The programme is available to football clubs and trusts and will look to develop an understanding of how organised activities for children, and wider engagement with local support services, can improve outcomes, particularly for those families on low incomes.
The Scottish FA Extra Time Programme aims to provide:
- An increased accessibility to organised children’s activities for targeted families.
- A better understanding of the role that organised children’s activities can play in delivering food/tackling food insecurities.
- More parents and carers from targeted families can sustain and/or increase their working hours, and/or improve their employment circumstances, take up training, studying or facilitate respite opportunities.
- Indicators to measure improved mental health and wellbeing for children, parents, and carers.
- A better understanding of additional impacts and outcomes that are realised because of providing targeted families and communities with access to funded organised activities.
- Engagement with parents, carers, and communities to increase community involvement and the numbers of children and families participating in grassroots clubs and organisations.
