SCDC Weekly

A new survey has set out how Scotland views the threat of climate change, and the impact it is having across society.

A new blog for CHEX explores the vital role community link workers (CLW) play as essential connectors between primary care, patients, and communities.

Our collection of reading, events and information published in each SCDC Weekly edition.

Last week SCDC attended the launch of the Suicide Prevention Scotland public awareness campaign, highlighting the lived and living experience of four ambassadors who shared their stories.

A new report highlights reflections from people with lived experience of living on a low income, and their involvement in anti-poverty participatory processes.

Our collection of reading, events and information published in each SCDC Weekly edition.

Volunteer Scotland have published a new report setting out the significant challenges facing volunteering across the country.

Earlier this year CHEX, the Community Health Exchange, held its national conference where attendees focused on turning knowledge and learning into action on the most pressing issues facing our communities.

Our collection of reading, events and information published in each SCDC Weekly edition.

We know that valuing people's lived and living experience is an essential part of how good decisions are made. But how do we recognise this contribution? What can we do to properly value people's time and build fairness, inclusivity and sustainability into how we work?

Following a recent series of national webinars and local community conversations, SCDC are running two further national online sessions, providing a chance for community members to share their views on what the Scottish Government can do to help maximise the impact of community benefits.

Whether you are working alone on a project or advocating within your organisation, the process of putting co-production into practice can often seem difficult, with many people not being sure where to start. 

A quarter of a million people, including 50,000 children, will be pushed into relative poverty by the UK government's benefits changes, according to the Department for Work and Pensions' own figures.

Local Place Plans are a type of spatial plan giving people an opportunity to develop proposals for the development and use of land in the place where they live. 

The Scottish Government has published the Community Wealth Building (Scotland) Bill, which it says is "designed to create jobs and drive economic growth across Scotland by promoting investment in communities."

The United Nations Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights has published its latest report on the progress governments across the UK are making to uphold human rights - and what needs to improve.

The SCDC team has said a fond farewell to David Allan, a longstanding member of our organisation and a key figure in community development, as he begins a well-deserved retirement.

This morning people from community-led health organisations from across the country are coming together for the CHEX Conference 2025.

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.

In a report to the United Nations, the Scottish Human Rights Commission has pressed the Scottish Government to deliver a new Human Rights Bill within the next Parliamentary session.

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.