Building Stronger Community Organisations

Building Stronger Community Organisations

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.

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Community Health Exchange (CHEX)

Community Health Exchange (CHEX)

CHEX promotes and supports community-led health, a way for people in a community to take joint action to improve things for their community, leading to improved health and wellbeing and helping to address health inequalities. Most community-led activity fits this description, and CHEX welcomes any interested community groups to join its network and take advantage of resources, support and other opportunities on offer. CHEX also provides a searchable database of community-led health organisations.

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Supporting Communities

Supporting Communities

Supporting Communities is a programme of support for community organisations and their local partners. The programme is intended to enable community organisations (at all levels and stages) to improve their effectiveness and influence over the community needs and priorities that they are involved in tackling.

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Building Stronger Communities

Community capacity building is about supporting people to develop their skills, abilities and confidence to take effective action together in and for their community. Building Stronger Communities helps organisations and community groups to work together to build community capacity.

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Community learning and development plans

Community learning and development plans

The Community Learning and Development (Scotland) Regulations require local authorities and their partners to develop three year CLD Plans for their area. They should identify learning and support priorities within the community and how these will be achieved. Local plans must be based on consultation with communities and community organisations.

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