Community action
Community-based organisations are at the root of civil renewal, bringing local people together and empowering them to meet local needs or transform local environments. This section provides details of the action the Office of the Third Sector has taken to provide support to community based activity within the third sector.
In this section:
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Community Assets programme
Details of the Comunity Assets programme. The overall aim is community empowerment; Comunity Assets will achieve this by providing grants for refurbishment of underused local authority assets, to encourage the transfer of high-quality spaces and facilities to third sector ownership.
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Grassroots Grants
Details of the £130 million Grassroots Grants programme to boost local community organisations with much-needed access to small grants and long-term financing through an endowment fund.
