Lobbying / campaigning

The Community of Arran Seabed Trust (COAST) is a community-led organisation that has made a huge difference to the conservation and restoration of the seas around Arran and the Clyde for the past 29 years. We stand for a diverse, abundant and beautiful marine environment for everyone.

Climate Ready South East Scotland is the first climate risk and opportunity assessment for the Edinburgh and South East Scotland region.

The Stove is an arts organisation with a national and international reputation in place-based practice. We are a values-led organisation founded on a central belief in the power of creativity and working co-creatively to improve the lives of people, the wider environment, and the systems by which we live in the region Southwest Scotland The Stove can be understood as a place-based creative movement or practice guided by a set of values. It’s organisational form and programme are constantly evolving to maximise the quality of output and effective impacts for people and the wider environment.

GDA is a disabled people-led organisation (DPO) controlled by our 5500+ disabled members.

Inchinnan Development Trust is a not-for-profit organisation focused on community-led preservation and enhancement of Inchinnan's greenspaces and woodlands, for the benefit of both our local communities and wildlife populations.

VAER is the ‘Centre for Collective Impact’ based in East Renfrewshire.

Our purpose is to inform, connect, engage and empower all communities in Lanarkshire to develop and implement local solutions to create low carbon resilient places.

We are a constituted community group aiming to save the ponds at the end of Western Harbour, Edinburgh, from development.

Helping Nature Flourish

Raising awareness of how to live sustainably, helping people talk about and understand what Climate Change is. Working together to adapt our communities to live better now and in the future. This includes many topics from food production/choices, waste & circular economy, transport, education & awareness, political engagement and energy efficiency.

Midlothian Wildflowers is committed to supporting the positive health and wellbeing of local communities through local engagement in environmental conservation, regeneration and the development of thriving green spaces throughout Midlothian.

Assynt Development Trust serves and supports the seventeen townships of Assynt. We are the anchor organisation for the RLUP and a lead member of the Northwest 2045 group.

Clean Coast Outer Hebrides does much more than beach cleans! We campaign and educate, inform and inspire about the marine environment including marine litter and climate change. Something strange washed up on your shore? Who you gonna call? Coastbusters! (Clean Coast Outer Hebrides)

ACAN is a grass roots organisation, encouraging, engaging and educating our community on the issues and possible solutions of climate change. We seek to mitigate the impact on the community and create collective responses.

Scotland The Bread is a collaborative project to grow better grain and bake better bread with the common purposes of nourishment, sustainability and food sovereignty.

The Scottish Fair Trade Forum is Scotland's Fair Trade Network. We work with Fair Trade campaigners and communities across Scotland to contribute to building a just, equitable and sustainable world by supporting Scotland to remain a vibrant Fair Trade Nation, and working to embed the principles of Fair Trade in all aspects of Scottish society.

Our work is focused on protecting, conserving, and enhancing the natural and built environment, and influencing current thinking on issues affecting landscape. Our work is member led, bringing together the expertise and skills of landscape professionals across Scotland and the UK. As such we can represent the voice of and concerns of professionals in the landscape sector in Scotland, including landscape architects, planning professionals and climate scientists.

Community Energy Scotland provides independent and ongoing practical & technical support for community decarbonisation project development. We make it possible for member organisations to link up and network, both with each other and with policy makers.  Collaboration with like-minded and relevant organisations is the norm for us, where we provide a collective voice on your behalf and represent members at policy level.

People Know How is a Scottish social innovation charity with a passion for solving social issues. Based in Edinburgh and East Lothian, we work with people and communities to develop innovative strategies and services to address social issues both locally and nationally.

We are Learning for Sustainability Scotland: Scotland’s Regional Centre of Expertise on Education (RCE) for Sustainable Development – acknowledged by the United Nations University. We are one of 170 Centres across the world.

Christian Climate Action https://christianclimateaction.org/ is a community of Christians supporting each other to take meaningful action in the face of imminent and catastrophic climate breakdown. We are inspired by Jesus Christ and guided by the Holy Spirit. Following the example of social justice movements of the past, we carry out acts of public witness and prayer, nonviolent protest and civil disobedience to urge those in power to make the changes needed. We work alongside other nonviolent protest groups, such as Extinction Rebellion.

The city-wide collective supporting the development of resilient communities through community-led improvement of buildings; via planned maintenance, retrofit and local heat and energy systems. Edinburgh Building Retrofit and Improvement Collective empowers the local ecosystem of groups working to do these things. A community can be a tenement, a street or a neighbourhood. Working at community-scale offers many advantages and improving whole buildings gives the best results. We develop stronger and more resilient communities in the process.

TRACS brings together the Traditional Music Forum, the Scottish Storytelling Forum and the Traditional Dance Forum of Scotland to showcase Scotland’s rich cultural heritage, and to improve the knowledge, practice, development and advocacy of traditional arts in a contemporary world, making them more accessible to all.

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