The Scottish Community Development Network (SCDN) is a member-led organisation, for community workers and community development workers, paid or unpaid, full or part time, from the community, voluntary or public sectors, who support the principles and practice of community development. SCDN is open to anyone with an interest in community development in Scotland.
Read MoreChild Poverty Action Group (CPAG) works on behalf of the more than one in four children in the UK growing up in poverty. This includes understanding what causes poverty, the impact it has on children’s lives, and how it can be prevented and solved.
Read MoreThe Community Transport Association provides support, advice, training and information in relation to community transport.
Read MoreCreative Lives’ website contains advice for creative groups, research and case studies and opportunities for funding and to get involved. There’s some useful information on getting started as a creative group, as well as a Creativity Map to place your activity on alongside other creative groups in Scotland and the wider British Isles
Read MorePlanning Democracy is a community-led organisation campaigning to strengthen the voice and influence of the public in the planning and development of Scotland’s land. It provides peer support, training, networking, resources and advice.
Read MoreThe Money Guiders Network is designed to give different types of organisations and practitioners the support and information that can help make it easier for to talk to others about their money worries.
Read MoreMoney Advice Scotland is a charity that helps people in debt, suppors money advisers, and influences policy. It also offers information and other services for community groups working to support people through financial hardship.
Read MoreCommunity mediation is a way of resolving disputes between those who live in the same area or neighbourhood, whether between neighbours, different groups of people or whole areas.
Read MoreA membership organisation which represents the views of disabled people and disability groups/organisations, as well as the umbrella organisation for disability Access Panels in Scotland, which are groups of disabled volunteers who work together to improve physical access and wider social inclusion in their local communities.
Read MoreMaking Rights Real is a grassroots human rights organisation that supports communities to name and claim their rights.
Read MoreSURF provides a network, shared learning, events and online resources for community regeneration in Scotland. Their website contains useful information on Covid-19, the cost of living, 20-minute neighbourhoods, community wealth building and more.
Read MoreAs well as providing links to your local citizens advice bureau, citizens advice scotland offer advice on their website relating to a range of issues, including welfare, financial hardship and other issues.
Read MoreThe Rural Exchange provides information for, and gathers the views of, people living and working across Scotland’s rural and island communities with the aim of increasing their voice in both research and policy-making.
Read MoreCHEX promotes and supports community-led health, a way for people in a community to take joint action to improve things for their community, leading to improved health and wellbeing and helping to address health inequalities. Most community-led activity fits this description, and CHEX welcomes any interested community groups to join its network and take advantage of resources, support and other opportunities on offer. CHEX also provides a searchable database of community-led health organisations.
Read MoreThe 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 supporting community groups, through volunteering, providing use of facilities and so on.
Read MoreTogether is an alliance of Scottish children's charities that works to improve the awareness, understanding and implementation of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC).
Read MoreCircular Communities Scotland is a network membership organisation, dedicated to supporting the establishment of a thriving circular economy in Scotland. It supports and represents over 170 repair, reuse and recycling charities and social enterprises across the country.
Read MoreCommunity 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 MoreERCS aims to provide accessible public education and advice services in environmental and related planning law. It also advocates for policy and law reform and will pursue public interest litigation to ensure environmental rights are upheld.
Read MoreScottish Communities CAN is a network of community groups taking action on climate change and ‘associate’ supporting organisations and individuals. It provides a range of guides, tools and networking and funding opportunities for community-led climate action.
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