What's your action.scot – Tell us your action

What's your action?

#WhatsYourAction

The journey towards change starts with action. What’s yours?

WhatsYourAction.scot sets out actions we can all take to speed up our becoming a more prosperous, sustainable, inclusive and fair country.

This is a resource for everyone who lives in Scotland and wants to help to create a better country. Actions made in our everyday lives and across our communities can bring change.

We have gathered a list of actions, shared for all to use on WhatsYourAction.scot, by listening to the people and communities across Scotland, whose voices represent a wide section of our society.

Together, they are all calling for one thing – change.

Three priorities came up consistently in the research, and people saw these as interlinked.

Be actively kind, considerate and connected in all aspects of your life

Take more and faster action to support nature and the environment, including through tackling climate change

Make conscious choices with money

"Start where you are, use what you have, do what you can"

Arthur Ashe, via John Carnochan

People across Scotland have shared their actions. What’s yours?

I’m going to pick up litter

Help my neighbour

Deliver meals to old people

Get involved with planting trees

Using less plastic

I’m using pawprint to help me improve my carbon footprint

Pawprint

Taking part in Scotland Rocks

Scotland rocks

Making time to stop and chat

Lending tools to my neighbours

Helping my neighbour garden

Cleaning up my local park

Picking up 10 items of litter a day on my walk

Do a socially distanced Big Lunch to get to know my neighbours.

Our new street WhatsApp group helped everyone look after each other

Help my neighbour use WhatsApp to keep in touch with their family

I’m getting fitter by walking everyday outside

Guided walks with people who have hearing/sight impairments in my local area

I am driving less

I have stopped sharing anything negative on social media

I am losing weight so I can be healthier

I am going to vote

Local Breeze rides - I’ll take people who lack confidence on bikes to local places of beauty.

I am growing vegetables and giving the spare stuff to my neighbours

I spending more money with local businesses

I will start a community walk to reach out to neighbours and increase pride in our local area.

I am making more effort to speak to people not like me

I changed my pension into sustainable fund

I will start helping at the food bank

I joined mealmakers

Mealmakers

I am holding a competition for windowsill art to make friends with those who can't leave their homes.

I have increased my donations to charity to help more people

Ask my school to do more on anti-racist education

I planted wildflowers to make people smile

I got involved with my community council to help improve my area

I smile at people when I’m on my walks or at work.