How we work

Comas is an independent community development agency. We receive no core funding and develop our work using grants and commissions.

We provide consultancy services to organisations seeking to learn and grow their resources, taking on commissions to do pieces of work that fit with with our broad values of social justice and resilient communities and people.

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Our ethical promise is to find the most cost effective way of supporting you and only working with you when we are sure our experience matches your needs.

·   We are a voluntary organisation dedicated to supporting people and organisations working for change.

·   We seek grants and donations to support our work, but most of our services in Scotland are provided as a social enterprise - we charge an hourly or daily rate.

·   We aim to be affordable and to provide added value to your cause. We don't charge for stuff you don't need and don't pretend to know what we don't (but we do know quite a lot).

·   We provide a limited pro bono (unpaid) service for new or struggling organisations which we believe have great potential. Find out more information and an application for this here.

·   We will carry out preparatory work with organisations to gain funding to collaborate with us, where your timescale is flexible but your funds are not.

·   We are open to working with a consortium of organisations with similar needs on one brief, for the same rate as one organisation, to help you spread the costs. We will try to find synergies between the needs of different organisations to maximise our cost effectiveness and deliver more.

·   We are open and transparent in our relationships, clarifying the brief and providing you with time-logs and regular updates. We invite you to comment on and evaluate our work for you as it progresses.

We ask organisations working with us to allow us to share the tools and models we develop with others, so that we are never paid twice for the same piece of work and benefit is shared across communities.

Our policies

Confidentiality

Safety, Care and Protection (Children and Vulnerable Adults)

Health and Safety Policy

Equality and Diversity Policy