CIC? CIO? CLG? What’s the right ‘pot’ for your growing project? 🪴 How have other community asset developers chosen their legal forms? What else should you keep in mind when thinking about governance? Read our free guide: www.platformplaces.com/governance-c...

🔹 17 properties being brought to life 🔹 8 hectares of land in community ownership 🔹~£12M brought to Chichester 🔹38 jobs 🔹74p in every £1 reinvested locally 🔹£7.8M raised for community projects Explore Chichester Community Development Trust’s journey & tips: static1.squarespace.com/static/6278d...

⚖️ Which legal power could save your local building? 🏚️ ☑️ Community Right to Buy? ☑️ High Street Rental Auctions? ☑️ Compulsory Purchase Orders? ☑️ Or mechanisms like Community Asset Transfers & Meanwhile Use? Find out in our new quiz, created with Make CIC: www.platformplaces.com/legal-powers...

⚖️ Which legal power could save your local building? 🏚️ ☑️ Community Right to Buy? ☑️ High Street Rental Auctions? ☑️ Compulsory Purchase Orders? ☑️ Or mechanisms like Community Asset Transfers & Meanwhile Use? Find out in our new quiz, created with Make CIC: www.platformplaces.com/legal-powers...

🪄 Are you working to acquire and transform spaces for community benefit? 🌐 You need a legal structure to hold the building(s). But structure alone isn’t enough. 1/ 🧵

🌟 NEW in our #CommunityAssetsToolkit! 🌟 A starter guide to governance & legal structures, for the journey of taking on buildings for long-term community benefit 🏘️ 🔗 www.platformplaces.com/governance-c... Made with @footworktrust.bsky.social. #CommunityAssets #LegalStructures #CharityGovernance

Governance for Community Asset Development — Platform Places

Which legal structure is right for your community asset organisation - CIC, CIO, CLG or other? What else to consider when it comes to designing governance and structuring power, accountability and ris...

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💡What if, by 2035, 1 in 3 high street buildings were in community hands - owned or stewarded by local people? 💡What if every neighbourhood had its own #LocalPropertyPartnership — a cross-sector group transforming neighbourhoods, with community leaders in the driving seat, not just at the table?

📍 In April, midway through the pilot programme, the #LocalPropertyPartnerships gathered for restoration & inspiration at the beautiful @hawkwoodcft.bsky.social, before visiting & learning from @trinitybristol.bsky.social & Stokes Croft Land Trust in Bristol! 1/🧵

🗓️ 20 June | Come paint a mural, watch an opera, join in community gardening & hear about Wandsworth Town Property Partnership's work transforming buildings for local benefit @ the historic Chapel Yard 🏘️🎭🥬🎨 ✨ With thanks to @tnlcommunityfund.org.uk for funding the pilot #LocalPropertyPartnerships ✨

Belonging In Practice - London Festival of Architecture

LFA2026 Theme Announced: Belonging   |   Find out more

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Support Opportunity 📢 Is your community organisation or charity trying to get a building project off the ground? 🏘️ You might be in a chicken & egg situation: no funding without design, no design without funding 📐👷🏻‍♀️ The Design for All programme could be for you! ⏰ Apply by 22 May: designforall.uk

#TuesdayTips: How to connect with the building owner💡 Have you found the perfect space for your community-led business or project & discovered who owns it? Sometimes arranging a viewing or meeting isn’t a challenge... but sometimes asset owners are absent, uncontactable or land-banking. Now what?

#TuesdayTips: How to connect with the building owner💡 Have you found the perfect space for your community-led business or project & discovered who owns it? Sometimes arranging a viewing or meeting isn’t a challenge... but sometimes asset owners are absent, uncontactable or land-banking. Now what?

What's the vision of community businesses in the North East for their high streets? 🏙️ 🛍️ Mayor Kim McGuinness & The North East Combined Authority launched a High Street Commission last year, bringing together community businesses & social enterprises with institutions from across the region 1/🧵

How can (more) community-led neighbourhood transformation happen in Oxfordshire?✨📍 Last Friday, we explored this Q in @MakespaceOxfordshire.bsky.social's Marmalade Festival session. The room was buzzing with communities, councils, movement-builders & funders from across Oxfordshire & beyond. 1/🧵

Makespace Oxfordshire (@makespaceoxford.bsky.social)

Thank you so much to everyone who showed up to our Marmalade session last Friday. And, of course to our wonderful speakers and workshop facilitators, and all of the Makespace team that made it happen…

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Quick 101: The 'Community Right to Buy' replaces the previous 'Right to Bid' & means: 🔹 Community groups have 1st right of refusal when the asset* is put up for sale. 🔹12-month moratorium (instead of 6) to raise funds & complete a purchase. *must have been registered as Asset of Community Value 🏛️

#GoodShepherdStudios has been lovingly brought back to life by a local group of residents after the threat of demolition - transformed from an empty shell into a buzzing community space. And the council relationship was key. Catch up with our #PeopleAndPlaceCamden Spring Peer Gathering ⬇️

Community-led space in action - and the councils backing it (People and Place: Camden visits Leytonstone) | Footwork Trust

Tucked away on a residential road in East London, just off Leytonstone High Road, there’s a vibrant hub of coworking, community and culture. Good Shepherd Studios has been lovingly brought back to lif...

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👏 👏 Huge efforts from the likes of @right-here.org & @powertochange.org.uk to bring about the new Community Right to Buy 🏘️🔑 Now onto the next phase: enabling communities to make practical use of these laws & transform local buildings, when the funding & capacity hurdles are still very real 🌱

Power to Change@powertochange.org.uk · 3mo ago

📣 The Community Empowerment Act is now law. A big win for our movement: the new Community Right to Buy gives local people first refusal on vital local assets. Now we need the funding and support to make it work.

What makes for a good building? 🏘️ 🏛️ We get asked this a lot by community leaders who: 🔸 need affordable space for their idea or project 🔸 want to make that space a long-term community asset 🔸 want to see multiple local buildings transformed for local benefit So what should you be looking for? 💡

We're excited to see the UK Government recognising the power of partnerships to unlock high street buildings for amazing local ideas 🏘️ ✨ 🤝 Their new £301M ‘High Street Innovation Partnerships’ (full details & places TBC) echoes the focus of #LocalPropertyPartnerships... 1/🧵

High streets revived and children given safe places to play

New initiative will support local areas to reimagine and revive their struggling high streets

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We would take them up and create affordable resident-controlled rented homes (as long as they didn't require RP landlords)

👀 What if the UK Gov' built on Ireland's model & brought in capital grants — even more ambitious than these — for communities to fill vacant spaces & lead high street transformation? @archhfund.org.uk @clhlondon.bsky.social @locality.org.uk @powertochange.org.uk 1/🧵

Vacant Above the Shop Grant

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🔗 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐢𝐩𝐬 & 𝐭𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐮𝐩𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐣𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐧𝐞𝐲 🔗 Our practical resource 'How to Secure a Building: Tactics for Community Assets' collates wisdom and experience from friends and partners in the #PlatformPlaces network.

How to Secure a Building: Tactics for Community Assets — Platform Places

You’ve got an amazing idea for an empty building. But you can’t track down the owner or get them to the table. Now what? Read on for tried-and-tested tactics from the Platform Places network.

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What makes for a good building? 🏘️ 🏛️ We get asked this a lot by community leaders who: 🔸 need affordable space for their idea or project 🔸 want to make that space a long-term community asset 🔸 want to see multiple local buildings transformed for local benefit So what should you be looking for? 💡

💡 How are communities transforming their neighbourhoods? 🌱 How can others get started? 🏘️ What can funders or local authorities do today — to enable the revival of entire high streets, community hubs & green spaces for long-term local benefit? Join us in Oxford next month! ⤵️

Makespace Oxfordshire@makespaceoxford.bsky.social · 4mo ago

The time has come! Marmalade tickets are bookable now (free to reserve with options to donate). We’re joined by a stellar lineup to deliver a discussion and workshop about community led neighbourhood transformation. Our speakers will be…

We’re entering a new chapter of our campaign, and we want to shape it with you. What should our campaign prioritise? Where can we have the greatest impact? Take our survey by 17 April and help shape the future of community power: ✍️ locality.tfaforms.net/284

💡 How are communities transforming their neighbourhoods? 🌱 How can others get started? 🏘️ What can funders or local authorities do today — to enable the revival of entire high streets, community hubs & green spaces for long-term local benefit? Join us in Oxford next month! ⤵️

Makespace Oxfordshire@makespaceoxford.bsky.social · 4mo ago

The time has come! Marmalade tickets are bookable now (free to reserve with options to donate). We’re joined by a stellar lineup to deliver a discussion and workshop about community led neighbourhood transformation. Our speakers will be…

🔔 One more week to apply for our Comms Lead role 🔔 Join our small but mighty team working across @footworktrust.bsky.social and #PlatformPlaces: www.platformplaces.com/news/recruit... #charityjobs #commsjobs #thirdsectorjobs

We’re Recruiting! Communications Lead (Fixed-Term) — Platform Places

In a nutshell We’re recruiting an experienced, creative and hands-on communications specialist to work with Platform Places and Footwork over the next 10 months – to develop our bold…

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🏘️ With the National Retrofit Hub we launched 'The Role of Community Health Impact Assessments (CHIA) for Retrofit', a workbook for community organisers and policy/strategy designers working on retrofit at scale. 🔗 nationalretrofithub.org.uk/resource/the... cc @impurbanhealth.bsky.social

Across England, community organisations are acquiring buildings as long-term tools for social justice & ecological resilience 🏘️ So, what does it take to start the journey from one precarious lease (or no space at all) to a portfolio that transforms a neighbourhood? 1/ 🧵

Join our team! 💫 We're looking for an experienced, creative & hands-on comms specialist to work with #PlatformPlaces & @footworktrust.bsky.social. You'll develop our bold narratives & inspiring content that help drive locally-led neighbourhood transformation: www.platformplaces.com/news/recruit...