Community Assets Transfer

Empowering Communities: Live Blogging this morning…

Mick Fealty on January 29, 2013, 9:55 am

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Digital Lunch will be live in this window from about 1pm… Here’s a warmer/explainer for the seminar I’m at this morning in the beautifully renovated Crumlin Road Gaol (it really is stunning folks) from Gordon Hector of the Joseph Rowntree Foundation who along with the Building Change Trust have funded and organised a sensemaking exercise on the issue of the transfer of assets from the state to community and voluntary groups. From about 10am, I’ll be live tweeting from the …

#CATJRF Playing a game to realise community assets – and collaboration

David Wilcox on March 13, 2012, 3:41 pm

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It can be really difficult to help people both think more enterprisingly about their community project, and also consider collaborating with groups who in the past may have been competitors for resources. Games may help develop some shared understanding, and also build relationships and trust. Last year Drew Mackie and I ran a workshop game at the Community Matters annual conference on just this, based on the fictitious town of Slapham. The conference game was based on earlier ones, and …

#Community Asset Transfer: Moving away from the ‘poor mouth’ paradigm of community politics?

Mick Fealty on March 5, 2012, 2:50 pm

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Regarding our ongoing series on Community Asset Transfer one focus for distrust has been the sense that most such projects will continue to rely to a greater or lesser extent on grant aid or delivering public services. Niamh Goggin from the independently funded Charity Bank says that there is a change implied from what’s been almost a generation of dependency on grant aid. We’re moving, she says, from ‘putting on the poor mouth’ to ‘let’s do the show right here’. …

Slugger online debate on ‘community asset transfer’ starts next week…

Mick Fealty on February 13, 2012, 2:56 pm

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From next Monday, Slugger will play host to a series of blog essays and on-the-ground interviews on the subject of community asset transfer (see this piece on the Guardian’s blog for an idea of what it actually is). Here’s the Asset Transfer Unit’s description: …asset transfer is a shift in management and / or ownership of land or buildings, from public bodies, (most commonly local authorities), to communities, (community and voluntary sector groups, community enterprises, social enterprises, etc). The main …