Youth Development

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Youth Support and Community Resilience

The Trust also runs its own programmes including programmes to support young people in school and out of school develop life skills that prepare them to be job-ready or ready to participate in further education and skills development opportunities, giving educational and skills development bursaries to young people, and a capacity building programme to link small local businesses into the food supply chains of community-based food distribution projects.

In addition, the trust has set up a standing disaster relief fund to be able to respond to unexpected emergencies that affect communities as they arise, which it has used to respond to urgent community needs during the COVID-19 crisis for example. It was able to provide food and blankets to those who were not able to benefit from feeding schemes which had to close and provide protective equipment to enable feeding schemes to resume their activities.