Dyslexia Scotland is a national organisation that aims to inspire and enable people with dyslexia to reach their potential in life, learning and work. They are hosting an online networking event on 23rd March for those in S6, Higher Education, or Further Education to meet with other students with dyslexia to share their experiences. They formed the Dyslexic Student …
Projects
Ian Findlay Path Fund – Paths For All
What is it? Run by Paths For All, Colleges, Universities and Students’ Associations in Scotland, can apply for between £10,000 and £100,000 for path management projects that improve the accessibility and resilience of existing paths between homes, community services, active travel routes and public transport facilities or connections. Activities supported will increase active travel in …
Smarter Choices, Smarter Places open fund
What is it? The Smarter Choices, Smarter Places (SCSP) Open Fund aims to encourage people to change their everyday travel behaviours. Grants are available to encourage people to use public transport or other sustainable options such as buses and community car clubs for longer journeys; walking and cycling for short journeys, and home-working to replace …
Win funding for your campaigns on sexual violence
NUS UK are pleased to team up with Against Violence and Abuse (AVA) to launch a new fund for Students’ Associations to tackle sexual violence at universities in Scotland. Following on from their collaboration on AVA’s Combat Misconduct project to improve responses to sexual violence and abuse in higher education they’re now making small campaign grants available …
We’re working with students to coproduce a National Student Mental Health Campaign!
Think Positive, funded by the Scottish Government, commissioned research to evaluate the effectiveness of student mental health support in Scotland and to support the FE and HE sectors to further develop appropriate practice in the delivery of mental health and wellbeing services to students. One of the recommendations from this research was “NUS Scotland could …