Free sports and family support at Inch Park Community Sports Club (360G-SCVO-a133z00000LRVLgAAP)

We will establish a new bursary scheme that will provide free places to young people and adults so that they can take part in sport without any financial barriers. Participants will benefit from a full package: they will join one of Inch Park CSC’s core sports clubs (football, rugby or cricket), have full access to the club and the clubhouse facilities, get all the kit they need, two training sessions each week, matches at the weekend, an average of four hours of sports participation every week, with all costs covered including travel. They will have access to counselling services that are provided free to club members. This grant will support 21 fully funded places each year for two years, spread across the three sports clubs. The bursary scheme will fund sporting participation for adults and young people and adults who (or whose families) would otherwise not be able to afford to pay for this. We will work with our network of contacts, coaches, schools and community groups to identify people who might benefit from this, who face disadvantage because of their background. Your support for this initiative will enable us to kickstart a bursary scheme that we will publicise and fundraise for on an ongoing basis, with the aim of securing regular philanthropic donations to fund future places to continue a hardship fund year on year. Alongside this, we will offer support to participants’ families. They will have full access to our clubhouse facilities including social events and our free wellbeing café with peer support and counselling services. Our partners Edinburgh Vineyard Church will run Christians Against Poverty (CAP) Managing your Money courses, to help families better manage their household expenditure. This free training teaches budgeting skills and a simple, cash-based system that works. It equips participants to get to grips with their finances so they can budget, save and prevent debt.This will be a joined-up approach representing good value for money. Our delivery partners for this project are our three core sports clubs and Edinburgh Vineyard Church. LISMORE RUGBY FOOTBALL CLUB (registered charity no. SC043329) uses rugby as a vehicle to increase access to sport and physical activity. They field teams of all ages and genders, with a focus on youth work in sport and increasing access in groups who may not traditionally have access to rugby facilities.EDINBURGH SOUTH COMMUNITY FOOTBALL CLUB (registered charity no. SC048866) is an accredited SFA Platinum Quality Mark Community Club. They run 70 teams including children's football, girls, women’s, amateurs and a senior side. They represent more than 800 players and around 180 volunteer coaches and officials. Their inclusion policy means they take on anyone who wants to play sports regardless of ability, background or financial status.EDINBURGH SOUTH CRICKET CLUB has over 100 members across its senior men’s, junior and women’s sections. They run four teams in the East of Scotland Cricket Association league, plus friendly sides encompassing a wide range of standards. The Wicketz hub in partnership with Cricket Scotland and Lords Taverners bring cricket to young people who struggle to engage with school, have an offending background or are from communities that have barriers to or under-representation in participation.EDINBURGH VINEYARD (registered charity no. SC047480). The Vineyard Movement is a worldwide network of over 2,500 churches committed to seeing each generation reached by the power of the Gospel, with a view to embrace integrity in Christian character.