Research Summary — Jun 2022 People shaping places, places shaping people: Community asset ownership More than 6,300 assets are in community ownership in England today. Samanthi Theminimulle
Working Paper — Feb 2022 Thematic Paper: Assets & Community Businesses Community assets – buildings or land which are used for the social interest or wellbeing of the wider community – can be essential to a community business’ service delivery and Waseem Meghjee
Research Report — Jan 2022 The Power of Community: Learning from Bristol's response to the Covid-19 pandemic During 2021, Voscur worked with academics and students from the University of Bristol to investigate how the sector had adapted to ensure delivery of vital ser Tom Burnett
Research Report — Dec 2020 The ‘Locally Rooted’ Community Business: Meanings, practices, challenges and the role of community assets Bethany Rex
Research Report — Oct 2020 Understanding a maturing community shares market This paper is the first of two reports by Co-operatives UK reviewing the community shares market. Isla McCulloch
Research Report — May 2020 Building a sustainable data ecosystem around community asets in England In 2018, mySociety launched Keep It In The Community (KIITC) as a prototype of a service that could help to monitor community-owned assets in the UK. Jen Bramley
Research Report — Mar 2020 The Community Asset Transfer of Leisure Facilities in the UK: A Review and Research Agenda This paper reviews recent work on community asset transfers (CAT): a transfer of management of facilities from the public sector to the third sector, largely led by volunteers. Geoff Nichols
Research Report — Jan 2020 The community asset transfer of libraries: Considerations in community managed libraries taking a lease. Since April 2011, at least 576 libraries have been transferred to being run entirely by volunteers for some of the time. Deborah Forbes
Research Report — Sep 2019 Left behind? Understanding communities on the edge The research described in this report was commissioned by Local Trust from OCSI.
Research Summary — Sep 2019 Left behind? Understanding communities on the edge: Executive summary The research described in this report was commissioned by Local Trust from Oxford Consultants for Social Inclusion.
Research Report — Jul 2019 Our assets, our future: the economics, outcomes and sustainability of assets in community ownership Power to Change and the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government commissioned this research in mid-2018. Tom Archer
