Wellbeing Economy Alliance Scotland
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Wellbeing Economy Alliance Scotland is the Scottish hub of the Wellbeing Economy Alliance. It aims to want to see Scotland's economy reprogrammed so it puts people and planet first.
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Accessibility and your community group
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We’ve complied a list of useful resources and guides to help you to ensure that your events and information are as accessible as possible.
Read MoreExamples of communities tackling inequality
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From supporting people affected to influencing change, community organisations are at the forefront of action around inequality and the cost-of-living. We’ve featured some of them on Communities Channel Scotland.
Read MoreScottish Community Development Network (SCDN)
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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
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Child 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 MoreScottish Communities for Health & Wellbeing
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Scottish Communities for Health and Wellbeing (SCHW) is a coming together of 74 community-led organisations across Scotland supporting health and wellbeing in their communities.
Read MoreCommunity Transport Association
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The Community Transport Association provides support, advice, training and information in relation to community transport.
Read MoreCreative Lives
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Creative 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 MoreCommunity Participatory Action Research (CPAR)
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The CPAR (Community Participatory Action Research) programme provides community groups in the South East of England with training and mentoring support in order to plan, carry out and use research for the benefit of their community. CPAR resources should be useful for anyone interested in carrying out their own research.
Read MoreContribution analysis
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Contribution analysis is a way to show the impact or progress of an activity or piece of work by focusing on how things that are more easy to measure ‘contribute’ to longer term, or higher-level outcomes.
Read MoreForestry and Land Scotland
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Forestry and Land Scotland manages Scotland's national forests. They offer a range of ways for community groups to make use of and engage with local woodland.
Read MoreYou're on Mute
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This set of films documents people’s experiences of living through the Covid-19 pandemic. They demonstrate how communities can come together in times of adversity to produce positive outcomes, and also highlight how our mental health connects to wider aspects of life.
Read MoreParticipation request resource pack
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Participation requests are a way for communities to work with public bodies to make services better. This resource pack contains a range of guides, tools and templates to help you understand the participation request process, the language and terms that are used, and the process involved.
Read MorePlanning Democracy
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Planning 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 MoreUnderstanding Scottish Places
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Understanding Scottish Places is an online tool that helps you to better understand and compare the places where you work and live. Just type the name of any town in Scotland into the search bar to get started.
Read MoreTown Toolkit
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This Toolkit is designed to be a source of inspiration for anyone who wants to make their town centre better, whether community groups, social enterprises or other organisations.
Read MoreMoney Guiders Network
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The 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
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Money 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 MoreHuman Learning Systems
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If your group is working to improve public services, it may help to know about human learning systems, an alternative approach to public management which embraces the complexity of the real world, and enables us to work effectively in that complexity.
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