VIAS History

Project SEARCH held a graduation ceremony for their interns during their 10 year anniversary

VIAS moved into a brand new, fit for purpose office space, allowing us to better better support people.

Former VIAS team member Hugh walked the Menalon trail in Greece and raised over £1,000 for VIAS.

VIAS launched Triple E  Renfrewshire, bringing our job coaching to even more job seekers and employers.

VIAS begin engaging at many levels of the Scottish Union of Supported Employment Public Social Partnership for employers championing people from under-represented groups.

VIAS become license holders for DFN Project SEARCH University of Aberdeen.

Launch of Triple E – Elevating equality & excellence job coaching service.

VIAS inherits The Assembly a Scottish accessible politics group for people with lived experience.

VIAS pilots Building Organisations to Succeed and Shine – a 360-degree capacity building programme to enable businesses to be diverse and inclusive employers. Scotrail agree to work with us on this pilot.

Let’s Get Going – a pilot project to build capacity of supporters to help people to learn how to travel on their own is established. This leads on to Let’s Get Moving.

VIAS take over coordination of The Life I Want and the public partner changes to NHS GGC.

Scottish Government takes over funding of the Quality Checking Service.

VIAS lends support to the Scotland Against Care Tax campaign which calls for the abolition on non-domestic care charges.

VIAS launched the Quality Checking service as part of The Life I Want.

My Life My Way launches to promote using self-directed support funding for employment.

Diversity Works 4 U launches to help employers to recruit and retain autistic people.

First Young Scotland’s Got Talent event at Hampden on 2 June in partnership with SCLD attended by 350 young people and their families.

VIAS gains Scottish Government funding to increase the hours of the Coordinator post from 12 hours per week to 30 hours per week – new coordinator appointed.