Wellbeing Fund: analysis of awards

Footnotes

1. https://www.gov.scot/news/helping-communities-affected-by-covid-19/

2. www.gov.scot/news/helping-communities-affected-by-covid-19

3. https://www.gov.scot/publications/immediate-priorities-fund-organisations-funded/

4. The term 'asset lock' refers to a constitutional requirement that any profits arising from trading or other income generation activities, or assets arising in the event that an organisation ceases operating, shall be reinvested in the organisation or the beneficiary community and not distributed to private owners, shareholders or investors.

5. This analysis is based on a textual analysis of open questions from the Wellbeing Fund applications, using data downloaded on Thursday 30^th April 2020 containing 662 records. For each issue or target group, a random sample of 10-15 applications was selected for analysis, unless there were fewer than 10 applications in the category, in which case all applications were analysed. This is not, therefore, an exhaustive summary of all applications.

6. Percentages do not sum due to rounding.

7. Analysis based on population levels uses the National Records of Scotland mid-year population estimates for 2018. https://www.nrscotland.gov.uk/statistics-and-data/statistics/statistics-by-theme/population/population-estimates

8. The awarded organisations were located in 211 of the 7000 datazones and 187 of the 1300 intermediate zones represented.

9. The SIMD splits Scotland into 6,976 equal areas of roughly the same population size. It uses 38 indicators to measure different aspects of deprivation, including unemployment, crime and travel times to local GP surgeries. It then uses these to rank each data zone depending on its level of deprivation. For more information, see: https://www.gov.scot/publications/scottish-index-multiple-deprivation-2020/

10. More information about the British Red Cross Covid-19 Vulnerability Index is available here: https://britishredcrosssociety.github.io/covid-19-vulnerability/ This analysis is based on the Index for Intermediate Zones in Scotland as available at June 2020.

11. 'Homeless people and rough sleepers' was added as a separate category only in Round Two of the applications, so the numbers here do not reflect applications from Round One which targeted homeless people.

12. The analysis used the population estimates for mid-2018, available from National Records of Scotland, https://www.nrscotland.gov.uk/statistics-and-data/statistics/statistics-by-theme/population/population-estimates