Resources

Community Asset Transfer Resources
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Links
BCC Community Asset Transfer Interview Guidance
The Community Hub Handbook
Community Assets - Jargon Buster
Community Asset Transfer in Birmingham
Platform Places blog - Fundraising for Community Assets: What to Consider
Assets of Community Value
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Links
Save Birmingham ACV Guidance
BCM - Understanding Assets of Community Value
BCM webinar recording - ACVs and CATs
Downloads
Asset of Community Value Nomination Form57.41 KB
Asset of Community Value Nomination Form - template for Parks977.19 KB
Asset of Community Value Nomination Form - template for Libraries215.22 KB
Funding Information
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Links
General funding information from BVSC
Engage for Funding Search Portal
Engage for Funding Forum – join here
Birmingham Community Lottery – raise unrestricted funding for your organisation
easyfundraising – ongoing income through online purchasing
Locality Resources
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What can you do about local authority cuts?

Links
View advice for communities at locality.org.uk
Downloads
Communuty Powered Neighbourhoods report3.07 MB
National Association for Voluntary and Community Action
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Downloads
Local VCSE infrastructure: What does good look like?3.31 MB
Local Trust
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Links
Why community spaces and places matter more than we realise
Downloads
Community Buildings: Strong Foundations for Renewal. Report by Local Trust and New Local.6.16 MB
ICON
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Independent Commission on Neighbourhoods.

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Delivering Neighbourhood Renewal: Proposals For Change509.58 KB
Think Neighbourhoods: A new approach to fixing the country's biggest policy challenges685.85 KB
Real Democracy In Your Town
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Public-civic Partnerships in Action - report by Green European Foundation

Downloads
Download the report10.8 MB
Localis
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Other Ideas: Centralisation, local decline, and the future of community power

Downloads
Download Other Ideas2.9 MB
Barrow Cadbury Grant Final Report, August 2025
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This is the final report submitted to the Barrow Cadbury Trust on the Co-operatives West Midlands: Save Birmingham campaign to protect community places.

Downloads
Download the report2.66 MB
Steering Group Members
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Find out more about the organisations that make up the Steering Group of the Save Birmingham Campaign

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Birmingham Community Matters
Birmingham Voluntary Service Council
Co-operative Futures
Co-operatives West Midlands
Locality