Easyfundraising is a way to raise money for good causes simply by shopping online. You can register your community group for free, and ask community members to support you whenever they shop on-line.
Read MoreCo-op Local Community Fund →
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The Co-op Local Community Fund supports projects that make a difference to local communities near to Co-op stores and funeral homes.
Read MoreScottish Community Alliance
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Scottish Community Alliance (SCA) is a coalition of community based, national networks and intermediaries – each one representing a different aspect of Scotland’s diverse community sector. SCA manages the Community Learning Exhange, which provides funding for community organisations to visit other groups in order to learn from each other and share ideas and approaches.
Read MoreAccelerate
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Accelerate offers business support for community based organisations who have little or no trading experience but wish to expand this aspect of their operation.
Read MoreThe Woodland Trust
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The Woodland Trust website contains various resources that can help your community group to promote enjoyment and use of woodland.
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Just Enterprise
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Just Enterprise is a programme designed to help sustain, develop and grow social enterprises and enterprising charities in Scotland.
Read MoreEnergising Community Halls→
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This guide to community energy can help your community building save money and look at what renewables might be suitable for your site.
Read MoreCommunity Shares Scotland→
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Community shares enable you to raise money for a social enterprise through selling 'withdrawable shares' to the wider community.
Read MoreSupporting Communities
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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.
Read MoreDevelopment Impact and You (DIY) toolkit
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Nesta's Development Impact and You (DIY) toolkit contains a selection of innovation tools that should help you invent, adopt or adapt ideas that can deliver better results. Visit the toolkit website for tools to help you plan, prioritise and problem solve amongst other things.
Read MoreCommunity Food and Health Scotland
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Community Food & Health Scotland (CFHS) is part of Public Health Scotland and supports community projects related to food and health. Their advice and resources page will be relevant to many community groups. It includes information on planning & management, funding, working with volunteers, networking and evaluation.
Read MoreACE - Guide to achieving community empowerment
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The Achieving Community Empowerment process is intended to help community groups and organisations become more confident, better organised and more effective in achieving their aims. The ACE Guide has been put together to help community groups, and those who work with them, through the process.
Read MoreCommunity Toolbox
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An online resource from the United States containing freely available tools on a variety of tools offering step-by-step guidance in, amongst other things, community-building skills.
Read MoreBuilding 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.
Read MoreCreative Lives
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Creative Lives’ website contains advice for creative groups, research and case studies and opportunities for funding and to get involved. There’s some useful information on getting started as a creative group, as well as a Creativity Map to place your activity on alongside other creative groups in Scotland and the wider British Isles
Read MoreMutual Aid UK
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The term ‘Mutual Aid’ became prominent in 2020 during the Covid-19 pandemic when many new and exisiting local groups organised emergency support for vulnerable people in their communities, with many choosing to badge themselves as Mutual Aid groups. The Mutual Aid UK website enables you to find local Mutual Aid groups and also offers guidance around responding locally to Covid-19.
Read MoreOffice of the Scottish Charity Regulator (OSCR)
/OSCR is the independent regulator and registrar for Scotland’s charities, including community groups with a charitable status. It offers advice and support around becoming a charity.
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Just Act
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Created by the no-longer-existing English-based Community Development Foundation (CDF), Just Act is a website for community groups which contains a wealth of information, ranging from guides to planning your project to how to work with people of different ages. The website is more than 5 years old now but should still contain relevant resources.
Read MoreEqually Ours
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Equally Ours (previously the Equality and Diversity Forum) is a UK charity that brings together people and organisations working across equality, human rights and social justice to make a reality of these in everyone’s lives.
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