by Karen Cheney | Mar 24, 2011 | Community Asset Transfer
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...
by Karen Cheney | Mar 24, 2011 | Community Asset Transfer
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...
by Sue Beardsmore | Feb 17, 2011 | Community Asset Transfer, Community Development, Lessons
Karen Cheney has been the co-ordinator of the Community Asset Transfer Development Programme as part of her job as Senior Manager – Community Empowerment Projects Lead in the Neighbourhood and Communities Team of Birmingham City Council – Constituency...
by Karen Cheney | Jan 4, 2011 | Community Asset Transfer
For the past four years the Development Trusts Association has been delivering a programme for CLG called Advancing Assets for Communities. We’ve been working closely with local authorities and community organisations to help pilot transfers to happen, and to...
by Karen Cheney | Dec 4, 2010 | Community Asset Transfer
As part of the Every Voice Counts community empowerment programme, the Development Trusts Association and the Asset Transfer Unit, with support from Community Matters have been doing some work to find out about opportunities for Asset Transfer in the West Midlands....
by podnosh | Jul 26, 2010 | Community Asset Transfer
A short video from the Asset Transfer Unit on their site Building Community – one which describes the essence of community driven change – the desire to just get it done. Of course a lot of the lessons found on this site and others show that getting things...
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