These case studies showcase the range of work undertaken across Scotland.
Hopefully you will be inspired by these stories to do something similar in your local community.
Our Case Studies have been split in to different categories, click the link below for themed Case Studies:
Young people and staff from SCYD took part in Young Placechangers to develop the outdoor area at their base, Wellmeadow House in Blairgowrie. Read more
RASAC Youth Ambassadors volunteer to help RASAC, a sexual violence support charity. The group were involved in gender-based and safety placemaking activities in Auchterarder. Read more
Perth Climate Champions formed for an initiative to support young people as part of the COP26 event that took place in Glasgow, the group took part in a Young Placechangers during 2022. Read more
The initial idea was to develop a meeting space in Alyth Town Centre but with more people and groups meeting outside this developed in to creating a covered seating area with lighting and planting Read more
June's project of the month is a celebration of young people taking the lead in Alyth and delivering a project in the town centre to improve a space and tackle social isolation. Read more
Banchory Skatepark Group go the extra mile to involve community using their Seedcorn Grant to take a stall at Banchory Show in July 2019, at which they shared their plans and gathered responses and support. Read more
Breathe Aberfeldy used their Seedcorn and Idea Fund support to create "walk and talk" and "wellbeing walk" to make the most of their local nature Read more
Project of the Month for October is the Block by Block Foundation an innovative collaboration between Mojang, Microsoft, and UN-Habitat. The Foundation's work integrate the computer game Minecraft into public space planning with communities Read more
Following on from their anti-litter campaign, the Ideas Fund grant was used to improve signage in the woodland. The young people were involved in designing the signs, measuring distances and deciding where the signs should go. Read more
I now feel I can talk to new people, just like I did at the residential. It has also made me feel more included in sharing ideas and views, making decisions and making changes... Read more
The 30th Craigalmond (Davidson’s Mains) Scout Group is based in Edinburgh. The Scout section has approx. 30 members between the ages of 10 ½ and 14, and the leaders of the section suggested the scouts get involved in the Young Placechangers Programme. Read more
The Young Placechangers project worked with a wider group of young people to raise awareness of local woodlands, and to invite people to reclaim and enjoy them. Read more
Coaches from the Club worked with the Zetland Park Development Officer and Friends of Zetland Park to promote and put on cycling taster sessions in the park supporting the new Grangemouth Bike Library. Read more
FARE were working with a group of S4 pupils from Easterhouse Glasgow, and having attended a Young Placechangers Residential weekend, the young folk were inspired to apply for Seedcorn funding to undertake creative consultation in their community Read more
GUEST is a team of 12 students employed by the university on a part-time basis to work on improving the environmental practice of the university. The team wanted to revitalise the Wildlife Garden and promote it as a space open to all Read more
Heart and Sound is a youth work and creative media charity based in Dunfermline, Fife. After attending a Young Placechangers residential weekend a Seedcorn grant was secured to take forward their placechanging idea to make Heart and Sound a little bit greener Read more
In June 2018, two young people and a youth worker from Heart & Sound took part in a Young Placechangers Residential training weekend. Find out what happened next........ Read more
The coming together of HYPE East Lothian (Helping Young People Engage) and Crofthead Farm Community Centre in Livingston, is a super blend of placemaking and heritage facilities. Read more
After attending the first Young Placechangers residential training weekend the group received Seedcorn funding to hold an open day at the Dalmeny Community Centre, Barrhead Read more
Despite there being a youth club at Lambhill Stables, young people often said it wasn’t always obvious that this was a place where young people would be welcome…and that was the beginning of the Youth Garden Project. Read more
A Young Placechangers training day was held for Angus Council staff. It was attended by CLD (Community Learning & Development) staff, and by a local planning officer. Read more
Pupils at Morgan Academy used their Seedcorn grant to create a garden from an area of waste ground to the rear of the school, building benches, planter boxes, bird houses and feeders. Read more
The Northern Corridor Community Volunteers and young people worked to make improvements to a little used greenspace behind the Moodiesburn Pivot Community Centre. Read more
Placechanging conversations at PEEK create space to talk about life and feelings Read more
Rumpus Room led a creative consultation, with the aim of improving the environmental quality, biodiversity, playability and vibrancy of the shared outdoor space at Rumpus Room, engaging with others in the surrounding Govanhill community, as well as with groups that currently used the space Read more
The S2 DYA Crew are a group of young people at Our Lady and St Patrick’s High School, Dumbarton involved in a series of environmental projects in the school grounds to make the place more welcoming and to incorporate growing spaces. They had been gifted over 1000 native trees from The Woodland Trust. Read more
The group wanted to protect and transform a disused a bowling green used by them in the summer months; owned and managed by Glasgow Life. Using Seedcorn and later an Ideas Fund grant to develop their place changing idea. Read more
Attended by over 200 children, young people and adults the Young Placechangers held Brechin’s first outdoor cinema! The event was a great success and a huge boost of confidence for the Street Games young placechangers. Read more
A Group of pupils from Speyside High School, Aberlour wanted to get the community onboard with their passion for plastic use reduction. As the Speyside Eco-Refill Station Group they applied independently to take part in Young Placechangers through the Ideas Fund programme. Read more