Monthly Archives: March 2011

View from the Sector Cascading Asset Transfer was a course run by the Asset Transfer Unit and funded through Capacitybuilders Income Generation Workstream, funded by Capacitybuilders and the Asset Transfer Unit. The aim of the course is to equip workers in VCS infrastructure support organisations with the knowledge to support both VCS groups and local […]

Navigating Community Asset Development can be confusing, hard work and scary. Working with a whole range of partners, technical experts and professionals can be daunting even for the most experienced of groups- even harder when often you are doing this in your spare time as a volunteer! The Asset Transfer Unit has produced a second […]

Building Community The Building Community resource has been developed by the ATU to showcase real time, real life stories of Asset Transfer from around the country. It has been designed to inspire and inform, and contains community centres and castles and everything in between! www.buildingcommunity.org.uk

Persuading Local Authorities to understand, support and resource Community Asset Development can be quite a challenge. Through the Advancing Assets for Communities Programme however, 100 local authorities rose to the challenge of developing a robust and strategic approach to Asset Transfer. This has resulted in the production of several tools and guidance documents to help […]

The current environment of public sector cuts, public service transformation and the Big Society has shone a spotlight on the opportunities afforded by transferring assets into community ownership. The Asset Transfer Unit has responded to this emerging challenge by offering support around a whole range of different asset types. Swimming Pools Heritage Assets Libraries