Resources
Community Wealth
Community Land Scotland offers guidance, resources and case studies on the role of land reform and community ownership in community wealth building.
Creative Scotland’s Community Wealth Building Toolkit provides information and resources especially to support creative communities.
EDAS Centre for Excellence provides a national hub for information, learning, collaboration, and practical support on community wealth building.
Improvement Service’s Community Wealth Building Project supports local authorities in implementing CWB initiatives.
Young people
Young Placechangers Toolkit is a fun toolkit enabling young people to learn new skills about how to evaluate places, map their community and influence local decision making. It includes examples of icebreakers, place activities, further reading and information.
This Must Be Our Place Toolkit contains simple engaging activities for young people to explore and take ownership of places through creative investigations, interventions and actions.
The Place Standard Tool: A version for young people provides a framework to help young people evaluate and improve their local environments.
Inclusive places
The Place Standard Tool Inclusive Communication Toolkit is a guide with practical tools to help you include more people in your Place Standard activity.
Alzheimer Scotland: support for setting up dementia friendly communities from their experience across Scotland.
Architecture and Design Scotland: their 2019 report A Caring Place explores what might be the essentials for re-creating town centres as caring places – especially with a focus on ageing and the provision of care, to respond and support the Scottish Government’s work around encouraging town centre living.
Life Changes Trust: online Dementia Friendly Communities Toolkit.
Living Streets Scotland: support for communities to make their streets better for walking, including a Guide to Getting Better Streets and Pavements which focuses particularly on the needs of older people and support for disabled people (see Perth and Kinross example in the Inclusive Thinking section above).
Mobility and Access Committee for Scotland (MACS): guidance on promoting accessibility through active travel measures, both for pedestrians and cyclists with disabilities.
RNIB Scotland: advice on keeping pavements and streets clear for visually-impaired people on its accessible streets for everyone page.
Visit Scotland: Accessibility Guides – guidance on how to prepare accessibility guides for disabled visitors.
Visit Scotland: Inclusive Tourism Toolkit – advice and support to benefit the widest range of customers possible.