This site helps you understand what Community Asset Transfer is, find spaces which might be suitable for CAT and understand the process. It also explains why Assets of Community Value are a different process, what they are and how you can get involved.
Community Asset Transfer CAT
Assets of Community Value ACV
Community Asset Transfer CAT allows community organisations to take on a long lease of a publicly owned building. It allows them to invest in the space, secure in the knowledge that they will be able to use it for a long period of time.
This site helps you find possible assets and understand how the transfer process
Community Asset Transfer CAT and Assets of Community Value ACV sometimes get muddled up. An ACV is a building or piece of land who’s main purpose has to been to provide social well-being. Community members can ask for the asset to be registered as an Asset of Community value, ACV. Once that happens the community will be notified if it’s listed for sale and will then have a 6 month period to raise the funds to buy it.
Community Asset Transfer CAT
Is Community Asset Transfer CAT right for you? Whether you’re running a community venue or live near a publicly owned assets that you’d like to do more with. CAT may be a route forward. Find out more here.
‘ … For voluntary and community groups there is a consistent and transparent pathway in Birmingham from the initial expression of interest in an asset to any agreed point of transfer … ‘ [read more]
Assets of Community Value ACV
To have a building or space added to the register of Assets you need to nominate it. To do that download the nomination form from here.
There is a list of Assets of Community Value in Birmingham. You can find it here.
PLEASE NOTE SOME OF THE INFORMATION MAY NOW BE SLIGHTLY OUT OF DATE BUT YOU MAY FIND IT USEFUL TO SEE SOME OF THE PROJECTS THAT TOOK PART IN THE PROGRAMME FROM 2008 - 2011 Since 2011 there has been a Cabinet approved agreed Birmingham CAT Protocol and Way of Working...
Saba Salman of the The Guardian Voluntary Sector network was attracted to write about Birmingham and it's community asset tranfer work after finding the warts and all case studies on this website. In a piece she called Making community asset transfer work, she wrote:...
Sport England have just launched an interactive asset transfer toolkit for sport – commissioned by Sport England and produced by Locality's Asset Transfer Unit. The toolkit is a good first point of information on asset transfer from a sports perspective. The toolkit...
Pool Watch, a partnership between The ASA and British Gas, have published a useful set of factsheets related to swimming pools threatened with closure, including a factsheet on asset transfer and asset disposal: Building your case (pdf, 723kb) The Consultation Phase...
UnLtd and Channel 4 have just launched a simple programme which might help someone prime some work for a community asset transfer. Below is lifted from the Unltd website. About the Programme The Spaces 4 Change Awards from UnLtd and Channel 4 provides funding and...
Community Asset Transfer..."There are risks but they can be minimised and managed - there is plenty of experience to draw on. The secret is all parties working together" (The Quirk Review - "Making Assets Work") It is hoped that this website will act as a support and...