To continue youth outreach work over the winter, CAP has funded the purchase of floodlights to allow local partnerships to hold activities for children and young people in places like local playing fields which are often too dark to use in the winter months.

Beer googles are an innovative way of simulating the experience of being drunk and are popular in schools.  Their effects include confusion, visual distortion, slowed reaction time and lack of coordination. CAP funding has allowed local partnerships to purchase the googles and use them in alcohol education workshops.

Thanks, in part to CAP funding, a mobile youth engagement bus in Wales, complete with light up footballs for impromptu games of football in the park and a light up speaker for music, has taken to the road. The bus is also equipped with tea, coffee, chocolate, sanitary items and toothpaste/toiletries.

Summer holidays are often a challenging time for young people as they find themselves with little to do. CAP Scotland has funded a “Beat Boredom” summer holiday programme of activities for children in deprived parts of Edinburgh which included taster fencing sessions, visits to the beach, kayaking and visits to Ninja Warrior Adventure Centre.

Martial arts self-defence sessions complemented by 'Respect and Challenging Sexism' awareness sessions were used to help challenge stereotypes and 'estate culture' attitudes by a local partnership in the North-East. The sessions, funded by CAP, also helped to improve physical fitness and mental well-being of the children and young people involved.

CAP funded the purchase of new goal nets and football kits for a partnership operating in an extremely deprived area of Scotland. The area suffers from high levels of underage drinking, anti-social behaviour and a lack of positive activities for young people. The kit enabled outreach workers to engage with the children and young people over a simple game of football.

Our partnerships take a flexible approach to alcohol education and they often integrate general health messages into their work. CAP funding enabled one local partnership to purchase food ingredients, an air-fryer and a blender to help educate children and young people about self-care and healthy eating.

As part of CAP activity partners took part in a water safety event at Campsie Glen led by Scottish Fire and Rescue.  It aimed to engage with young people at known open water swimming locations, advising them of the dangers of open water swimming, cold water shock, jumping from heights and drinking alcohol.

South Wales Police set up a designated driver scheme which enables designated drivers to access free drinks throughout the evening at premises displaying the DES poster. In Dec 2022, 16 premises in Cardiff were signed up to the scheme with more set to join.