Community Development

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• Community Asset Transfer

  Community Asset Transfer

  Community Asset Transfer (CAT) involves the transfer of the responsibility for an asset from the Council to a community group or voluntary organisation. This can be done through either a transfer of management responsibility, short or long term lease, or through the transfer of outright ownership.

  Click here for more info

• People Make Glasgow Communities

  People Make Glasgow Communities

  People Make Glasgow Communities is a programme, through which, help and support can be accessed by more people and organisations to support their ambitions to deliver services in their communities.

  Click here to find out more

• Community Planning Partnership

  Community Planning Partnership

  The Glasgow Community Planning Partnership brings key public, private, community and voluntary representatives together with the aim of delivering better, more joined-up public services in the city.

  More information here. 

• Volunteering

  Volunteering

  It’s estimated that 109,500 people (The Scottish Household Survey 2017) volunteer in Glasgow through a wide range of diverse opportunities in public and third sector organisations. From large one off events like to European Championship 2018 to weekly ESOL tutoring.

  Glasgow’s Volunteering Charter was developed to demonstrate organisations commitment to providing high quality volunteering opportunities in the city. As a Charter signatory, your organisation will commit to:

  • Create and expand appropriate opportunities for volunteering within your organisation

         and/or:

  • Ensure your opportunities are accessible to all sections of the community, and that your volunteering workforce reflects the demographics of the city

         and/or

  • Facilitate and enable your staff, members and/or service users to undertake volunteering activity which improves their wellbeing and benefits Glasgow.

  For more information about the charter and support for volunteer engaging organisations visit Volunteer Glasgow.

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

• Community Grants and Funding

  Community Grants and Funding

  Identifying and attaining funding is a huge part of the work required to support Community Development. Click on the links below for more information about grants and funding in Glasgow and services that can support organisations.

  GCVS Funding

  First Port 

  Glasgow Communities Fund
  
  Glasgow First Funding Stop

  Glasgow Life

• Resilient Communities

  Resilient Communities

  CLD is instrumental in improving opportunities for people to connect and contribute to their local area.
  There is a large and diverse network of services and structures to across Glasgow to support citizens and Communities to make the best use of their local skills and experiences to make their communities thrive.
  From support to develop new groups and strengthen existing ones, to shaping services and increasing the quality and number of volunteer opportunities.

• Partners & Useful Links

  Useful Links

  Scottish Community Development Centre

  CLD Standards Council

  Volunteer Glasgow

  Glasgow Council for Voluntary Sector (GCVS)

  Glasgow Social Enterprise Network (GSEN)

  Scottish Volunteer Forum

  Association of Volunteer Managers

  Community Justice Scotland

  Glasgow Health and Social Care Partnership

  Community Asset Transfer

  Workers’ Educational Association

  Scottish Council Voluntary Organisations

  Community Enterprise Scotland

  Senscot Legal

  Pilot Light

  Volunteer Scotland - Disclosure Services

  Volunteer Scotland – Managing Volunteers Resources

  Glasgow Housing Association

  Volunteer Scotland

  Jobs and Business Glasgow

  Skills Development Scotland

  DWP