Outside the Box provides independent community development support to community groups and smaller enterprises. We help develop opportunities for people to have a voice and influence their communities and the services they use. We began in 2004 and since then have supported over 500 projects across Scotland. We work with people and communities involving people at every stage, from exploring options and issues, identifying solutions, setting up and delivering projects and evaluations.

We work in this way because we have found that it has the greatest impact on people’s lives, their communities and the way services are organised. Most of the work we do is with people experiencing and working against systemic discrimination and barriers, and we use an intersectionality-informed, rights-based approach to supporting their action.