Social Impact Pledge
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The Social Impact Pledge is about simple ways that public bodies can make a difference to communities. Here are some pledges made by public bodies that make commitments to involve people.
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Ecovillage Design Cards
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These cards are a flexible and creative way to explore whole systems regeneration. They help to plan how to make communities more sustainable by seeing the interconnectedness between all areas of regeneration.
Read MoreGlobal PB Hub
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The Global Participatory Budgeting Hub is aims to improve and expand participatory budgeting (PB) around the world by addressing common challenges and opportunities faced by PB implementers and supporters. It provides information on what PB is, how to design and carry out PB, funding, training, events and news updates.
Read MoreGreen Map
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Green Map is an open source platform for mapping community resources, green spaces and any other assets that contribute to making a place more environmentally sustainable. Community groups can use Green Map to create their own map, inviting community members to add spaces, organisations and facilities they feel are important.
Read MoreThe National Standards for Community Engagement
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The National Standards are a set of guiding principles for improving the engagement of public bodies with communities. They are useful for communities who want to gauge how well public agencies are engaging locally, and also to community groups and organisations who want to engage with people locally. Accessible and easy read versions of the Standards are also available.
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Scotland's Climate Assembly & Civic Charter on Climate
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Scotland’s Climate Assembly brought a group of people together who were broadly representative of the Scottish population to learn about, discuss and make recommendations on how we can best tackle climate change.
Read MoreCitizens Assembly of Scotland
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The Citizens’ Assembly of Scotland involved 100 citizens from across Scotland, who were broadly representative of the country, coming together to listen, discuss and think about what kind of country we want to build in Scotland, as well as other related questions.
Read MoreCitizen Participation Network
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The Citizen Participation Network includes 600 citizens, researchers, practitioners and policy makers working in a range of fields in Scotland and beyond. It should be relevant to anyone wanting to know more about the theory and practical methods behind participatory democracy.
Read MorePlace-based approaches
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‘Place-based approaches’ bring local people and organisations together to work in partnership to agree what works and what could be improved as well as putting a plan in place for how to do this. It’s a term that has become more common in recent years and the Scottish Government is currently interested in place-based approaches, so it may be useful for community groups to get a sense of what it’s all about.
Read MoreVolunteer Scotland
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Volunteer Scotland is a national charity which supports people to get involved in volunteering as well as providing organisations with guidance, training, disclosure services and other support to recruit and manage volunteers.
Read MoreProtecting Vulnerable Groups (PVG) scheme
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Find out more about the PVG scheme, which is important if your community group does paid or unpaid work with children, young people and vulnerable adults. The scheme is designed to make it easier to protect vulnerable groups from people who present a risk to them.
Read MoreScottish Co-production Network
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Co-production describes a relationship between service providers and service user that draws on the knowledge, ability and resources of both to develop better services. The Scottish Co-production Network aims to develop practice around co-production in Scotland, and is free and open to anyone who is interested in co-production in Scotland.
Read MoreWhat is community capacity building
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Community capacity building means supporting communities to achieve the changes they want to see. This animated video from Scottish Community Development Centre explains how this is done and why it is needed.
Read MoreThe Communities Channel guide to PB
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We highlight three ways that your community group can get involved in participatory budgteting…
Read MorePB Scotland→
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Participatory budgeting is a way for people to directly vote on how local money should be spent. PB Scotland acts as a hub for sharing and learning about PB across Scotland. It provides updates on events, policy and resources relevant to PB in Scotland, and profiles good examples of PB in action.
Read MoreScottish Community Development Centre
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Scottish Community Development Centre offers resources, guides, networks and a range of training and development support to community organisations and people working with communities across Scotland.
Read MoreThe Place Standard
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The Place Standard is a tool that can help you to think about the physical elements of a place (e.g. its buildings, spaces, and transport links) as well as the social aspects (e.g. whether people feel they have a say in decision making). The tool provides prompts for discussions, allowing you to consider all the elements of place, inlcuding health and wellbeing and climate change, in a methodical way.
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The Community Foundation (Northern Ireland)
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The Community Foundation in Northern Ireland provides an online toolkit civic innovation tools with useful introductions to a range of methods for getting local people more involved in decision making.
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