Resources & Toolkits

The £2 million Towns and BIDs Resilience and Recovery Fund, announced by the Scottish Government on 12th June 2020, is intended to support localised response activities contributing to town centre and high street resilience and recovery.

Scotland's Towns Partnership holds regular events and webinars for the custodians of Scotland's towns and city districts. All of the learning and resources from these are available in our series of event reports. Access these on our Wakelet page here. 

Living Wage Places: A toolkit on tackling low pay by celebrating local action, published jointly by the Living Wage Foundation, Living Wage Scotland and supported by the Carnegie UK Trust, provides valuable, practical insight for places of all size across the UK to begin their own Living Wage Place journey. Access here.

Walkipedia brings together the key sources of information and evidence relating to walking, pedestrians, and active travel and to highlight some of the main points from these sources.

Walking charity Living Streets has put together some new campaign tools to help support efforts to make pavements safe and clear in your area.

Many of the things we throw away haven’t always reached the end of their useful life. Something that you don’t want any more can still be used by someone else. Discover the positive effect of re-use...

A new Planning Gateway has been added to the Scottish Grocers’ Federation (SGF) website to help retailers in Scotland access information on planning applications and local development plans.

Ordnance Survey (OS) has published a free interactive digital map identifying accessible recreational and leisure greenspace in Great Britain – parks, public gardens, playing fields, sports areas, play spaces, allotments and community gardens.

Stalled Spaces Scotland is a national programme commissioned by the Scottish Government and managed by Architecture and Design Scotland (A&DS) to encourage and support communities to bring stalled spaces or derelict and vacant land back into temporary use.

This guidance document from Scotland's Towns Partnership aims to help improve the digital infrastructure, skills, strategic implementation and understanding of Digital in the context of Scotland’s Towns and Town Centres.