Community Health Exchange (CHEX)

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Community Health Exchange (CHEX)

CHEX promotes and supports community-led health, a way for people in a community to take joint action to improve things for their community, leading to improved health and wellbeing and helping to address health inequalities. Most community-led activity fits this description, and CHEX welcomes any interested community groups to join its network and take advantage of resources, support and other opportunities on offer. CHEX also provides a searchable database of community-led health organisations.

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Community Wealth Building

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Community Wealth Building

Community wealth building is a new people-centred approach to local economic development, which redirects wealth back into the local economy, and places control and benefits into the hands of local people. UK based organisation CLES provides a useful introduction.

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Community Enterprise

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Community Enterprise

Community Enterprise provides development support to social enterprises, charities and voluntary groups to help make ideas a reality. They developed the Social Enterprise Eco-system Map, which enables you to navigate through the business support, learning, networking and finance available from different organisations.

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The National Standards for Community Engagement

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The National Standards for Community Engagement

The National Standards are a set of guiding principles for improving the engagement of public bodies with communities. They are useful for communities who want to gauge how well public agencies are engaging locally, and also to community groups and organisations who want to engage with people locally. Accessible and easy read versions of the Standards are also available.

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Citizen Participation Network

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Citizen Participation Network

The Citizen Participation Network includes 600 citizens, researchers, practitioners and policy makers working in a range of fields in Scotland and beyond. It should be relevant to anyone wanting to know more about the theory and practical methods behind participatory democracy.

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Place-based approaches

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Place-based approaches

‘Place-based approaches’ bring local people and organisations together to work in partnership to agree what works and what could be improved as well as putting a plan in place for how to do this. It’s a term that has become more common in recent years and the Scottish Government is currently interested in place-based approaches, so it may be useful for community groups to get a sense of what it’s all about.

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