Common Questions

Who is Corra Foundation?

Corra is an independent Scottish grant-maker. You can find out more about us, our history, and our work (including why we’re focusing on place-based approaches to community development) at our website corra.scot

What is Every One Every Day?

Every One Every Day is an approach to building participation in communities. It began in Barking and Dagenham when Participatory City Foundation built the first place-based approach of this kind.

Corra Foundation began to explore the idea in 2018, and take the lead in developing the ideas for Scotland. We have previously referred to this as ‘Participatory Scotland’ but have borrowed the ‘Every One Every Day’ branding as people responded to it well and it joins us to the world wide family of projects. You can check out Barking and Dagenham’s experience and Every One Every Day Canada to see how the approach works in different places.

How does this differ from what already exists?

It’s aimed at supporting a way of working that citizens themselves have been inventing over recent years. There are opportunities for all kinds of people no matter what their background or experience. Everyone is welcome. The majority of things that happen are the simple, quick, things-in-common projects – the cooking, making, mending, sharing, playing, learning, chatting things.

Is it a volunteering programme?

Every One Every Day is not a volunteering programme. This is about communities made by everyone, for everyone, and on an equal footing. The approach works with residents to help create projects that directly benefit you, your neighbours, friends and family. it doesn’t require certain skills, or time commitments. In fact, it works becuase people bring along different things – skills, ideas, resources, thoughts.

Every One Every Day isn’t dependant on a small core of dedicated volunteers but instead on lots of people coming forward to do different things at different times. What happens through the project entirely depends on what people would like to see happen – and what they have the energy for. This means that activities will shift and change throughout the year. It puts power in people’s hands to decide how and when they get involved and welcomes everyone along as equal and valued participants.

Where is Every One Every Day happening in Scotland? Can we bring it to our town/ city/ place?

As of 2025, research and development work has taken place in Kirkcaldy and across Renfrewshire. Corra is aiming to have a full scale programme happening in Kirkcaldy in Spring 2025.

The development of the Every One Every Day approach takes for a whole range of stakeholders to agree it’s the right approach and commit to supporting it. It needs champions from across different sectors, a population density that means enough activity can take place, and an interest in co-creating the approach to fit each place whilst retaining the essential ethos of the original. Corra Foundation are happy to talk to people who might be interested in the approach to discuss how it works and reflect on the experience of developing the approach for Scotland so far.

Can I apply for a grant through this programme?

Although Corra Foundation is also a grant-funder, ‘Every One Every Day’ does not include a grant-making aspect. Instead it is about building the physical spaces, resources and support in a place to enable a large range of projects to be tried and developed in communities. For Corra’s grant-making you can check out our Grants information.