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Energy acceleration in rural Scotland
Last week, representatives of community councils from across Scotland travelled to Holyrood for a roundtable ...
Reclaiming the narrative: building community wealth with community media
By Lucas Batt, in partnership with The Scottish Community Alliance The door to the shop ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The roof over Lochaber: Community Wealth Building in Fort William
It rains in Fort William. It rains a lot. Sitting in the shadow of Ben ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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