# Community Benefits Scotland

> Community Benefits Scotland is an independent, plain-English reference explaining what community benefits are in Scotland, the law behind them (the Procurement Reform (Scotland) Act 2014 and the Community Wealth Building (Scotland) Act 2026), how they relate to community wealth building, inclusive growth, sustainable procurement and the English social-value model, why they matter, and why delivering them well at scale is hard. It is published by Teomach Limited, the team behind the Cenefits platform, and is independent of and not endorsed by any government or public body.

## Key pages
- [What are community benefits](https://communitybenefits.scot/what-are-community-benefits/): the plain-English definition, grounded in the Procurement Reform (Scotland) Act 2014, the £4m threshold, the common types with concrete examples, and how Scotland's contractual model differs from English "social value".
- [The landscape](https://communitybenefits.scot/the-landscape/): how community benefits relate to community wealth building, inclusive growth, sustainable procurement, Fair Work First and the English social-value model — the deliverable layer beneath the wider policy goals.
- [Why they matter](https://communitybenefits.scot/why-they-matter/): what's at stake for communities and the growing legal duties, including the Community Wealth Building (Scotland) Act 2026.
- [Delivering community benefits](https://communitybenefits.scot/delivering-community-benefits/): why securing a commitment is easy but evidencing genuine delivery at scale is hard, and what good delivery looks like.
- [Resources & glossary](https://communitybenefits.scot/resources/): key Scottish legislation and guidance, a glossary, and FAQs with links to primary sources on legislation.gov.uk and gov.scot.
- [About](https://communitybenefits.scot/about/): who publishes this site (Teomach Limited, the team behind Cenefits) and why.

## About the publisher
Teomach Limited builds Cenefits (https://cenefits.com/), software for securing, delivering, evidencing and reporting community benefits at scale, used by councils across Scotland. A sister reference for Wales is at https://communitybenefits.wales/.