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• Grants awarded in 2011
  • Fife Alcohol Support Service - Fife Alcohol Partnership
  • Skye and Lochalsh Drug and Alcohol Partnership - Alcohol Awareness Project
  • Vita Nova - The Community Challenge
  • Central Scotland Rape Crisis and Sexual Abuse Centre - Central Scotland Youth Project
  • Sole Purpose Productions - A Wee Taste
  • Pintsize Theatre - I Want, I Want
• Grants awarded in 2010
• Grants awarded in 2009

Project: Fife Alcohol Partnership

Region: Scotland

Amount awarded: £25,000

The Fife Alcohol Support Service (FASS) is a key agency in the Fife Alcohol Partnership, a consortium of organisations committed to tackling and evaluating alcohol related harm in the Fife  area, originally brought together by what is now Alcohol Focus Scotland. FASS itself provides counselling, information and support for those suffering the various consequences of alcohol misuse.

The Fife Alcohol Partnership, effectively the funded project, is a pilot in its third year at the point of award, which focuses on the districts of Touch and Rosyth. Each of these districts has different work strands according to local need, but between them the two subprojects include school-based awareness raising, peer mentoring to increase peer pressure resistance, theatre, film-making, community consultation and a social norms campaign.

The work is bound together by a steering group which, by overseeing all the smaller initiatives, aims to test the effectiveness of each project individually and the whole programme collectively. Similar to the

Blackburn Project

Funded by Drinkaware in 2009, this partnership was established in Fife because so many of the relevant agencies have coterminous boundaries. The result of this is, once the work is evaluated, they would hope to have a model which could be replicated in other areas of Scotland. Such a model would be particularly valuable in this case as the two target districts represent a mix of urban and rural environments.

Unlike many Drinkaware grants, this was awarded because a number of simultaneous interventions are being delivered within a clearly defined framework, with a critical outcome being that all beneficiaries identify their contact with the partnership as just one element of a wider and more complex community project.

Grants have clearly been given to single initiatives over the years, but the strength here is that all concerned expect the whole to be greater than the sum of its parts.

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