Scottish Adoption and Fostering celebrates after receiving National Lottery funding to support Therapy Centre

Scottish Adoption and Fostering is celebrating after being awarded funding from the National Lottery to support its work continuing the delivery of wraparound therapeutic activities that support effective adoption and fostering in Scotland.

Scottish Adoption and Fostering’s Therapy Centre has been running for over ten years and is run by a team of qualified social workers, therapists and support staff from Scottish Adoption and Fostering’s Edinburgh office.

The new funding from The National Lottery Community Fund, which distributes money raised by National Lottery players for good causes and is the largest community funder in the UK, will provide pre and post adoption support for individuals and families including therapeutic social work, counselling, parent support groups and play therapy.

Sue Brunton, Chief Executive of Scottish Adoption and Fostering, says: “We’re delighted and very grateful that The National Lottery Community Fund has recognised our work in this way. Now, thanks to National Lottery players we will be able to extend the amazing work currently carried out by our After Adoption Support Team in supporting families who are at various stages in their adoption journey.”

The National Lottery Community Fund recently launched its new strategy, ‘It starts with community’, which will underpin its efforts to distribute at least £4 billion of National Lottery funding by 2030.

As part of this, the funder has four key missions, which are to support communities to come together, be environmentally sustainable, help children and young people thrive and enable people to live healthier lives.

National Lottery players raise over £30 million a week for good causes across the UK. Thanks to them, last year The National Lottery Community Fund was able to distribute over half a billion pounds (£615.4 million) of life-changing funding to communities.

To find out more visit www.TNLCommunityFund.org.uk