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Your project - Sus it Out
What's your project? Sus it Out helps community groups to work out how sustainably they are developing; what kinds of things are they doing at the moment that contribute to sustainable development and what more could they do. For example, does the organisation involve its service users/members in making decisions about what activities the organisation should do? Does it produce information in accessible formats? Does it seek to minimise its use of resources – paper, ink, electricity, water? Does it explore how it can save resources and gain benefit from partnering with other organisations with similar or consistent objectives to theirs? Not all sustainable activities cost money to do – many of them just need a different way of thinking about how you think and act - and some can even save money and help you get the best use out of limited resources.
Where is it?
Sus it Out is a Scotland-wide project.
Who's involved?
The project has been developed by the Future Scotland Partnership. The members of the partnership are: Scottish Civic Forum, Scottish Environment LINK, SCVO, Poverty Alliance, Community Health Exchange (CHEX) of the Scottish Community Development Centre, Voluntary Arts Scotland, Forum on Discrimination project of the Scottish Civic Forum, Forward Scotland, Sustainable Scotland Network and Church of Scotland Society, Religion and Technology Project. It is managed on behalf of the partnership by the Scottish Civic Forum.
How is it funded?
It is funded by the Scottish Executive Sustainable Action Grants Programme.
When is it funded to?
March 2009.
Biggest achievement so far?
The project is at an early stage but we have trained 32 facilitators so far based all over Scotland and sessions have been run with four community groups, with others planned.
Any downsides so far?
Not as such. But it is sometimes difficult for community groups to identify that sustainable development is relevant to them because people often associate it solely with the environmental agenda. This project adopts an holistic approach so includes sustainable communities, sustainable relationships and a whole range of other issues that affect all community groups.
Any advice needed from Rural Gateway users?
Comments are always welcome and we would be interested to hear of any group who would like to Sus it Out!
Further Information
Jeni Mackay
Sus it Out Development Worker
Scottish Civic Forum
Room 12
130 Leith Walk
Edinburgh
EH6 5DT
0131 554 4012
jeni.mackay@civicforum.org.uk
- Source
- Scottish Civic Forum
- Date
- 31-May-2007
- Categories
- COMMUNITIES, News - General