PROJECT
Scran Academy
PURPOSE
To support the most vulnerable young people to move from the classroom into the workplace and adult life
FUNDING
Various grants, fundraising and income from catering activities. Schools also pay a fee to place young people in the project. The programme had a turnover of £30,000 in its first year, £70,000 in its second and £300,000 in its third
BACKGROUND
Scran Academy, named after a slang term for food, was set up in 2017 by social entrepreneur and trainer John Loughton, to support young people in a part of north Edinburgh known for its poverty and high social exclusion. “This is part of Edinburgh that is sadly still infamous for the Trainspotting culture, not the touristic streets of the Royal Mile,” says Loughton, who grew up there and, as a teenager, helped found the area’s first youth forum. In 2007, he was elected the youngest chair of the Scottish Youth Parliament and in 2011 set up leadership training social enterprise Dare2Lead.
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