SURF Regeneration Bulletin for SFHA members
Quarterly briefing for SFHA members, produced in partnership with SURF – Scotland's Regeneration Forum.
Introduction
Welcome to the first in a new series of briefings produced for SFHA members by SURF – Scotland’s Regeneration Forum. Each quarter, SURF will highlight the latest developments on policy and practice in place-based regeneration in Scotland. Briefings will cover emerging policy changes, exemplar projects, new funding programmes, relevant SURF initiatives and key news items.
Regeneration is a wide-ranging and fast-evolving policy agenda, and SURF hopes these briefings will inform and inspire SFHA members’ wider role activities.
What is SURF?
Established in 1992, SURF is a charity that brings together those concerned about the regeneration of Scotland’s deprived places. SURF’s cross-sector membership comprises over 300 organisations across Scotland, from community groups and local authorities to businesses and voluntary bodies.
SURF activities include seminars, conferences, research programmes, study visits, policy campaigning, annual awards for best practice, and the distribution of comment and information. Through its close links to national and local government, SURF acts as a constructive channel for information, consultation and policy proposals, based on the knowledge and experience of its extensive membership.
SURF and SFHA are long-standing collaborators, with many shared interests such as affordable housing, fuel poverty, retrofitting, spatial planning, and place-based partnership working. All SFHA members receive free SURF membership from our partnership agreement.
SURF greatly values the ideas, knowledge and experience that SFHA members contribute to SURF’s events programme, policy consultation responses and network interactions. We look forward to further enhancing this relationship during the new term of the Scottish Parliament.
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