NALC is helping DCLG and Locality deliver the Community Ownership and Management of Assets programme, 2015-16.Clerks to Direct Access Councils (those with electorate 6,000+) are strongly encouraged to apply to this programme if your council is part of a broader community partnership seeking to take over the management or running of a complex asset or multiple assets.
Please see the Blog created for the first nine successful applicants to the programme. NALC has already received a parish application under this programme. If you want more detailed information contact christine.lalley@ccberks.org.uk
Over 1,500 assets up and down the country have been listed as assets of community value under the Right to Bid legislation and hundreds of assets are now run by communities themselves. Feedback suggests that there is a real appetite for more support.
The Community Owned and Managed Assets programme & grants aim to help fill the gap in support for partnership working between community organisations and local public bodies.
The programme will support up to 50 partnerships between local public bodies such as local authorities and community groups (including parish councils). It will strengthen and increase opportunities for communities to take on the management and/or ownership of multiple assets and ground-breaking single asset projects that are important to the community, specifically those in public ownership.
Applications for grants are still currently available. To apply for the support and grants available, click here
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