and inclusion in everything we do 👇
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Call for participants! If you are aged 16-25 and living in Scotland.

In collaboration with Mental Health Foundation, University of Strathclyde are looking for people to share their experiences of mental health self-stigma.

More info and sign up: hass.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_9K…

Did you read the story about the successful creative writing and drama course we delivered with 𝗕𝗼𝗿𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗖𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗴𝗲?

Check it out in East Lothian Courier 😃

eastlothiancourier.com/news/24230900.…

#Partnerships #MakingADifferenceTogether #CharityTuesday