We’re asking organisations from all sectors to commit to using the Social Impact Pledge to grow and promote volunteering, in addition to other activities to increase positive social impact.
Read MoreThis spotlight article highlights some great collaboration between voluntary organisation African Challenge Scotland and Home Energy Scotland, helping to support diverse communities in the areas of fuel poverty and sustainability. The spotlight has been provided by Home Energy Scotland, which offers free advice and support to help make homes warmer, reduce energy bills, and contribute to a greener, more sustainable future.
Read MorePLUS is a member-led mental health charity and social movement in Perth and Kinross. This spotlight focuses on PLUS’s contribution to prevention and positive wellbeing.
Read MoreAn update from sportscotland on their 2023 social impact pledge, showing the positive impact their commitments have been having on schools, charities and physical activity.
Read MoreLong Term Conditions Hebrides has used the Community Wellbeing Exchange to buy in mental health-promoting services from social enterprises to help them support people with long term conditions in the Western Isles.
Read MoreIn this progress update, the University of Edinburgh describes how it has made a difference to people and communities through its 2019 Social Impact Pledge, which made commitments around homelessness, poverty, art and providing meeting spaces.
Read MoreCommunity organisations are often a vital source of support for people who find themselves in increasingly difficult circumstances. A great example is Burnbank Community Hub in South Lanarkshire, where volunteers have been providing essential support to people during the current cost-of-living crisis.
Read MoreScotland’s volunteering action plan aims to create a Scotland where everyone can volunteer, more often, and throughout their lives.
Read MoreForest and Land Scotland would like your input to a new Communities Strategy setting out the principles and strategic priorities for its work with communities.
Read MoreThe Scottish Parlimanet wants to hear from individuals and organisations from a wide range of communities across Scotland on how it can imporve its engagement.
Read MoreGlasgow Centre for Polulation Health (GCPH) and the University of Glasgow are coming together to run a small grants scheme for community-led sustainability projects.
Read MoreThe Scottish Parliament’s Finance and Public Administration Committee is looking for written views from organisations with experiences of using the National Outcomes in the NPF to shape their policy-making and decision-taking, as well as delivery at national and local level.
Read MoreThese events are focused on the public sector’s role on redeveloping vacant sites. Community organisations are of course a critical stakeholder, so it would be worth taking a look…
Read MoreWe are encouraging public bodies in Scotland to consider making, or renewing, Social Impact Pledges as part of wider efforts to change how we do things in public services.
Read MoreCommunity groups may be interested in attending this free question and answer session on The Investing in Communities Fund (ICF), which is anticipated to open for a second round of applications in spring next year.
Read MoreFollowing engagement with community planning partnership leads to find out the type of evaluation support that would be helpful, the Improvement Service and Public Health Scotland have arranged some information sessions on evaluating the effectiveness of community planning partnerships.
Read MoreCreative Lives is currently gathering evidence about the issues facing creative groups and venues now that in-person activity is starting to resume after the pandemic restrictions.
Read MoreCommunity groups and anyone else interested in development planning are being encouraged to respond to two separate consultations on a draft framework to inform day to day decision making in the planning system.
Read MoreAudit Scotland has published a new online report, highlighting examples and learning from the community-led response to Covid-19 so far. The report draws on a number of great examples of community groups and local partnerships between agencies and community groups.
Read MoreThis Spotlight article highlights how people across Scotland with mobility issues and/or living with other challenges, and particularly people in and around Clackmannanshire, are being encouraged to make use of Cycling Without Age Scotland’s pioneering accessible Trishaws. The article illustrates the benefits for participants and volunteers, as well as how a few passionate folk engaging with their wider community can lead to Scotland-wide, and international, connections.
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