Inspiring Scotland
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Inspiring Scotland offers support to the charity sector, aiming to deliver real and lasting change in areas where social organisations and public policy had struggled to have a big enough impact.
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Non-party campaigning guidance
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The Electoral Commission has produced guidance which will be uesful if your group is campaigning in the run up to an election.
Read MoreTackling Poverty Locally Directory
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This directory provides a searchable database of local anti-poverty initiatives from communities across Scotland and beyond.
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 MoreBuilding Stronger Community Organisations
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This 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 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 MoreJohn Muir Trust
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The John Muir Trust is a leading voice for the UK's wild places, dedicated to the conservation, protection and restoration of the UK's wild places, for the benefit of all. The Trust works in partnership with communities, including in relation to land buy-outs and is the home of the John Muir Award.
Read MoreDemocratic Finance Scotland
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Democratic Finance Scotland supports communities to raise money locally to take ownership of important community assets and run democratic community-led businesses.
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.
Read MoreOpen Data Scotland
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Open 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 MoreCommunity mediation
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Community mediation is a way of resolving disputes between those who live in the same area or neighbourhood, whether between neighbours, different groups of people or whole areas.
Read MoreSocial Index of Multiple Deprivation (SIMD)
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The 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 MoreFlood risk map
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Scottish Envornmental Protection Agency (SEPA) has produced a flood map telling you about long term flood risk for an area in Scotland
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