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Sustainable Development and Environmental Sustainability Guidance

These two documents are useful to dip into for project development.  The Big Lottery: Sustainable Development, although an older publication gives good information and many case studies from Scotland.  Heritage Lottery: Environmental Sustainability Guidance, although produced for applicants to that fund has a wealth of information on sustainability issues and a

The Big Lottery: Sustainable Development

Heritage Lottery: Environmental Sustainability Guidance

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Involving Your Community

A practical guide to the benefits and techniques for involving and consulting local communities in community asset based projects.

Last updated July 2020

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Common Good – A Quick Guide

Properly accounted for and properly managed, Scotland’s Common Good can be used to revitalise communities.

Read this Quick Guide and join the campaign to identify, document and restore your common heritage.

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To Have and to hold

A comprehensive and useful guide to asset development for community and social enterprises, but useful for Local Authorities too.

Produced by the Development Trusts Association (DTA).

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State Aid

Please be aware, as of 01 January 2021, the EU State aid information on these pages is no longer applicable in the UK and should be used for reference only. There is no new guidance at present produced by the Scottish Government  on State Aid requirements but this page will be updated when that information becomes available. The Frequently-asked questions section could be useful if you have specific queries.

 

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EU State Aid Rules and Community Transfer

This summary briefing note outlines what the European State Aid Rules are and offers a decision flow-chart, together with explanatory notes and a brief discussion of some key issues, to help community groups assess whether, and how, the Rules might impact on a planned community asset transfer.

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Finance Hub VAT Briefing

This briefing explains the most important rules governing VAT on partnerships. It then explains how to make sure that your partnership operates within those rules.

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Business Plan Template

A Business Plan template which will help to ensure that the plans for developing and running a land or building asset are robust and realistic.

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Breakeven Point – An Example

An example of a breakeven analysis to ensure that revenue costs are equal to revenue income – Breakeven Point (i.e. so no loss is incurred) – and what additionally may need to happen to achieve a profit/surplus of revenue income over revenue costs.

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Heads of Terms

Table listing the standard “heads of terms” for a lease agreement, with explanatory notes. Once agreed, this is used as the basis for instructing lawyers to prepare an agreement for completion.

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Lease Provisions and Potential Impact

This document highlights lease provisions which existing projects have identified as having significant impact on the viability and sustainability of their project and their ability to use the assets to benefit their communities.

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