Welcome
...to the Sus it Out Plus™ website, here to help you and your community lead more sustainable lifestyles. Sustainable communities are not the result of a one-size-fits-all plan imposed from outside, they grow from within. Sus it Out Plus™ enables community and voluntary organisations to work out how they already contribute to sustainable development and to decide how they can build on this for the future.
Sus it Out Plus™ is managed and delivered by Forward Scotland with funding from the Big Lottery Fund.
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Supporters
The Sus it Out Plus™ programme has received a grant from the Big Lottery Fund to work with 200 community groups over the three years to 31 March 2012. The grant was awarded under the Dynamic Inclusive Communities strand of the Investing in Communities programme, with an emphasis on delivering on their Outcome 5 - People and communities have more power over their lives and more say in decisions that are made about them.
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Sign up for a Sus it Out Plus™ session. All you need to do is complete the request for assistance form in the Library (above) and send it in to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it If you want to speak to someone first, call Christine on 0560 0010 560 or 0870 4711 666.
30 Communities Sus it Out™
Over 30 communities have now had their Sus it Out™ sessions. From the Highlands to Dumfries & Galloway, Glasgow and Edinburgh and places in between demand has been high. It is a diverse group of communities from groups delivering very local projects to those providing services through social enterprise models. The most recent sessions were with the East Kilbride Development Trust and Reachout with Arts in Mind in Alloa. These groups are joing a growing band committed to delivering their activities in a different way, reducing their environmental impacts, increasing their social interactions whilst being economically responsible.
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The advice from Voluntary Arts Scotland is excellent. It's incredibly useful guide to setting up and running a group is adaptable to almost all circumstances. If you have questions such as 'How to recruit volunteers or staff' then this guide can help you...
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Dumfries pioneers for Sus it Out Plus™
The Accessible Transport Forum in Dumfries & Galloway was the first group to take part in the all new Sus it Out Plus™ programme. The forum was formed in 1997 to further community transport solutions in Dumfries & Galloway. It now boast some 25 members supporting and providing community led demand responsive transport services for elderly, disabled and other vulnerable groups in the South West of Scotland. Through their session they are hoping to develop an Action Plan that will lead to an anchoring of 'green' principles across their members, maintain and enhance volunteer activity and explore income generation activity.
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Sign up for a Sus it Out Plus™ session. All you need to do is complete the request for assistance form in the Library (above) and send it in to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it If you want to speak to someone first, call Christine on 0560 0010 560 or 0870 4711 666.
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