Our Key to Potential service provides support to young people about to leave school, and those who have recently left, to access college, training, or employment. For #WorldYouthSkillsDay, Chief Executive Officer Rona Hunter from our partners Capital City Partnership writes on how the third sector has adapted during COVID19 to continue providing that essential support:…
CEO Blog: Ending the need for night shelters
What have I learnt from this pandemic? That I am not very good at making sourdough bread, but am getting better at not killing the things I plant in the garden. That my Cyrenians colleagues are heroes for all they have done to keep supporting people and tacking the causes and consequences of homelessness. And…
CEO Blog: A housing-led solution to homelessness
While it should never have taken a public health crisis of this kind to force this concerted effort, we’ve seen over the past few months what we as a society can do when there is clear direction and sufficient resourcing from top to bottom; translated as “political will”, which speaks volumes about why we…
CEO Blog: A response to the Advisory Group on Economic Recovery Report
I was pleased to see the attempt by the Scottish Government’s Advisory Group on Economic Recovery whose report was published on Monday of this week to frame economics as being about much more than money, finance, transactions and even growth. Entitled “Towards a robust, resilient, wellbeing economy”, the report uses the OECD’s 4 “capitals” or…
CEO Blog: How Covid has opened our eyes to a crisis we somehow failed to see
These are extraordinary times. And I don’t just mean the health consequences of the global pandemic, but how it has exposing the fragility of human life. We may think we rule the world but we don’t. We are as vulnerable as the rest of the living beings on the planet and that’s been hard to…
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