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The Power Shift LIVE: launch of new magazine and environmental journalism network

The Power Shift Live is a one day event happening in Glasgow on 10 April, ...

By Mike Small

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Rhiannon Davies and Samar Jamal present 'Why Community Media Matters' in a workshop in the Scottish Parliamentary event

Community media sector highlights need for greater support at Holyrood event

Community media organisations from across Scotland have highlighted the need for stronger support for independent ...

By Rhiannon J Davies, The Scottish Beacon

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Greater Govanhill founder Rhiannon Davies outside The Community Newsroom

Reclaiming the narrative: building community wealth with community media

By Lucas Batt, in partnership with The Scottish Community Alliance The door to the shop ...

By Lucas Batt

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Invest in, don’t reinvent, Scotland’s community wealth building movement

At the end of last year the Scottish Parliament took a historic step by agreeing ...

By Jill Keegan, Partnerships Manager, Scottish Community Alliance

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MacMillan Community Hub. Courtesy of North Edinburgh Arts.

The art of ownership: how North Edinburgh Arts is building community wealth

Edinburgh is known as a global capital of culture. But three miles north of the ...

By Charlie Ellis Edited by Lucas Batt, Greater Community Media

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Tilley, the community owned wind turbine on Tiree

The Power Shift: Lessons from communities already making renewables work for them

Co-published with The Herald On the windswept island of Tiree, a four-hour ferry ride from ...

By Rhiannon J Davies, The Scottish Beacon

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Reflections on a ‘Ceilidh Theatre’ experiment exploring the renewable energy question

This week saw the Spring Collective present ‘a collision of presentations’, song, poetry, provocations and ...

By Mike Small

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Sharon Hill, MAEDT

Growing community wealth with food and love in Midlothian

Sharon Hill is one of those people who just makes things happen. It’s no coincidence ...

By Lucas Batt & Rhiannon Davies, Greater Community Media

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Glenfarg Community Bus

How Glenfarg rebuilt its bus service – and its future

“You’re regularly told that ‘this bus has changed my life’.” Drew Smart is one of ...

By Lucas Batt & Rhiannon Davies, Greater Community Media

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Tiree: Powering Community Wealth Building with renewable energy

Approaching the wind-buffeted island of Tiree after a four-hour ferry journey, visitors and residents alike ...

By By Lucas Batt & Rhiannon Davies, Greater Community Media

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MAEDT community garden and pantry

Community Wealth Building isn’t new – Scotland’s communities have been doing it for years

Across Scotland, people are quietly transforming their local economies. They’re running bus services, opening community ...

By Jill Keegan, Scottish Community Alliance

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