🆕✅You can now view our complete collection of Place and Wellbeing Outcome Briefings which explain the evidenced impact of the Outcomes on the Clydebank community, as well as Briefings for our other Project Towns, in our new webpage below! 💻📚 ➡️ bit.ly/3YEQKX9

🗓️ Save the date for this Community Renewal Lifting Neighbourhoods Together conference in January, exploring how to break the cycle of persistent neighbourhood poverty. Featuring lots of discussion, debate and high-profile guest speakers, it's not one to miss! Pre-book your place now: eventbrite.co.uk/e/community-re…

Our quick animation introduces the social, environmental, economic and other factors which influence health in a community, and how the Health Issues In the Community course can support people to make real changes to their health and wellbeing. 🥰 youtube.com/watch?v=Fn-zCj…

How do we embed community-led action research? Join us as we explore how this empowering approach can help real change happen in our communities - and how we can work together to make it happen. 🗓️Mon 23rd Sept, 1.30pm 📍Online on zoom scdc.org.uk/news/article/2…

In the Weekly this Wednesday 📰 🗓️ Embedding community-led action research - discussion event 📄 New research on health inequalities, welfare reform and economic change in Scotland Latest issue: mailchi.mp/scdc/the-weekl… Sign up: scdc.org.uk/weekly

There are still places for our discussion event on embedding community-led action research - book yours now! ⌛️ scdc.org.uk/news/article/2…

New from PB Scotland: this great example of participatory budgeting in the Outer Hebrides, where the Local Action Group have been using PB to get people involved in deciding how local development funding is used. 😃🗳️💷🗨 pbscotland.scot/blog/2024/8/22…

Top stories this week: 📈 Survey shows sector under pressure amid costs crisis 💡 Co-production Ideas Clinic on 12th September Latest issue: mailchi.mp/scdc/the-weekl… Sign up: scdc.org.uk/weekly

📢 We can use our human rights to fight the injustice of poverty. Sign up to the first of our #RightsinAction lunchtime learning events, to hear how! We'll be looking at how the people furthest from their rights can be involved in decision-making. eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-panel-pr…

The University of Strathclyde is leading a research programme on the effect of Scotland’s justice system on public health. The study aims to improve the health of disadvantaged communities & how health, crime, criminalisation & victimisation intersect. strath.ac.uk/whystrathclyde…

Thanks Youth Scotland for spreading the word about the newly revamped Health Issues In the Community course for young people! Come to the launch event and meet the CHEX team, HIIC tutors and participants - it'll be a fun and interesting afternoon 🥰 chex.org.uk/latest/article…

🌱 What do you think are the softer skills we need to listen to young people well? Take a look at this blog, and tell us what you think below! thelisteningfund.org/the-softer-ski… #youthwork

With members, we've created list of policy changes that our political leaders can make to #ChallengePoverty. We're publishing them now, in advance of this week's #ProgrammeforGovernment #PfG24, and they'll run through all of Challenge Poverty Week in October. povertyalliance.org/wp-content/upl…

'It is important that the public is involved in looking critically at policy... Asking the question “What does it feel like now that policy has been implemented and landed in the real world?” is so important.' Really interesting read 👇 blogs.gov.scot/participation/…

🧵 Consortium seeks evidence for upcoming UN report on economic, social, and cultural rights. In April 2023, the UN presented the UK Gov with a List of Issues as part of the ICESCR Review. Scottish civil society has until Jan 2025 to submit a report. Here's how you can help 👇

📢✨Register today !! ✨📢 #CDASConf24 is only 3 weeks away & we are very excited to be welcoming you all! There's still time to register if you can join us, we have an amazing line up including Ivan McKee MSP Neil McInroy The Robertson Trust and lot's more!! ⏬🔶⏬ mailchi.mp/83ed1dc924ab/c…

Community Development Alliance Scotland will be holding their annual conference in Stirling this year (25th Sept). If your work involves community development then the day’s programme will offer a range of thought provoking and stimulating topics. …munitydevelopmentalliancescotland.org/conference-2024

We know that involving communities in local decision-making is vital if we're to maintain collective wellbeing, support regeneration, and reduce inequalities. This is a core part of community development work, but how can it happen in practice? scdc.org.uk/news/article/2…

"With years of static funding, an inability to keep pace with public sector pay and constant inability to plan because of a lack of Fair Funding, it does feel like we’ve reached a crisis point." After Scottish Government's Programme for Government, @SCVOtweet chief executive Anna Fowlie 🕷

We know that heavy workloads & time pressures make it difficult to find and access quality information to help inform your practice. This new hub from CHEX is a one-stop shop full of useful materials on community-led health and health inequalities 💡📚 chex.org.uk/community-led-…