Contact awarded just under £98k to help support unpaid carers in Scotland
2 mins read
Wednesday 9 July 2025
We are delighted to announce that our Contact Scotland team have been awarded a grant of £97,774 over the next three years from the Health & Social Care Alliance (The Alliance) – the national third sector membership organisation for the health and social care sector, representing 3,500 members.
Contact Scotland will use the money to support unpaid parent carers in Scotland who self-identify as having a disability and/or health condition, to better self-manage their health.
The work carried out by our team in Scotland thanks to this funding is one of 31 projects who received a total of £1.9 million from the Alliance.
The funding aims to help support people in the early stages of a long term condition diagnosis, disabled people or an unpaid carer to develop skills to manage their own health and wellbeing and reduce barriers to health and social care support and services.
Susan Walls, Contact’s manager in Scotland says: “We are thrilled to have been awarded this funding which will help Contact Scotland support unpaid carers to better self-manage their health while caregiving for their disabled children.
“It is an incredible donation that will transform the way we support parent carers and we are so excited to be partnering with The Alliance to deliver this three-year project.”
Find out more about Contact’s work in Scotland.
