Events
2023 Scottish Gambling Education Conference report now available
We are delighted to share the report from the 2023 Scottish Gambling Education Conference. This year’s theme was ‘Engaging Community Voices.’ We hosted the event at the Scottish Storytelling Centre on Thurs 16 November 2023. We would like to extend sincere thanks to all of you who contributed to making the day such a success…
Read MoreDetails from the Scottish Gambling Education Network meeting on 31 Aug
Our third network webinar of 2023 was on 31 August, and focused on ‘Gambling and Crime.’ Tickets for the event sold out, and discussion among speakers and attendees was engaged and thought-provoking. Speakers shared their lived experiences of gambling leading to crime, lack of support in the criminal justice system, and going on to support others.…
Read MoreReport from Fast Forward’s Scottish Gambling Education Conference
It was wonderful to welcome so many of you to our first annual conference ‘Inspiring the next steps in gambling education’. We wish to say a huge thank you to all of our speakers, panel members and workshop leads. Your voices brought such compassion and knowledge to the day, we couldn’t have done it without…
Read MoreSharing Youth Fund success: The Toon, a youth-led drama production
In this post, Tina from the Scottish Gambling Education Hub shares the case study of a youth-led project funded by the Gambling Education Youth Fund. We were delighted to provide funding towards The Toon – a youth-led issue based drama production presented at Youth Beatz festival, organised by Youth Work Dumfries & Galloway. The project…
Read MoreGambleAware 7th Annual Conference
On December 5th, the Gambling Education Hub team attended the GambleAware 7th Annual Conference in London. This year’s programme theme was keeping children and young people safe from gambling harm. Opening keynote speeches were followed by four panel discussions, with the opportunity for the audience to pose questions. Our Project Manager Chiara Marin took part…
Read MoreLaunch of the Scottish Gambling Education Network
On the 13th of May, Fast Forward launched SGEN, hosting a showcase performance of Flutter. It has already been 6 months since Fast Forward rolled out its national gambling education and prevention programme, the Gambling Education Hub. Monday the 13th of May marked a new milestone in the development of this unique piece of work:…
Read MoreRebel Roots Get Together
Young people are always at the cutting edge. They make their own scenes, their own fashions and their own music. Now Fast Forward is planning an exciting new project that looks at young people’s fashions, music and dancing since the 1960’s. If you’re interested, come along to Studio 1, Level Four, the National Museum of…
Read MoreThe Gambling Education Toolkit – now available online for free
Have you checked out our Gambling Education Toolkit yet? With the official launch having taken place on the 14th of November at the YouthLink Annual Conference, Fast Forward is thrilled to have a dedicated space on our new website for this toolkit, making all its resources fully accessible and downloadable for free! The website has…
Read MoreYouth Problem Gambling Initiative Training Dates are LIVE!
At the heart of the work of Fast Forward is substance misuse education and prevention, and since April 2014 we have also included the issue of youth problem gambling at the core of our work. Initially, the Youth Problem Gambling Initiative was a pilot project run in Edinburgh and the Lothians, aiming to prevent the onset of ‘at-risk’…
Read MoreYoung Slovenian delegation: Scottish tobacco policy “one of the most advanced” in Europe
In September 2014, six young people from youth organisation No Excuse in Slovenia traveled to Scotland to learn more about Scottish tobacco policies and practices and meet charities such as Fast Forward, Young Scot and ASH Scotland. While here they began planning with these stakeholders for the Second European Tobacco Youth Conference, which we all…
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