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.

Earlier this month, a group of organisations working to support community-led action research came together at The Gathering to explore the value of this approach, the benefits it can bring and how it can achieve social impact and systemic change. 

The authors of a new book that explores the impact of austerity in Britain have written a guest blog for CHEX outlining the disastrous effects these policies have had on life expectancy in the UK.  

A new blog from Tax Justice UK explores what changes could be made to ensure the UK's vastly unequal tax system sees more tax paid by the wealthiest in our society. 

An important part of renewable energy projects are community benefits schemes, which are additional funds that developers make available to communities, enabling them to share in the benefits of the project will bring.

A new report written by a group of Edinburgh residents has highlighted the extent of issues with their homes, and the impact the issues have had on their human rights.

The Joseph Rowntree Foundation has published a new report showing that more than 14 million people in the UK (1 in 5) were living in the poverty during 2022/23.

A new report provides a snapshot of participatory budgeting (PB) activity in Scotland, underlining both the challenges and opportunities that remain.

With the aftermath of last week's recording-breaking storm still being felt by many, it's worth exploring the role that community organisations play in supporting local responses to emergencies.

Our introductory open course will help develop your understanding of the principles, practice and policy connections of community development in Scotland today.

This resource from Third Sector Human Rights & Equalities explores the connection between human rights and climate change, and how organisations can work to address the unjust imbalances we see across our society.

Disclosure Scotland has published a report summarising responses to proposals on future fees, including changes to PVG checks that could see community organisations having to meet additional costs.

A recent workshop held during Co-production Week Scotland explored how HLS can support co-production practice.

Participatory budgeting work in Scotland has shown how green PB can help communities take direct decisions on how budgets are spent addressing climate change.

In a time of stretched budgets and difficult decisions, it’s more vital than ever that we understand community priorities. That’s when community engagement comes into play.

Keeping up to date with what community-led health organisations and practitioners are doing to improve people’s health and wellbeing is an important part of the job for the CHEX team – the Community Health Exchange.  

We’re always looking to improve and understand your priorities, so we’re asking you to let us know your feedback on The Weekly in our (very!) short survey.

The new Capital Investment Health Impact Assessment (CHIA) is an online toolkit to help capital investment teams consider how capital projects impact the health and wellbeing of local communities.

Organisations from across the sector have responded to last week's Scottish Government budget announcements. 

The 10th December is International Human Rights Day, a day celebrated annually to mark the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in the aftermath of World War II. A range of groups and individuals come together to march on the Scottish Parliament Building, demanding the Scottish Government bring forward a Human Rights Bill for Scotland.