No One Left Behind (NOLB) stage 1 grants programme

No One Left Behind is the Scottish Government approach to transforming employment support in Scotland.

The program aims to help people of all ages find work and reduce child poverty. It will also make the system more responsive to the needs of those with health conditions, disabilities, and other disadvantages in the job market.

Applications open

Applications for stage 1 of the grants programme is now open. These grants support young people leaving school without progressing into employment, further education or training. They replace our Activity Agreements service.

All applications should make reference to the Strategic Skills Pipeline and other documents.

Organisations can make multiple applications. You must complete a separate application for each proposal. Each application must be for a separate and distinct project and aim to support a different cluster as detailed in the specification.

The budget for each cluster is £43,000 per annum.

Bidders event

We are holding a online bidders event on Wednesday 23 August 2023 from 9.30am to 10.30am. Bidders can hear about the process and ask questions. If you want to attend email Roisin Bathe at roisin.bathe@capitalcitypartnership.org who will forward a diary invite with an online link to join.

Draft application review

Our arm's length organisaton Capital City Partnership will manage the grants for us. If you send your application by Friday 25 August 2023 they will review it and give you feedback based on information given at the bidders event. Please email contracts@capitalcitypartnership.org if you need this.

Application deadline

You must submit completed applications by email to contracts@capitalcitypartnership.org for the attention of Craig Dutton by Friday 8 September 2023 at 12pm.

We will not accept late submissions.