Eastwood-based Charity, Young Enterprise Scotland, Receives £100,000 of Funding

That the Parliament congratulates the Eastwood-based charity, Young Enterprise Scotland, on receiving £100,000 in grant funding for the purposes of ensuring that its enterprise learning programmes can be made available in all primary and secondary schools in Scotland and to support young people in getting through the difficulties caused by the emergence of COVID-19; understands that Young Enterprise Scotland, whose headquarters are in Giffnock, was awarded the grant funding from a £100 million Community Aid Package put together by Barclays, and that the financial support will allow the organisation to expand its enterprise initiatives into a total of 150 primary and 30 secondary schools in parts of Scotland where levels of deprivation are highest, with more than 2,500 young people whose education may have been most disrupted by the pandemic benefiting from this important endeavour; understands that the grant support offered by Barclays will also allow Young Enterprise Scotland to create three new positions and support the charity in furthering its objective to ensure vital entrepreneurial skills teaching can become embedded within mainstream education; recognises that Barclays developed its £100 million Community Aid Package in April 2020 in support of charities that are working to assist people and communities that have been most negatively impacted by the disruption caused by the pandemic; acknowledges that £10 million of the grant funding made available by Barclays has been awarded through the firm's 100x100 COVID-19 Community Relief Programme, and that Eastwood's Young Enterprise Scotland is one of 100 charitable organisations across the UK to receive a £100,000 donation; further congratulates Young Enterprise Scotland on securing access to this important grant funding, and wishes the charity every success with expanding its enterprise programmes into schools in Scotland that are located in areas of high deprivation.