Resources / Advice
Helping you with some know-how, to help you take action.
Get Growing Scotland HUB
This is a free, one-to-one help and advisory service for community-led food growing. It provides specialist and technical advice, sharing insights from various projects across Scotland. The service covers topics like vision development, land sourcing, safety, governance, and local planning. It's free, helps groups progress, and saves resources. All group queries are welcome.
Manage your Garden More Naturally
Don’t forget these helpful tips from Nature Scot to help you garden for LIFE. You can also find more about the Garden for Life Forum hosted by Keep Scotland Beautiful, that supports action by gardeners for the benefit of Scotland's biodiversity.
A Good Thing UK
This is a Community Interest Company with a non-profit online platform that connects charities across the UK with businesses that have things to give away. Anything and everything can be given away via the platform to local communities: from carpet tiles, to brand-new branded water bottles to insulation, books and even a baby grand piano.
Growing Climate Confidence
SCVO (Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations) has some great resources to help charities, social enterprises and community groups across Scotland to take action on the climate emergency, support nature and biodiversity and ensure a just transition to a low carbon future for our communities.
From energy and buildings to waste and recycling, from writing a policy to engagement, from nature to food, SCVO resources are a solid place to start.
Moray Chamber of Commerce’s GreenPath
What is GreenPath? It’s a FREE green assessment and action plan, with step-by-step guide helping businesses and registered charities reduce their carbon footprint, embrace sustainable practices and support our community’s green goals.
Courses, materials and toolkits to make it easier and simpler to adopt Carbon Literacy.
The Carbon Literacy Project has developed 9 toolkits bespoke to the sector you are working in.