Innovation
The Co-op Foundation is offering funding of between £75,000 - £100,000 to support work in the food and farming sector which reduces the emissions of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere.
They’re looking for innovative projects, movements, or inventions which not only deliver an environmental good, but contribute to real systems change, and can demonstrate a positive impact for people and communities too.
- Read more about Carbon Innovation Fund
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Scottish Futures Trust has published their new ‘Place Guide’
Living well locally is a key ambition of the Programme for Government. Building the conditions to live well locally is about taking a place-based approach to needs, services and investment opportunities.
- Read more about Place guide: A process for improved place-based decision making
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Scotland The Bread - an innovative social business working to grow better grain and bake better bread with the common purposes of nourishment, sustainability and food sovereignty - has launched a Crowdfunder to support its unique community engagement work.
- Read more about Rise up to funding challenge
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A new digital brochure celebrates the benefits and work of award-winning social and community enterprises on Uist.
- Read more about Showcasing Uist's social enterprises
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The two-day Scottish Agritourism Conference was a hugely inspirational, educational and enjoyable event.
- Read more about Scottish Agritourism Conference - event report & strategy launch
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A new digital ‘ecomuseum’ is going to be created, covering the communities of Moffat, Tweedsmuir, Ettrick and Yarrow and the connecting valleys.
- Read more about New museum for the Central Southern Uplands
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Are you part of an ambitious social enterprise or community organisation keen to grow to achieve social impact at scale? Could you benefit from intensive business and investment readiness support?
Firstport's LaunchMe is Scotland’s social enterprise accelerator. The programme selects a cohort of up to eight ambitious organisations each year to prepare them for growth and help them secure investment.
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Graduates and consultant sought to explore young people’s participation in funding decisions.
The Outer Hebrides, Orkney and Shetland LEADER Local Action Groups (LAGs) have been awarded funding through the Scottish Governments ‘Rural Communities Testing Change’ fund to jointly explore the development of Youth Local Action Groups and their potential as a sustainable model that can be replicated in other Scottish LAG areas.
- Read more about Islands project posts available
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The next steps in reforming the agriculture sector in Scotland
Supporting farmers and crofters to cut emissions and produce sustainable, high quality food have been set out by Rural Affairs Secretary Mairi Gougeon.
- Read more about Delivering a new future for rural Scotland
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