In an environment of reduced funding and increased demand, many organisations are rightly focused on supporting their communities - but can find it difficult to find the time and space to think about how best to run the organisation itself.
Policymakers, funders, and research institutions must better recognise, resource, and support the knowledge already held within communities, a new report has urged.
A new report has set out how Scottish Gypsy / Travellers continue to face racial discrimination and unequal access across housing, health, and education.
The Scottish Government has published its Democracy Matters Route Map, setting out the current progress and next steps around what new community governance arrangements could look like.
A recent learning exchange has brought people together from Northern Ireland and Scotland to strengthen practice around community development and health.
How can community groups best achieve their aims? How do they meet community needs? Where to begin? These are some of the questions that the Building Stronger Community Organisations resource helps to answer.
What Matters to You (WM2U) is working in Dundee and Clackmannanshire to explore how lived experience and community priorities can be used to tackle Scotland’s child poverty crisis.
A new video explores the role public diners could play in reducing health inequalities and bringing communities together over nutritious and affordable meals.
The Scottish Government has published its Democracy Matters Route Map, setting out the current progress and next steps around what new community governance arrangements could look like.
How can participatory budgeting and grant making support community empowerment? This course from Fife College explores that question, and ways to improve your practice and experiences for others in the future.
This online roundtable event will bring together colleagues from across the UK to explore how we can continue to build the momentum for community-led action research
In this blog, David Allan, Deputy Director of SCDC, shares his thoughts around the progress of community-led action research – and what could be next for this approach in Scotland.
SCDC will be contributing a response to the Effective community engagement in local development planning guidance consultation and would like to hear from any community organisations or others in our network who would like to help shape our response
A new research project is interested in what the public think about different income-based policies that impact on health. For this, they are looking for people to take part in interviews, focus groups and a public panel to help deisgnm the research. People will be given a finacial incentive for their time.
Participation requests were designed to improve community input to how services are run. Six years on the way they are being used is under review to make them more useful. Don’t miss your chance to shape how they might work in future.
SCDC recently submitted a response to the Scottish Government’s consultation on land reform, ‘Land reform in a net-zero Scotland’. Here’s a brief summary of what we said.
SCDC has recently submitted a response to the Scottish Government’s consultation on the fourth National Planning Framework (NPF4), which sets out how places and environments will be planned and designed in the years to come. Here are some key points from our response.
Over the past decade and more, we have worked hard to establish ourselves as an authority on community development theory and practice - we are now looking for a new Director to help lead SCDC into its next decade of development.
This event will explore the appeals process for Participation Requests, which were introduced as part of the Community Empowerment (Scotland) Act 2015.
We’re going to submit a reponse to the Scottish Government’s consultation on its fourth National Planning Framework (NPF4), and we’re inviting anyone interested in helping shape it to get in touch.