Community development

CDAS has a key role in bringing its members together to help support and promote community development as an approach in Scotland.

Why Community Development? Our Collective Impact.

A RESOURCE TO SUPPORT ANYONE WORKING WITH AND FOR COMMUNITIES

We are delighted to present to you this updated version with a continued focus on practical information for people on how community development happens and also a resource for those who are interested in increasing their understanding of why community development has such a transformative impact when done well.

We hope you will find it a useful resource to use with communities, groups, policy makers and students alike. We re have worked with several of our members and listened to them to shape, develop, and produce this new publication.

Download the publication here.

You can view and download the extracted case studies for the organisations featured in the resource here:

• Healthy n Happy Community Development Trust

• Circle

• Scottish Refugee Council

• Tiree Community Development Trust

• Ukrainian Community Hub Refugee Project

• Crossroads Youth Community Association

• The Spartans Community Foundation

• SURF (Scotland’s Regeneration Forum)

• Making Rights Real

• Maryhill Integration Network (MIN)

• Renfrewshire CLD International Women’s Day 2023

• NESCAN North East Scotland Climate Action Network

Would you like the work of your organisation to feature as a case study on our website? Download our case study template.

Planning on using this resource to support your work with communities? Let us know by getting in touch.

Other resources

If we consider critical analysis, it is clear that Scotland has frameworks, performance management systems, co-production models, national standards and mechanisms in place to support effective delivery of a broad range of services which influence policy and affect change. Not sure where to look?

• View information about the 2023 Democracy Matters consultation HERE

• Download the previous version of ‘Why Community Development?’ HERE

• Evidencing the Impact of your organisation HERE

• What is Community Development? HERE

• A Code of Ethics for CLD HERE

• National Standards for Community Engagement HERE

• CD National Occupational Standards HERE

• Principles for Community Empowerment HERE

• Strategic Guidance for Community Planning: CLD HERE

• Effective Models of Co-Production HERE

• Effective Performance Management Frameworks HERE

• Evaluation support HERE

• Citizens' Assembly for Scotland HERE

• Scotland's Climate Assembly HERE New Report just out! HERE

• Participatory Budgeting in Scotland HERE

• Participation Request Resource pack HERE

• The Place Standard HERE

• Participation Framework HERE

• Community Wealth Building resource from Scottish Government HERE

• Competent Practitioner Framework HERE

• Values of CLD HERE