Community Groups

Community Support
Written By Joan Lawrie

Community and Third Sector Organisations provide invaluable support to people and other groups working to help with a huge variety of needs, projects and initiatives to make improvements to where you live

Examples of Community Groups who thrive to make where they live a better place are:

  • Community Development Trusts

  • Community Planning Partnerships

  • Community Councils

  • Community Centres

  • Youth Clubs

  • Foodbanks and Sharing Sheds

  • Rotary Clubs

  • The Highland Third sector Interface (HTSI) - a great resource for engaging with other groups across the Highlands, providing a free and wide ranging training packages and information regarding funding sources available across the voluntary sector. We would thoroughly recommend that community groups, what ever service you are providing, sign up to become members to receive support, regular newsletters and funding information

  • Highland Third Sector Interface | HTSI (highlandtsi.org.uk)

Joan Lawrie

Joan has worked for Thurso Community Development Trust since its inception in 2018. Firstly as a volunteer project officer before taking on the role of Development Officer and now Development Manager. Joan has a BA Child & Youth Studies, a BSc (Hons) Sustainable Development and is currently working on an MSc Net Zero Communities all through University of the Highlands & Islands.

Joan is passionate about the link between climate action projects and how these can help to solve issues around inequalities in our communities. She also constantly likes to think around how we can do differently to be the change.

https://hiclimatehub.co.uk/joanlawrie
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