We believe local people must be actively involved in determining their future. We help communities and their partners to involve people, plan effectively and organise themselves to make things happen. We help to plan and deliver exciting workshops, seminars and conferences.
We help local communities to rise to the challenges of the 21st century. We help them to become more self sufficient and to look at how they move about; how they provide energy and food; how they provide workspaces for people who can fix things; how they entertain and look after each other. In other words, how they can build a resilient community.
We work with local communities and their partners to create Development Trusts and Social Enterprises to make things happen. We help people to think through the most appropriate way to organise themselves for the work ahead.
We specialise in innovative ways to fund community led developments and help local organisations to take an enterprising approach to their work. Establishing local foundations, securing loan funding, developing local share issues are all tools available to ambitious communities.
We passionately believe in developing and sharing ideas that work well and highlighting the pitfalls to avoid. We research, write and publish good practice guides and toolkits. We devise and deliver training courses for those involved in the areas of our work.
We help communities to understand and use the community right to buy legislation in the Land Reform (Scotland) Act 2003. We have the skills, understanding and legal associates to assist communities at every stage of this legislation.
We help our clients to run well organised, exciting and productive events. We have the skills and experience to run large scale community meetings, conferences, seminars and strategic management discussions. We can help you plan and structure your event, Identify speakers, facilitate the event and record the discussions. We will help you to follow up on the discussions and ensure that your event meets your expectations. We specialise in providing imaginative, visual minutes to capture the essence of your sessions.