Community Development Alliance Scotland: Annual Conference

Beyond Recovery to Renewal

Only one week to go to register for our Annual National Conference and what a line up we have for you! 

Community Development: Beyond Recovery to Renewal is an ambitious, bold title for our conference and we have such an amazing array of community activists, leaders, membership organisations and senior policy makers that we believe we can all share and learn with each other in order to collectively create stronger, fairer, wealthier, greener and smarter communities. 

Annual National Conference, 29th September 2021 (virtually)

Our conference programme features keynote speakers and workshops led by a number of our membership organisations, as well as raising awareness of funding and other opportunities which may interest you/your teams and networks.

With a strong coalition of 126 national organisations and over 1200 subscribers & twitter followers, CDAS continues to build and coordinate our networks, share and learn good practice, influence policy and raise awareness of our collaborative working, collective action and impact in order to create a more socially just and equal society. 

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Democracy Matters: sign up for discussion event

Working together, Community Development Alliance Scotland, The Scottish Community Development Centre and the Poverty Alliance invite you to discuss the next phase of the Local Governance Review and  share your ideas about how local democracy could change.

Join us for the morning, chat to us over lunch and learn how you can help others have their voice and make a difference.

  • The Studio, 67 Hope Street , Glasgow
  • 10 am til 2pm
  • 9th August 2018

Register here >> 

Democracy Matters

The Scottish Government has launched the next phase of its Local Governance Review, inviting people to join a conversation called ‘Democracy Matters’.

The campaign asks five key questions about how decisions should be made at a more local level. It asks whether communities, of place or identity, should have more control of decisions and what those might be. It also asks how this should look and what new or existing decision-making processes could be used.

The Local Governance Review was launched earlier in the year aims to find out what changes are needed to encourage a more local, participatory and inclusive democracy in Scotland.

A short animation summaries the review and the five questions being asked:

“In modern Scotland power must work in a way that involves and benefits everyone. To get this right, we will review how responsibilities and resources can be shared across national and local government in a way that delivers the greatest benefit to Scotland’s different places. However, the starting point must be with our citizens and the power and potential within our communities themselves.”

The review encourages people to hold conversations in their communities to discuss Democracy Matters and includes a community engagement fund where groups can apply for £100 – £300 to help make conversations happen. They have also published guidance about how the discussion might work and how it could be facilitated.

The review of local governance was set out in the Scottish Government’s 2017-18 programme for government and will be part of the forthcoming Local Democracy Bill

You can download the report and view more information on the Scottish Government website here.

Register for the event here >>