Activate
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Activate is a course which offers a community-based introduction to community development provided by the University of Glasgow in partnership with local agencies/organisations.
Read MoreCommunity Enterprise
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Community Enterprise provides development support to social enterprises, charities and voluntary groups to help make ideas a reality. They developed the Social Enterprise Eco-system Map, which enables you to navigate through the business support, learning, networking and finance available from different organisations.
Read MoreSCVO
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Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations (SCVO) has a support section on their website to help you think through some of the key issues relating to starting and managing a voluntary sector organisation in Scotland. You can also find support and advice in relation to the climate emergency, the cost of living crisis and digital technology.
Read MoreCo-operate
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Co-operate is part of the Co-operative Group, and is a website providing information to help local community groups across the UK in their activities, and also for people to find relevant local groups. The website includes a ‘how to’ section with guides to funding, finding a venue, planning activities, getting started and more.
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 MoreThird Sector Interfaces
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Whatever stage you are at, you could do worse than get in touch with your local organisation that supports voluntary organisations (sometimes called third sector interfaces) to ask about what support is on offer. The Scottish Government provides contact details for TSIs across Scotland.
Read MoreSocial Enterprise Scotland
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Social Enterprise Scotland provides guidance, information and networking opportunities for social enterprises in Scotland.
Read MoreGetting on Board
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Getting on Board supports people to become charity trustees, particularly those who are currently under-represented on trustee boards. They have a range of resources that could be useful for ensuring your community group represents your wider community.
Read MoreSupporting Communities
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Supporting Communities is a programme of support for community organisations and their local partners. The programme is intended to enable community organisations (at all levels and stages) to improve their effectiveness and influence over the community needs and priorities that they are involved in tackling.
Read MoreDevelopment Impact and You (DIY) toolkit
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Nesta's Development Impact and You (DIY) toolkit contains a selection of innovation tools that should help you invent, adopt or adapt ideas that can deliver better results. Visit the toolkit website for tools to help you plan, prioritise and problem solve amongst other things.
Read MoreCommunity Food and Health Scotland
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Community Food & Health Scotland (CFHS) is part of Public Health Scotland and supports community projects related to food and health. Their advice and resources page will be relevant to many community groups. It includes information on planning & management, funding, working with volunteers, networking and evaluation.
Read MoreACE - Guide to achieving community empowerment
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The Achieving Community Empowerment process is intended to help community groups and organisations become more confident, better organised and more effective in achieving their aims. The ACE Guide has been put together to help community groups, and those who work with them, through the process.
Read MoreBuilding Stronger Communities
/Community capacity building is about supporting people to develop their skills, abilities and confidence to take effective action together in and for their community. Building Stronger Communities helps organisations and community groups to work together to build community capacity.
Read MoreCommunity Toolkit
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The Community Toolkit was developed by Skye & Lochalsh Council for Voluntary Organisations and has been adopted by local voluntary sector support organisations across Scotland. The toolkit contains information on organisational matters such as setting up a board, choosing an organisational structure, witing a consititution and achieving charitable status. The Community Toolkit isn’t being updated anymore, but is still useful.
Read MoreJust Act
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Created by the no-longer-existing English-based Community Development Foundation (CDF), Just Act is a website for community groups which contains a wealth of information, ranging from guides to planning your project to how to work with people of different ages. The website is more than 5 years old now but should still contain relevant resources.
Read MoreEqually Ours
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Equally Ours (previously the Equality and Diversity Forum) is a UK charity that brings together people and organisations working across equality, human rights and social justice to make a reality of these in everyone’s lives.
Read MoreScottish Civic Trust
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The Scottish Civic Trust aims to help people connect to their built heritage and civic spaces and take a leading role in guiding their development.
Read MoreCommunity learning and development plans
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The Community Learning and Development (Scotland) Regulations require local authorities and their partners to develop three year CLD Plans for their area. They should identify learning and support priorities within the community and how these will be achieved. Local plans must be based on consultation with communities and community organisations.
Read MoreCommunity Action for a Sustainable Scotland
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Community Action for a Sustainable Scotland (CASS) is a set of 7 educational resources on sustainable development for community organisations. The guides offer ideas on how to improve the sustainability of your office, building, events, governance, finances, people management and planning.
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