Lottery Funds
Funding community assets - the BIG question?
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- Monday, 17 November 2008 13:46 Tamsin Morris Hits: 735
The folk at the Big Lottery Fund, previously distributors of the Growing Community Assets fund, want to establish their funding plans for 2009 through to 2015. As part of this, they've launched 'Big thinking', a varied consultation process to seek views from the public on how and what they should be funding.
The fund needs to establish its priorities for delivering £2billion of funding over the coming years and, at the moment, that future seems to be pretty wide open. There are no guarantees that there'll be a successor to the Growing Community Assets fund, which has been used in the past by community organisations wanting to acquire, develop and manage physical assets. With future plans unclear, this consultation provides an opportunity for community land groups to show the need to retain this sort of funding.They've launched a formal consultation document as well as a range of interactive features on their website to encourage people to respond. It looks like there are also plans for a series of local events as well - we'll post information about these as soon as we get it. For now, this is a chance to make the case for community asset funding, so go to http://www.big-thinking.org.uk/index.aspx to make your views known.
