This item was published during the term of a previous administration that ended in April 2007
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Voluntary sector grants
07/12/2006
Financial assistance for adult learning organisations for 2007-08 will mean over £681,000 distributed among national voluntary groups for helping maintain a Scottish Headquarters and the training of staff.
The awards are:
Headquarters
- Discovery Award Association £5,000
- Dyslexia Scotland £38,000
- LEAD Scotland £113,295
- Learning Link Scotland £59,345
- Scottish Adult Learning Partnership £20,500
- Scottish Pre-Retirement Council £15,000
- Scottish Trades Union Congress (STUC) £20,825
- Scottish Women's Rural Institutes £38,500
- Skill Scotland £51,481
- Workbase £12,935
- Workers Educational Association £275,145
- World Development Movement £26,650
- TOTAL (Headquarters) £676,676
Staff training
- LEAD Scotland £500
- Workers Educational Association £1,075
- Dyslexia Scotland £600
- Learning Link Scotland £2,581
- TOTAL (Training) £4,756
GRAND TOTAL 681,432
Deputy Minister for Enterprise Allan Wilson said:
"All these organisations play an important role in taking adult learning into the community where so much progress is being made in improving numeracy and literacy rates.
"I am pleased, once again, to be able to fund so many organisations to help with the cost of running their headquarters and training their staff to ensure that more of our communities can benefit from this progress..
"Both are vital to help everyone fulfil their potential, overcome obstacles to employment and a return to learning, and make such a positive contribution to improving Scotland's economy, health and wellbeing."