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Community company
A company can be limited by guarantee or by shares. This means that the trustees or directors of the company are protected in terms of their personal ...
Charitable Status
Charitable status is like a ‘badge of credibility’ that tells the public and those your organisation wishes to work with (such as renewable energy...
Guidance for owners on the installation of solar panels, heat pumps or insulation in common parts of tenements in Scotland
This guidance note will provide guidance to owners of tenement property in Scotland who are thinking about installing solar panels, heat pumps or insu...
4.0 Further Resources
The Scottish Government’s Community and Renewable Energy Scheme supports communities across Scotland on various aspects of community benefit funding...
3.0 Adjusting the fund strategy
In any community, local needs, aspirations and opportunities are constantly changing. And, as the community benefit income is disbursed and funded pro...
2.4 Who can receive funding?
Consideration will need to be given to who is able to receive funding, taking into account who is best placed to deliver against the Fund purposes as ...
2.1 Fund purposes/outcomes and priorities
Fund purposes or outcomes are broad statements setting out what type of change the Fund will seek to achieve and therefore providing some overall para...
2.0 Creating the fund strategy
Having completed the community action planning, it is now important to come back to consider the specifics of the Fund and what role it can play in he...
1.0 The Value of a fund strategy
An essential step in the community benefit process is to get some consensus on what the benefits package will be used for and how it will be made avai...
2.2 Exclusions
The Fund Strategy should also make clear what the Fund will not support. This may be specific types of organisation, costs or types of activity. Exclu...