How to do Community Asset Transfer
Start with some research
Please watch this video
It’s about 40 minutes long but it talks you through the whole process for Community Asset Transfer in Birmingham.
It will be worth your time.
Flow Chart of the city council process in Birmingham
Useful Documents
Read this flowchart to understand the process better – download flowchart
You can download the initial application form from here.
An updated narrative on Community Asset transfer in Birmingham – May 2024.
Valuing Worth
Valuing Worth
Community Asset Transfers create new opportunities for social benefits.
Birmingham City Council committed to develop a method to carefully assess and acknowledge the social value that is added by the organisation and its activities. It’s what we call “valuing worth”.
It can help with:
Measuring the social value of asset transfer (which can be offset against the market rent)
Measuring the longer-term impact of giving or formalising control of a physical asset
News on Community Asset Transfer
New Community Asset Transfer list available now!
Birmingham City Council is currently seeking Expressions of Interest from community organisations for a series of Birmingham buildings which are available for Community Asset Transfer. If you are a not-for-profit organisation with community aims, and you're interested...
Birmingham City Council – Community Asset Transfer Process
PLEASE NOTE SOME OF THE INFORMATION MAY NOW BE SLIGHTLY OUT OF DATE BUT YOU MAY FIND IT USEFUL TO SEE SOME OF THE PROJECTS THAT TOOK PART IN THE PROGRAMME FROM 2008 - 2011 Since 2011 there has been a Cabinet approved agreed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...
The Guardian reports on Birmingham’s Community Asset Transfer work.
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:...