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Growing community wealth with food and love in Midlothian - Scottish Community Alliance In Mayfield and Easthouses, the local development trust is using food to feed the soul of the community. With a community pantry, café, and a derelict bowling green transformed into a thriving communi...

In Mayfield & Easthouses, the local development trust MAEDT is using food to feed the soul of the community.

With a thriving community pantry, café, and community garden, #ThisisCommunityWealthBuilding.

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100 Acres of Ambition: Growing Community Wealth at Lauriston Farm - Scottish Community Alliance How a workers' cooperative in Edinburgh brought 100 acres back to life, building wealth through food, community, and biodiversity. By Charlie Ellis

In northwest Edinburgh Lauriston Agroecology Farm is using a community-led approach to bring back to life 100 acres of land, showing what Community Wealth Building looks like.

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From market days to hydropower: Community Wealth Building in Balerno - Scottish Community Alliance On the edge of Edinburgh, a village trust is using a farmers’ market, a hydro scheme and a former police station to stop their community becoming a sleeping suburb. By Paul Fisher Cockburn

Balerno Village Trust:

🍏 Runs a farmers' market (celebrating 20 years this year!)
🏡 Is turning an old police station into a community space
🌊 Funds their work with a community-owned hydro scheme

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Rebuilding community wealth through land ownership: the story of Tarras Valley Nature Reserve - Scottish Community Alliance For the people of Langholm, the Tarras Valley has always been theirs. So when the land came on the market, they rallied to do the impossible and pulled off a 10,000-acre community buy-out. This is Com...

For the people of Langholm, the Tarras Valley has always been theirs. They rallied to do the impossible, and pulled off a 1.5k acre community buy-out.

🎥 This is the story of @tarrasvalleynr.bsky.social

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How Glenfarg rebuilt its bus service - and its future - Scottish Community Alliance When Glenfarg’s last commercial bus service vanished, it risked the viability of the village. So residents built their own. The result is a thriving community-run network – and a clear example of Comm...

“They're not just bus drivers. They're friends and they're social workers"

🎥 Today we tell the story of Glenfarg Community Transport Group, who built their own bus service and reconnected the village.

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