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Community benefit funds: how can we enhance their impact?

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Episode notes

What is good practice for setting up and operating community benefit funds? And how do we make sure communities really do properly benefit from renewable energy (and other) projects?

In this episode, Fraser gets the low-down from Matt and Jen on a new framework from the Strathclyde Institute for Sustainable Communities that explores exactly these questions.

The framework is called "Guiding Principles and Actions for Enhancing Community Benefits from Community Benefit Funds".

Links:

Download the framework itself - Guiding Principles and Actions for Enhancing Community Benefits from Community Benefit Funds.

Some past Local Zero episodes on connecting themes:

Episode 93 – Community benefit funds – what does success look like?

Episode 46 – Community benefit from offshore wind

Episode 68 – Carbon Offsetting For Communities 2 - Framing, evaluating and facilitating community benefit from nature-based carbon offsets

You can also find links and transcripts to all past episodes at the Local Zero podcast website.