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Aspirational Awards are back!
Great news: our Aspirational Awards are back! These grants support young people with care experience to think big about their future and help them reach their best potential. If you are interested, and aged between 21-26, then we want to hear from you. We're always happy to chat through any questions you may have.
Find out more on our website

Digging Deeper Research Fund
We would like to fund research into under-explored issues to inform policy and practice and to improve the lives of people living with dementia and/or unpaid carers of people with dementia. We want to see proposals for research that contributes to a current knowledge gap or where the knowledge generated through the research has the potential to improve the lives of people affected by dementia. Awards are only available to individuals or organisations that are based in Scotland. The minimum award available is �10,000 and the maximum is �50,000. Awards must be 100% match-funded.
Read more on our website

Get Writing!
We've just launched a new creative writing project for people with care experience in Scotland. We are looking for writing from people who have current or past experience of care, and you can be as creative as you like - you can write about your experience of care, or about other things that are important to you. It can be poems, song lyrics, flash fiction... the choice is yours. We will publish a lovely book in the Summer of 2020, and the good news is that this not a competition - we will be aiming to include as many entries as possible. This is a great chance to get your writing into print!
Find out more on our website

Invitation to tender: evaluation of the Life Changes Trust Advisory Group
We are committed to truly listening to the voice of people with care experience, as we believe that this is the key to achieving transformational change. This is why we established our Advisory Group, whose members have provided us with invaluable expertise over the years. We are now looking to evaluate the impact of the Trust�s investment in our co-production approach, specifically through our Advisory Group, and capture the learning that we have gathered. The deadline for bids is the 16th December at 5pm.
Find out more on our website

Peer Mentoring Report
Our Peer Mentoring Impact and Learning Report for young people with care experience is out! We established the Peer Mentoring initiative as a means of increasing opportunities for young people with care experience to have positive relationships, mentored by someone who had walked in their shoes. This report reflects on and shares the learning we have gathered from our fantastic Peer Mentoring projects, and highlights some of the impact that has been evidenced over the three years of funding.
You can read the report on our website

Dementia Friendly Communities film & toolkit
The Life Changes Trust has funded almost 40 dementia friendly communities all over Scotland. These projects all embrace some basic, key principles that help to create robust dementia friendly communities. We have used the learning to date to design a toolkit exploring the nine key principles, and to illustrate these we have produced a short documentary showcasing five outstanding Trust-funded dementia friendly communities in Scotland. Our film is up for a Charity Film Award so don't forget to vote!
You can download the toolkit here and you can watch and vote for the film here

Stakeholders News and Events

About Dementia updates
'About Dementia', the National Policy Forum on dementia funded by the Life Changes Trust, now has an e-newsletter to keep forum members updated on what they have been up to, and what is to come. They will hold their next forum meeting at the Bellfield Centre in Stirling on the 5th December (more information and registration here).
Read their November newsletter here, and sign-up to be a forum member here.

BDA Scotland looking for Befrienders
The British Deaf Association (BDA) Scotland is seeking to recruit Befrienders for their Transforming the Deaf Dementia Experience project. They are looking for individuals who are passionate about making a real difference to the quality of life and well being of Deaf people living with dementia in Scotland; people to provide the companionship and support they need to continue doing things they enjoy.
Find out more here

Dundee Champions Board's Little Box of Happiness
Dundee Champions Board are designing self care boxes for young people, for when they feel low, anxious or lonely. They have made a Survey Monkey for young people to choose what they would like to see in the box. Take a minute to fill in the survey, they want to hear your opinion!
Take the survey here

Life Changes Trust Flash Report
Have a look at our latest fabulous Flash Report to see what we have been up to in the last three months. We've been busy!
Download the Flash Report here

The Life Changes Trust was established by the Big Lottery Fund with a National Lottery grant of �50 million to support transformational improvements in the quality of life, well-being, empowerment and inclusion of people affected by dementia and young people with experience of being in care.

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Small Grants programme: Western Isles
Following our 3 days of Community & Dementia events in the Western Isles last September, our Small Grants programme is now open, offering funding to support local projects in the area. Projects should be 'by local people, for local people'. Our staff will also be coming to the Western Isles for a funding workshop in January, so keep an eye out for dates!
Find out more on our website

Invitation to tender: External Evaluation of Champions Boards
The Trust believes that investing directly in young people and placing them at the heart of all efforts to transform the care system is vital if we are to achieve lasting change. This evaluation project will explore the impact of our investment in Champions Boards, particularly in terms of nurturing leadership capability, developing skills and growing aspiration amongst young people with care experience, as well as contributing to wider systems change. Deadline for bids: 17th January, 5pm.
Find out more about this opportunity on our website

Community & Dementia, Creating Better Lives in Ayrshire & Arran
Our Community & Dementia events in Ayrshire & Arran took place over 3 days at the end of November. We started with storytelling sessions for people with dementia, unpaid carers and professionals working in the field of dementia, followed by two fantastic social events: 'An afternoon of Burns' at the Burns Museum, and 'Festive Fun by the Sea' at the Waterside Hotel in West Kilbride. On the third day, 194 delegates took part in the Community & Dementia conference at Ayr Racecourse, our biggest regional event to date. If you missed the event, don't worry: you can now see some of the highlights on our Facebook page!

Digging Deeper Research Fund
We would like to fund research into under-explored issues to inform policy and practice and to improve the lives of people living with dementia and/or unpaid carers of people with dementia. We want to see proposals for research that contributes to a current knowledge gap or where the knowledge generated through the research has the potential to improve the lives of people affected by dementia. Awards are only available to individuals or organisations that are based in Scotland. The minimum award available is �10,000 and the maximum is �50,000. Awards must be 100% match-funded.
Read more on our website

Get Writing!
We have recently launched a new creative writing project for people with care experience in Scotland. We are looking for writing from people who have current or past experience of care, and you can be as creative as you like - you can write about your experience of care, or about other things that are important to you. It can be poems, song lyrics, flash fiction... the choice is yours. We will publish a lovely book in the Summer of 2020, and the good news is that this is not a competition - we will be aiming to include as many entries as possible. This is a great chance to get your writing into print!
Find out more on our website

Peer Mentoring Report
Our Peer Mentoring Impact and Learning Report for young people with care experience is out! We established the Peer Mentoring initiative as a means of increasing opportunities for young people with care experience to have positive relationships, mentored by someone who had walked in their shoes. This report reflects on and shares the learning we have gathered from our fantastic Peer Mentoring projects, and highlights some of the impact that has been evidenced over the three years of funding.
You can read the report on our website

The Life Changes Trust was established by the Big Lottery Fund with a National Lottery grant of �50 million to support transformational improvements in the quality of life, well-being, empowerment and inclusion of people affected by dementia and young people with experience of being in care.

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Technology and Dementia event
Our first thematic event of the year will be all about how technology can help families living with dementia. Delivered in collaboration with William Grant Foundation, Alzheimer Scotland and HammondCare, it will take place on 24th March at Strathclyde Technology and Innovation Centre. There will be an opportunity for people affected by dementia to try out bits of technology and to ask questions about, or recommend, technology that they use themselves. We will also be launching a report which looks at the effectiveness of assistive technology for people with dementia and unpaid carers. The event will allow us to highlight and draw on the findings from the report as well as engage with people with dementia, unpaid carers, professionals working in dementia and industry experts in order to share learning.
You can register on Eventbrite here

You can also read our blog, 'Demystifying Technology' to find out more about what technology can look like for families affected by dementia.
Read our blog here

Get Writing!
Do you have current or past experience of being in the care system? We want to hear from you! We will publish a book in the Summer of 2020, filled with your stories, poems, song lyrics... You can be as creative as you like - you can write about your experience of being in care, or about other things that are important to you. The good news is that this is not a competition - we will be aiming to include as many entries as possible, and there is no age limit. This is a great chance to get your writing into print. Closing date for entries is the 27th February, so get writing! If this isn't you, but you know someone it might interest, please share and lets spread this opportunity far and wide.
Find out more on our website

Small Grants programme: Western Isles
Following our 3 days of Community & Dementia events in the Western Isles last September, our Small Grants programme is now open, offering funding to support local projects in the area. Projects should be 'by local people, for local people'. The closing date for applications is the14th February.
Find out more on our website

Ayrshire & Arran Flash Report
At the end of November last year, we hosted three days of Community & Dementia events in Ayrshire and Arran, with storytelling sessions, two social events, and culminating in a conference at Ayr Racecourse attended by nearly 200 delegates. You can now read our short flash report detailing what happened during the three days, and what people living with dementia and carers told us was a priority for them in their local area.
Download the flash report

Stakeholders News and Events

Borders Food Buddies - The journey so far
Food Buddies is a fantastic project set in the Borders and funded by the Life Changes Trust. This project develops peer support for people with dementia and for carers, with a focus on aspects of food and keeping well. They have just produced a fantastic short video showcasing the wonderful work they do, a must-watch!
Watch the video here

Care Review Launch Event
Join the Chair of the Independent Care Review Fiona Duncan and a panel of Care Review contributors to learn about the review's conclusions and find out what needs to change to make sure that children and young people who are care experienced - and their families - feel supported, nurtured and cherished. The launch event takes place on Wednesday 5th February, from 2pm to 4pm in Edinburgh.
Book your free place here

About Dementia
The National Forum for Dementia Policy and Practice - About Dementia - will hold a series of thematic meetings around Scotland in the coming months. In February, they will focus on Prevention and Living Well in Edinburgh, Transport and Mobility in Aberdeen, Housing and Home in Kirkcaldy, and the Human Rights of Unpaid Carers in Prestwick.
Click on each link to book your free place.

Uno, the amazing dementia dog, popped by the LCT offices this week! He was a very good boy, and took the avalanche of cuddles in his stride.

The Life Changes Trust was established by the Big Lottery Fund with a National Lottery grant of �50 million to support transformational improvements in the quality of life, well-being, empowerment and inclusion of people affected by dementia and young people with experience of being in care.

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Help us assess the effectiveness of our work
Are you someone who might have a view on the work of the Life Changes Trust in your capacity as a professional or volunteer who works with people living with dementia, unpaid carers, or young people with care experience? The University of Stirling, along with Ipsos MORI, is carrying out a 3-year evaluation to understand the impact of the Life Changes Trust. We are really hoping you can spare 15 minutes to share your views with us. The questions are mainly about your awareness of the Trust and your views about its impact. There are no right or wrong answers � we are just interested in your views.

Taking part is completely voluntary � you are free to refuse to answer particular questions or to stop the survey at any time. The survey will be open until the end of February (Friday 28th February 2020).

I am not a professional or volunteer � can I take part?
The views of people living with dementia, unpaid carers and young people with care experience themselves are absolutely essential to understanding the impact of the Trust, but they are being explored by other parts of the evaluation. The questions in this survey will be most relevant in a professional or volunteer capacity. If you are not a professional or volunteer, but you would like to be involved in the evaluation in some way, please email the research team at:
LCTSurvey@ipsos-mori.com

Simply click on this link to start the survey.

Thank you very much for your support.

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The Life Changes Trust was established by the Big Lottery Fund with a National Lottery grant of �50 million to support transformational improvements in the quality of life, well-being, empowerment and inclusion of people affected by dementia and young people with experience of being in care.

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Creating Better Lives small grants
The Creating Better Lives small grants are for local projects supporting people living with dementia and unpaid carers. We are currently looking for applications from projects based in the Borders, Edinburgh & the Lothians, Fife and Tayside. Local organisations can apply for up to ?15,000 for projects lasting up to 18 months.
Find out more on our website

Individual Funding Awards and Co-production Learning Event
We have very limited spaces left for our online learning event looking at the Trust's experience of delivering individual funding awards for young people with care experience. This event will focus on Aspirational Awards, an individual award scheme co-produced with the Trust''s Advisory Group and designed for young people with care experience aged 21-26. At the event, you can hear more about what has been funded through Aspirational Awards, what the impact of this has been, and what we've learned so far. We will also hear from our Advisory Group on the importance of co-production, and some of our awardees will be reflecting on their experience of receiving an award. The event will take place on the morning of Tuesday 8th September. Spaces will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis.
Register your interest here

Individual Awards evaluation report
Our dementia programme''s Individual Awards Scheme was a person-centred scheme that gave small grants of up to ?500 to people living with dementia and unpaid carers to spend on what THEY believed would make a difference to them. In August, we published The Lines Between''s evaluation report of the scheme. With plenty of case studies and evidence on how a small amount of money can improve people''s lives, this report is a must-read. We will also be hosting an event in November to share some of our learning - keep an eye on our social media.
Download the report

COVID-19 learning report
The Trust gathered significant learning from our beneficiaries and awardees during the lockdown caused by COVID-19, which we have now collated into a learning report. It covers both the young people with care experience programme and the dementia programme. We hope people will be able to draw on these findings. We want the learning and insights shared in this report to add further depth to the strong body of evidence being produced by our partners, award holders and other stakeholders on the importance of a local, flexible response in times of crisis and to identify what is needed to support organisations and individuals transitioning out of lockdown.
Download the report

Conference bursaries for people with dementia and unpaid carers
The Life Changes Trust believes that people living with dementia and unpaid carers should participate in conferences and seminars about dementia. This is why the Trust has funded a number of conference places to date and has written reports on how people have benefited from being at such conferences. We now have funding available for attendance at conferences and other events in 2020/21. Please note: these can be online events.
Find out more on our website

Peer-to-peer resource funding for people with dementia and unpaid carers
The Life Changes Trust has launched two funding opportunities, one for people living with dementia and one for unpaid carers of people with dementia. Peer-to-peer funding supports unpaid carers and people with dementia to share their knowledge and expertise with each other and beyond. The Life Changes Trust is offering awards of ?500 to ?5,000 to people with dementia and to unpaid carers of people with dementia to create peer-to-peer support resources, for example leaflets, DVDs, videos, etc.
Find out more

Stakeholders News

Project Return: Our Choir
Staf''s Project Return is launching Our Choir, which aims to bring together those with experience of the children's care and/or the justice system and their workers, giving them a voice and a way of connecting through music. Open to anyone aged 16 + with experience of care and/or the justice system, as well as their corporate parents - from teachers to through care and after care workers - Our Choir will start on Zoom on the 1st September with Sunshine on Leith!
Find out more

Work with About Dementia
Age Scotland is currently recruiting an Influencing and Engagement Officer for the About Dementia project. The post will support the development of new sub-groups ensuring inclusion and engagement from people living with dementia and unpaid carers, support the project to build and maintain relationships with key activists and partner organisations, and contribute to identifying and developing opportunities for campaigning to bring about lasting change in policy and practice.
Find out more

Impact Arts Express Yourself
Are you or do you know a young person with care experience aged 14-25 living in North Ayrshire? Impact Arts Express Yourself programme offers weekly workshops currently focusing on using creative writing, drawing, photography, digital image and cyanotype techniques to see how young people can tell stories about the things that have happened in the past, in the present and what may happen in the future, linked to the places or people around them. These stories will be downloaded onto USB sticks and hidden outdoors for people passing by to discover them.
Find out more

South Ayrshire Champions Board Survey
The South Ayrshire Champions Board wants to know more about your experience of looked after reviews. Their short survey is anonymous and they aim to use the information collected to help make positive changes in South Ayrshire.
Take the survey

The Life Changes Trust was established by the Big Lottery Fund with a National Lottery grant of ?50 million to support transformational improvements in the quality of life, well-being, empowerment and inclusion of people affected by dementia and young people with experience of being in care.

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Trust News

Dementia: A Whole Life Approach
The Life Changes Trust has launched a landmark box set entitled 'Dementia: A Whole Life Approach - a resource for creating better lives.' This online boxset outlines much of the work that has been funded by the Trust and draws together our first tranche of learning from 2015 until 2019. The purpose of this boxset is not only to share information and learning from work funded by the Trust, but also from other organisations in the field of dementia. All of this work takes a grass roots, citizenship and rights led approach to dementia, which is reflected throughout this boxset. For anyone whose life is affected by dementia or who works with people with dementia and unpaid carers, this resource is designed to equip, educate and motivate. 'Dementia: a whole life approach' has 5 volumes: Human rights and dementia; Community and dementia; Independence, confidence and support; Peer support; and Information, Awareness and Training.
Read more on our website

Evaluation of the Scams Protection and Prevention project
In January 2017 the Life Changes Trust funded a three-year pilot project to protect people affected by dementia from financial scams. The evaluation of the project, carried out by Social Value Lab, is now summarised in a report which has been launched to coincide with the #ShutOutScammers campaign. It shows that interventions can support people with dementia to live at home safely without fear of financial harm, as well as providing savings to the public purse.
Read the report here
There is also a short film featuring some families who have benefited from this project.
Watch it here

Peer-to-peer resource funding for people with dementia and unpaid carers
The Life Changes Trust has launched two funding opportunities, one for people living with dementia and one for unpaid carers of people with dementia. Peer-to-peer funding supports unpaid carers and people with dementia to share their knowledge and expertise with each other and beyond. The Life Changes Trust is offering awards of ?500 to ?5,000 to people with dementia and to unpaid carers of people with dementia to create peer-to-peer support resources, e.g. leaflets, DVDs, videos, etc., and to facilitate meeting with other people with dementia or unpaid carers on a regular and planned basis.
Find out more

Loud and Clear - a history of dementia activism in Scotland
The Life Changes Trust has published a new landmark book, Loud and Clear, written by Philly Hare. This book, the first of its kind, tells the story of how people living with dementia in Scotland have become activists and influencers in their own right over the last twenty years. The story is told largely through the eyes of dementia activists themselves, and reflects their successes and struggles to achieve ground-breaking change. You will recognise some familiar figures, and be amazed at what a small number of determined and passionate people can achieve. An absolute must-read.
Download Loud and Clear
Watch a short film about the project

Reframing Children's Care: Each and Every Child
The Trust is a funding partner in this exciting initiative which aims to tell a much more positive story about children and young people in care. Partners in Scotland have been working with the FrameWorks Institute to build a clearer picture of current public thinking and to develop communications tools which can help to positively influence attitudes. We know that children and young people continue to face negative and stigmatising attitudes in their communities but we also now have tools that can help us to build better understanding and support. The next stage of the work - the Each and Every Child initiative - will put the research into practice. People with care experience themselves will be at the heart of efforts to create a new compelling narrative which builds public support and action to improve lives. The Robertson Trust will host the Each and Every Child initiative and in the coming weeks, two new staff posts will be advertised to lead the work.
Keep an eye on the Robertson Trust website for further details

Stakeholders News

Scottish Government Consultation: Raising the Age of Referral
This consultation is exploring the possibility of changing the law so that all young people under the age of eighteen can go to a Children's Hearing. This is an important opportunity to offer young people aged 16 and 17 improved access to the care and protection available via the Hearing system and to reduce unnecessary criminalisation of young people. The Centre for Youth and Criminal Justice has been working hard on this issue. You can read a great blog from Practice Development Advisor Ross Gibson here

Children''s Hearings survey
CELCIS are conducting a survey about people''s experiences of Children''s Hearings during COVID-19. They would like to hear from young people over the age of 12, families, panel members, social workers, safeguarders, reporters, solicitors, advocacy workers, and anyone else involved. The information and feedback provided will be used to assist in improving everybody''s experiences of hearings.
Find out more on their website

Seeds for Change by Project Return
The Catalysts, a group of young people with care experience involved with Staf''s Project Return, have launched Seeds for Change - an indoor plant starter kit that will bring nature and nurture inside care leavers and workers'' homes. It contains everything you need to grow your own plants, and it''s free!
Find out more

Online creative resources for carers
Luminate, Scotland''s creative ageing organisation, has collated a list of online creative resources for carers, including care homes, care at home providers and unpaid carers. Many of the resources are designed to be dementia friendly, and include visual arts, writing and animation apps, among others.
Download the resource

The Life Changes Trust was established by the Big Lottery Fund with a National Lottery grant of ?50 million to support transformational improvements in the quality of life, well-being, empowerment and inclusion of people affected by dementia and young people with experience of being in care.

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Trust News

Flash Report - October 2020
Catch up on all the Trust''s news in our latest Flash Report, where we take a look at how some of our funded projects from all over Scotland are continuing to support young people with care experience, people living with dementia and unpaid carers of people with dementia during COVID-19. We also feature some brand new Trust resources and look at what else we've been up to in the last few months.
Read our Flash Report here

My Choice, My Future
In November we launched the 'My Choice, My Future' funding, aimed at supporting young people with care experience aged 18-30 to make choices about their future and take steps that will have a positive and long-term impact on their lives. My Choice, My Future is focused on:

- supporting young people with care experience who are trying something new and taking initial steps towards their long-term aspirations.

- supporting young people with care experience who have a very clear idea of the next step they need to take in life to fulfil their long-term aspirations.

You can join one of our drop-in sessions if you have any questions or want to discuss your ideas: Tuesday 1 December (11am-12pm) and Thursday 3 December (6-7pm). The closing date for applications is the 14th December.
Find out more

Caring for the Carer Fund
This month we also launched the 'Caring for the Carer Fund' in recognition of the immense pressure that the COVID-19 outbreak has placed on the unpaid carers of people living with dementia. It is aimed at supporting the wellbeing of unpaid carers during this time and focuses on the following:

- coping with social distancing and isolation

- improving/maintaining mental health

- improving/maintaining physical wellbeing and health

The closing date for applications is the 22nd of January 2021.
Find out more

Community & Dementia - Creating Better Lives in Edinburgh and the Lothians
On Thursday 26th November, we hosted our first online Community & Dementia regional conference. Attended by nearly 80 people, the event looked in more depth at what people living with dementia and those who care for them said was important to them in their own communities. We also shone a light on the innovative and creative work taking place in Edinburgh and the Lothians, and shared learning on how local projects have adapted their services in response to the pandemic. This was a fantastic and powerful event that you can now watch online.
Find out more and watch the webinar here

Dementia: a whole life approach - A resource for creating better lives
In June 2020, we published ''Dementia: a whole life approach - A resource for creating better lives'', a 5 volume boxset of valuable learning and information for people with dementia, unpaid carers of people with dementia and anyone working in the area of dementia. The boxset outlines the work funded by the Trust and the learning drawn from it, and from other organisations in the field of dementia. This is currently on our website and hard copies will be available soon. We will be regularly updating the online version of 'Dementia: a whole life approach', reflecting changes in projects already represented as well as adding evidence from newly funded projects and other stakeholders. We will shortly be launching a dedicated e-bulletin to give updates on these revisions.
If you''d like to hear about updates, sign up here

Peer-to-peer resource funding for people with dementia and unpaid carers
The Life Changes Trust has two funding opportunities, one for people living with dementia and one for unpaid carers of people with dementia. Peer-to-peer funding supports unpaid carers and people with dementia to share their knowledge and expertise with each other and beyond. The Life Changes Trust is offering awards of ?500 to ?5,000 to people with dementia and to unpaid carers of people with dementia to create peer-to-peer support resources, for example leaflets, DVDs, videos, etc.
Find out more

Stakeholders News

Exciting new role at Hame!
Set up with funding from the Trust''s Home and Belonging initiative, ''Hame'' is a new young people led organisation which will develop and manage new homes for young people with care experience in Dundee. They are currently recruiting for a new Modern Apprenticeship role in Youth Work.
Find out more

Design CELCIS''s Christmas card
CELCIS are asking school-aged children and young people in Scotland (up to the age of 18) with care experience to help design their official Christmas Card. The artist of the winning design will receive a ?50 voucher, so why not get the children and young people in your care to get into the Christmas spirit by constructing a cracking creation! Closing date: 4th December.
Find out more

Who Cares? Scotland ''Care Family Christmas''
Christmas plans are going to look a bit different this year, but Who Cares? Scotland have come up with creative ways to ensure that their members continue to feel the warmth and support of the community throughout the season.
Read more about the ''Care Family Christmas'' here

The Life Changes Trust was established by the National Lottery Community Fund with a grant of ?50 million to support transformational improvements in the quality of life, well-being, empowerment and inclusion of people living dementia unpaid carers of those with dementia and young people with experience of being in care.

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Individual Funding Awards and Co-production Learning Event
Earlier this month, we held a fantastic online learning event looking at the Trust's experience of delivering individual funding awards for young people with care experience. It focussed on Aspirational Awards, an individual award scheme co-produced with the Trust''s Advisory Group and designed for young people with care experience aged 21-26. As well as sharing our briefing paper''s findings, we heard from two awardees about the impact the grant has made to their lives, and from members of the Advisory Group about the co-production process. It was a brilliant event - "This was such an inspiring event. Superb on many levels!"
You can watch the recording of the event here

Dementia Activism Week
The week of 14-18 September was Dementia Activism Week. To mark the occasion, the Trust shone a light on the fantastic work that has been done in Scotland by people living with dementia to inform and influence, and to take the lead in what matters to them. We started the week with a landmark book put together by Philly Hare, ''Loud and Clear- exploring two decades of involvement, voice and activism by people with dementia in Scotland'', and a short film featuring some of the activists reading excerpts from the book (watch it here)

On Day 2, we held a webinar ''From Acorns to Oak Trees - Passing on the Baton of Dementia Activism'', during which four people living with dementia shared with each other (and the audience) what they learned from being effective activists. You can watch their very inspiring contributions here

For Day 3, we premiered the film ''Standing Up For Dementia in Fife'' by the STAND group. In it, activists share about who they are, what they do and what being part of the group has meant for them in terms of confidence and choice over their own lives (watch it here)

On Day 4, we held another fantastic webinar: ''How To Be A Good Ally to Activists'' featuring Ron Coleman, James McKillop and Agnes Houston talking about what a good ally should look like in practice. It was a really informative event, with some powerful contributions (watch it here)

On the final day of Dementia Activism Week, we shone a light on the work of dementia activist Ron Coleman around technology and more precisely Alexa. Ron wrote a stage play entitled Alexa and Me, which he then turned into a radio play. He has also written a workbook which guides anyone with dementia through the journey of using Alexa to empower and support their lives.
You can listen to the play and download the workbook here

Peer-to-peer resource funding for people with dementia and unpaid carers
The Life Changes Trust has launched two funding opportunities, one for people living with dementia and one for unpaid carers of people with dementia. Peer-to-peer funding supports unpaid carers and people with dementia to share their knowledge and expertise with each other and beyond. The Life Changes Trust is offering awards of ?500 to ?5,000 to people with dementia and to unpaid carers of people with dementia to create peer-to-peer support resources, for example leaflets, DVDs, videos, etc.
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Youth Justice Voices shortlisted for Howard League Community Award
Congratulations to the Youth Justice Voices project, which has been shortlisted for a Howard League Community Award! This project is a partnership between Staf and the Children and Young People's Centre for Justice (CYCJ), which seeks to amplify the voices of care and justice experienced young people aged 16 to 25 to influence national change. The project has been shortlisted in the Children in Care and Care Leavers Category.
Find out more on their website

LGBT Youth''s Care Experienced Youth Commission - Top Tips
LGBT Youth's Care Experienced Youth Commission comes to a close at the end of September. They have produced a resource and short film: ''Create Safe Environments for LGBT People in Care Settings - Top Tips'', with very important messages about stigma, bullying and how to make sure young LGBT people in care are not silenced.
Find out more on their website

Talking Sense is now an audiobook
The book ''Talking Sense - living with sensory changes and dementia'' is the culmination of more than a decade of research by dementia activist Agnes Houston. It is a practical tool for carers looking to support people living with sensory challenges and information about who to go to for help, where support organisations can be located, and how to access services. This very important resource is now available as a free audiobook.
Download it here

Dementia Friendly Prestwick
Watch this fantastic wee film featuring Julie Twaddell, one of Dementia Friendly Prestwick''s founding members and Trustee. Here, she talks about some elements of what makes a place dementia friendly, and their successful seafront project.
Watch it here

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Save the date! Edinburgh & the Lothians
The Life Changes Trust''s first ''Community and Dementia: Creating Better Lives'' conference of 2020 will cover Edinburgh and the Lothians, and will take place at BT Murrayfield on Thursday 23rd April. Registration will open soon, so keep an eye on our social media for the link in the coming days.
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Small Grants programme: Ayrshire and Arran
Following our 3 days of Community & Dementia events in Ayrshire and Arran last November, our Small Grants programme is now open, offering funding to support local projects in the area. Projects should be ''by local people, for local people''. The closing date for applications is Friday 3rd April.
Read more about the small grants programme on our website

Conference Grants - launching soon!
The Life Changes Trust is excited to announce the launch of our latest individual grants scheme for young people with care experience - Conference Grants. This funding will support people with care experience, aged 18-35, to attend conferences that are linked to their personal or professional development. This grants scheme has been co-developed by our Advisory Group, and through this funding they want to support people with care experience to take up opportunities where they can share their views and influence others. Due to launch on 16th March - keep an eye on social media!
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Technology and Dementia event
Our first thematic event of the year will be all about how technology can help families living with dementia. Delivered in collaboration with William Grant Foundation, Alzheimer Scotland and HammondCare, it will take place on 24th March at Strathclyde Technology and Innovation Centre. There will be an opportunity for people affected by dementia to try out bits of technology and to ask questions about, or recommend, technology that they use themselves. We will also be launching a report which looks at the effectiveness of assistive technology for people with dementia and unpaid carers. The event will allow us to highlight and draw on the findings from the report as well as engage with people with dementia, unpaid carers, professionals working in dementia and industry experts in order to share learning.
You can register on Eventbrite here

You can also read our blog, ''Demystifying Technology'' to find out more about what technology can look like for families affected by dementia.
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Statement from our Advisory Group for the Young People with Care Experience Programme
The Life Changes Trust is fortunate to have a voluntary Advisory Group for our Young People with Care Experience Programme. They have made a thoughtful and responsive statement following the Independent Care Review.
Read their full response here

Life Changes Trust Flash Report
Want to know what we''ve been up to? Our latest quarterly Flash Report will give you a quick overview of what we have been working on in the last few months, featuring some of our funded projects and exciting events.
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Stakeholders News and Events

Learning event: Taking a chance - How do we fund co-production?
The Scottish Co-production Network is holding a learning event on the 10th March in Edinburgh to explore how we can make the case for funding co-production and to hear examples of co-produced approaches to grant making in practice. The Life Changes Trust will be there to talk about how WE have used co-production to involve young people with care experience, people living with dementia and unpaid carers of people with dementia in how we design and deliver our work.
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MoneyPointr Bootcamp
MoneyPointr is one of the Trust''s ''Home and Belonging'' funded projects, run by HomePointr. This funding supports young people to find a strong sense of home and belonging in their own communities, recognising that "home is not a place, it is a feeling". MoneyPointr is holding a tenancy and financial bootcamp for young people on Monday 9th March in Edinburgh. Spaces are limited, so make sure to book now.
Find out more here

Lasting impact: Launch of MCR Pathways Evaluation
An independent evaluation of MCR Pathways''s Educational Mentoring Programme has shown strong impact for young people with care experience. The evaluation, completed by ScotCen, highlights that young people with a mentor are significantly more likely to stay on at school, much more likely to achieve qualifications and more likely to go on to further/higher education, a training place or a job. These findings offer real hope for improving educational outcomes and life chances for young people with care experience and the Trust is one of a number of funders which is supporting the wider roll-out of educational mentoring across Scotland.
Read the full report

About Dementia
The National Forum for Dementia Policy and Practice - About Dementia - will hold a series of thematic meetings around Scotland in the coming months. Their Spring forum meeting will take place in Kilmarnock on 5th March 2020.
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We were privileged to attend the amazing premiere of ''Whatever Happened to the Jaggy Nettles?'' in February, a performance written by and starring the fabulous We Are Citizens ensemble. This is a project funded by the Trust through our Creative and Active Lives funding initiative, as part of our Young People with Care Experience programme. Everyone gave a stellar performance, and deserved all the praise they received.

The Life Changes Trust was established by the Big Lottery Fund with a National Lottery grant of ?50 million to support transformational improvements in the quality of life, well-being, empowerment and inclusion of people affected by dementia and young people with experience of being in care.

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Launch of the new Life Changes Trust website
We are delighted to launch our brand new website. With a new look and an emphasis on the learning we have gathered so far, it showcases the many projects we have funded over the years and what impact they have had on our beneficiaries. Have a browse and find out more about the wide variety of projects we have supported, and what funding opportunities we have available at the moment.
https://www.lifechangestrust.org.uk

See our new publications page
Looking for a specific report, guide or resource? They are all on our new publications page, sorted by themes, and easily accessible. You will find our reports and evaluations, as well as relevant publications by some of our funded projects and some very useful peer-to-peer resources.
Click here to start browsing

New ''Dementia and Self-Management'' booklet and video
Talking of peer-to-peer resources, our latest launched in early May. The Dementia and Self-Management booklet was written and researched by the Scottish Dementia Alumni, a group of people who have each been living with different diagnoses of dementia for over ten years. They researched what ''self-management'' means to people living with forms of dementia in different circumstances and how the idea affects their everyday lives.
Download the booklet and watch the accompanying video

Keep Well Fund
We are really pleased to have been able to support hundreds of young people to stay connected, engaged and involved in doing things they enjoy during this challenging time. We'll be continuing to work really hard during May to make sure everyone who has been successful receives their funding, and we're really excited to hear about the impact of the Keep Well Fund. Successful applicants are being encouraged to use the hashtag #KeepWellFund if posting on social media. Finally, the Trust would like to thank the William Grant Foundation, the Esm?e Fairbairn Foundation, the Cattanach Trust and Cycling Scotland for their fantastic support, as it has meant we can support many more young people.

Flash Report January - March 2020
You can now download our latest flash report, which highlights the amazing response some of our funded projects have had to the current crisis. With our beneficiary groups being particularly vulnerable to isolation and loneliness, both our Dementia and Young People with Care Experience projects have put in place systems to support the people they work with to make sure they are staying connected. In difficult times, these are inspiring examples of creativity, adaptability and resilience.
Read the report here

Stakeholders News

New film by BDA Scotland - Grieving & Bereavement
British Deaf Association Scotland has released a new film focusing on the feelings of grief and bereavement someone who cares for a person with dementia might experience.
Watch it here

Have your say
''About Dementia'' has set up an online survey where you can let them know about the impacts Covid-19 has had on you, your family, the work you do, and the services you run. They plan to use the information they gather to help better understand the response to Covid-19 for people living with dementia and unpaid carers, the organisations and individuals supporting them, and to help them learn from this in the future. The survey is anonymous and while they won't be able to respond to you directly, the Age Scotland Helpline is available if you need information or advice - 0800 12 44 222.
Click here to fill out the survey

Congratulations to StudioLR!
Congratulations to StudioLR for winning the Best Social Good Campaign at the ''Nods'' Design Awards for their ''Any Disability Symbol'' campaign. Well done to StudioLR and the many people, including those living with dementia, who worked with them on the design and testing.
Read more about it here

The Life Changes Trust was established by the Big Lottery Fund with a National Lottery grant of ?50 million to support transformational improvements in the quality of life, well-being, empowerment and inclusion of people affected by dementia and young people with experience of being in care.

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Trust Events
As you know, all of our events have been temporarily postponed, including our ''Community and Dementia: Creating Better Lives'' conference for Edinburgh and the Lothians, our Technology and Dementia event and our Champions Board hub meetings. All of these will be rescheduled for later in the year, so watch this space.
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Small Grants programme: Ayrshire and Arran
Following our 3 days of Community & Dementia events in Ayrshire and Arran last November, our Small Grants programme is open, offering funding to support local projects in the area. Projects should be ''by local people, for local people''. The closing date for applications has been extended until Friday 17th April.
Read more about the small grants programme on our website

Conference Grants for young people with care experience
We are excited about the launch of our latest individual grants scheme for young people with care experience - Conference Grants. This funding will support people with care experience, aged 18-35, to attend conferences that are linked to their personal or professional development. This grants scheme has been co-developed by our Advisory Group, and through this funding they want to support people with care experience to take up opportunities where they can share their views and influence others.
Read more on our website

Life Changes Trust Flash Report
Want to know what we''ve been up to? Our latest quarterly Flash Report will give you a quick overview of what we have been working on in the last few months, featuring some of our funded projects and exciting events.
Download the flash report

A really big shout out to all of our funded projects who continue to provide support, information and activities to people living with dementia, those who care for them and young people with care experience. In the next few weeks we will be showcasing some of the innovative ways people have found to work during this period dominated by COVID-19, and bringing you stories of how they are still creating better lives.

The Life Changes Trust was established by the Big Lottery Fund with a National Lottery grant of ?50 million to support transformational improvements in the quality of life, well-being, empowerment and inclusion of people affected by dementia and young people with experience of being in care.

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