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Hutton Hall Community Centre, Washwood Heat
Photo of Hutton Hall Celebration Event by Podnosh UPDATE jan 14 - unfortunately Hutton Hall has been taken back into the city council following a number of difficulties with the community organisation who were the preferred community partner. There is always going to...
Cascading Asset Transfer
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...
To Have and To Hold- Help for Community Asset Development
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...
Building Community
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...
Local Authority Guidance- support for 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...
Community Assets in 2011
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...
Community Asset Transfer in Birmingham – Key Lessons – Karen Cheney
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 Services......
Helping Communities to Develop Assets- Asset Transfer Unit
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 develop...
Asset Transfer in the West Midlands
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....