Community Empowerment

Find out how your views can directly inform and shape the decisions we take about our future priorities and local services in Renfrewshire.

You Decide Tenants is a £600,000 fund for delivering improvements to local areas. Anyone in Renfrewshire can suggest the ideas, and then council tenants vote for them.

We are looking for volunteers to deliver a new parenting programme called Empowering Parents Empowering Communities (EPEC) to other parents and carers in your community.

We are looking for volunteers who would be happy to share their views, evaluate council processes, or even trial new council services.

A Community Asset Transfer is where responsibility for an asset or property transfers from the Council to a community group or voluntary organisation.

Celebrating Renfrewshire is a fund designed by and for young people, where young people aged 12 to 25 will have a direct say on which projects are funded in their local area.

Apply for grants to plan and carry out repairs on privately owned historic buildings in one of eleven Renfrewshire villages.

Projects in Renfrewshire that we are funding or have completed through the Green Spaces, Parks and Play Areas Fund and the Villages Investment Fund.

Common Good property includes any assets or estates like land, buildings, civic regalia, art, cash or securities that are administered by a Scottish Local Authority.

A Local Partnership brings together local elected members, community representatives and organisations to have their say on local issues and make a difference to their local area.

Local communities decide how a portion of our budget is spent; and suggest and choose what projects will make the biggest difference to Renfrewshire.