| The Scottish Executive announced today that five Dundee and Tayside charities are to receive nearly half a million pounds in funding from the Scottish Executive.
Fife women’s aid organisations are set to receive almost £300,000.
Communities Minister Malcolm Chisholm made the announcement today to mark International Women’s Day. Each project’s funding allocation is to last them for two years.
The Scottish Executive announced last year that a new £6 million Violence Against Women Fund would be introduced in April 2006.
This fund will run for two years and support projects that deliver vital services and work to provide better responses to help women who have been abused.
The Tayside Domestic Abuse Initiative, run by Barnardo’s, will receive £99,564 new funding while the Domestic Abuse Education and Community Project run by Dundee Women’s Aid will get £30,000. The Taywise project, run by charity18 and Under will get £79,601.
A support services project by the Women’s Rape and Sexual Abuse Centre is to receive £80,000 and Dundee Domestic Abuse Forum Co-ordinator at Dundee City council will receive £100,000.
The largest of Fife’s share will go to Fife Domestic and Sexual Abuse Partnership, which will receive almost £98,000 to employ a children and young people’s co-ordinator.
Meanwhile, £53,672 will go to Kirkcaldy-based Fife Rape and Sexual Assault Centre and £51,674 to Kingdom Abuse Survivors Project (KASP). Dunfermline Women’s Aid will receive £45,201 and £79,015 will go to East Fife Women’s Aid.
A spokeswoman from 18 and Under said everyone at the charity was delighted to be getting funding from the Scottish Executive. She said, “The money will pay for a full-time worker to work with young women who are being abused and exploited.
“We are obviously very excited at this announcement and this is an indication that the Executive is taking the exploitation of women seriously, although many people would like to sweep it under the carpet.
“To have a full-time worker reaching out to most vulnerable young women in Dundee can only be a good thing,” she added.
A spokesman for Dundee City Council said the £100,000 for the Dundee Domestic Abuse Forum Co-ordinator would be used to continue the current good works. “The funding will allow the forum to continue a multi-agency role in spearheading campaigns and initiatives to raise the profile of the prevalence of domestic abuse and develop support services for families who have experienced abuse,” he said. |
