About Us

The Destiny Project is a registered mental health charity, which aims to provide support and advocacy to communities that endure high deprivation.  The Destiny Project prides itself on being a collaborative organisation and seeks to work with other agencies large and small, to provide as wide a range of services as possible, particularly for the most vulnerable in the community.  The only constraint is our imagination, the creativity we can unleash, and our ability to reach and maintain high standards.

The intention is to promote the health and wellbeing of children and young people from all backgrounds, to promote and build skills that will create a positive impact on their lives by working around our outcomes within our focus areas:

• Health
• Poverty
• Education and Training
• Environment

We aim to support service users to build personal skills such as confidence and self-esteem, vocational skills to compete in a changing and demanding job market, and life skills to help people live life positively and independently.  All our services are delivered using peer education and a community-centred approach. The services that The Destiny Project delivers are targeted mainly but not exclusively, at people that require additional support.  

The Destiny Project will always prioritise the health and wellbeing of every member of the community that is involved with us. This builds the confidence and skills of our service users. We are developing additional services based on training and development to provide employability and vocational skills through work practice.

Our plans include training opportunities through a community garden and in the long term, creation of internships for young people. This provides the opportunity for young people to gain experience by hopefully creating working relationships with local businesses and retail outlets.  In the longer term, we aim to become an SQA accredited provider, giving our volunteers and participants, qualifications and accreditation for the training they complete.

We also recognise the important role that volunteers play in our communities and we aim to actively encourage and support our volunteers.  As we grow we want to recruit, train and support volunteers who wish to give some of their time.  We aim to create opportunities for volunteers to contribute to the development of our services and the organisation and management of the Project.