INTRODUCTION
Communities Scotland provided the University of Edinburgh with a grant in response to a proposal from the research team to undertake a pilot study to identify useful indicators for measuring the progress made by project participants and communities as a result of their involvement in community learning and development projects ( CLD). The fieldwork for this was undertaken between February and April 2007. The aim of the research was to establish - through the retrospective accounts of participants - the nature and significance of the changes they had experienced in terms of building social capital. The findings of this research are detailed below. Another related aim of the research was to develop a research tool for projects to self-measure social capital outcomes. This is attached as appendix four.