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Catch up on our Village halls and community spaces conference in photos! 📸

Our "Creating community" conference gathered people running village and community spaces across Scotland to connect, share ideas, and inspire each other. We covered a wide range of topics to support connected community spaces, from fundraising and motivating volunteers, to cyber safety, climate confidence and more!

Huge thanks to our event partners Scottish rural network, Keegan & Pennykid (Insurance Brokers) Ltd, Utility Aid and Hallmaster Ltd for their generous support and helping us run such a successful event.

Check out our official photos ➡️ https://buff.ly/nXSGiCM

As part of the Scottish Third Sector Tracker's Pulse 1 research published last month, significant issues with local authorities and procurement in Scotland were identified.

'Unfit for purpose', 'bureaucratic', 'inconsistent' and 'poorly informed' were just some of the descriptions of the current situation for voluntary organisations.

Read about these problems and suggested improvements now: https://buff.ly/stWdS3v

Every day across Scotland, people give their time, effort, skills and experience to support charities and voluntary organisations and make a difference in our communities.

is this week and is a chance to celebrate them and to say THANK YOU! We think you're amazing and we can't wait to see all the celebrations this week!

Thank you to everyone who joined us at our 'Creating community: village halls and community spaces conference'!

The day was a chance for people running village and community spaces across Scotland to connect, share ideas, and inspire each other. We covered a wide range of topics to support connected community spaces, from fundraising and motivating volunteers, to cyber safety, climate confidence and more!

Huge thanks to our event partners Scottish rural network, Keegan & Pennykid (Insurance Brokers) Ltd, Utility Aid and Hallmaster Ltd for their generous support and helping us run such a successful event.

If you missed the conference but are looking for helpful information about taking on, running, growing or adapting a village or community space - then make sure you check out our village and community halls handbook ⬇️