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Perth YMCA is part of the international YMCA movement, and develops youth work services in Perth and the surrounding area.

It runs a number of youth work services for excluded and disadvantaged young people in Perth, including Get Ready for Work and Project Scotland programmes, which are the subject of this study.

The company is based in Gateshead, Tyne & Wear and originally grew out of a Community Arts initiative. The project was founded in 1986 & in 2001 became an independent Charitable Company. For many years now the project has devised and led hundreds of workshops and has toured the country staging performances that have raised issues relating to the learning disabled community and very specifically aimed at learning disabled audiences. The aim of this activity has been to support people with LD and empower participants to effect social change.

In its lifetime the project has produced a series of media that tell its story and push forward the debate on government & community policy in regard to people with disability. This has included managing residencies, providing summer schools and a range of social activities for the target group including nightclubs for people with LD. In the year under study for this SROI analysis the project provided services to 153 different organisations.

“Impact Arts is a national community arts organisation. It has pioneered “the Fab Pad concept”, which Impact Arts is now delivering across Scotland. The main aim of Impact Arts is to use the arts as a catalyst for positive lasting change in people’s lives.

The Fab Pad concept was developed to work with vulnerable people at a vital stage in their progression out of a chaotic lifestyle – when they took on a tenancy. Fab Pad offers arts, design and practical skills training to people, to help them turn their house into a home. It then supports them to take up
other opportunities in education, training and employment.”

Kerbside (Calderdale) recycle people and materials, provide a kerbside recycling business for 25,000 household whilst at the same time providing progression to employment opportunities.