Webinar: Community benefits from renewable energy developments

Join SCDC for an information webinar on community benefits from renewable energy developments.

Community benefits are additional benefits that renewable energy developers provide to communities to enable them to share in the benefits of renewable energy projects. Community benefits schemes are well established and saw over £30 million offered by renewables developers in community benefits in the last 12 months.

The Scottish Government’s Good Practice Principles for onshore and offshore renewable developments support communities and developers to get the best from community benefits.

With more and more renewable projects being developed in Scotland, the Scottish Government is now reviewing and updating its Good Practice Principles to ensure community benefits deliver sustainable and meaningful impacts. To support this, the Scottish Government launched a public consultation in December 2024 which will run until 11 April 2025.

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On behalf of the Scottish Government, and in tandem with the formal online consultation, the Scottish Community Development Centre (SCDC) is carrying out a series of community conversations to inform this review.  The aim of these conversations is to hear the views of individuals and communities around Scotland on what the Scottish Government can do to help maximise the impact of community benefits. 

Ahead of these conversations, SCDC is running two online webinars to provide an opportunity to find out more and ask questions about the review process, including what to expect from the community conversations and how you can get involved.

We will be running two online webinars:

• Wednesday 19th February 2025, 6pm - 7:30pm, online

• Thursday 20th February 2025, 1pm - 2pm, online

You can read the current Good Practice Principles for Onshore Renewables and Good Practice Principles for Offshore Renewables on the Scottish Government website.

If you have any questions about the webinars or have any difficulties registering, you can contact SCDC by emailing laura@scdc.org.uk or by calling 0141 248 1924.

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Creating Hope Together - sign up for co-inquiry/shared learning event on 27th March

Date and time

10.00am to 3.30pm, Thursday 27th March 2025

Venue

Clarice Pears/ Byers Community Hub, University of Glasgow  https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/healthwellbeing/byrescommunityhub/

Directions to get there - https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/healthwellbeing/byrescommunityhub/contact/

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Please complete the form below to sign up for this in-person session.

Creating Hope Together - please give your avaiability for online training on analysis

A practical learning session on data analysis in action. In this 2.5-hour online session, we will look at a variety of methods to support you to analyse and make the most of your data. 

We will give you hints, tips and tools for qualitative and quantitative data analysis, from very simple manual data analysis, to using online tools and excel spreadsheets (don't worry, we will make it interesting!) 

By the end of the session, you should have a clearer idea on the analysis tools that will work for you, and an understanding of how to use them.

As a follow up to the session, 2 weeks after it, we will be offering a drop-in clinic where you can come for any additional support - or those questions that arise when you start to use the techniques in practice.

Session 1 - sign up

Please use the form below to indicate your availability on the following dates for the first analysis training session. We’ll confirm the final date in early January.

Session 2

Please use the form below to indicate your availability on the following dates for the 2nd drop in session.