Explore community gardens, repair projects, green spaces and other places supporting sustainable living across Edinburgh. You can also contribute your own recommendations to help others discover what’s happening in their local area.

Explore Edinburgh by bike with the Innertube Map – a guide to quieter streets and off-road cycle routes across the city, making active travel easier for everyone.

Borrow instead of buying. The Edinburgh Tool Library gives members access to thousands of tools for DIY, gardening, decorating and repairs, helping save money, reduce waste and share resources across the city.

Looking to repair, reuse or buy refurbished tech? The Edinburgh Remakery helps keep valuable resources in use for longer through repairs, workshops and affordable refurbished electronics.

Climate Cafés are welcoming spaces where people come together to talk about climate change, share ideas and connect with others in their community. Find a Climate Café near you, discover how they work, or learn how to start one locally.

Find your local Transition group and discover how communities across Scotland and beyond are taking action together. Whether you’re looking to volunteer, learn new skills or meet like-minded people, joining an existing group is a great place to start.

As our climate changes, communities are already finding new ways to adapt. This practical guide from Adaptation Scotland will help you understand local climate risks and start planning for the future together.

Creating lasting change isn’t just about good ideas. This practical guide explores how people change their behaviour and how community projects can be designed to have a bigger, longer-lasting impact.

One of our favourite resources for communicating about climate change. Their evidence-based guides and reports are packed with practical advice on reaching different audiences and having more effective conversations.

The way we talk about climate matters. This practical guide shares simple tips on framing your message in ways that engage people and encourage action.

Talking about climate change isn’t always easy. This short video shares practical tips for having positive, constructive conversations with friends, family and your wider community.

Looking for reliable information about global climate action? Climate Action Tracker independently assesses how governments are progressing towards the goals of the Paris Agreement.

Strong governance helps groups make good decisions, manage responsibilities and plan for the future. SCVO’s free self-assessment tool provides a personalised action plan based on Scotland’s Third Sector Governance Code.

Supports: Governance, trustees, organisational health

A free toolkit developed in Scotland covering governance, planning, community engagement, finance, campaigning and organisational development. Although created with refugee community organisations in mind, it’s useful for any community-led group.

Supports: Governance, planning, sustainability

One of the UK’s best collections of free resources on facilitation, consensus decision-making, managing meetings, conflict and collaborative working.

Supports: Facilitation, conflict resolution, decision-making

Practical guidance on working with communities rather than for them, helping projects involve people meaningfully from the very beginning.

Supports: Co-design, participation, engagement

Simple tools and guidance to help community groups collect feedback, measure outcomes and demonstrate the impact of their work to funders and partners.

Supports: Measuring impact, evaluation, learning

A thoughtful collection of resources on wellbeing, supportive leadership and creating healthy organisations. Particularly useful for volunteer-led groups where avoiding burnout is essential.

Supports: Burnout, wellbeing, leadership

Practical advice on recruiting, supporting and retaining volunteers, helping your organisation create positive volunteering experiences that last.

Supports: Volunteer management, recruitment, retention

A huge free library of practical advice covering everything from policies and safeguarding to governance, fundraising, partnerships and organisational development.

Supports: Running community organisations

An excellent collection of tools, case studies and guidance exploring how climate change and climate action affect people differently. It helps organisations consider fairness, vulnerability and social justice when designing projects.

Climate change doesn’t affect everyone equally. This collection of research and practical guidance explores the links between climate action, poverty and inequality, helping organisations design projects that are fairer and more effective.

A helpful introduction to the social model of disability, explaining how barriers in society can prevent participation. Understanding this approach can help groups create more welcoming and accessible projects from the very beginning.

A practical toolkit from Transition Network to help groups create more welcoming and inclusive projects, meetings and events. The cards encourage you to think about who might be missing, what barriers they face and how you can design activities that work for more people from the outset.

A free library of guidance, tools and examples to help organisations create communications that are easier to understand and accessible to a wider range of people. From plain English and Easy Read to BSL and accessible documents, it’s a great starting point for making your communications more inclusive.

A practical reflection tool to help organisations think about who benefits from their work, who may be left out and how to build equity into planning, partnerships and decision-making.

A practical resource for choosing the right participation methods and involving people meaningfully in decisions that affect them. Particularly useful when planning community projects or engagement activities.

Practical guidance on making your digital content more accessible, including websites, documents, emails and social media. Whether you’re creating a newsletter, designing a webpage or sharing information online, these resources can help you reach more people.