Social Enterprise
Neighbourhood improvement can make commercial sense as well as generate social value – social enterprises aim to achieve both…
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Social Value
Improving a neighbourhood isn’t just about increasing property value and ensuring jobs. Communities are often more concerned with the state of shared wealth and wellbeing in a place – its social value…
Neighbourhood Companies
Could the plan for turning round your neighbourhood be a business plan? Either as a stand-alone initiative or as part of the delivery of a community action plan, a neighbourhood company (what the French call regie de quartier, or district board) aims to improve the neighbourhood by involving local people – as paid staff, volunteers and Directors – in social enterprise.
Civil Society
Civil society is sometimes called ‘the third sector’, but it pre-dates either public authorities or private enterprise…
Co-operatives
If you are working together to improve the neighbourhood, then you might want to think about forming a neighbourhood co-op…
Locality
If you haven’t already used Locality’s information for community groups interested in neighbourhood planning, community asset development and running local services, you should look them up now…
Health Service Plans
The NHS in England spends more than £120bn a year on health and care services. The way this money is spent and the quality of services provided in a locality can be significant factors in local wellbeing. The NHS isn’t the easiest organisation to influence, but there is a range ways in, starting with you local medical centre or GP practice…
What is a Plan?
Local spatial plans are public, shared plans which aim to enable a place to develop to benefit the people who use it and live there (or might use it or live there in future). A neighbourhood plan is a kind of local spatial plan. But local spatial plans are not the only plans which affect the future of a place…
Development Trusts
Community assets can be managed to provide services and the money made re-invsted back into community activities. Development trusts are community-led organisations that are frequently set up to achieve this…
Designated Bodies
The ‘community rights’ in the Localism Act can be exercised by certain designated groups on behalf of the community…