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No Small Matter - A Surf Seminar On Small Town Regeneration
Scottish Urban Regeneration Forum
Date: 24th May 2007
Event Summary and main outcomes. The title refers to the fact that 30% of the Scottish population live in small towns (up to 20K population.). Much of the Scottish community regeneration debate, policy and resource allocation of recent years has been focused on the cities and their surrounding areas of concentrated disadvantage. ...more

Mapping Regional Approaches to Business Support for Social Enterprises
Rocket Science
Date: 17th May 2007
The UK Social Enterprise Strategy spans Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland but the devolved administrations have responsibility for a number of areas support for social enterprises and have taken the UK agenda forward with the production of their own tailored strategies....more

Briefing: Making assets work: the Quirk review of community management and ownership of public asset
Development Trusts Association
Date: 16th May 2007
The Quirk Review was launched at Burton Street Project, a development trust, in on 15 May 2007.  In his report, Barry Quirk, the local government ‘efficiency champion’, provides encouragement to can-do town halls and community groups.  He says there are no substantive barriers, that risks can be managed, and that when asset transfer is done properly the benefits outweigh the risks.  ...more

Light touch support for communities
Newsroom
Date: 10th May 2007
'Changing neighbourhoods: lessons from the JRF Neighbourhood Programme' is a report on the impact of a 'light touch' approach to supporting groups at neighbourhood level across 20 very different organisations working in a range of different national and local settings. ...more

Interim Evaluation of the Community Voices Network
Communities Scotland
Date: 2nd May 2007
This report presents the findings of an interim evaluation of the Community Voices Network.  ...more

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