Community-led action plans are a way for communities to take the lead in understanding how they feel about where they live, helping to inform good decision making and better support for communities.
Read MoreThe Young Foundation is building a network to bring people who are interested in and involved with peer research together. It aims to be a friendly space to connect, share ideas, discuss best practice, and collaborate on new work. Members will also be invited to events and seminars.
Read MoreThe 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 MoreThis online learning resource, divided over 10 modules, is designed to build the skills, confidence and knowledge of refugee-led organisations and refugee supporting organisations, although most of the materials will be useful to any community group.
Read MoreDemocratic Finance Scotland supports communities to raise money locally to take ownership of important community assets and run democratic community-led businesses.
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 MoreScottish Envornmental Protection Agency (SEPA) has produced a flood map telling you about long term flood risk for an area in Scotland
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 MoreSKS offers tailored support for individuals, community groups, social enterprises and charities whose projects aim to make a positive impact, locally or nationally.
Read MoreLove Clean Streets makes it easy to submit environmental issues automatically to your local authority
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
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