LGBT Health and Wellbeing (LGBT Healthy Living Centre) was set up in 2003 to promote the health, wellbeing and equality of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people in Scotland. It provides support, services and information to improve health and wellbeing, reduce social isolation and stimulate community development and volunteering.
Read MoreCommunity Enterprise
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Community 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 MoreSKS Scotland
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SKS offers tailored support for individuals, community groups, social enterprises and charities whose projects aim to make a positive impact, locally or nationally.
Read MoreSelf Directed Support Scotland→
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SDSS champions local Independent Support organisations who provide quality advice and support on Self-directed Support. Visit their website to find local support organisations, and a range of other resources related to self-directed support.
Read MoreScottish Public Services Ombudsman
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The Scottish Public Services Ombudsman (SPSO) is the final stage for complaints about councils, the National Health Service, housing associations, colleges and universities, prisons, most water providers, the Scottish Government and its agencies and departments and most Scottish authorities.
Read MoreCommuniMap
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If your group is based in Glasgow, CommuniMap is an easy-to-use community science app helping people of all ages to notice, record, and share what they see in their neighbourhoods.
Read MoreThe National Standards for Community Engagement
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The National Standards are a set of guiding principles for improving the engagement of public bodies with communities. They are useful for communities who want to gauge how well public agencies are engaging locally, and also to community groups and organisations who want to engage with people locally. Accessible and easy read versions of the Standards are also available.
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20-minute neighbourhoods
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If you lived in a 20-minute neighbourhood you would be able meet all your day-to-day needs without having to travel more than 20 minutes by foot, bike or public transport. The Scottish Government has stated it will apply this concept to Scotland’s cities, towns, and this can be seen as part of an increasing focus on place, sustainability and tackling inequality.
Read MoreLove Clean Streets
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Love Clean Streets makes it easy to submit environmental issues automatically to your local authority
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Scotland's Climate Assembly & Civic Charter on Climate
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Scotland’s Climate Assembly brought a group of people together who were broadly representative of the Scottish population to learn about, discuss and make recommendations on how we can best tackle climate change.
Read MoreCitizens Assembly of Scotland
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The Citizens’ Assembly of Scotland involved 100 citizens from across Scotland, who were broadly representative of the country, coming together to listen, discuss and think about what kind of country we want to build in Scotland, as well as other related questions.
Read MoreCitizen Participation Network
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The Citizen Participation Network includes 600 citizens, researchers, practitioners and policy makers working in a range of fields in Scotland and beyond. It should be relevant to anyone wanting to know more about the theory and practical methods behind participatory democracy.
Read MoreForming a community group
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This short guide explains the benefits of forming a community group, and provides some advice and links to help you on your way.
Read MoreThe Climate Fringe
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The Climate Fringe website shares information on community events and activity happening in the run up to COP26.
Read MoreSupporting Communities Safely→
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In towns and villages across Scotland, communities have been responding to COVID 19. This resource provides advice on how to virus proof the support you are providing and reduce the risk of indirect spread, particularly as restrictions begin to ease.
Read MorePlace-based approaches
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‘Place-based approaches’ bring local people and organisations together to work in partnership to agree what works and what could be improved as well as putting a plan in place for how to do this. It’s a term that has become more common in recent years and the Scottish Government is currently interested in place-based approaches, so it may be useful for community groups to get a sense of what it’s all about.
Read MoreScotland's National Action Plan for Human Rights→
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Scotland's National Action Plan for Human Rights (SNAP) is a roadmap towards realising people’s human rights, developed by a drafting group from the public and voluntary sectors. It may be useful to refer to when campaigning for, or working on, human rights issues.
Read MoreEnvironmental Rights Centre for Scotland
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ERCS 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.
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