Keep Scotland Beautiful support and resources

• Support from our pool of experienced volunteer assessors/mentors including a visit between May and October and a report highlighting achievements and giving useful suggestions/recommendations for your work under the three pillars of community participation, environmental responsibility and gardening achievement.
• Regular, on-line live ‘cuppa & a catch up’ Q&A sessions, each focusing on a different topic. Previous sessions have focused on ‘keeping volunteers engaged and your group going’ and ‘support for your group’ – recordings are available. The sessions are informal and relaxed, with someone talking about a topic for around 5-10 mins (could be showing slides/video or just a chat) and then open up for your questions. We’d also love to hear from you in advance if you feel your group has something it can share.
• We will celebrate achievements through the year e.g. through our website/social media channels/newsletter etc.
• Levels of Achievement certificates, Special Awards, and Certificates of Recognition for those not assessed.
  
• Annual seminar - networking, celebrating and sharing inspiring stories. Explore our previous seminars.
• Regular e-newsletter full of inspiring stories, hints, tips, information and funding links - example here.
• We’d love groups to let everyone know through social media that they're taking part – for Facebook use @KSBScotland @rhscommunitygardening in posts so we can react and help spread the word.
• A web page for each group.
• A logo for your use to tell everyone you’re taking part.
• Each year we have an optional theme for groups to focus activities and events around. The theme for 2025 is Nature and Biodiversity, and our 25th anniversary. 2025 is the 25th anniversary of Keep Scotland Beautiful as an independent charity, and we thought we’d honour this through our theme for 2025, which will focus on nature and biodiversity. Your group might like to get creative to weave a physical or symbolic silver thread through planting projects, activities and events, and we look forward to seeing what you come up with.

As well as the above, we have a number of resources, guidance and advice which are available to your group throughout the year. These include:

• Our Climate and Nature Friendly Communities Network web pages: useful websites, inspiring case studies, previous annual seminar presentations, and resources including promotional material and guidance documents. To find out if there are any other groups in your area, which you could get in touch with to support or to work with to ‘join-up’ activities in your community, visit this page for a list of all our groups, or explore our online map.
• The Three Pillars outlining ideas of activities and things to focus on under each pillar of community participation, environmental responsibility and gardening achievement.