We are a small charity recognised as the national lead body for community development in Scotland.
About us ➜We work with communities, practitioners and policy makers to build on their skills and ideas when working together in communities.
See our work ➜With a wealth of experience working with communities and across sectors, our commitment to communities is at the heart of who we are.
Learn more ➜Community development is a way of bringing people together to take action on what's important to them.
CHEX supports and promotes community development approaches to improving people's health.
PB Scotland acts as a hub for sharing and learning about the work being done by participatory budgeting initiatives around Scotland.
The Scottish Co-production Network is a way for people to share ideas and learning about co-production.
Health Issues in the Community (HIIC) is a training programme which looks at issues such as health, poverty, power and social justice in a different way.
VOiCE is planning and recording software that assists individuals, organisations and partnerships to design and deliver effective community engagement.
The LEAP framework is designed to support a partnership approach to achieving change and improvement in the quality of community life.
The Communities Channel Scotland is a website which puts communities in the spotlight by connecting people and sharing ideas.
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.
A new set of guidance documents for Community Councils have been published by the Improvement Service, Scottish Community Development Centre (SCDC), COSLA and the Scottish Government.
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
What you need to know, every Wednesday.
Bringing together the shared knowledge of our team, and SCDC’s position working across a range of sectors, the SCDC Weekly will stay concise, clear and give you the context you need to deliver your work.
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