Community engagement case studies
The website is building up a database of good-practice case studies. These are practical examples of organisations or techniques which have worked to improve community engagement. To be considered "good practice", a case study must ideally demonstrate a number of different criteria, for example:
• community engagement underpins all elements of the activity of the organisation rather than being a "one-off"
• different types and levels of participation are adopted
• there is evidence of participation by a wide range of community and agency stakeholders
• there is a demonstration of attempts to target "hard to reach" or specific groups
• stakeholders are actively involved in driving and developing the engagement process
• methods of engagement and involvement are responsive to community feedback
We have specific guides for Community Representatives, Community Planning Partners, Community Advisers and Researchers, which select appropriate case studies for those groups.
Case Studies Index
Create - Cambuslang and Rutherglen
An organisation supporting community engagement in community planning in South Lanarkshire.
Community-based housing associations
A model for involving communities in the regeneration of their local area.
Community health shop - Barlanark, Glasgow
An example of how communities can influence the development of health services in their area.
Health action zones
Examples of innovative methods of involving communities in planning and delivering services.
Home zones in Scotland
Ways to engage local communities to decide how to make their local area safer.
Greater Easterhouse social inclusion partnership - people's panel
An inclusive approach to involving the local community in planning local services.
You can also access the SCRs project profiles database which holds information on projects that:
• tackle poverty
• promote health and community safety
• provide training, education, youth facilities or childcare
• improve housing and the environment
• build the local economy
• works in another way to improve their area
