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The Big Lottery Fund is making an investment in Scotland aimed at transforming the life chances of young people leaving care and improving the lives of older people with dementia and their carers. The new trust will operate for 10 years and will invest £2.5m a year in Scotland in young people leaving care and £2.5m a year in older people with dementia and their carers.
A consortium comprising lead partner Long Term Conditions Alliance Scotland (LTCAS) along with Glasgow Council for Voluntary Services (GCVS), Scottish Community Foundation and Who Cares? Scotland has been chosen as the preferred candidate to endow the trust over the next ten years.
There are an estimated 15,000 looked after children in Scotland and 71,000 people in Scotland who live with dementia. Of those people with dementia living at home, 70 percent live with a carer.
LTCAS Chief Executive Ian Welsh said:
"The consortium is delighted to have the opportunity to be a part of the process of addressing the challenges and issues that diminish so many people’s life chances. Co-production and recognising the assets that people bring to their own lives will be at the heart of harnessing the expertise of the beneficiary groups.
The aim is to have substantial and lasting impact, and achieve long-term transformational change for two groups of young and older people in greatest need. The Trust presents an invaluable chance to enable these groups to live well through life changes."
The four organisations will be working together with the Big Lottery on a 6 month developmental phase to develop an application for submission in November 2011. Communication and engagement with stakeholders will be at the heart of the development phase. There will be opportunities for young people with experience of the care system and people living with dementia and their carers to be involved, along with third sector and statutory organisations.
If the application is successful, the grant will be offered from February 2012.
For more information please contact ian.welsh@ltcas.org.uk
