Our Core Funder

The Children, Young People and Families Early Intervention and Adult Learning and Empowering Communities Fund

The CYPFEIF & ALEC Fund is a Scottish Government fund administered by Corra Foundation.

The overall vision for the fund was to:

Deliver nationally on improved outcomes for children, families, young people and adult learners through supporting the Third Sector in prevention and early intervention approaches.
Strengthening the Third Sector to increase the effectives of services and policies that prioritise prevention and early intervention in the areas of children, young people and families and adult learning at a national level.

Core funding grants were first announced by Scottish Government in December 2015, with £14 million allocated to third sector organisations in the first year of a three-year programme. Further extensions to this Fund were announced each year for core funding recipients from 2018 until March 2027. Thirty organisations also received funding through project funding between 2017-2019.

Learning Link Scotland receives core funding through this fund and our core outcomes are:

Outcome 1:

Learning Link Scotland core activities of consulting and representing the sector will improve policy and strategy development relating to third sector adult learning by increasing funders, policy makers and others understanding of the perspectives of third sector adult learning organisations who are working with adult learners who are currently or at risk of living in poverty.

Outcome 2:

Learning Link Scotland core activities of providing information and support, capacity building and developing and promoting good practice, will increase third sector adult learning organisations and practitioners, skills and knowledge increasing their practice and effectiveness.

Outcome 3

Learning Link Scotland core activities of providing communication and information channels facilitate networking and collaboration between third sector adult learning organisations, policy makers and other providers which leads to improved collaboration and increased connectedness

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