Successful applications in the 2015 cohort of Community Ownership and Management of Assets programme.

1.  Take their ‘first steps’ to making use of community rights
 Improve their economic well being
 Takeover ownership/management of community assets
 Influence and make decisions on how public services are shaped
and delivered
 Influence how public money is spent in neighbourhoods
 Support parish/town councils take on delivery of neighbourhood
level services
 Develop neighbourhood plans and bring forward community led
developments
Extends and builds on DCLG’s funded programme of
work around the Community Rights, Neighbourhood
Planning and Our Place

2. My Community – the opportunities
in context 2015/16-2017/18
• Neighbourhood Planning & Community Buildings (£8.5m Yr1,
7.94m Yr2 & £7.42m Yr3) £25m in total for grants & direct
support
• Our Place & First Steps (£1.3m for grants in Yr1)
• Community Ownership & Management of Assets (£500k for
grants in Yr1)
• Community Economic Development (£250k for grants in Yr1)
• My Community Network & Help Centre
www.mycommunity.org.uk

3. Neighbourhood Planning
and Community Buildings

4. What is a Neighbourhood Plan?
• A document that sets out the planning policies for the Neighbourhood
area.
• Written by the Community, the people who know and love the area,
rather than the Local Planning Authority.
• A powerful tool to ensure the community gets the right types of
development, in the right place.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvAHhrKNVt0

5. • Community-led – written by or under the control of the community
• More influence – part of the statutory development plan
• More relevant – focused on the neighbourhood needs
• Create a dialogue – between organisations, departments and partners
• Allocate sites – develop criteria and choose sites for development
Why bother?

6. Who is it for?
• Grants will only be awarded to town or parish councils or an
incorporated designated neighbourhood forum in the case of
groups producing neighbourhood plans and NDOs.
• Unincorporated neighbourhood forums will either need to
incorporate or channel funding through an incorporated body (e.g.
local authority)

7. • All groups writing a neighbourhood plan or neighbourhood
development order will be eligible to apply for up to £8,000 in
grant.
• Groups facing more complex issues can apply for specific packages
of technical support where needed, and may also be eligible for
further £6,000 in grant.
What support are you eligible for?

8. • Neighbourhood Forums (where there is no Parish or Town Council)
• Clusters of parishes
• High growth areas
• Deprived areas
• Business led neighbourhood plans
• Populations of over 25,000
• Groups preparing a neighbourhood development order
Groups with complex issues:

9. Community Buildings
• Community Right to Build Orders can be used to decide on the kind of
community buildings you want, and where you want them.
• They allow you to achieve automatic planning permission through a
vote at a local referendum.

10. Grants
Community Buildings Pre feasibility Grant
• Between £1,000 and £5,000
• Assess feasibility of a project prior to submitting a Community
Right to Build Order or (in the case of community-led housing
projects only), a traditional planning application.
Community Buildings Project Support Grant
• Between £5,000 and £40,000
• Covers costs of moving a project to the point of submitting a
Community Right to Build Order or (in the case of community-
led housing projects only), a traditional planning application.

11. Our Place & First Steps
1 in 16 of the England’s
population now live in an Our
Place Area

12. What is Our Place?
Local partners within a neighbourhood coming together with local
people to identify the issues that matter most to them and working
together to develop a plan to tackle these issues and reshape
services to better meet their needs.
https://vimeo.com/100296153

13. Our Place
Neighbourhood Community Budget’s programme - 12 NCB pilots
piloted this community led approach in 2012/13.
DCLG commissioned Our Place 2014/15 to deliver a programme
(£4.3 M) to support a further 100+ areas develop an operational plan
for March 2015.

14. Who is it for?
Key Eligibility Criteria
You must:
• Be based and working in England
• Be an incorporated organisation
• Have an annual turnover of £50k+
• Have a proposal focused on a specific
geographical area
• Have a track record of working in
partnership
• Be experienced in community participation
• Be willing to work on and produce an
operational plan by February 2016
“ We want to alter the
relationship between
service providers and users.
Not only do we want local
people to benefit but we
also want them to be
empowered to be active
agents in the community.”
Katie Barron, Communities
4 Kids, Our Place Area

15. What’s involved?
You will receive;
• A small grant of £8,000 to help you
prepare your operational plan
• Relationship management support
(4.5 days)
• Training and support opportunities
e.g. community co-design, CBA,
logic modelling
• Access to shared learning materials
• The opportunity to apply for Breaking
New Ground (additional £4,000 plus 3
days RM support
• The chance to be part of a nation
wide network (MyCommunity Hubs and
Champions Network)
In return we ask for your commitment to:
• Develop a logic model by July 2015
• Prepare a final operational plan by
February 2016
• Attend scheduled events/ activities
• Participate in peer review process
• Network with your fellow areas

16. What’s the timeline?
Activity Dates
Our Place open to applications 1st April 2015
Application deadline however applications will be assessed on a rolling basis 8th May 2015
Notification of awards (rolling grant panels) & payment of first instalment i.e. £6500 if
£8000 grant award.
April & May 2015
Relationship management allocated to areas April & May 2015
Submission of logic model 24th July 2015
Submission of application for Breaking New Ground (BNG) TBC
Notification of BNG award & £4000 BNG payment TBC
Submission of draft operational plan plus grant report 30th October 2015
Second & final instalment of grant payment 6th November 2015
Peer Review period 2nd-30th November 2015
Submission of final operational plans to Locality 19 February 2015
Celebratory Event 23 March 2015
Final date for sign off of operational plans by DCLG 31 March 2015

17. What is First Steps?
Enable communities who have never been involved
in Community rights activity……take their first step
Communities have the chance to think about their
area – what they like, what they don’t like and how
they would like to change things
A programme giving communities support, training
and advice/mentoring to create an action plan in
their area

18. Why First Steps?

19. Who is it for?
Key eligibility criteria
You must be:
• Based in England
• Be a voluntary or community group
• Have a turnover of under £50k a year
• Be willing to work on and produce a community action
plan by February 2016
• If you are not incorporated, find an incorporated
organisation to be your grant fund holder
• Priority will be given to areas that are deprived

20. What’s involved?
We are looking for people with energy, good networks within
their area, and ideas about their area
You will receive;
• Relationship management support
• A small grant of £2,500 to help you prepare your
community action plan
• Training and support opportunities
• The chance to be part of a nation wide network
• In return, we ask for your commitment to;
• Tell us how things are going via short blog
• Prepare a community action plan by February 2016
• Network with your fellow areas

21. What’s the timeline?
• 1st April : Applications go live on mycommunity.org.uk
• 8th May: Applications close.
• End of May : First Steps areas will be notified of success.
• Relationship managers will be assigned.
• End of June: Induction events will take place.
• July/September/October: Training and support available.
• Start of September : Blog update due.
• November 23rd : First draft plan due.
• December/January : Peer review process takes place.
• February 2016 : Final plans due.
• March 2016: Celebration event and programme ends.

22. Calne

23. Calne
 Lost major employer in 1984 causing high unemployment
 Phases of recovery since
 Low tourist activity despite location
 Rapid population growth
 Lots of local spend going elsewhere
 Disjointed town centre
 Pockets of high deprivation

24. Project - Aims
 Boost tourist activity
 Increase local employment
 Increase retail and tourist spend
 Decrease deprivation

25. Project - Outcomes
• Reclaiming Calne as the home of the Wiltshire Cured pork products
• Developing a heritage quarter and access to heritage
• Developing the A4 as a tourist route

26. Where we they now
Clear about vision and objectives
Clear about gaps in Operational Plan and what needs to be done
A great range of involvement and skills analysis done
Task Groups in place working on The Calne Cure, the A4 Tourist,
Route, the Heritage Quarter and Process Management
Needing to sort a delivery vehicle
Spreading the word
Reviewing the horizon
Getting on with it

27. Community Ownership and
Management of Assets 2015/16
• Will support 50 Partnership Areas in England to develop joint strategies and
action plans for ambitious multiple community asset ownership and
management projects and/or complex/ground-breaking single asset transfer
projects that will produce novel and replicable learning for other places.
• Applications for direct support will open from 1 April where a clear
commitment to partnership working can be demonstrated.
• Direct support will consist of up to 10 days of dedicated relationship
management support from an experienced broker to help areas to develop
joint strategies and action plans, with clear milestones and deliverables, and
up to 6 additional days of consultancy assistance to undertake business
planning.
• Pre-feasibility grants of up to £10,000 per organisation will be available to
organisations within the designated Partnership Areas.

28. Chat to experts, take part in discussions, get coaching and mentoring
support through the forum.
Peer learning hubs - an opportunity to meet with likeminded people in
your area to network, debate, learn, share ideas and start to address
challenges and issues in your community.
Access to free events that look at the tools available to make changes in
your community, such as the Community Rights and support programmes.
My Community Network e-newsletter, a regular update of news, learning
events, stories, resources and much more.
My Community Network