Membership roundup 2025

Throughout 2025 the membership team has supported members to share their views and experiences and work together to shape change.

During 2025 the membership team have facilitated new networks across the sector and strengthened the involvement of our members across our organisations wider work. Through our quarterly ALLIANCE Connect networking sessions, our members have had opportunity to present their work, gather insights from across the sector, and connect with likeminded members around focused themes. This year, to foster more impactful collaboration and partnership, our networking sessions have been themed to connect members around focused interests. Across 2025, over 100 members have connected around key topics including support for unpaid carers, supported self management, mental health and learning disabilities.

In establishing a new media campaign in partnership with ALISS, we have worked with our members to spotlight a diverse range of community based services across Scotland. This spotlight campaign has become a valued tool to support our members to showcase their work, learning and services with colleagues across the sector and connect individuals to their services.

The membership team has continued work to strengthen our members policy influence and collective voice. The addition of our bi-annual policy forum meetings has provided a welcome space for members to connect with our policy work and to share, discuss and consider key collective policy interests facing the health and social care sector. These sessions have supported members to influence our work and seek support from fellow members on key campaigns and agenda.

ALLIANCE members have engaged with a diverse range of opportunities to shape health and social care delivery across a regular host of engagement sessions. These workshops and meetings have provided members a platform to convene with and influence key stakeholders across the Scottish Government and Health Boards, ensuring that lived experience and insights from the third sector continue to drive impactful change across Health and Social Care.
Membership has strengthened opportunities to keep our members up to date with the latest changes, policies, and issues facing the third sector. Central to this has been the addition of a monthly newsletter feature from our Chief Officer Sara Redmond. This regular update provides our members with key insights and updates from across the sector and signposts opportunities for our members to have their say.

Building community around cross-cutting issues, facilitating collaborative discussion, and fostering dialogue around best practice has long been core to the work of the membership team. This year the team has led on the implementation of the Community of Practice – Right to Health, which has supported members to form a community of support around the topic of human rights and health inequalities.

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