Please send me LPL's fortnightly briefing:
Local People Leading is an informal alliance of national and regional networks, local community groups and individuals that has come together to campaign for a strong and independent community sector in Scotland.
LPL has two main functions - to promote the work of local people in their communities and to influence national policy development. We email regular briefings to our supporters on both these themes. More about us here...
The 'social glue' that can hold a community together through difficult times is largely created by the work of countless numbers of groups of all shapes and sizes - many of them informal, often underfunded and almost always below the radar of government - at the grassroots. Over the years, the community sector has demonstrated an amazing capacity to absorb knocks and respond to adversity. But this capacity is not without its limits. LPL has consistently argued with Scottish Government that it needs to acknowledge the crucial and distinctive contribution of the communty sector and that this needs to be reflected specifically in the way that Govt supports the wider Third Sector. We said as much in a recent letter to the Minister
