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Highlands and Islands Community Climate Action Fund
The Climate Hub offers small grants to community groups for community engagement or seed funding for a community climate action project. The Fund is available to existing and emerging community groups who are members of the Highlands and Islands Climate Hub. They will prioritise projects which: - Aim to create long-term change.- Build the skills and capacity of groups or organisations and communities. - Support and encourage collaborative working across groups or organisations, communities and areas.- Encourage sustainability through reusing, recycling and upcycling goods and products. - Encourage climate action and a just transition- Mitigate climate change, reduce greenhouse gas emissions and reduce environmental impact- Help communities adapt to and build resilience to climate change- Protect or enhance local biodiversity through conservation and promotion
https://funding.scot/funds/a0R3z00000PBFKOEA5/highlands-and-islands-community-climate-action-fund
Creative Scotland - Adapted Cultural & Creative Buildings Fund
Funded by The National Lottery through Creative Scotland, the programme, to be managed by public sector infrastructure body, the Scottish Futures Trust, will provide grants of up to £80,000 per project that address identified climate-related risks. The aim is to award funding to 8-10 projects and ensure cultural and creative assets across Scotland remain usable, resilient and fit for purpose as climate conditions continue to change.The demonstration fund is designed to support pathfinder projects where practical interventions can be completed at pace, while generating valuable learning to inform future investment decisions across Scotland’s cultural and creative estate.With a strong emphasis on experience and insight, the programme will prioritise projects that are capable of being delivered quickly, and able to demonstrate clear, transferable lessons.Grant funding will support the delivery of projects to be completed within the 2026 - 2027 financial year.
The Tree Council - Network Rail Community Tree Planting Fund
The Tree Council and Network Rail are once again working in partnership to support a new season of community tree planting. They invite applications for funding to support impactful community tree planting projects.Priorities are :- Clear community benefit and involvement, such as volunteering, education, or wellbeing initiatives - Improvements in biodiversity at the planting site - Clear understanding of site suitability for tree planting, based on site-specific considerations - Thoughtful tree selection following “right tree, right place” principles, supported by a detailed planting plan- Use of UK-sourced and grown trees, preferably native species from local or community nurseries and/or those that are Plant Healthy certified - Comprehensive establishment and aftercare plan, including a commitment to maintain the trees and site for a minimum of three years - Willingness to provide content for external communications purposes - Commitment to participate in monitoring and evaluation activities post plantingAll projects to be completed by 1 March 2027.
The Opportunities and Challenges of the Changing Public Services Landscape for the Third Sector in Scotland: a Longitudinal Study - Year One Report: Baseline Findings
This work was commissioned by the Scottish Government and using qualitative case studies and focus groups,The Scottish Government has acknowledged that the third sector has a key role to play in delivering public
Ready for Retirement? Pensions and Bangladeshi Self-employment
This report explores these issues in detail and in the context of government reforms to pensions.,It recommends ways in which the government and other institutions can improve pension outcomes for black
Systematic Reviews and Policy Transfer for Scotland
There has been limited use of systematic reviews to inform policy in the Scottish Government to date.,in the first two terms of devolved government over 150 separate evaluations were commissioned to inform
Scottish Social Attitudes Survey 2009: Public Attitudes to Drugs and Drug Use in Scotland
The questions were funded by the Scottish Government?,included new questions about drug misuse and drug policy in Scotland, in light of the Scottish Government
Research Summary: Public views on the enabling state
Carnegie believe the results demonstrate that there is an appetite for more enabling forms of government,To find out how governments can do this successfully see also Route Map to an Enabling State.
Inquiry into the Scottish Government’s Public Service Reform programme - SCVO response
1 May 2023
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submit evidence to the Finance and Public Administration Committee's inquiry into the Scottish Government’s,The Scottish Government’s commitment to public service reform can only be effective with the voluntary,in terms of delays in decision-making, inconsistency across government, and poor communication.,SCVO supports the Scottish Government's ambition to become a Fair Work nation.,fund and how the government communicated those decisions, follows other letters sent in 2022.
Disabled People, Unpaid Carers and the Cost of Living Crisis: Impacts, Responses and Long Term Solutions
recommendations the report makes are: Emergency cost of living payments should be a priority for the Scottish Government,The UK Government should uprate reserved social security payments in line with inflation.,Both Governments take actions to address the root causes of the crisis by investing in renewable energy