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🤝 When Funders Join Forces: How a Council & Funder Reversed Youth Work Decline. With limited resources and increasing pressure on services, youth work in Perthshire had been shrinking for years. In 2019, The Gannochy Trust and Perth & Kinross Council decided to try something different. They brought their funding together, committed to longer-term support, and gave seven local organisations more room to respond to local need. The partnership has exceeded expectations. After a decade of declining participation, this trend has been reversed, with the number of young people taking part in youth work rising steadily since 2019 – all without increasing overall funding. Read the full case study from Fiona Ellis & Sonakshi Anand. https://lnkd.in/e9iwqs7v Ft Franny McGrath, logos youth project, Matthew Webster, Ashleigh Mustard, Gillian Lindsay, Steven Greig #youthwork #localgov #openandtrusting