
Talking About Our Place toolkit
Help your community to care for your local landscape by using our toolkit to uncover the issues at stake.
Help your community to care for your local landscape by using our toolkit to uncover the issues at stake.
Every place in Scotland is special or unique in some way, and your local place is no exception. Whatever the landscape around you, it will contribute to the identity of your place and to how you feel about it.
It can be easy to take for granted what you value about your surroundings. And you may feel you don’t have a say in the changes that happen in your place. Getting involved as a community can help you to feel heard.
Our toolkit provides guidance, resources and ideas to help you to think about and discuss your landscape as a community. You can also read the case studies to see what others like you have achieved elsewhere using the toolkit.
The toolkit can help you to:
This process can enable your community to develop projects and bid for funding from the Heritage Lottery Fund, Climate Challenge Fund and others. It will also allow you to gather the evidence required for decision-making processes.
Find out below what’s covered in the individual toolkit sections, or download the toolkit in full now.
Read about the Talking About Our Place toolkit
Starting off with a good idea of what you want to achieve is important. You should agree clear aims for your community project – and plan how best to achieve these.
Good teamwork and involving a wide range of interested people from your community will give your project the best chance of success.
In this section, read about:
Discover the tools and techniques you can use to work out what’s special about your place.
In this section, learn how to:
Your place provides many benefits for the people living there. Some are obvious, like a vibrant town centre. Others, like helping to regulate flooding, may be less apparent.
This section looks at how we can benefit from our place and also at some of the ways these benefits could be threatened. This will also help you plan for how you want your place to evolve in the future.
Find out how to use the information – and inspiration – you’ve gathered to shape the future of your place. Now is the time to act on your ideas about how you want your area to develop.
Among other things, you might want to:
Get in touch if you have questions.