A Review of Foundation Scotland’s Approach to Community Benefit Funds

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Gowens, Rebecca and Hannon, Matthew and Roberts, Jennifer J. and Cairns, Iain and Major, Laura (2025) A Review of Foundation Scotland’s Approach to Community Benefit Funds. University of Strathclyde, Glasgow. (https://doi.org/10.17868/strath.00094730)

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Abstract

A Community Benefit Fund (CBF) is a voluntary fund that is capitalised by a project developer or owner(s), based on a pre-agreed package of community benefits for one or more communities as outlined in a Community Benefit Agreement (CBA). These packages typically involve annual payments and/or in-kind community benefits that are proportional to the scale of the project. The fund is normally governed and re-invested locally, with the aim of generating community benefits through sharing project revenue with communities to invest in local priorities.

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Gowens, Rebecca, Hannon, Matthew ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7811-3991, Roberts, Jennifer J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4505-8524, Cairns, Iain ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0753-9589 and Major, Laura ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7327-3101;
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