Centre for Thriving Places is a place-based not-for-profit consultancy offering strategic support, research, training and tools that help put the wellbeing of people, place and planet centre stage.
Nature. Writer. Reader. Rural.
Guardian Country Diary, BBC Countryfile, RSPB.
Award winning On Gallows Down. Ghosts of the Farm coming 30/11!
Climate Fic Prize Judge.
North Wessex Downs.
https://nicolachester.com/
https://linktr.ee/nicolachesterwriting
The UK chapter of the International Association for Landscape Ecology. Promoting understanding and application of landscape ecology - the study of interactions between structure and function of physical, biological and cultural components of landscapes.
Chief Executive @ Youth Scotland | Trustee @ Mindset | Trustee @ Beyond Srebrenica | Youth Work | Outdoor Learning | Smart Justice
There is no Maverick without Goose. A team worker looking out for wildlife.
Development officer for Poverty Alliance working on rural poverty. Chair of Broke Not Broken
The UK's largest community-led development
Frome, Somerset
Supporting Knowledge & Cultural Democracy in Scotland
Host (1) the Community Knowledge Matters Network supporting community-led research (2) Curiosity In Action exploring youthwork, STEM and impact (3) the Culture & Wellbeing Community Network Scotland
Writer, journalist.
Rural: The Lives of the Working-Class Countryside out now. Published by William Collins
Beckcsmith.com
DUniv - OBE - CF - Highlander Former #Nurse / National Lottery Community Fund 🏴 Interests - #Food #Poverty #Environment and Nolan Principles. Forget my 👓 often expect typos.
Volunteering Engagement Professional: Charity Sector Innovator: Wild Swimmer:
Blue Zone Enthusiast: P&K TSI #PowerOfMusic Always Kintyre🌊🎶💙
Director, The Community Woodlands Association. Mountain Rescue Team volunteer. Board member The Ledge & Scottish Community Alliance. Highland Scotland.
Vews my own.
CEO @ Inspiring Communities | Working across #Charity, #Regeneration & the #ThirdSector | Championing #ClimateAction, #Volunteering & #Sustainability | Powered by #CommunityLedChange, #EVs and time #GettingOutside
We help social enterprises and charities navigate the world of social investment
A project of The Langholm Initiative
🌍Home of the Langholm Moor Community Buy-Out
🌱South Scotland’s biggest nature restoration project
❤️Community
☀️Hope
SFHA is the national membership body for, and voice of, housing associations and co-operatives in Scotland.
www.sfha.co.uk
The Aberfeldy Development trust (ADT) is a community owned and led organization.
Committed to the economic, social, cultural and environmental prosperity of our community
Chartered Institute of Housing Scotland is a professional body for people working in the housing sector with around 2,500 members in Scotland.
Migrant, geographer, social researcher, settler from Treaty 4 living in Scotland, she/her. Was once called 'a tough broad who gets shit done'. Optimism of the will.
Scotland's national support programme for #SocialEnterprise and the enterprising #ThirdSector.
Training and business support funded by the Scottish Government.
Find out more at https://justenterprise.org/
Scotland’s anti-poverty network. With justice and compassion we can build a future free from poverty.
We're SCVO (Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations). The national body supporting Scotland's essential voluntary sector. We monitor socials Mon-Thu 9-5 Fri 9-4.
🔗 www.scvo.scot
Our aim is to strengthen and empower local communities to manage and benefit from their contributions to a low-carbon society.
Awarding #NationalLottery funding to strengthen society and improve lives across the UK. #ItStartsWithCommunity
www.tnlcommunityfund.org.uk
We are the economic and community development agency for Dumfries and Galloway and the Scottish Borders.
www.southofscotlandenterprise.com
The UK's leading title for the voluntary and not-for-profit sector. Home of the Third Sector Podcast: https://podfollow.com/thirdsector/view
The First Port of call for Social Entrepreneurs
https://www.firstport.org.uk/
Talk to us about Business Support, Funding Opportunities and Social Investment.
#socialenterprise #businessforgood #impacteconomy
We're the national membership body for social enterprises, campaigning for a thriving #SocialEnterprise community across Scotland.
Join us for networking, support, and events that drive positive change 👇
https://linktr.ee/social_enterprise_scotland
Helping People Make Good Things Happen.
Community led housing and development. Partnership & Learning Manager, South of Scotland Community Housing (https://sosch.org). Trustee, European Community Land Trust Network (www.clteurope.org)
A charity that works to ensure shared responsibility for the protection and restoration of our seas.
Check out our website https://www.arrancoast.com/ for Community action, education, research and lots more
Mountains, bogs and other wet and beautiful places. Appreciator of birds and Director of @APRScotland. Woodland dweller. Scotland.
Helping you navigate Scotland’s planning system since 1993. Free, impartial and confidential advice. Training. Community Engagement. Volunteering.
pas.org.uk
Overly enthusiastic & talkative doer
Believer in citizens & community
Finding creative, quirky ways to think about care & wellbeing. Co founder When I Get Old www.WIGO.org.uk. Roles @TLAP.bsky.social @Commcats.bsky.social @learningdiseng.bsky.social
I animate communities & support professionals/orgs working in citizen space. Books include: The Connected Community, and Rekindlling Democracy. More here: https://www.nurturedevelopment.org/who-we-are/cormac-russell/
Social, Economic and Geographical Sciences (SEGS) Department, James Hutton Institute
We examine impacts of policies on rural economies and communities, and provide knowledge for future policy development.
https://www.sruc.ac.uk/research/research-impact/rural-policy-centre/
www.ruralexchange.scot
Lecturer, Sustainable Development, UHI. Scottish & EU politics and public policy researcher. Rural. Islands. Communities. Online learning.
People. Planet. Place. Place & Wellbeing Partnership Lead at Improvement Service & Public Health Scotland.
Passionate about planning, place, wellbeing, climate and reading.
Improvement Lead | National Planning Improvement | Improvement Service
Just a human working for woods & trees. Landscape ecologist and conservation adviser at the Woodland Trust. Not a fan of binaries in land or life. Likely to be found running, hiking or biking for ☕ or 🍺 | 🌈
Environmental economist researching natural capital, ecosystem services, land use policy. Also quite likes cycling
Good Practice Adviser on Land Rights and Responsibilities at the Scottish Land Commission. All views my own.
Head of Development in Scotland’s Fastest Growing Local AuthorityTM. Affordable housing. Civic spaces. Sustainable, accessible places.
🇮🇪 in 🏴
🚴, 📖 and Point Break are some of my other interests. Views my own etc.
Scotland's countryside charity. Current campaigns on Green Belts, National Parks, and Circular Economy.
Assistant Professor | land and food governance | Land Food Nexus Newsletter: https://adamcalo.substack.com/about | Landscapes podcast: https://landscapes.libsyn.com/
https://www.ru.nl/en/people/calo-a
Environmental campaigner & author, The Lie of the Land (William Collins, 2024), The Lost Rainforests of Britain (2022), & Who Owns England? (2019). Forthcoming: The Ghosts of Chalk Country (2027). Agent: @jmlockhart.bsky.social
The website for enjoying Scotland’s Great Outdoors, on foot. Views are not ours - they belong to everyone.
https://www.walkhighlands.co.uk/
Professor of Retail Studies, University of Stirling, Chair Scotland's Towns Partnership, Fellow Royal Society of Edinburgh, Extremely long-suffering Welsh rugby fan, occasional gardener.
Stirlingretail.com
Town planner. RTPI Director for Scotland, Ireland & English Regions. Recovering academic. Likes green space, blue space and active travel. Sometimes knits.
A coalition of community based, national networks and intermediaries – each one representing a different aspect of Scotland’s diverse community sector.
I’m Scotland’s National Planning Improvement Champion, based in the Improvement Service. Planning, placemaking, public service reform and, occasionally, punk rock.
Lead Data Scientist, NHS Grampian + Senior Research Fellow, University of Aberdeen
Trying to do useful things with big, messy, high-security data. Huge nerd for open science and public health
https://www.abdn.ac.uk/iahs/people/profiles/jessicabutler
Helping our town to continue to thrive, with a strong sense of community and identity, and supporting improvements for those who live, work and visit here
Hebridean. Sustainable Development Consultant. MG ALBA Board Member. Scottish Land Commissioner. http://calummacleod.info
We support community-owned businesses because of their track record for delivering better businesses for people, communities, the economy, and the environment.
Journalist, Blossom, Thrive, Director http://nordichorizons.org, Columnist http://thenational.scot Podcast http://lesleyriddoch.com NEW Finland film screenings https://lesleyriddoch.com/events. Denmark & other films https://www.youtube.com/@Lesley_Riddoch
"End Times Fascism" book coming September 2026.
Doppelganger. This Changes Everything. The Shock Doctrine. No Logo. On Fire.
UBC Professor of Climate Justice.
🔗 naomiklein.org
📬 news.naomiklein.org/newsletter
We use the law to resist hate and bring hope. Injustice is not inevitable.
Support us: https://goodlaw.social/donate-bsky
Promoted by Good Law Project Ltd, 3 East Point, High Street, Seal, TN15 0EG
A research and development lab for the democratic economy | #communitywealthbuilding #thenextsystem | democracycollaborative.org | Washington, D.C. & Cleveland, OH
Emeritus Professor, Newcastle University. Rural sociologist. New books: Rural Poverty Today (2023); Rethinking Rural Studies (2024).
A podcast about the lives of the people of Mull, Iona, Ulva, Gometra, Erraid & Little Colonsay off the West Coast of Scotland. Oral history podcasts and films. Hosted by Alasdair Satchel
Corra Foundation is a Scottish grant-making charity that is about strengthening and amplifying people’s voices and their power to make change.
We are here to prevent and reduce poverty and trauma in Scotland, funding, supporting, and influencing solutions to drive social change.
CLES is the national organisation for local economies. We're working towards a future where local economies benefit people, place and the planet.
🔗 cles.org.uk
We work to speed up and support the transition to a future free from poverty, in which people and planet can flourish.
https://www.jrf.org.uk/
We're an independent think tank and network of councils with a mission to transform public services and unlock community power.
Find out more 🔗 https://www.newlocal.org.uk/
We aim to improve our natural world, secure a fairer future and strengthen the bonds in communities in the UK.
www.esmeefairbairn.org.uk
Chief Exec at Development Trusts Association Scotland
Follow DTAS work on the following:
@dtascotland.bsky.social
@communityownership.bsky.social
@democraticfinance.bsky.social
The Convention of Scottish Local Authorities.
COSLA is the voice of Local Government in Scotland.
https://linktr.ee/cosla
Supporting communities to secure their long-term, financial resilience - through citizen-driven funding and finance sources and embedding democratic control. @dtascotland.bsky.social
Head of Support Services @SCVO | Trustee @loco_retrofit | Library lover | Also a runner, thinker and cider drinker | She/Her
Professor of Public Policy and Democratic Innovation | University of Edinburgh | Working on #democracy #participation #deliberation #commons #governance #power #research | RT≠ endorse | Own views | Profile: https://www.sps.ed.ac.uk/staff/oliver-escobar
Scotland's only third sector news outlet dedicated to sharing news from charities and voluntary organisations. Got a story? Email tfn@scvo.org.uk
Author of Doughnut Economics, Co-founder of Doughnut Economics Action Lab, Senior Teaching Fellow at Oxford Uni Environmental Change Institute. doughnuteconomics.org
Scotland’s nature agency. We work to protect and improve our natural environment in Scotland. http://nature.scot #NàdarAlba #MakeSpaceForNature
Exploring what works in the polycrisis
https://thrivablescotland.com
Supporting Development Trusts across Scotland. Community-owned, enterprising and place-based orgs creating wealth & delivering social, environmental, cultural and economic impact.
Also @democraticfinance.bsky.social & @communityownership.bsky.social
We're a Scotland based, grassroots organisation campaigning for a fairer planning system that works for both people and planet.
https://www.planningdemocracy.org.uk
Independent researcher & collaborator in the Scottish Highlands, working on role of cultural heritage in nature recovery & climate action. Here to seek out & share glimmers of more hopeful futures. ✍️Substack: https://substack.com/@mairimcfadyen
Policy & Practice Lead at the Scottish Land Commission - land rights, law, philosophy, and governance. Farmers loon and foodie!
linkedin.com/in/james-mackessack-leitch/
Works on land reform in Scotland
The Scottish Land Commission is driving a programme of urban and rural land reform to create a Scotland where land is owned and used fairly, responsibly and productively 🌲🏡🏢
Chief Executive at the Scottish Land Commission
Senior Economist at Future Economy Scotland
@futureeconscot.bsky.social
Argyll, Scotland. Writes, takes pictures . Used to do more. Chair, Scottish Land Commission from 02/24. Hon Professor , Glasgow University. President SNP 2020 - 2023. Former MSP for Argyll & Bute and Minister/ Cabinet Secretary in Scottish Government
Interested in land reform, business growth, islands, Gàidhlig language, culture & history. Views are my own.
Rural Economist. Deputy CEO & Director of Science, James Hutton Institute. Scottish Land Commissioner. Views my own. She/her
Farmer, parent, and player of music. PhD Academic interest agriculture and #SciComm.
Sgiathanach, crofter, mum, Manager of Applecross Community Company & Chair of Community Land Scotland
Land & natural resource rights geek.
Alumni: Scottish Land Commission, Global Witness, SOAS
Breeding and Finishing Highland & Shorthorn Cattle for #MacbethsButchers. #PastureForLife certified. 2024 #NuffieldFarming Scholar. #farmstrongscot
