Advice and Support

Community Connections

People centred action that starts with hello…

A silhouette of people with the words community connections below them

Collaborative projects supporting community recovery and renewal

Are you a community all about a place, a group brought together through shared interest, or an organisation supporting communities?

Do you have an idea or interest in a community-focussed project, activity or relationship but would like to explore advice, resources or support to help it grow?

Community Connections has been developed to help communities and partners come together and collaborate with HES, showing that our built, natural and cultural heritage can have an important role in helping communities thrive.

Community Connections has priority themes for collaborations relating to:

  • health and wellbeing
  • skills and volunteering
  • creativity
  • climate change
  • community and destination regeneration

Our ways of working:

  1. Listening to communities and partners to deliver the right support
  2. Making sure communities can confidently and easily access our knowledge and expertise
  3. Focusing our resources to make a difference
  4. Connecting, co-producing and collaborating with an open mind

Download our leaflet for examples of Community Connections that can help and inspire you…

Download the Community Connections leaflet

Want to get involved or spread the word?

We’re already engaging with a range of groups and partners, but there’s still more to do and we want you to be involved.

Let’s explore how our culture and heritage can help communities thrive across the country.

If you want to talk through ideas or activities that are a good fit with our ways of working, then get in touch.

Remember, your starting point might not be heritage, it may be more about health and wellbeing, creative practice, skills and volunteering, nature or community and destination regeneration. Chat with us at developmentandcommunity@hes.scot

Know others who may be interested? Please share our leaflet and spread the word!

Find out more about HES and how we aim to support communities through our current Corporate Plan, Heritage for All.

Find out about Our Past, Our Future: Scotland’s new strategy for the historic environment. It sets out a national mission to sustain and enhance the benefits of Scotland’s historic environment, for people and communities now and into the future.

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