Absafe Awarded Funding to Empower Local Youngsters

That the Parliament celebrates the award of £12,000 by the Scotch Whisky Action Fund to Absafe; recognises that the fund supports projects taking an innovative approach to addressing the issues around alcohol misuse within a community or section of society; welcomes that, by 2023, the fund will have provided £1 million of support, and this announcement brings the number of individual initiatives awarded funding to 48; understands that Absafe will provide an alcohol education programme to empower young people with the confidence and resilience they need to understand alcohol, its impact on communities and families and some of the challenges they may face among peers, and welcomes that 1,200 11- and 12-year-olds will benefit from this programme over the next year.