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Growing Community Assets Consortium
Highlands and Islands Enterprise are the lead partner in a consortium that is delivering the £50 million Growing Community Assets (GCA) funding scheme.
The consortium partners are all established organisations with a strong track record in engaging with and supporting local communities to develop community based assets.
Together, we have a team of officers who will help you as you work on your application development and post award monitoring to ensure that GCA achieves its many aims. Decision making will remain with the Big Lottery Fund’s Scotland Country Committee.
The delivery partners are:
Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE)
HIE is a non-departmental government body set up by statute and is the Scottish Executive’s economic and community development agency for the Highlands and Islands of Scotland, covering just over half the land mass of Scotland and a population of around 460,000.
Community Energy Scotland (CES)
The Highlands and Islands Community Energy Company has now become Community Energy Scotland, a new Scottish Charity set up to support communities throughout Scotland to develop sustainable energy projects. The work and staff of HICEC have now transferred to this new company.
Scottish Enterprise (SE)
SE is also a non-departmental body set up by statute in 1991. It is the other main economic development agency for Scotland, covering 93 per cent of the population from Grampian to the Borders.
Social Investment Scotland (SIS)
SIS provides access to loan finance for social economy organisations based or operating in Scotland, who are unable to obtain any or all of their requirements from conventional sources.
Community Enterprise in Strathclyde (CEiS)
CEiS is the largest development organisation working with the social economy in the United Kingdom. It was founded in 1978 and works with around 70 organisations each year to create or sustain around 250 jobs every year and to develop services.
Forth Sector (FS)
FS is a pioneer in social enterprise development. With 15 years experience in the sector and featured in the DTI report "Social Enterprise -a strategy for success", FS operates a number of successful social enterprises across various sectors.
And providing advisory support to the HIE Consortium;
Communities Scotland (CS)
Communities Scotland is the housing and regeneration agency of the Scottish Government. Communities Scotland and Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE) have a track record of working together to transform communities in the Highlands and Islands.
Development Trusts Association Scotland (DTAS)
DTAS is the national umbrella body for development trusts. Development trusts are independent, community-based organisations that lead programmes of local regeneration and renewal.
Greenspace Scotland (GS)
GS was established in 2003 to provide a national lead for the Greenspace for Communities Initiative. GS works with national and local partners towards the shared goal that everyone living and working in urban Scotland has easy access to a quality greenspace which meets local needs and improves their quality of life.
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