SCDC

Scottish Community Action Research Fund - SCARF


The Scottish Community Action Research Fund gives community groups support to improve their skills and confidence to carry out their own research. The fund helps them to plan a project, collect information and understand it, use the information and learn from the experience.

SCARF is paid for by Communities Scotland, the Scottish Executive's housing and regeneration agency, and managed by SCDC.

SCARF provides funding for research by community organisations to help communities get actively involved in decisions that affect them and  improve their circumstances.  If you are from one of these organisation, the research can help you and your members to develop knowledge and understanding about your community, the research can help you to get things done.

By supporting these kinds of projects, SCARF will not only benefit communities but it will also meet the Scottish Executive's priorities for regenerating communities.

If you want to know more about this, read A Better Scotland for Everyone - Closing the Gap and People and Place, the 2006 Regeneration Policy Statement.

There will not be a SCARF funding round in February 2008. This is because there has been a very high level of successful SCARF applications since its launch in October 2006 and the money for grants is now fully committed. Communities Scotland are considering whether there should be more SCARF funding rounds later in 2008 and will make a decision in due course. We will keep you updated through this website.

Research being carried out at Doune Gala-Day