Funding provided towards the work of disabled children’s charity The Yard: FOI release

Information requested

1. How much funding the Scottish Government has provided towards the work of disabled children’s charity The Yard in 2023-24 and so far in 2024 to date (26 September 2024).

2. When providing these figures, can you also break them down to show how much financial support has been and is currently being contributed per family?

Response

1. Please see below:

The Yard - Scottish Government Funding	2023/24	2024/25
Delivery and Expansion of the Yard Adventure Play Centre Services for disabled children and young people – resource and capital grant funding		£1,010,400 – overall grant award £280,400 – provided to date
Outdoor Community Play Fund – grant funding via Inspiring Scotland	£24,683	£24,683
The Promise Partnership Fund - Round 2 – grant awarded via the CORRA Foundation	£200,000
School Age Childcare - Early Adopter Community Project – via Dundee City Council	£14,146	£71,500
The Children, Young People, Families intervention and adult learning and empowering communities (CYPFEI & ALEC) – grant funding via the Corra Foundation	£94,500	£94,500
Communities Mental Health and Wellbeing Fund for Adults	£12,400
CLD Workforce Development Fund	£16,052

1. While our aim is to provide information whenever possible, in this instance the Scottish Government does not have the information you have requested. The reasons why we don't have the information are explained in the Annex to this letter.

ANNEX

REASONS FOR NOT PROVIDING INFORMATION

The Scottish Government does not have the information

The Scottish Government does not have the information you have asked for because the Scottish Government does not collect information on financial support to the Yard that has been and is currently being contributed per family.

This is a formal notice under section 17(1) of FOISA that the Scottish Government does not have the information you have requested.

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