Tools and advice to help you take action
How Locality's expert consultancy can help
Good governance within Neighbourhood Boards is crucial to ensuring Pride in Place plans succeed. We can help you set up your Neighbourhood Board correctly so you achieve your goals. We can advise on the recruitment and training of board members so that they understand their roles, legal structures and rules for new organisations, and we can help you create policies and procedures so you make effective decisions.
You will need to develop a vision for your Neighbourhood Board and priorities for how you will spend your Pride in Place funding. We can help you create a plan that helps you achieve your goals, engage key stakeholders, funders and your community, and sustain your impact after the Pride in Place funding ends. We have experience of business planning, feasibility studies, market analysis, financial modelling and impact measurement.
We can help you design and deliver inclusive ways to reach and engage with local people, and to embed community engagement practices throughout your plans. This will make sure that everyone’s contributions are heard and local people are at the heart of your priorities and decisions.
As the national experts on community ownership, we can help you to make the most of community assets so that the long term benefits of community ownership remain after the Pride in Place funding ends.
We can help you to assess the options, create a business plan, and understand how to manage spaces effectively so that they remain true community assets in the future rather than becoming burdens on the community. We have tools, advice and more information about how we can help with community ownership here.
We can help you build relationships, set up a network, and work with others at a local, regional or national level to achieve change. We have Locality members in all the Pride in Place neighbourhoods, relationships with many local authorities and other public bodies, as well as regional and national experts.
We can help you measure the impact of your work, so you can evidence the difference you make to government and your community. We can help you develop your theory of change, collect the right quantitative and qualitative data, and showcase your impact.
Lessons for building Pride in Place
At Locality we have decades of community regeneration experience. We've worked on various government programmes and with thousands of community organisations, including our 2,000 members. We have learnt that:
- Community power must be central
Local people and community groups must be central to Neighbourhood Boards and have a say over decisions, not just be consulted. - Invest in social infrastructure
Community organisations, meeting spaces, and local networks form the foundation of strong neighbourhoods. - Ownership creates lasting change
When communities own local assets such as buildings and spaces, they generate long-term economic and social benefits. - Long-term investment matters more than short projects
Sustainable funding and legacy planning are essential for lasting impact. Local economies grow through community organisations
The key to achieving jobs, enterprise, and local wealth retention is to work through community organisations themselves.There are more lessons in this article from our CEO Tony Armstrong, in our webinar with advice for communities - watch below and view the slides.
How we can help
At Locality we believe in the power of community to transform lives. We provide paid specialist advice, support and resources for community organisations, charities, social enterprises, local authorities, and others.
We are mission led, so we only do work which aligns with our ambition for strong and successful community organisations and thriving communities.
If you’re looking for support in any of the areas above, or you're just feeling stuck and want to talk to someone who has done something similar, get in touch.
Contact us to find out how we can help.