About this webinar
Every year 4,000 Local Authority buildings and spaces are being sold off, and with councils under increasing financial pressure more are likely to be sold off in the coming years.
With your help community organisations can save valued local assets and create thriving neighbourhoods.
This webinar will help Local Authorities to understand the benefits and challenges of community ownership and how councils can sell or transfer assets into community ownership.
Who is the webinar for
Local Authorities
What will you learn:
- The benefits of communities taking ownership of assets (both council and private)
- Why community ownership is important and how it can help your neighbourhoods thrive
- Recommendations of how to support communities taking on assets
- What community asset transfer looks like, how you manage it and key issues
- What good community asset transfer processes can look like in practice
- The benefits for and challenges facing community organisations and Black and minoritised communities
- About the Community Ownership Fund (COF) and the opportunity available
- How you can support groups applying to COF or other funds
Speakers
- Cathy Varley – Locality
- Debbie Lamb – Locality
- Steve Sayers – Windmill Hill City Farm
- Phil Tulba – Ubele
Agenda
- Welcome and overview of session
- Why community ownership is important, benefits to communities
- Q&A
- COF - the opportunity available and how Local Authorities can support groups
- Q&A
- Community Asset Transfer, what it looks like, how you manage it and key issues plus the benefits of community ownership for Local Authorities
- Q&A
- Challenges facing community organisations, Black and Minoritised communities
- Q&A
- What can good practice look like - an open discussion with opportunity for peer learning and space for further questions
- Wrap up and further support
How will it be delivered
This webinar will take place online on Zoom. We'll send out the Zoom link with the joining instructions before the session.
The webinar will run for two hours.
The webinar will be broken up into topics with information sharing, through a presentation.
Each topic will be followed by a short Q&A session - this will be through the Q&A feature on Zoom.
We will send out a recording of the webinar and slides to attendees after the event.
Your access needs
We want to make sure you can engage in our sessions, so please make sure to share any access needs you have on the booking form. We will be in touch to ensure we are making the right adjustments for you.
We try and share as much information as possible about what to expect before our online events, so you feel prepared for the session. This includes any digital tools we will use during the workshop. So just let us know any support or adjustments you need.
All our online events have closed captions available.