The Robertson Trust

Our offices will be closed from the end of day 20th December to the 3rd of January but we will respond to enquiries and assess new applications as quickly as we can on our return. Wishing you all a happy and healthy festive period! ❄️

📅 A reminder that applications for our Nurturing Relationships theme through our Small and Large Grants close on Friday, 24th January at 12 noon. Find out more about our available funds 👇 https://lnkd.in/eskk9hRf

We're delighted to be able to share that we have secured support from The Robertson Trust to develop an approach to in-work progression that improves outcomes for cohorts who traditionally miss out or are overlooked. Learn more: https://ow.ly/OQzL50UtfaY

We are pleased to announce the first awards made through our new Transport Grants fund, and share our learning so far after our first round of decisions 🚌 Read more ⤵️ https://lnkd.in/exQgfqbV

ICYMI... Here at Strathclyde Business School we are excited to be partnering with Fife Gingerbread and One Parent Families Scotland on an important new project supported by The Robertson Trust that will work with single parents and employers to deliver empowerment and #FairWork... Thanks to Laura Millar, Satwat Rehman and our Robertson Trust colleagues Lyndsay Fraser Robertson and Simon Denny for a really positive inception meeting today. Looking forward to getting stuck in with the Lone Parent Positive Workplaces project in 2025!

We're very pleased to have secured support from The Robertson Trust to help more of Scotland's #SocialCare workers get a #LivingWage and a life beyond the injustice of in-work poverty. https://buff.ly/3ZWfJWf

We are delighted to be one of ten successful organisations, chosen by The Robertson Trust, to be awarded a grant to help improve job design and flexibility in frontline roles, in Scotland. We have a long history of supporting flexible job creation in Scotland, and put forward a bid through the Trust’s Work Pathways open call, which challenged charities and social enterprises to design ideas to deliver big change, to help tackle in-work poverty in Scotland over the next 3-5 years.   Our project aims to change the way in which roles in key low wage industries are designed and advertised. It will unlock more secure/increased hours and progression opportunities for low paid workers and those facing structural barriers to fair work, by working with employers in target sectors to open up more of their vacancies to flexible working options and predictable hours. We are excited to start on this programme in the new year.   Lyndsay Fraser Robertson, The Robertson Trust Programme Officer says: "These awards are designed to support work over the next 3-5 years that has a high potential for delivering significant, long-term impact on poverty and trauma. Each of the ten projects funded through this open call really brought this potential to life and we are excited to work alongside these partners to maximise their impact and learn what works well and less well.”   Clare McNeil, Director of Policy and Innovation at Timewise says: "We are delighted to have secured this significant grant from the Robertson Trust to work with employers to influence the way in which roles in key low wage industries are designed and advertised. We know that a lack of flexible and predictable work is a key factor in preventing people from both securing and progressing in work. Tackling this is essential for reducing working poverty over the longer-term." #Scotland #TacklingInWorkPoverty

We are thrilled to have been awarded a Development Award through The Robertson Trust’s Work Pathways open call. ⭐ The open call sought to identify projects that have the potential to deliver significant, long-term impact to reduce poverty in Scotland. L&W’s project will focus on improving progression opportunities by bringing learning from successful national and international in-work progression programmes and applying this to a Scottish context. Find out more: https://lnkd.in/e-iX-xzR #employment #skills #progression #goodwork #betterwork

Here at the Department of Work, Employment and Organisation at Strathclyde Business School we are delighted to be partnering with Fife Gingerbread and One Parent Families Scotland on this important new project on empowering single parents to access #FairWork and escape in-work poverty. We're hugely grateful to the brilliant Laura Millar at Fife Gingerbread for her leadership and to The Robertson Trust for their generous support. Watch this space for updates on our "Lone Parent Positive Workplaces" project!

We’re delighted our partnership with Save the Children Scotland has secured funding from The Robertson Trust to deliver research on young mothers’ employment. Our work will help identify and address the causes of young mothers’ in-work poverty. https://buff.ly/3ZWfJWf Despite experiencing high levels of in-work poverty, young mothers are routinely invisible in policy responses, and in employer efforts to improve job quality and fair work. Better understanding of how the current system traps young mothers in in-work poverty is the critical first step. Approaches to systems change must be evidenced & our research will generate recommendations for policymakers and employers. We’ll also deliver a campaign that will empower young mothers with information on their rights to mitigate the disenfranchisement that the current system sustains. Women’s poverty is indivisible from children’s poverty, so our work will help to reduce the trauma and harm that is caused by growing up in poverty. We’re excited to get started and create change for young mothers and their families.