What you need to know this week.
The SCDC Weekly gives you everything you need to know around community development and beyond.
Every Wednesday we bring together the shared knowledge of our team and give you the context you need to deliver your work.
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Previous stories from the Weekly
New research has brought together evidence showing how sex and gender contribute to unequal health outcomes and experiences across Scotland.
In a new article for CHEX, Chair of Public Health Scotland, Ally Boyle MBE, shares his views on the importance of context, connection, and culture for good governance, and why these principles are crucial if we’re to support community-led approaches.
Our collection of reading, events and information published in each SCDC Weekly edition.
Our collection of reading, events and information published in each SCDC Weekly edition.
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.
Our collection of reading, events and information published in each SCDC Weekly edition.
Join SCDC and Scotland’s Open Government Team at this event to explore Scotland’s approach to its fourth Open Government Action Plan.
A new report has set out how Scottish Gypsy / Travellers continue to face racial discrimination and unequal access across housing, health, and education.
Our collection of reading, events and information published in each SCDC Weekly edition.
Newly published evidence shows the clear impact that community-led health organisations have on the health and wellbeing of their communities.
Our collection of reading, events and information published in each SCDC Weekly edition.
Join SCDC and Scotland’s Open Government Team at this event to explore Scotland’s approach to its fourth Open Government Action Plan.
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.
Our collection of reading, events and information published in each SCDC Weekly edition.
A new campaign is seeking to address community cohesion and understand why we feel so divided, and how we can make a difference.
A recent learning exchange has brought people together from Northern Ireland and Scotland to strengthen practice around community development and health.
Our collection of reading, events and information published in each SCDC Weekly edition.
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.
Our collection of reading, events and information published in each SCDC Weekly edition.
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.
Our collection of reading, events and information published in each SCDC Weekly edition.
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.
Many from across Scotland’s community sector will have been saddened recently to learn of the sudden death of former civil servant Alasdair McKinlay.
Our collection of reading, events and information published in each SCDC Weekly edition.
Our training offer is specifically designed to support public bodies and partnerships to understand broad policy trends and objectives, giving staff time to gain new knowledge and skills and confidently apply them in their work.
Today marks 50 days until the Scottish Parliament election takes place on Thursday 7 May 2026.
Our collection of reading, events and information published in each SCDC Weekly edition.