Project Category
Healthy Communities
Healthy Planet, Healthy People: Change Award 2026
Annlan: Flax heritage and sustaining the new textile commons
Annlan—meaning sustenance—is a research project that blends oral tradition with contemporary technology to explore how flax could strengthen a local circular economy rooted in the commons.
Change Award – Healthy Communities
Healthy Planet, Healthy People: Catalyst Award 2026
Lady Lane Community Garden
The Lady Lane Community Garden group in Paisley has been awarded to develop a temporary, modular micro-greenspace, designed to assess and refine ideas that will inform the future permanent regeneration of the Argyle Street/Lady Lane site.
Catalyst Award – Healthy Communities
Community Champignons: Embedding Sustainability in Peer-led Community Projects
Community Champignons is a men’s wellbeing initiative centred on supporting participants—many from disadvantaged or isolated backgrounds—to develop skills and confidence through oyster mushroom cultivation.
Catalyst Award – Healthy Communities
Becoming Wild: Transhumance to support wellbeing of people, animals and nature.
This awarded pilot project will explore the concept that the well-being of people, animals and the land is interconnected. The researchers will employ small-scale community transhumance—a traditional practice of moving with animals through seasonal grazing areas—to determine whether the custom can support wellbeing across all three.
Catalyst Award – Healthy Communities
Citizen led research on potential impacts at Loch Ken, with implications for the wider catchment
Residents of New Galloway have longstanding concerns about pollution in the town’s main freshwaters, particularly from sewage effluent and other inputs. This was identified as the top issue in a recent Community Council survey, which will inform the forthcoming Local Place Plan.
Catalyst Award – Healthy Communities
Green Spaces for Everyone - Youth-Led Research into Intersectional Access to Green Spaces
Through the awarded Green Spaces for Everyone project, the Scottish Youth Parliament will co-ordinate youth-led research into young people of colour’s safe access to and meaningful participation in the design and development of green spaces locally and nationally.
Catalyst Award – Healthy Communities
Healthy Planet, Healthy People: Catalyst Award 2025
Rescue. Preserve. Nourish: Turning Surplus into Sustenance
Run as a collaboration between Café Recharge co-founders Amanda Robinson and Amy Wight and Caroline Timmins, a product development technologist at Queen Margaret University, the Rescue. Preserve. Nourish: Turning Surplus into Sustenance project aims to investigate waste reduction through pilot dehydration trials using surplus vegetables and fruit.
Catalyst Award – Healthy Communities
Improving biodiversity in urban green spaces using participatory citizen science
Urban green areas play a significant role in supporting biodiversity, mitigating heat-related health risks and contributing to public health and resilience against climate change.
Catalyst Award – Healthy Communities
Owning Carfin Street Gardens
Offering access to 43 raised beds outside the People’s Pantry in Glasgow, Carfin Street Gardens encourages residents to learn about and take control of their food systems through weekly gardening sessions facilitated by a staff member.
Catalyst Award – Healthy Communities
Cupar FoodStation Project
The Cupar Foodstation Project aims to conduct feasibility research into opening a food-themed enterprise and welfare hub in the Cupar town centre, offering a community-led solution and a people-centred approach delivered through local organisations and food producers.
Catalyst Award – Healthy Communities
Healthy Planet, Healthy People: Catalyst Award 2024
Renfrewshire Land Connections
The Centre for Human Ecology proposes to assess and strengthen capabilities for regenerative land use to strengthen adaptation to climate change in Renfrewshire.
Catalyst Award – Healthy Communities
Dualchas: Dynamic connections between community and the land
The community, together with the cultural hub Grinneabhat, propose to investigate innovations that will enable the continuation and expansion of their existing food system.
Catalyst Award – Healthy Communities
Understanding the potential of a resident-led street closure programme – Play Streets in Inverness
Excessive motor vehicle use is an established problem affecting Scotland’s ability to meet its climate-change targets.
Catalyst Award – Healthy Communities
Project Year - 2023
Ecopoetics Report
Shaping sustainable food futures through education, engagement, and action for a healthy planet.
Public Learning Workshop 2023