Resources

An online platform for towns' practitioners and communities to help us better understand the function of the towns that we live and work in. Provides an opportunity to compare and contrast towns across Scotland. Give information on demographics, deprivation, employment, access to health facilities, education, retail and travel.

This publication provides an overview of how nature can help address a range of socio-economic outcomes including inclusive economic growth, climate change, health, community building and empowering young people.

A toolkit to aid people and organisations make their town centre more attractive, active, and accessible. It should be used as a source of inspiration rather than a set of recommendations.

A practical guide to changing (London's) public spaces providing illustrative projects and accessible tools that demonstrate how innovative ways of co-producing public spaces can help to bring about social, as well as economic and environmental, benefit.

A video exploring how the Scottish Government’s Making Places fund and Shetland Islands Council, the Scalloway (Shetland) local community council took upon themselves to lead on a process where the community would be the priority for a new local place plan.

This book presents 25 case studies of this civic economy – rooted in age-old traditions of the associational economy but using new organising tactics, ways of connecting with people and approaches to collaborative investment.

A series of modules produced to support the sustainable transfer of publicly-held assets into community ownership and provides advice and guidance on making an application for asset transfer helping to ensure it is robust.