These case studies showcase a range of "Better outside - using our spaces more" projects taking place across in green and open space, even bluespace across Scotland. Hopefully you will be inspired by these stories and be able to use the Top Tips to do something similar in your local community.
Thanks to £4,000 from Tesco Bags of Help, the northern loop of the Woodland Walk beside Eskrigg Reserve is no longer accessible only to walkers in wellies! Read more
Bags of Help funding of £5,000 helped Keith & Dufftown Railway Association (KDRA) to improve the embankment at Keith Town Railway Station and to plant a small native tree sanctuary. Read more
A Tesco Bags of Help grant of £3,000 has helped to create a pond platform at Beechbrae Wild Pond so that it now provides a free and open community asset for Blackridge village. Read more
Twelve projects share £28,000 of Tesco Bags of Help grants to celebrate, educate, protect and promote our seas and the living things who depend on them. Read more
A bespoke play area, at the heart of the community and with the community at heart – thanks to £10,000 from Tesco Bags of Help and a lot of wheelbarrowing of safety bark by volunteers. Read more
With a Tesco Bags of Help grant of £10,000 and help from many volunteers, the Balgreen Community Garden project in Edinburgh has transformed a derelict space alongside the City’s Water of Leith - ‘a silver thread in a ribbon of green’ - into a great place for people and wildlife. Read more
A Tesco Bags of Help award of £2,000 brings local people, experienced naturalists and nature together to protect Scotland's rarest bumblebee with a ‘mini machair’ network. Read more
In Keith, Bags of Help contributed £1,000 to REAP (Rural Environmental Action Project) to help residents living around Den Crescent make their communal areas nicer to look at, to sit in and to walk in and to renew the benches and artwork. Read more
Bags of Help contributed £2,000 to help volunteers restore Castle Hill, in Cullen to its former glory, so that local people and visitors to the area can enjoy the historic site and the spectacular panoramic view of Cullen Bay. Read more
Bags of Help awards have transformed the garden experience at Ellon Academy, £10,000 helped establish and fence the school garden and a second award of £4,000 built a polytunnel classroom. Read more
Bags of Help contributed £10,000 to help create Murton's Marvellous Nature Trail at Murton Trust Nature Reserve. Read more
Moray Foodbank were awarded £4,000 from Bags of Help and developed a cooking and cultivating project with residents at The Royal emergency homeless accommodation. Read more
Across Scotland, millions of pounds have been awarded from Tesco Bags of Help to inspiring projects that have involved thousands of children and young people. Read more
After receiving £12,000 from Bags of Help for an outdoor classroom, Ullapool Primary Parent Council programmed a series of environmental education workshops exploring issues and researching solutions with further Bags of Help funding. Read more
Cyrenians developed a community garden in the Royal Edinburgh hospital with help from a Bags of Help grant of £12,000. The project focussed on building participation from the local community and providing benefits for patients. Read more
The volunteer rescue team received £4,000 from Bags of Help to replace essential search and rescue clothing to ensure they have the best equipment to protect them in often dangerous activities. They are one of the busiest mountain rescue teams in Scotland. Read more
Communities the length and breadth of Scotland have been using Bags of Help grants to support projects that create, improve and use their greenspaces to help promote and sustain health and wellbeing. Read more
The Kintyre Angling Club shows just what a small voluntary group can do with the minimum Bags of Help award of £1,000 and great voluntary effort. Read more
All across Scotland, from Stranraer to Scalloway and Turriff to Tiree, Bags of Help grants have enabled communities to boost biodiversity and encouraged local people to get involved in projects which support nature. Read more
A Tesco Bags of Help award of £4,704 helped the Tarland Development Group -Bee Group, to start their own Queen Bee rearing project. Read more
Beasties, Bugs and Bairns used Tesco Bags of Help funding of £2,000 to get children out into local Wild Places. Read more
Disability Snowsport UK was awarded £4,000 from Tesco Bags of Help to introduce local disabled people to the Cairngorm Mountain ski school in the Scottish Highlands. Read more
Thanks to Bags of Help investment many, many miles of pathways in Scotland have opened routes to discovery in and around cities, towns, villages and in the countryside. Read more
Murrayfield Allotment Association used £2,000 from Tesco Bags of Help to purchase and install a wildlife observation cabin, which is accessible to all allotment users, including the local primary school. Read more