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...
by Karen Cheney | Jul 11, 2010 | Building work, Community, Community Asset Transfer, Lessons, Norton Hall
Interview at the Norton hall open day on July 11th 2010, Stevie Prior is the Norton Hall director who’s been involved in much of the negotiation over Community Asset Transfer. Here’s a sumary of her thoughts.. “Delighted to have got to this stage, ...
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