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.
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Community development
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Community development is a process where people come together to take action on what's important to them. We’ve provided a list of specific community development resources and support.
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 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 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 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 MoreMaking Rights Real
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Making Rights Real is a grassroots human rights organisation that supports communities to name and claim their rights.
Read MoreParticipation Request Toolbox
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Developed by the Innovation School at Glasgow School of Art, toolbox uses participatory design methods to help community groups think about and use participation requests to influence public services.
Read MoreChallenge Poverty Week
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Launched by the Poverty Allliance in 2013, Challenge Poverty Week is an opportunity for us to raise our voices against poverty and unite with others in calling for a just and equal Scotland.
Read MoreScottish Rural Exchange
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The Rural Exchange provides information for, and gathers the views of, people living and working across Scotland’s rural and island communities with the aim of increasing their voice in both research and policy-making.
Read MoreEcovillage Design Cards
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These 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 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 MoreLove Clean Streets
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Love Clean Streets makes it easy to submit environmental issues automatically to your local authority
Read MoreThe Community Empowerment (Scotland) Act 2015
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People across Scotland can make use of The Community Empowerment (Scotland) Act to have more say and control over what happens in their communities. This quick summary should help you to get started on finding out how your community group can use the Act.
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.
Read MoreScottish Government policies page
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The Scottish Government website has a searchable database of all its policies, with links taking you to the appropriate landing page for the policy you are interested in.
Read MoreKnowledge is Power
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Knowledge 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 MoreWhat is community capacity building
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Community capacity building means supporting communities to achieve the changes they want to see. This animated video from Scottish Community Development Centre explains how this is done and why it is needed.
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