Communities and volunteering - what's the plan?
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Scotland’s volunteering action plan aims to create a Scotland where everyone can volunteer, more often, and throughout their lives.
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Seeing the forest and the trees - a consultation on Forest and Land Scotland's Communities Strategy
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Forest and Land Scotland would like your input to a new Communities Strategy setting out the principles and strategic priorities for its work with communities.
Read MoreHow can the Scottish Parliament better engage with you?
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The Scottish Parlimanet wants to hear from individuals and organisations from a wide range of communities across Scotland on how it can imporve its engagement.
Read MoreGrants for going greener in Glasgow
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Glasgow Centre for Polulation Health (GCPH) and the University of Glasgow are coming together to run a small grants scheme for community-led sustainability projects.
Read MoreScotland's National Outcomes - do you use them and how?
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The Scottish Parliament’s Finance and Public Administration Committee is looking for written views from organisations with experiences of using the National Outcomes in the NPF to shape their policy-making and decision-taking, as well as delivery at national and local level.
Read MoreMarch to the beat of a different drum: Land Reuse Month
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These events are focused on the public sector’s role on redeveloping vacant sites. Community organisations are of course a critical stakeholder, so it would be worth taking a look…
Read MoreQ&A sessions on Investing in Communities Fund
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Community groups may be interested in attending this free question and answer session on The Investing in Communities Fund (ICF), which is anticipated to open for a second round of applications in spring next year.
Read MoreHow effective is community planning? Sign up to workshops
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Following engagement with community planning partnership leads to find out the type of evaluation support that would be helpful, the Improvement Service and Public Health Scotland have arranged some information sessions on evaluating the effectiveness of community planning partnerships.
Read MoreLet's get creative: issues facing creative groups and venues post-lockdown
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Creative Lives is currently gathering evidence about the issues facing creative groups and venues now that in-person activity is starting to resume after the pandemic restrictions.
Read MorePlanning for planning
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Community groups and anyone else interested in development planning are being encouraged to respond to two separate consultations on a draft framework to inform day to day decision making in the planning system.
Read MoreAudit and applaud it - the role played by communities during Covid-19
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Audit Scotland has published a new online report, highlighting examples and learning from the community-led response to Covid-19 so far. The report draws on a number of great examples of community groups and local partnerships between agencies and community groups.
Read MoreEnriching and enhancing lives - Cycling Without Age Scotland
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This Spotlight article highlights how people across Scotland with mobility issues and/or living with other challenges, and particularly people in and around Clackmannanshire, are being encouraged to make use of Cycling Without Age Scotland’s pioneering accessible Trishaws. The article illustrates the benefits for participants and volunteers, as well as how a few passionate folk engaging with their wider community can lead to Scotland-wide, and international, connections.
Read MoreStill time to give your views on short-term lets
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Anyone interested in or concerned about short-term lets has until the 29th October to give their views to the Local Government, Housing and Planning Committee, which is considering new laws in this area.
Read MoreHelp improve the National Performance Framework (whether you use it or not)
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The Scottish Government is improving how it reports on the National Performance Framework and is asking for your help.
Read MoreRaised Voices: Collaborative Action Research Network (CARN) Online Conference, 2021
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CARN is holding it’s annual collaborative international conference, or CARNival, in the period 2nd October to 10th October 2021, with the theme of Raised Voices.
Read MoreJoin the hub-ub! Focus group on proposed community space at Glasgow Uni
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Scottish Community Development Centre (SCDC) is inviting community groups around Glasgow to take part in a focus group to discuss plans for a new community resource hub within the new Institute of Health and Wellbeing at the University of Glasgow.
Read MoreWelcome statement from Tom Arthur MSP
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Welcome to the redeveloped Communities Channel Scotland website which was first launched in 2014 as a one-stop shop information hub and to highlight the great work of community groups across the country. The new and improved website will continue to be a key online resource for community organisations and will provide up-to-date information including key Scottish Government policies such as the Local Governance Review, Community Wealth-Building, Regeneration and Community Empowerment.
Read MoreSupport for local networking: Garelochhead Station Trust's experience during Covid-19
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One of the most effective ways of supporting community-led activity is to create the conditions for community and voluntary organisations to work, learn and grow together. This case study shows how Garelochhead Station Trust benefitted from this kind of support provided by Argyll & Bute Council.
Read MoreAlva matters - Alva Development Trust's support to local people during covid-19
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This case study describes how, in spring and summer 2020, Alva Development Trust was at the heart of the local emergency response in Alva and across other areas in rural Clackmannanshire.
Read MoreMaking room: how Social Impact Pledges can help community groups in need of space
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One of the issues community organisations most fequently raise with Communities Channel Scotland is how to go about finding some space in which to operate from. Public bodies can help by letting community organisations use rooms, buildings and outdoor spaces. Some have already been doing this through the Social Impact Pledge.
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