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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....
Co‐Production in Neighbourhoods: the Neighbourhood Equity Model
This is new report on co-production in Birmingham's neighbourhoods which proposes a Neighbourhood Equity Model. (Download as a pdf here). The Model argues that if government works to help communities empower themselves through taking on commissions to provide...
Theresa McIlkenny, Director, Norton Hall – “…this place is life changing”
Theresa Mcilkenny recently became a director at Norton hall after years benefiting from the services it provides for her and her son. Here she shares her thoughts on why community run places have particular strengths… Becoming a director seemed like a natural...