Question reference: S3W-25828
- Asked by: Tricia Marwick, MSP for Central Fife, Scottish National Party
- Date lodged: 14 July 2009
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Current status: Answered by Fergus Ewing on 6 August 2009
Question
To ask the Scottish Executive how many grants have been made under the Cashback for Communities initiative to applicants in the Central Fife parliamentary constituency and what the value of those grants was.
Answer
To date, the Scottish Government has committed to invest over £13 million in the CashBack for Communities programme which includes diversionary and participatory projects for young people across Scotland.
£3 million of this investment was allocated to YouthLink Scotland. Funding distributed through the YouthLink Scotland local youth project grant scheme is recorded by local authority.
The following organisations in Fife received funds in rounds 1 and 2:
Round 1
Barnardo''s Levenmouth Links - £2,216.00.
Kirkcaldy YMCA - £19,595.00.
Levenmouth YMCA - £26,000.00.
Arts and Theatres Fife - £740.00.
Levenmouth Youth Initiative - £8,008.00.
Glenrothes YMCA-YWCA - £10,963.00.
Round 2
Savoy Youth Centre - £15,435.00.
Levenmouth YMCA - £10,000.00.
The Initiative - £11,163.00.
Fife Council Benarty Centre - £3,665.00.
Kirkcaldy Area Youth Strategy Group - £9,287.00.
Clued Up Project - £10,800.00.
YWCA Kirkcaldy - £4,265.00.
Big Shout Partnership - £14,915.00.
Kirkcaldy YMCA - £9,981.00.
Strike a Chord (Music Project) - £19,725.00.
A further £1 million has been allocated to YouthLink Scotland for a second grant programme which is currently open for applications. Fife has been allocated £70,579 from the fund.
In addition, The Scottish Football Asociation (SFA) are using £8,800 of their CashBack grants in central Fife to deliver Midnight Football and Street Football at twelve venues in 2009. In 2008 they invested £8.500. The SFA have also allocated £17,625 to the secondary school-based Soccer One programme, which is being delivered to 15 schools in Fife in 2008-09.
Scottish Rugby is investing £11,582 of CashBack funding in a range of diversionary school and club rugby activities in central Fife.
Basketballscotland is working to promote basketball participation across Scotland through the deployment of four regional coordinators funded by CashBack.
CashBack has also allocated Kennoway Sports Association £100,000 for the development of a new sports pavilion at Cotlands Park.
The second cultural strand of CashBack was announced in March 2009. The Creative Identities project is an 18-month programme of creative learning activities for young people targeting young carers in particularly, but will be open to all young people. Central Fife is included in the east central programme plan, which is led by Edinburgh based Dance Base and Pilton Video. They have been allocated £216,200 to deliver projects across the region.