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 MoreUnderstanding 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 MoreOpen Data Scotland acts as a central hub for finding open data from all around Scotland, including in your local area. From here you can find local data relating to everything from more important issues such as air quality management and community council boundaries to the more trivial such as baby first names.
Read MoreThe SIMD is a way of helping understand and find which areas in Scotland are ‘deprived’. It could be useful if you want to understand more about the profile of neighbourhoods in your area and where services could be targeted, or if you need to show data relating to poverty and inequality in your community, such as for a funding application.
Read MoreThrough the Ideas Fund, community groups can apply for Community Grants to work with researchers to explore issues important to them.
Read MoreCommunity Knowledge Matters is a network bringing together people interested in community-led research shaping practice & policy change in mental health and wellbeing in the Highlands & Islands and beyond.
Read MoreSupport is available to help voluntary and community organisations to collect and use statistical data, including from the Royal Statistical Society and the Scottish Government.
Read MoreThese 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 MoreGreen 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 MoreKnowledge is Power is a programme to support community-led action research. It provides a toolkit with guides, methods and ideas to support community groups to carry out and use their own research.
Read MoreCommunity Map Scotland is a software project to help your community build a Local Place Plan.
Read MoreEvaluation Support Scotland (ESS) works with voluntary organisations and funders so that they can measure and report on their impact.
Read MoreEvidence for Success is a series of guides which support you to engage with evidence in different ways to influence policy and practice and to improve your own work with your communities
Read MoreScottish 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 MoreThis Scottish Government website gives access to a range of official statistics about neighbourhoods in Scotland. You can find data on health, education, poverty, unemployment, housing, population, crime and social/community issues.
Read MoreResearch for Real is an Edinburgh-based consultancy promoting learning by providing facilitation, advice and support using participatory, appreciative and action research approaches.
Read MoreThe 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.
Read MoreBased on the experience of collaborative research in Wester Hailes, Edinburgh, this guide aims to help community partners and academics maximise the benefits of research that is coproduced between communities and academic researchers based in a university.
Read MoreCommunity action plans are a way for communities to take a lead role in changing and improving their local area by setting out what will be done, who will do it and how it will be carried out. The Community-led Action Planning toolkit takes you through the process.
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