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Forces Children Scotland

Impact Report (April 2025-March 2026)

Forces Children Scotland works with babies, children and young people from Armed Forces families across Scotland. This is its Impact Report for April 2025 to March 2026, built around six new outcomes developed with the SCiP Alliance Impact Centre. The report is published as a web page with a linked interactive PDF; the figures here come from the web page. Charity number SC038722 is from the charity website, not the report. Contact email is the fundraising team address from the contact page; no named person was found. Source: Forces Children Scotland impact report web page, retrieved Oct 2026.

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In-person participation work; learning and development for practitioners; Ruby Boots peer support (52 sessions); the Lighthouse project; Your Mind Matters; on-demand digital services; a grants programme for university and college students; early years work with Early Years Scotland

Key Metrics

Key Metric 1 Supported 437 babies, children and young people from Armed Forces families with in-person participation work
Key Metric 2 Engaged 478 practitioners in its hybrid learning and development programme and enabled 820 young people to find support through on-demand digital services
Key Metric 3 Distributed £37,500 to 30 young people at university or college

Key Outcomes

  • Launched the Forces Children's Rights Charter, co-created by children and young people from Armed Forces families
  • Commissioned by the Children and Young People's Commissioner Scotland to report on the experiences of Armed Forces children in Scottish schools, with 145 children and young people contributing
  • Delivered 109 participation sessions with 236 children and young people, and reached 87 people in early years webinars and 21 practitioners in person

Geography

Scotland

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