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Community Ownership

Communities are increasingly being asked or considering taking on land and buildings across Wales.

We support a range of activities to help community organisations ensure their asset project is a success.

DTA Wales is one of 10 partners delivering the Community Ownership Fund programme.

The £150 Million fund exists to help local communities across the UK to take control of assets, amenities or facilities that are at risk of closure – from parks to pubs, lidos to libraries.

Groups can apply for up to £250k through the Community Ownership Fund to purchase or lease a local asset or to help pay for refurbishments. All funds provided through COF must be ‘matched’ £1 for £1 from alternative sources. Find out if the fund is right for your organisation and how we can help by visiting the Community Ownership Fund support programme page at https://www.mycommunity.org.uk/community-ownership-fund.

Ebbw Vale Inst

We can support your assets project in a variety of ways:

Before you transfer the asset

Helping you plan? Need a feasibility study, business plan, or strategic plan for your asset?

Helping you through the transfer? Considerations for your draft lease / terms of transfer? Help to assess viability not liability. What information will you need for your transferring body.

Following the transfer taking place

Helping you develop your community owned asset sustainably? Need to reduce running costs? Need to review your operations? Need to refine your income generation strategy? Marketing your community owned asset.

Using our DTA Wales Pool of practitioners and experience asset developers, we can support you outside of our existing Programmes as a Consultancy Service.

By using our Energy Action Group service, we could help lower the running costs of your community owned asset. See the guide below for more information.

We provided support directly to Applicants and Award winning groups taking part in the Big Lottery Community Asset Transfer 2 Programme under a support contract with the Big Lottery. This support helped Applicants prepare their project plans setting out their business case and plans for the sites post transfer. Ongoing mentoring following a CAT2 funding award helped groups develop the asset to its full potential, ensuring long term sustainability.

More information on the groups we have worked with as part of this Big Lottery support contract can be found here.

Read a blog about our visit to the Ebbw Vale Institute as part of the CAT2 support contract.

Bloomfield Community Centre

Bloomfield Community Centre is a social enterprise based in Narberth offering a huge range of facilities and activities to the local community. Engaging with their users they ensure that the community need is fulfilled.

Talgarth Mill

In the small market town of Talgarth, good, locally produced food is a top priority. In the very heart of the town is a community-run, water powered flour mill and traditional bakery. The Brecon Beacons National Park’s only working watermill.

South Riverside Community Development Centre

The Centre, based in the South Riverside area of Cardiff and the charity’s area of benefit, are the electoral wards of Riverside, Grangetown, and Canton.

South Riverside Community Development Centre is a Company Limited by Guarantee and a registered charity based in Cardiff. Set up around 1975, and registered as a charity in 1978, SRCDC bought its premises in 1987 and renovated the Centre building.

Menter Môn

Menter Môn is a not for profit company providing solutions to the challenges facing rural Wales.

They work with businesses, communities and individuals, to deliver meaningful projects, that harness their strengths and contribute to a sustainable future.

They run and operate a vibrant building portfolio that includes assets that were previously redundant, derelict or under utilised.

Assets - The Role of Utilities

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