Spartans Community Foundation (SCF) is redefining community engagement by creating positive social impact through sport and people.

SCF aims to help people in North Edinburgh overcome challenges and barriers to fulfilling their potential by delivering services that improve social, emotional, and physical well-being, as well as boosting educational attainment and access to positive destinations.

Our community deserves a new building that caters to the current and future needs of young people. North Edinburgh is an area of great potential yet it also faces considerable inequalities and challenges. It is a community where 14 of 36 datazones fall within the top 20% most deprived areas in Scotland and where 17% of datazones are in the top 5% of deprivation as determined by Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation (2020). These figures show that educational attainment and attendance fall below national averages, whilst the percentage of young people not in education, employment or training and the number of working age people with no qualifications is higher than the national averages. Crime rates are above average in North Edinburgh and health related indicators are all worse than national averages.

SCF delivers youth work and education services from our existing Youth Work Space, which has become inadequate and inefficient. The current space, made from 6 recycled portacabins, lacks the functional capacity required for quality education and youth work. With rising demand for SCF's services, especially post-Covid, maintaining the temporary portacabins is neither financially nor environmentally sustainable.

The new Education & Youth Work Space, co-designed with input from young people, promises an optimal environment for service delivery. It secures the present and future provision of SCF's services, contributing to improved social, emotional, health, and educational outcomes for North Edinburgh's young people. It also fosters a sense of belonging, giving young people a facility they can take pride in and underscores their value in the local community.

Help us fundraise towards our £1.3 million target.