Aims and Objectives

Vision 

Empowered and self-reliant communities transforming land and buildings into vibrant community spaces - growing a thriving and diverse third sector in partnership with the public sector.

Mission 

To promote and support community asset transfer, both at the level of strategy and in practice, to help a growing number of projects become viable realities - increasing the rate at which assets are transferred into community management and/or ownership, and improving the quality of transfer arrangements to safeguard the prospects of recipient communities for the future.

Objectives:

1. To promote community asset transfer as a means of empowering communities, developing a robust community sector, supporting enterprise and delivering public benefit;
2. To support asset transfer activity – both at the level of strategy and in practice – so as to increase the rate at which assets are being transferred to community management and/or ownership over the period 2008-12;
3. To map and evidence asset transfer activity and demand at local authority level to inform future policy development
4. To generate and disseminate best practice and tools associated with asset transfer activity to increase the medium-long term viability of organisations controlling transferred assets;
5. To develop, contribute and grow expertise pertaining to community asset transfer – amongst support practitioners as well as in relation to programme development, investment, policy-making and research activities;
6. To explore and support development of public-private-third sector partnerships that can assist community asset transfer.