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CWB in Scotland: What's Next?

Our  research on Community Wealth Building is a part of the 'Novel Insights on Scotland’s Rural and Island Economies (NISRIE)' project funded within the Rural Futures Theme of the Scottish Government's 2022-27 Strategic Research Programme on Environment, Natural Resources and Agriculture. Find out more about the NISRIE project here

The Community Wealth Building model is a people-centred approach to local economic development that aims to redirect wealth back into local economies, placing control and benefits into the hands of local people, highlighting that similar approaches have already been present and implemented in rural and island communities across Scotland.

So far, we have produced four reports looking at the role of Community Wealth Building model and its application in rural and island communities in Scotland.

1. Community Wealth Building: Approaches Relevant to Rural and Island Communities

2. Community Wealth Building in Scotland: The Evolution of Policy and Practice

3. Community Wealth Building: Learning from International Experiences

4. Community Wealth Building: Pilots and Pioneer Case Studies

 

The reports present how rural, and island communities can be empowered to influence local decisions, shape services, and address poverty through local economic development.

In the next stage of our research, we are interested in hearing from anyone working with, and for, Community Wealth Building across Scotland (whether you are representing a public sector organisation (e.g. local authority), a private sector business, a social enterprise, or a community sector organisation).

  • Are you involved in a Community Wealth Building project?
  • Do your projects build community wealth (even if they're not called that)?
  • Are you delivering a Community Led Local Development project?

 

If any of these apply to you, we'd like to hear from you.

While one aim of project is understanding rural and island experiences of building community wealth, we welcome responses from all contexts, from remote rural areas to large cities.

Your insights will help us understand how Community Wealth Building principles are being adopted across Scotland.

Survey link: https://app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/sruc/community-wealth-building-survey

Case study on our research: Community Wealth Building: Policy, Practice and Case studies | SEFARI


Further Reading

More within the CWB in Scotland: What's Next? project

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CWB in Scotland: What's Next?

Our  research on Community Wealth Building is a part of the 'Novel Insights on Scotland’s Rural and Island Economies (NISRIE)' project funded within the Rural Futures Theme of the...[more]

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Case Studies of Scotland Pilots

Between 2020 and 2021, the Scottish Government allocated funding to develop Community Wealth Building (CWB) action plans in five regions of Scotland: Fife, Clackmannanshire, Glasgow City Region, South of Scotland...[more]

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International Experiences of CWB

This Policy Spotlight is the third in the series on Community Wealth Building for the NISRIE project. Following the first report on Community Wealth Building in a rural and islands...[more]

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CWB Scottish Policy and Practice

The Scottish Government has adopted a Community Wealth Building approach to economic development as a means of delivering the wellbeing objectives outlined in the National Strategy for Economic Transformation (NSET)...[more]

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CWB UK Case Studies

These examples showcase diverse approaches to fostering community wealth, economic resilience, and local empowerment. They emphasise the importance of inclusive economic practices that benefit the community as a whole.PrestonThe...[more]

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What is Community Wealth Building?

"Community wealth building reorganises local economies to ensure they are best placed to tackle the inequalities and disadvantages that are now, more than ever, so acutely felt by people across...[more]


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