Dean & Cauvin Young People’s Trust

This is a local young people’s charity who support young
people in the residential units and in the Aftercare programme.  The firm
has a long history with the charity so we know first- hand what amazing work
they do and how much the young people would all benefit from this donation.

The charity supports young people aged between 14 and 25.
They have 2 residential units in Edinburgh (one is a designated mother and baby
unit) which houses young people from the age of 14 to 18 and an Aftercare
programme. These young people are referred from local councils as they are in
the Social Care System.   The majority of these young people will
have been in the Social Care System all their lives without any family contact
or support. Once they reach 18, they must leave residential care and have to
live independently.  As you can imagine, many find this step very
frightening and lonely, especially if they have babies to support.  It is
at this point they enter Dean and Cauvin’s Aftercare programme. The Aftercare
programme continues to support the young people by giving them access to the
trust’s social workers with group sessions, weekly visits & someone to turn
to for advice – in many cases this is the only support they have.  This
year they need help more than ever.  The rising cost of heating homes and
food prices has made life even more difficult for these young people. 
 Their Finance manager was telling my colleague that most of them are on
pre-paid meters and when their meters run out of credit they have to wait until
they get their benefit payments to top them up.