Forward Scotland - Sus It Out Plus

Forward Scotland’s Sus it Out Plus™ helps your community to come together, reduce your organisation’s environmental impacts and increase the likelihood of attracting funding.
It will help you to increase your organisation’s skills and capabilities through paying for training or technical support.

What’s involved?

Sus it Out Plus™ starts off with a facilitated session for between 4 and 10 people from your organisation. The session is based around a large interactive ‘board game’ which has various prompts to stimulate discussion of the issues around sustainable development. You’ll be asked to think about how these issues impact on and are affected by your organisation’s activities. You’ll be led through the issues in a structured way, but all the discussion will be related to your own organisation and experiences, so you control the agenda. Whatever else, you should expect a wide-ranging discussion that will throw up a few surprises.

The session ends with a commitment to take specific action to make your activities more sustainable. For all organisations there will be much of what you’re doing that will making a positive contribution already, but we can all improve from where we are.

To help, your facilitator will draft a Sustainable Communities Action Plan for you, based on what you’ll have told them about where you are now and where you want to go. This will set out the steps that need to be taken, including action points and a training plan. Associated with this is a Sustainable Communities Learning Account, a sum of up to £1,500 to pay for the training or technical support required.

What to do next

For more information see the www.susitout.org.uk website, where you can download an expression of interest form, or contact us at susitout@forward-scotland.org.uk. You can also call us on 0560 0010 560.

Key words: social enterprise, support