Hi everyone, Sean with jaspyscasebreaks.com here doing 2021 top series one jumbo six box case break pick your team number two part of the tops rip party where all card ship and we're giving away one pack of tops rip party series one which is five cards from the 330 card base set all numbered to 10 and stamped with the silver foil 2021 series one rip party only available through this so here is our list of customers and their corresponding teams from Spiro, Valesacos and the Diamondbacks down to Super Fractor Hunter and the Washington Nationals there you go here is the list in person and our case so let's pop this open and get right biggest hit for series one since we've been ripping easy mic trap patch auto auto five second biggest hit Derek Jeter patch auto out of 10 Juan Soto out of auto out of 10 box topper we've had a lot of earlier stuff it's been real nice and we're gonna keep it going really nice short prints really nice super short print still searching for that ultra short print though do the silver packs have odds on them I don't believe so no they do not we had a one of one sketch card got about that how do you forget about a one of one yeah one of one sketch card our first one of one for this so far series one this year that was cool even you remembered I forgot because we had so much good stuff coming through lots of nice rookie autos Joe Adele Christian Pache I think maybe we had Joey Bart auto I don't remember you know that or I'm foreshadowing and we're gonna hit one here which would make Ryan Cason and the Giants very happy hit it Alec Baum silver pack auto that was nice that was out of 99 yeah with the old school tops logo like this the swooping that was super cool I like that a lot as well real classy real classy look but so far nothing but positives coming out of me for this product that's for sure can't wait to get off of work and rip my own packs for my own personal collection you know I'm gonna leave work to go do work on my own on personals when we have them available yeah uh yeah we do stuff like that on our personal site uh it's on instagram at at jaspy's breaks they have a separate website for personal breaks it's jaspy's.com instead of jaspy's case breaks.com but yeah we do we do breaks like that not like full cases you know what I mean yeah you can buy like a personal box of any of that stuff like when tops does their wwe stuff we have those or top soccer all that good stuff mls championship league chrome yeah I think I think you're right Derek I think somebody did do that yeah those were hot I think we're trying to get more of them actually listen when people like what they like they don't hesitate which one is it that you're trying to get you know it's funny is like I said I the only reason I know that you know that like that happened is because I never even saw it we we literally had them like here and I think like we were getting them and then they were gone so like I never actually saw them here because that's how quickly they went I'll see Matt Relic Otto from Wrestlemania 35 that's kind of cool have you seen any of them for sale that's awesome that's super cool I like that they have like match specific you know mats and stuff like that that's pretty cool okay we've officially been live for over 12 hours the party's not stopping yet like I said by the time I go home get back and go on stream again we will have been live for at least 30 hours was that a shiny was that from Alan and Ginter that you got that from that's that's an awesome set one of my favorite uh I actually was watching the top three party like uh preview thing where they were going through like all the stuff and um they uh one of my favorite comedians Roy Woods Jr is uh is gonna be in this year's set which is pretty cool I always like the non sport ones auto it's pretty cool so those are all six boxes here are the silver packs one two three four five six seven eight nine 10 11 12 we're gonna throw those in the back no I mean if you look at the schedule we're already scheduled until 2pm tonight one two three four five six 2pm this afternoon so we'll we'll add to the schedule but we've already got breaks set up all the way till two o'clock eastern or five eastern 2pm pacific um but at the time that last week updated orders none of that was sold out so that's why it's not on the schedule yet kasey my's for the tigers scott riquefus six dosanchez for the marlins ryan herald what up tj happy wednesday sir perfect timing just got here room for in between and this oh we're we're solid I mean check the schedule we're literally set joey bart for the giants ryan kason ryan uh dylan carlsson for the cardinals daniel you but don't worry this stream is not going to end until at least midnight tonight so we've got another 18 hours at least of streaming and i i i emphasize the at least because midnight when i come back and go on stream is the earliest that i'll end wilmer florist 2021 for the giants ryan kason and christian yellich rookie patch for the marlins that's going to ryan herald so we've got another 18 hours straight of breaks guys what do you mean the gold foil hello jamie oh yeah instead of the black numbering like last year yeah it i always like it that way i think a lot like dylan carlsson for the cardinals daniel you i think a lot of the printing now instead of the stamping is because especially with grading and stuff being kind of like the you know the almost guaranteed next step in cards instead of just raw like the imprinting goes through to the front depending on how much the imprint is and i know that they can work on it and stuff but i don't know if that causes issues with surface or you know stuff like that as well christian patch a that's going to the braze rob hepler but no i've always preferred the stamped gold foil numbering oh we get a lubob short print short print regular short print not super short print but that is very cool chicago white socks eric ang sin shin su chu gold auto 47 out of 50 for the texas rangers patrick davis uh tristan we still have i mean we're we're gonna be here i mean it's now wednesday i'm still on tuesday time it's still technically tuesday night breaks until jason gets here uh ryan mount castle for the orioles richard zenderman uh ryan um jason will be here at eight o'clock ish at some point so we're still doing tuesday night breaks but once he pops in that will be our official wednesday start um and our stream is not going to end until at least midnight tonight so we are not booked until midnight tonight we do have uh breaks scheduled until i believe two p.m pacific five p.m eastern but that just means that from two until 12 at least we've got plenty of time to do more breaks so anything that's on the site that says doesn't say sold out guess what that's your opportunity so that's the first half of box number one nice gold auto nice robert shortprint and yellich christian pache ryan mount castle nick madrigal for the white socks eric ang you got a mani machado to 70 a little black border there for the san diego padres and brian peoples and trevor story nice little pinstripe four color patch 23 out of 25 for the rockies adam no gucci alec bomb for the filly is nick hasler joe dell for the angels edward colombrito and our guys all card ship uh so bobby doll back for the red socks alex volosakos joe dell again for the angels we do ask patients in regards to the sorting and shipping process on these tops rip party breaks especially the double header breaks um we will process them as quickly as possible but with such a large volume of many cases with lots of base cards as people know we'll take a little bit extra time to get these all sorted and processed so please be patient oh it's it's nothing new but it's just like anytime we do stuff like this there's gonna be a delay i mean you guys are seeing what we're doing we're gonna be streaming for 30 hours straight no breaks we're breaking for 30 hours how long does that take to sort those that 30 hours or the breaks once you put it in terms like that people are like okay yeah i get it ryan mount castle it's nothing we haven't done before oh this one's nice i like this blakes now tampa berets synthia montreal that's pretty cool oh piece of candy nick madrigal for the white socks alex bomb for the fillies ryan mount castle rookie green very nice to 499 for the orioles richard zitterman nice one there for you richard congrats he's a good one he's a keeper those ones that one's not called that i forget i'm not sure what it's actually it's called this year but yes it is a great looking card i want to call the bubbles bobby dolbeck joe adel because tops is the tommyck which is the kasey mice for the tigers um but that's not the tommyck i honestly don't even know what it's called but i really like it it looks great auto stuck to the back jazz chism miami marlins rookie auto ryan herald no numbering on that some of those autos have been been sticking on there you know it felt a little weird six dough sanchez joey bark dylan carlsson paul gulchman home run challenge you got a yankees gold to 2021 for russetompson the yankees alex bomb for the fillies so that's the first half of box number two bobby dolbeck joe adel kasey mice six dough sanchez dylan bundy the 299 for the angels edward colombrito joey bark dylan carlsson uh this is not this is jumbo pick your team number two schedule is in the chat matt olson relic for the a's khalil nijar reberto pares gold to 2021 for the indians and brian wilk christian pache there's a two-year-old manufacturer pachelon and one of those you mean like with the hat what's his look like are you saying there is or are you saying if there is okay that was box number two box three there is you're looking at the checklist is it this which one is it the spring training one or is it a different one part of your factors are called oh good call thank you that way i uh i know what they're called from now on instead of wanting to call them bubbles wade leblanc gold to 2021 for the orioles richard zinnerman and yaddy rookie it's funny is it used to say first year card right there on the regular one um oh it's the patch relic so it's this one that's what it is so it's a rookie utero that's for the cardinals and daniel you then yeah you definitely need to get one of those because those are super cool foil boards spiros is saying they're called i mean bubbles sound so much cooler can i call them can i call them bubbles spiro nick madrigal for the white socks alec bomb for the fillies ryan mountcastle for the orioles bobby dobak well thank you sir i mean they look like shiny bubbles joe adell one of the days i'll figure out the uh kasey my six dosanchez some foil boards ebb and white to 299 for the mariners Jorge mir and corbin burns for the brewers and patrick davis yes derrick they have uh lots of facsimile autos in this they have a set called through the years where they highlight different cards from different sets all throughout the year uh and they all have uh like most of them have autographs on them but yeah there's lots of this i'll probably find one in this stack and i'll show it to you joe adell all the autos are actually turned backwards kasey my six dosanchez but at least in at least once per box you'll see something like that it's probably actually this one probably coming up right now so it's actually sets like this so it's a picture of the card this one's from gold label 1998 gold label a lot of the ones from more recent years are also autographed so facsimile it is because it's actually not even facsimile auto it's a picture of a card that has an autograph on it how's it going ryan mountcastle right on time see yeah it's a little tricky when we first started breaking these cases tonight the first ones of those we saw we honestly thought were autos when we're just like uh joey bart dylan carlson louise garcia rookie foil for washington superfractor hunter and short print francisco lindore for the indians brian wilk is it a short print or super short print it's 230 so regular short print blake snell for the rays synthia montreal it's probably not going to get too much cheaper that guy is good we've hit a couple of foils of hips and his tonight some really nice color of his i don't think we've hit anything lower than 99 but i think we've hit like some 299s and stuff like that some solid solid hits no auto though yet maybe we're time christian pache yeah he uh yeah that'd be good that would be good cool that's box number three startle box four buster posie for the giants ryan kason to 299 nick madrigal alec bomb we hit another javi bayez same short print nice one again for the cubs brian wilk regular short print not a super short print i do like the photo for that though bobby daweck joe it up we don't want stuck to it there you go and it's an auto edwin rios 17 out of 25 for the dodgers can't bear foot not at all kasey mine six dosanchez mm-hmm uh don't forget uh yeah actually i don't know joey bart dylan carlston i mean kelinick could make it too i think kelinick is gonna get before before j rod though right shiny isn't that kind of the the pace they're on trout home run challenge yeah yeah i think kelinick is on pace for this year last uh last joe and i looked i think j rod is set for 2022 call up so and even if it's the tail end of 2021 it still probably wouldn't be enough for them to produce cards for this year you know but i mean between between wander franco jared kelinick and adley rushman you're uh you're gonna be just fine uh this is a jumbo case so this is six box a jumbo uh he won't touch the majors for at least another two years definitely not this year uh david big hit lots of them bobby dollbeck so this is the second half of box number four joe adell joey bart dylan carlston i mean i can start with our mic trout patch auto out of five that we've hit tonight derek jeter patch auto out of 10 um won soto auto out of 10 one of one matt chapman sketch card what else kasey my six dosanchez super super short prints christian pache bryce harper christian pache rookie auto alec bomb silver pack auto i mean the list goes on and on no they i mean they're it's even if they have two matt chapman sketch cards that one's a one of one do you know what i mean is their color yeah there's numbered cards numbered color stick around you'll see some i'm promise they have uh foil rainbow colors uh which i like i i'm dubbing them as uh shiny sparkle bubbles because i've been here for over 12 hours breaking and i'm gonna be back here in 15 hours doing it again or less than 15 hours this stream ain't stopping rafael devers red socks alex volosakos shiny bubble colors they have different variations of shiny bubble colors too but then they also have these base cards that have color too of course they do christian pache for nutrients ryan mount castle i actually have my feet in a bath of uh oatmeal and my feet are observing absorbing the uh nutrients from the oatmeal that's what's keeping me going mookie bets gold 2021 it's also nice and you know warm on the feet so it's pretty nice through osmosis i'm i'm receiving nutrients obviously it's organic oatmeal derrick you know cool box number five both david both alec bomb they both have a special place in my heart eloy training camp white socks eric ainge sticking with this design for the rest of the year they are yes this will be the series two and update mm-hmm you got it sir yeah no they don't they won't bobby dolbeck joda kasey myse yeah i mean that's that's a that's a simple thing but the cards do look good debbie garcia green foil for the yankees rustle tomsen to 499 honestly i think they did it because their photography this year i mean the photography is always good but this year seems to be a little bit even more like well done um i think that they six dough sanchez uh minimize the rest of the design as far as the names and stuff to maximize the photography joy bart dylan carlson as far as like the photography yeah no no i mean i think i think that's because yeah photography stadium club is like you don't know where they get these photos but they're like some of the best photos you've ever seen it's like they they rummage through getty images and find like you know like the most ridiculous photos ever taken and they use those for cards yeah okay 999 i mean but yeah no they i think i feel like they put a ton more into the actual photos this year yohan ramirez mariner's rookie auto or hey mere eloy home run challenge marcello zuna gold 2021 for the braves rob hepler that's the first half of box number five top loader didn't want to come apart being difficult uh clayton kershaw out of 70 well platinum 70th anniversary border for the dodgers canith barefoot it's funny is the photography on these are so good some of these like even though you they're not flipped around so we know that they're not um we know they're not short prints some of them are like the photography is so good on them that it actually like makes it seem like it should be a short print brady singer is good big breaks but i mean that means i also have to get excited every time i see chris bubak and bo burrows do you know what i mean ryan castellani if i had to do that for every single one of these rookie pitchers louise patino he's a really good pitcher so one the break would take a lot longer and two i would have no no voice you know what i mean lake taylor you know what i mean but no brady singer i mean brady singer is more than good he's a very promising young pitcher uh christian pache yeah there's uh the i'm not sure how many of the short printer like that but i do like that they have done that there also are a couple other like inserts in here that are like hat tips to the things players had to go through during the covid season one soto relic for the national superfracture hunter um like there's one that's like an angel's insert which is like otani and trout i think or somebody a trout and somebody else um like high not high fiving each other but using their elbows it's called like all elbows or something like that it's just kind of cool that they have that ryan mount castle for the orioles richard ziderman i'll do it next time as long as i see one mani machado gold for the Padres brine peoples see brady singer cana city royals james whitmer nick madrigal it might have been up then but yeah it's called like all elbows or something like that cool so that was box five box six coming up and then we've got all the box toppers back there see james they get pumps chris bryant to 299 for the cubbies brian wilk pache why don't you want to get excited for nick heatho james why only brady singer come on give the outfield or some love ryan mount castle yeah the elbows only is a cool card like i said it's like certain nods to that that like show what they've gone through out of 50 louise garcia rookie very nice super fracture hunter washington little mother's day pink there for you good name good color good rookie boom all three of those things add up to a nice card nick madrigal white socks that'd be kind of cool if you if you are brady singer don't uh don't type anything in the chat ryan mount castle foil for the orioles richard ziderman and sentiago espinal rookie auto for the blue jays richard ziderman alex bomb tatsis homerun challenge okay that's the first half of box number six i almost went for the box toppers do you want to go through the second half come on don't jump the gun what's wrong with that no need to apologize there nick madrigal i think that's a great thing whoa what was that alex bomb jake of the grom advanced stats for the mezz ross gimble bobby dolbeck joadel kasey myse luke void relic for the yankees out of 99 a little bit of pinstripe on the side new york yankees russell tomsen you know what brady singer would do if he was in the chat right now he would say he wasn't brady singer i see what you're doing six does sanchez can't fool me joey bark dylan carlson hello staphon i wish you a good morning from him this seat i'm sitting in in hermosa beach california edwardo rodriguez gold to 2021 for the red sox alex valesakas that's enough of that frankfort germany 4 p.m so you guys are only 11 hours ahead i guess that makes sense where's bogie when you need him i think he's in he's in austria is it 11 hours i feel like is austria also 11 hours i feel like it might be where's brendan where you need him where's australia should be nine it's 4 p.m here it's 7 a.m oh that is nine yeah my math sucks don't worry staphon austria is just south of germany yeah i've been i've been up uh i've been online for 13 hours now so i apologize my math is not very accurate you only get an hour or so or more of me guys so i see daylight out there daylight is officially upon us joey bark for the giants ryan kason bobby dolbeck for the red socks alex valesakos randy johnson gold out of 50 for the diamondbacks spiro valesakos spencer howard blue to 150 for the fillies nick hasler joey gallo blue to 150 for the rangers patrick davis joe dell for the angels edward colombrito bobby dolbeck again for the red socks alex valesakos and joey bark again for the giants ryan kason cool now the box toppers see if we can get another auto christian yelich for the brewers patrick davis nolyn aeronado for the rockies and adam no gucci bookie bets for the dodgers kenneth barefoot pete lanzo for the mezz ross gimbal rafael devers for the red socks and alex valesakos uh yes these are only in the jumbos and matt Chapman for the a's and kalil najar okay so let's do the randomizer and the recap so let's kick back over here to the randomizer so here is the original list my computer wants to start working there we go so you can see from super vector hunter with the nationals back up to spiro valesakos with the diamondbacks dice roll name on top after four to five nine times gets the tops rip pack party or rip party pack nine times uh number two will get any and all non-team associated cards interesting were they same order why they ship them separate ninth and final time kalil najar nine times on the randomizer nine times on the dice you got yourself a tops rip party pack with five exclusive cards numbered 210 uh and patrick davis you got yourself the any non-team associated cards so those tops cards those will all be going to you kalil najar party uh patrick davis non-team cards there you go guys now let's do our recap here is our quick recap autos lower numbered cards and relics randy johnson luke voight chris bryant louise garcia santiago espanol clayton kershaw wansoto yohan ramirez iloy jimenez reggie jackson rafael devors buster posie edwin rios javi bayez short print francisco lindore short print blake snell corbin burns yadier melina matt olson jazz chism blake snell mani machado trevor story christian yellich louise robert short print and shin su chu ono there you go guys that was the break that was 2021 top series one jumbo six box break case break pick your team number two from jasper's case breaks dot com i'm sean jasper's case breaks dot com thanks for hanging out see you next time


Hey, this is Kavita Nair. I'm a developer at Falls Asia and now I'm going to tell about my GSOC project I've worked for LOKLOK apps and LOKLOK server and I've added a few apps in the LOKLOK apps page. You can search apps by typing my name So first let me tell you about emoji heatmapper app When you click on the app it gives you the details of the app that is how to use it and all so Let's try this app now So here you can See that there are two buttons here one is emoji map and other one is emoji heatmap So first let me show you emoji heatmap Here you have a search query drop-down So when you select an emoji and give a search You can see a few marks on the map So in the similar way This emoji map When you give in search query it also displays The occurrence of emoji in Twitter tweets and also the sentiment data of the emoji So as you see as you can see in the map and the sentiment of emoji is done Few other apps which have worked on our Emoji heatmap So here we need not give any search query instead all the emoji occurrences from the tweets are tracked and showed on the map that is displayed on the map as heatmap My next app is compare Twitter profile app and also Twitter followers inside app as you can see here In the PPT for search query We have to give two queries that are user names of the Twitter profiles and give compare button so it gives the Comparison of two profiles in a tabular format in the Twitter followers inside app when you give a user name as query it gives two pie charts that is followers and following as you can see in this screenshot followers and following and it is aggregated according to the Country they stay in and it also displays the followers and following list which are in clickable format and I've also worked on one click deployment buttons Initially the one click deploy One click deployment muttons that is Heroku, Skelomo, Bluemix and Docker cloud where Based on and build so since low-clock server are changed to Gradle build I had to change them to Gradle build and I've also added a new button that is Azure one-click button Which can create cloud instance on Azure one-click Azure cloud So this is the low-clock server repo here. You can see the one click deployment buttons When you click on deploy to Azure We are taken to this window that is deployed to Azure window where the default values are given already given We just have to follow the next button and then click on the plot our app gets deployed and we get a Public IP address through which we can access our low-clock server So here when you click on manage your resources This is the public IP We can run the public IP here the cloud instance of low-clock server on Azure You can also contribute to us on low-clock apps. This is a GitHub repository You can join on our main mailing list or get a chat Thank you


The final item of business is a member's business debate on motion 9.747, in the name of Alec Rowley, on supporting the work of the co-field regeneration trust. This debate will be concluded without any questions being put, and I would ask those members who would wish to speak in the debate to please press the request to speak buttons, and I call on Alec Rowley to open the debate up to seven minutes, please, Mr Rowley. Thank you, Presiding Officer. I want to begin by thanking all members who have signed my motion for the debate today, and to all members participating in the debate here this evening. Established in 1999, the co-field regeneration trust was set up to support former industrial areas through community wealth building with a focus on economic development and regeneration of former co-field areas. Anyone here who represents a former co-field area will know the wealth of activity that has been supported by the trust over the years. Indeed, the work has been recognised in this Parliament over many years, with a member's debate on the role of the co-field regeneration trust in Scotland, held in the chamber in 2007, led by then-MSP Cathy Jameson. In 2011, the late Helen Eadie MSP secured the debate in this chamber, celebrating the co-field regeneration trust and the work that it does in the former mining communities. Once more, in 2015, Christine Graham MSP led a member's debate on the continued success of the co-field regeneration trust. I am pleased to say that this Parliament over many years has given recognition to the work of the co-field trust. Indeed, over the period of this Parliament since its inception in 1999, there have been 112 motions lodged by members acknowledging and celebrating the work of the co-field regeneration trust in Scotland. As such, it is fair to say that, throughout its existence, the work of the co-field regeneration trust in Scotland has been recognised, respected and valued by all the political parties that operate within the Scottish Parliament. It is important to acknowledge at the outset of the debate that we are living with very difficult financial pressures on public finances. That often means that local community services struggle to meet local demand and local need. In acknowledging the difficult financial climate, I want to emphasise the point that it is now more crucial than ever to prioritise funding where it will have the greatest impact, and that is why I am calling tonight on the Government to look again at the £100,000 cut that has been made to the co-field regeneration trust budget. For the fact remains that the former co-field communities still have some of the highest levels of poverty and inequality in Scotland. My experience representing such communities over many years is that, for a small amount of resource and finance, the payback can be significant. You only need to scroll through the 112 motions that have been laid in this Parliament about the co-field regeneration trust to see the kind of impact a relatively small amount of money can have and has had. There are a host of regeneration projects that have made a big impact on local communities and indeed on local people. In Fife, the Crosshall Business Centre is now a place to locate and develop enterprise, as well as a venue for community-based learning and work. It has also supported hundreds of people over the years into further and higher education, as well as into employment. The zone in Darmellutyn, East Ayrshire, is another great example of regeneration, as it has tweaked Health, the Living Centre and the Glymboyg Development Trust, all doing amazing work, all with the support of the co-field regeneration trust. The trust has also had massive success in supporting local communities to build capacity and sport in the arts and building projects to help to tackle isolation, in turn supporting communities to support themselves.  I am looking to the future. The co-field regeneration trust here in Scotland is asking the Scottish Government to provide a capital and bout endowment of £20 million over a negotiated period of years to enable the CRT to build industrial starter units for SMEs, which would create a substantial, sustainable, long-term revenue stream to allow the CRT to be self-funding so that it can support former co-fail communities into the future. The CRT has already successfully rolled out this model in England, building industrial units that allow them to generate jobs and economic development and growth in deprived former co-fail communities, delivering real generation. The rental income then allows the CRT to fund its charitable activity through a secure and sustainable income stream. I take the view that the best route out of poverty is through education, skills and employment. For many who have experienced generational poverty in some of our most deprived areas, they require more focused interventions with a great deal of support and encouragement. It is this kind of approach that I have witnessed over many years coming from the co-fail regeneration trust, building that capacity at the community level. I am asking the Scottish Government to restay its commitment to this work by examining the following requests, to reverse the £100,000 cut to the funding, to change the Scottish Government procurement rules to allow the CRT to reinstate its grant programme, which is vital to many small local organisations and charities in co-fail communities, as has been demonstrated over so many years, and to examine the case for a capital endowment fund that would enable CRT to work with local communities to drive the skills and jobs agenda at a local level. In conclusion, while it is true that we are going through difficult times financially, this is all the more reason to support this tried and tested organisation, an organisation that has the ability to provide direct support at the local level to empower our local communities. We celebrate their work and let us ensure that they have the funds to continue. I want to thank Alex Rowley for bringing us members' debate to the chamber. I and so many of my colleagues here represent constituencies and regions where coal mining was the main employer and economic driver of communities for generations, something that I am very proud of. By the end of the 19th century, Lanarkshire's 200 mines were producing around half of Scotland's coal and farming villages and hamlets, such as Coltbridge, where I represent, and Motherope, where my colleague Clare Ardison represents, had transformed into the large industrial towns that we recognise today with their own communities and identities. As we all know, however, the 20th century was not kind to the mining industry. The second half of the 20th century saw nearly 1,000 mines being closed, transforming many of those former industrial juggernauts into communities that suffered from a lack of employment opportunities, health inequalities and poor educational attainment. Those economic conditions devastated communities and it was in this environment that the Coalfields Regeneration Trust was established in 1999. Set-up's a charity, its mission was to create opportunities and support those who had felt the full effect of mining closures across the UK. The need for a trust such as the CRT is clear when you consider the statistics. In Scotland alone, 43 per cent of the working age population of the Scottish Coalfields is claiming some form of benefits against a Scottish average of 23 per cent. 40 per cent of people in the Scottish Coalfields have no qualifications against 27 per cent for Scotland as a whole, and the mortality rate in Scottish Coalfields is 25 per cent higher than the Scottish average. In the near 25 years since their establishment, CRT has been invaluable in improving health skills and employment for the near 6 million people who currently live in the Coalfields areas across the UK. My coverage and pricing constituency has many ex-mining villages, including Cerdown and Moodyseburn, where, of course, the community is still impacted by the tragic events of September 1959 when 47 men lost their lives in the Auckland Geek mining disaster. An event that I attend every year and have the pleasure of speaking at and this year received the honour of being presented with a miner's lamp from the memorial committee. I put in record Richard Leonard's consistent and constant support for this event also. I know that both Auckland Lock and Moodyseburn in the area near to Auckland Geek have been supported by the CRT, and I want to say that I am very grateful for that to those in the chamber. For the remainder of this speech, I will concentrate on the village of Glen Boyg, another industrial powerhouse in the 19th and 20th centuries, which has also harshly felt the effects of the industry constricting over the past several decades. I have regular discussions with Trees Aitken, who is the operations manager of the wonderful Glen Boyg development trust, as Alex Rowley mentioned, which provides the local residents of Glen Boyg and surrounding villages and communities with a wide range of high-quality health improvement and community-based services and activities seven days a week. To demonstrate the work of Trees Aitken and the development trust further, Trees Aitken has recently been made a fellow at Cambridge University following our work with the Faculty of Social Innovation to promote the work ethic of Glen Boyg development trust and share its practices and successes to help UK and international communities recover and flourish. I am very proud of Trees Aitken and all the team at Glen Boyg. When Trees Aitken asked about Trees Aitken, I was keen to stress how helpful and vital the coalfield regeneration trust has been in ensuring the great work of the Glen Boyg development trust can continue in the community. Just some of the things that Glen Boyg have received funding for via the regeneration trust include community gardening and environmental projects, a parent and toddler group, other people's art groups, men's groups, stress relief initiatives and food growing projects. This is also in addition to funding that trust has provided to Glen Boyg United Football Club, Glen Boyg parent council and support for the village park play area. Indeed, although now a successful operation in its own right, I think that it is fair to say that the success of the Glen Boyg development trust would not have been realised without the input of the coalfield regeneration trust in those early years that we have really seen it through. Those projects and initiatives are the beating heart of our post-industrial communities and, in truth, I was disappointed to hear that the Scottish Government had reduced the grant to the coalfield regeneration trust by £100,000. What might seem like a meager decrease in funding in comparison to other budgetary commitments will have huge consequences for places like Glen Boyg, which require funding from the CRT to enrich in my constituency in the surrounding area. In restrictions concerning Scottish Government procurement rules, as Alex Rowley mentioned, as well means that the CRT is also limited in running its grants programme to support smaller grass-roots charities in those former coalfield communities. Those limitations have resulted in 13 per cent of charities reporting their organisation as at risk of closure from the ending of the CRT grants programme. Those communities have been let down by successive UK Governments in the past, and I urge the Scottish Government to revisit those funding cuts and procurement rules as we cannot let those communities down again. I do understand if I had the statement today that the budgeting constraints imposed on us by that ruthless Tory Westminster Government, but I do not feel that those already marginalised and penalised communities are the ones that should suffer again and more. As Theresa Akin told me powerfully just yesterday when I spoke to her— Mr MacGregor, you will need to bring your marks of closure well over your time. Okay, thank you.  If funding is taken from those communities, then many of the social impacts that have been somewhat mitigated will return poverty, isolation and antisocial behaviour to name but a few. Of course, that will lead to greater burden on public services in the long run. I will close here, Presiding Officer. Thank you, Ms MacGregor. I would remind members that it is back bench speeches of up to four minutes. I call Alexander Stewart to be followed by Martin Whitfield. Thank you, Presiding Officer. I am pleased to be able to speak in this debate and I thank my fellow Midscotland and Fife MSP Alex Rowley for bringing this to the chamber this evening. Today's debate provides a welcome opportunity to acknowledge the important work done by the Coalfield Regeneration Trust across the United Kingdom. It is also an opportunity to acknowledge the distinct characters that form coalfield communities, several of which are located within Central and Southern Fife and across Clackmannanshire in my own region. Today's motion speaks about the all-party parliamentary group on coalfield communities and the report of levelling up of former coalfields. The report speaks about the loss of coal mining jobs still casting a long shadow in those communities. It highlights that the total population of 5.7 million across the United Kingdom communities are too big to be ignored. The report also highlights the problems of social isolation, loneliness in those communities, which often affect a large population of older people. However, there are still issues with younger people who are finding it very difficult with the opportunities to work and training within those areas. Therefore, it is clear that those communities have particular needs and they require particular types of support. The funding mission of the Coalfield Regeneration Trust is therefore to provide those communities with the support that it needs. Those include initiatives such as Coalfield Work project, which I acknowledge and commend the work that they do. The project provides important support to people who have become separated from their labour market. It provides work and mentoring. The project also helps a number of candidates to cure permanent full-time work. That has happened within Fife Council and within Stirling University. The success of Coalfield works means that it brings the real opportunities that those communities need from across Scotland. That is to be very much welcomed. As I say, those young people have an opportunity to move forward. The project supports the trust funding. It includes a gross west fife, which supports low-income families across west fife by providing them with home-grown produce. Funding from the Coalfield Regeneration Trust will also go to invest in the future for those families and continue to see that grow. Alex Rowley and others already have mentioned tonight in the cut of £100,000 from the budget for the Coalfield Regeneration, and that is a 13 per cent cut. It was right that, previously, when cuts were talked about, those cuts were reversed back in 2011. Over a decade later, the trust is doing so much more important work, and it cannot lose that funding because that will have a massive impact, as you have already heard from other speakers this evening. The Scottish Government has said that it would like to see the trust move to a more current funding model and explore new ways of funding the grant programme. That is important, but we need to make sure that the money goes where it should be. That is what the Coalfield Regeneration Trust wants to see. I hope that the minister will reflect and provide assurances to the trust in his summing up later on this evening. Scotland's former Coalfield communities have a distinct character, but they also have distinctive needs. The work of those initiatives across the United Kingdom and levelling up funds have a real role to play in addressing the needs that local government has to play also within those communities. However, the organisations such as the Coalfield Regeneration Trust are here and at the heart of supporting those communities. I thank them for the important work that they do, and they continue to carry out in the region that I represent and across Scotland as a whole. I hope that we will be able to continue to support them and communities for many, many years to come because that is what is required. Thank you, Presiding Officer. Thank you, Mr Stewart. I now call Martin Whitfield to be followed by Richard Leonard. Mr Whitfield. I am very grateful, Deputy Presiding Officer, and it is a pleasure to contribute to this debate. I thank Dr Ali for, again, securing the opportunity tonight to talk about the Coalfield Regeneration Trust. Indeed, it is a pleasure to follow Alexander Stewart, who rightly encompassed this when he talked about our Coalfield communities being too big to be ignored. They are not just too big, they sit at the heart of a network, a jigsaw that exists across the whole of Scotland, indeed across the whole of the United Kingdom. The importance of our Coalfields community, even those who are now removed from ancestors, parents, grandparents, who worked in the mines, but have moved into communities to see the importance of the empathy that Coalfields communities have for each other. I think that empathy is very much personified in the Coalfields Regeneration Trust, which I have had the pleasure to work with in the past when we were securing funds in press and pans in East Lothian. They came out as press and pans is a Coalfields community, and initially at the first meeting someone said, but there are no pits in this town anymore, to which the Coalfields Regeneration Trust representatives rightly said, it's not actually about the mines, it's about the communities, it's about the people, it's about that that's been left that Fulton and Gregor so accurately described, the challenge that the closure of those pits brought to our towns and our villages, and through working with the Coalfields Regeneration Trust a significant number of community groups came forward with brilliant ideas how to improve life in and around press and pans and indeed across East Lothian and our other mining communities that are there. Rona Mackay. The member for taking intervention. Twecker on my constituency benefits greatly from the CRT trust and has done over the years. Does the member agree with me that particularly for young people in communities this is incredibly important? Martin Whitfield. Absolutely, I can't agree more than that, because the Coalfields Regeneration Trust don't send you an application form, they come out and talk to you, they come out and explain, they come out and find out what the challenges are that our young people, that are older people, that our community groups face and they say well what would help and it might be something as simple as it was in the case that I was involved in in getting play equipment for a play park. It might just be a bench so that people can sit down and chat together. It might be specialised equipment for disabled children. It might be an accessible toilet for a working men's club that previously didn't have one but found itself excluding members. It might be as in the case of Harlaw Day Centre in press and pans and the penny pit recovering after Covid coming back with those unexpected costs that allowed them to reopen and go back to being part of the beating heart of a community and it is a great tribute to the CRT that they are able to talk to the communities in their way. I thank the member for taking an intervention. Just to supplement what Mr Whitfield is saying, I've had the pleasure of meeting the CRT as well and he's slow. The key thing for me is how they drive community spirit and community regeneration and there's a few community councils, for example, to make Mary Elvison that they've worked with, but it's working with local charities, the community led generation as I said, Sustrans, ELC, East Lothian Council itself, Recharge and East Lothian Food Bank are to mention just a few so it's really just to supplement and compliment the CRT on the role in East Lothian. I'm very grateful for that intervention. It's right because the CRT approach our communities the same way as the cold field communities used to help and assist each other. Sometimes it might have been a slap around the head if you're doing the wrong thing but more often than not it was a bowl of sugar or tea if you didn't have it. Time is short and I do want to return to the three asks that have already been raised but to concentrate specifically on task 2 about an amendment to the procurement rules in order to allow the CRT to deliver grants programme to support grassroots communities because the grants that they provide are hundreds of pounds. They're not thousands, tens of thousands, although they have in the past done this. They are small grants that people who otherwise wouldn't be able to get access to them would not get. They would not go out and ask. They wouldn't know who to ask but the CRT helped with that and let me finish with just a stakeholder's view that I think actually encompasses all that sits in the asks tonight and all that sits within this debate.  I think that that's a massive tribute to a charity that serves a community that deserves to be heard, that deserves to be listened to and deserve to be supported. I'm grateful if you have time to reside in office. Thank you, Mr Whitfield. Can I say to our very welcome guests in the gallery that actually under the parliamentary rules were not allowed members of the public in the gallery to participate in the proceedings, albeit I appreciate how strongly you feel about the issues being discussed. So thank you very much for your co-operation. I call Richard Leonard to be followed by Stephen Kerr. Can I thank Alec Rowley for initiating this vital debate and can I extend my welcome to members of the trust who are joining us tonight in the public gallery? Because coalfield communities are still reeling from the consequences of what happened 40 years ago when the miners waged a year-long struggle in a fight not just for jobs, not just for pits but for communities and an entire way of life. Now next year we will mark the 40th anniversary of that bitter dispute but we will mark it not just by wistfully looking backwards, not just by looking back in anger but by drawing on that fighting spirit, those values of community, those principles of solidarity and applying them to the challenges that we are facing today. So what a blow it would be if, as we approach the 40th anniversary of that heroic and historic struggle, if we sit back and we allow the Scottish Government to withdraw its support from those very same communities who were hammered 40 years ago, communities that are still living with the consequences because these are the facts. 43% of the population of the Scottish Coalfields are claiming some form of benefit compared to a Scottish average of 23%. 40% of people in the Scottish Coalfields have no qualifications compared to 27% for Scotland as a whole and the mortality rate in the Scottish Coalfields is 25% higher than the Scottish average. Does the Government think that this is because the people who live in these villages and in these towns are feckless, that they are unintelligent, that they are beyond education or that even they have a disregard for life itself? Why are you turning your backs on them? Just yesterday I visited Gawbridge Community Care in Midlothian. It is supported by the Coalfields Regeneration Trust. It was started with a grant from the Coalfields Regeneration Trust. Runs from a former police station, it's a CAB outreach centre, a food bank, a base for upwards mobility, supporting over 20 remarkable students who just need a helping hand. It is the home for elderly walking groups. It brings the generations together, puts on employability, training courses, backs business development and provides lifeline support from the Covid Economic Recovery Fund. I spent some time with two of its outstanding workers, Lynn Roy and Vary Barrett. Vary Barrett told me this. She says, we support people from the nursery to 90, but she also had a clear message for this Parliament. She said, no one understands mining villages, mining communities like the Coalfields Regeneration Trust. Next year, as well as marking the 40th anniversary of the miners' strike, we will mark the 25th anniversary of the death of the miners' leader, Mick Magahy. He prophetically warned of the decimation of the Scottish Coalfield if the Thatcher Government had its way, because he understood better than anyone what it would do to mining communities, and he was right. His memorable appeal was, if we stop running, they'll stop chasing us, stand firm and fight. That is what we are doing tonight, fighting for these communities, because I tell the Minister that you cannot be allied to a just transition and support unjust austerity. You cannot be an ally of the miners and support a policy which condemns their sons and daughters, their grandchildren to a lifetime of poverty. You cannot be an ally to these communities and support these cuts, so the Government needs to decide which side it is on. I hope that it will be on the side of the Coalfields Regeneration Trust, on the side of the miners, of their families, of their trade union and on the side of these villages and communities, because they deserve nothing less. I now call Stephen Kerr to be followed by Colin Smith. It's a pleasure to follow Richard Leonard and to think that it really is 40 years coming up since the titanic struggle that he referenced in his, as usual, impassioned and energetic remarks. It will be 40 years since Richard Leonard and I, at Stirling University, first crossed swords on issues relating to the Government of our country at that time. He has lost none of his passion, none of his conviction. I admire that. I admire politicians who have principle and who have convictions and who have passion. However, he is right in what he says, when he highlights the fact that the work of the Coalfields Regeneration Trust—and, by the way, thanks to Alex Rowley for bringing this motion to the chamber tonight—is right when he describes what is happening in those communities. The most important word that this debate will feature is the word community. However, when he talks about issues relating to welfare benefit claimants, when he talks about under qualification, under employment, when he talks about mortality, those are issues that really should concern us. So, when the Scottish Government, the SNP, proposes cutting the grant for the Coalfields Regeneration Trust, an organisation that I admire close up and at a distance, both as a member of Parliament for Stirling and now as a central Scotland MSP, I think that this is a huge mistake because of the nature of the engagement that the Coalfields Regeneration Trust has with the communities that they exist to serve and support. If we are in the business of transformation policies, then it is at the local level that those policies make a real difference. We can talk to the cows come home about strategies, but the truth is that it is the work that is done in those communities that makes the real difference. I offer a suggestion to the Government to restore the £100,000 that they are taking from this grant. They often tell us in this chamber that if we come with ideas about spending more money then we should come up with a place from which that money can be taken. I can give the advice to the Minister why not, in the spirit of today's budget, does the Scottish Government not cut itself by reducing the number of ministers in this Government from a record high by one? That would free up more than £100,000, which could then be directed towards the excellent work that the Coalfields Regeneration Trust does in Scotland. With the little bit of time that I have left, I will add those comments. Community, as I said earlier, is the most powerful word that we will hear in this debate. Community is something that Scotland, especially our working class communities, is renowned for and should be renowned for now. We need to support community. That is exactly what the Coalfields Regeneration Trust does. There is a group—I will, yes. I am glad that the member is supporting the Coalfields Regeneration Trust. I think that the people in the gallery will be grateful for that as well. Does he not have any sense of hypocrisy that he is almost through his speech and has not talked about the UK Government's role in the decimation of mining communities like mine over the years? Is he not even going to mention it, or is it just an irrelevant stone? Of course it is not an irrelevant, but we are talking about the work of the Coalfields Regeneration Trust. We can have a historic discussion if you like. We can talk about that outside the chamber. I am more than happy to talk about the issues that prevailed 40 years ago, but we are not in an episode of Doctor Who. We cannot be transported back 40 years and revisit those issues and make any tangible difference to what has happened. However, what we can do is highlight the fact that the Government that the member supports has just cut £100,000 from a vitally important source of funding for the work of the trust, and that should be reversed. I can see that I am probably out of time, so I am just going to very quickly mention, with your permission, as an example of community, earlier this year that people of redding commemorated the 100th anniversary of the redding pit disaster. An inrush of water trapped 66 miners underground at a mineshaft, and there were 40 fatalities, 40 families who were impacted by one of the worst mining disasters in Scotland's history. There are a group of very good people who have kept it, as we have referenced in relation to another pit disaster, and there are good people who have kept the commemoration going. Hundreds of people attend these commemorations every year, and family members of some of the victims have flown in from all over the world to be in attendance to register their solidarity with the local community. It is in the wellspring of that history that community lives on in these former mining and ex-cold field communities. I salute the work of the trust and hope that the Government will have a moment of conscience on this day of budget. I consider seriously my suggestion that one of them gives up their post so that that money can be used for a better local engagement funding project. Thank you to Alex Rowley for his hugely important and timely motion. As we head towards the 25th anniversary of the establishment of the Coalfield Regeneration Trust, it is an opportunity not only to reflect on the work of the trust but to recognise that that work has never been more important. I am proud to represent South Scotland communities steeped in Scotland's mining history, where coal seems to run the length of the region from Midlothian in the east once home to 26 Calderys. Today, of course, the National Mining Museum, neighbouring East Lothian home to the earliest coal mines in Scotland between Trinent and Preston Pan, where the local labour club ensured that children were still fed a hot meal after school every day during that miners' strike. South Lanarkshire, where some of the most valuable coal seems paved the way to making it the seat of the iron smelting industry. In the west coast, Ayrshire, where at one time 14,000 coal miners mined 4 million tonnes of coal a year and where a certain care hardly founded the Ayrshire miners union, led into the national union of Scottish mine workers. Even in Dumfrieshire, where I live, an area many may not associate with coal mines, deep mining was integral to the economy as far south as Cannon Bay and Rowanburn and more recently, an upper nestail from the Faldhead Mine in Kirkconill, the largest local pit until it closed in 1968 to the open cast that continued until just a few years ago. Many of my relatives worked in those upper nestail pits until the demise of the industry in the 1980s, forcing them to move in some cases to the northeast to find work in the oil industry. We often hear ministers in this chamber rightly say that if there is one lesson that we must take from the demise of the pits and the devastation that is inflicted on our communities, it is the need to learn the lessons of the past and make sure that we have a just transition for our oil and gas sector. They rightly point out that never again can we have a Government inflict such economic vandalism on communities and then walk away, meaning that many of those coal fuel communities have still not recovered. Ministers cannot make those statements on the one hand and then on the other hand cut the funding of the organisation solely dedicated to supporting those very communities. The cut to the coal fuel regeneration trust is not just £100,000, it has also been a freezing funding since 2011. That is an additional real-terms cut of over a quarter of £1 million. As we have heard, the trust will not be able to run its grants programme to support smaller grassroots charities and those communities as a result of the Government's procurement rules. When I wrote to the minister in the summer about those cuts, he dismissed them and he claimed that there are plenty of other sources of funding. However, as the trust survey of the organisations affected showed, that is not their experience and the Government's approach fails to recognise the need for additional support for those communities over and above those other sources of funding. The trust grants programme, even the smallest sums of money, makes a big difference to those communities. There is not time to list the successes, but take one programme in my community, the community action plan in Kirkconnell, in Kello-Home and upper Nistale, where a small investment by the trust supported the plan's development and early delivery of some of the projects. However, the trust also brought its expertise to the table. The understanding of the needs of coal fuel communities helped to ensure that the plan's priorities were the communities' priorities and their support also levered in other sources of funding. In conclusion, at appeal to the minister, others have done this evening, including members of his own group. Rethink those cuts, which are an attack on our coal fuel communities, rethink your procurement rules to allow the trust to continue that important grant programme to support those grass-roots community organisations and then work with the trust to invest in and create that new model to provide a sustainable income stream that is needed to invest in our coal fuel communities. That would end the need for grants in the long term, but it is about investing in the trust in the short term. If the Government is genuinely committed to a just transition, its actions—not-worn words—need to recognise that that has not happened in our coal fuel communities and now, minister, it is not the time to walk away from those communities, it is time to support them. I also thank my colleague Alex Rowley for bringing this really important issue to the attention of the Parliament at this time. I start by saying how proud I am to say that I grew up, live and now represent a coal fuel community. I want to thank the visitors in the gallery who, like me, believe in those communities not only because of our history of mining and powering the country but because our history bill are resilient people, bold communities with warmth, talent and tenacity. They deserve the wealth generated from the labour of our parents, our grandparents and the wider communities. It is almost 40 years since the rapid closure of the mining industries began, and former coal fuel communities in my own south of Scotland region are still feeling the consequences. We have heard about the inequality in work opportunities and the need to claim benefits. We have heard about the inequalities in educational opportunities and the mortality rates. I am going to read that again. The mortality rate in the Scottish coalfields is 25 per cent higher than the Scottish average. Make no mistake, that is by economic design. We in this place, us here, we have to take responsibility to change the direction of that, and that is what this debate is this evening. The coalfields regeneration trust does such important work in my own region, and we have heard from other members across. I live in Carrick Cymruc in Doon Valley, and they are a central part of our community and function as a model of how to effectively build progress in conjunction with communities rather than imposing things on those communities. We have heard that this Parliament recognises that. In Alec Rowley's speech this evening, we talked about the benefits and recognised 112 motions in this Parliament recognising the benefits. When mining went, or rather when mining was taken away, so cruelly many of our Ayrshire mining communities were simply left to struggle. As anyone in Ayrshire knows, mining was a core part of our very identity, and it remains so until this day. That is not simply forgotten by an economic change. Without mining, many of those towns and villages would simply never have come to be, and that leaves a lasting cultural memory for many people that still live there. It was the centre of their work or the work of their parents, and, as such, they see themselves first and foremost as mining communities. Let us be clear that those communities did not create—rather, those communities fell victim to the kinds of social and economic problems that we all know in our similar areas across the coalfields—unemployment, lack of investment by Government, and an accepted decline of services. Those are scars that take a long time to heal, and the effects that they have on the day-to-day lives of local people, families over generations, is still very clear to see. Organisations such as the Coalfield Regeneration Trust stepped into that gap, that void. As there was rapid and unthinking day industrialisation, they have pioneered projects right across—we have heard from them—Yip, World, The Zone, Auckland Lake Community Development Initiative, Epic Pipe Band, Netherford Initiative for Community Empowerment. Those are the kinds of projects that we need in our communities. Without their help, we simply would be in a worse state. If you live there, you know that no one needs to say it. No one needs to say it. We see it every day. The Coalfield Regeneration Trust is essential to our communities. I want to just go over again the points that have been made. We need the Government to support a capital endowment for community regeneration trust. We need the Scottish Government to change its procurement rules, and we need to restore the funding for the Coalfield Regeneration Trust. We know that we need to do those things. In the words of Mick McGaghey, let's stand firm and fight. I now call on Jovitz Patrick to respond to the debate around sub-minutes. I congratulate Alex Rowley on securing this important day and thank members for their contributions from across the chamber. I want to start by reaffirming our commitment to supporting our Coalfield communities, which is demonstrated by our long-standing support for the Coalfield Regeneration Trust. Through the range of investments that we deliver to support Coalfield and all disadvantaged communities across Scotland, I want to highlight Martin Watfield's quote of the debate, when he reminded us that the Coalfield Regeneration Trust is not about the minds, it's about the people, it's about the communities. I think that that's a really important thing for us to remember. The Scottish Government has provided over 28 million pounds to the trust since it was established in 1999. That reflects the valuable role that it has played in supporting our Coalfield communities, building capacity of Coalfield communities and delivering essential support through the range of trust activities. It probably is worth taking a moment to touch on the points raised by Fulton MacGregor, Mr Smith, and a few others around what happened 40 years ago. There is a relevance as we are coming up to that anniversary in that, while this Parliament has taken action, the UK Government has still not apologised for what happened back then and there is still a requirement for a full UK-wide public inquiry into what happened back then. That said, in the last number of years since 1999 there have been many challenges faced in our Coalfield communities and in other disadvantaged communities where market failure and rurality has had an enduring impact on social, physical and economic outcomes. A long-term support for the trust is mirrored in our approach to regeneration, recognising that change takes place over time. We have a strong policy framework in place to realise our long, medium and short-term ambitions to improve the lives of people across Scotland, and we are seeing the impact and successes of our approach through targeting our investment to those communities that need support the most. However, I must be clear that the financial climate that we operate in is the most challenging that it has ever been. As a result, we must look at every penny and ensure that it has been spent on those things that have the greatest impact. We have worked closely. I am grateful for the member to give way. On that point, I am not abandoning the other claims, but an alteration in the Scottish procurement rules would allow the CRT to continue to hand out grants, even small grants, which we have heard across the chamber tonight are so beneficial and fundamental to giving a dignity back to those communities. I will come to that very specific point. We have worked closely with the trust this year and we have been open about the financial position that has been faced working with the reduced budget to deliver our Empowering Communities programme, which supports CRT's grant. That programme also delivers essential support direct to community organisations for living front-line activities and services to tackle local challenges of poverty and disadvantage for our communities, most in the need across Scotland, including coalfield areas. We are not ignoring coalfield communities, as Mr Stewart implied, nor are we turning our backs, as Mr Leonard suggested in his contribution. In fact, our support goes wider than directly funding to CRT. I want to highlight two opportunities for further funding. Our strengthening communities programme and investing in communities funds are two funds that are able to be applied for across Scotland and are directly supporting coalfield communities. The investment in communities fund is delivering more than £1.7 million investment in coalfield communities in 2023-24, such as the project in Methlhill, providing accessible preschool childcare, afterschool clubs, youth clubs and volunteering opportunities for more than 70 young people to gain employability, skills and training. The strengthening in communities programme is currently providing a total of £600,000 supporting the development of community anchor organisations in coalfield communities. I am going to finish with a number of points, including his own, which I will try to pick up in coalfield communities. For example, the support is helping both well futures, who are in the process of asset transfer of the both well library, which will be an important space for the community. The minister is engaging in a little bit of what aboutary here, because the purpose of this debate is to consider the CRT and the work that it does. Everyone has agreed that what it does is highly impactful. 100,000 pounds is very small in the total scheme of the many multiple billions that the Scottish Government has at disposal. Will he—yes, I know that— Mr Kerr, please just ask your question. My question is, would the minister seriously consider my serious suggestion that the Government cut its cost by £100,000 and divet that money to the CRT? Thanks, Mr Kerr. Obviously, given the challenges of the budget that we have just passed today, all public services are having to look at how we hold our money together. However, the point that I was reflecting on and the reason that I was highlighting the investment communities fund and the strengthening communities programme is because of a point that Mr Smith raised. However, reflecting the contribution that the CRT makes, we have, in spite of the challenging fiscal position, provided a substantial grant of nearly £650,000 enabling the trust to continue the delivery of their employability programmes, skills and training programmes and capacity building programmes, which the Government does recognise. I was pleased to meet the trustees in September to listen to their concerns, which provided me with the opportunity to convey our on-going support and commitment to work with them. It also gave me the opportunity to stress the importance of ensuring that they are continued to support the delivery of a regeneration outcome. Mr Wittfield, Fulton MacGregor, Alex Rowley and a few others all made reference in their contributions to the coalfield investment programme, the small grants funds. I absolutely understand and appreciate the points that were made about access to small grant funding. Procurement rules and grant-making conditions exist to support proper use of public funds. However, I have asked my officials to explore with the CRT where possible and appropriate to then identify other ways in which the trust can support small community grant organisations. However, I must be clear that the overall grant allocation for 2023-2024 cannot be increased. In terms of future funding for CRT, you will be acutely aware of the on-going budget challenges over the medium terms. The FEM has been clear that every penny must be able to be demonstrated how it supports the three central missions of equality, opportunity and community, and our budget will deliver against those missions. The Deputy First Minister, I must be mindful of our time. In her statement to Parliament today, she set out the spending plans for 2024-25 and announced the draft budget, which will be scrutinised by members of this Parliament over the coming weeks. It reflects the very difficult choices that have to be made as a result of the autumn statement and the impact that UK Government decisions have on Scotland. I am mindful of our time. I want to go straight to the conclusion and the point being that, in conclusion, I want to reaffirm our commitment to supporting the work that delivers impact against our core missions and to continue to support the coal fuel regeneration trust as much as we can within our limited resources. The valuable contribution that it makes in helping our coal fuel communities to thrive to the best of our ability within the constraints of the financial position that we find ourselves in. I thank the coal fuel regeneration trust for coming along today and listening to the important debate. I hope that they will have felt the support for them across the chamber, and I will continue to do what I can to support them in being a sustainable organisation to support our coalfield communities across Scotland. Thank you Minister. That concludes the debate, and I close this meeting.