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The Government is committed to implementing all the recommendations in the Quirk Review. 'Opening the Transfer Window: the Government's response to the Quirk Review of community management and ownership of public assets', sets out how this will be done.
The Office of the Third Sector (OTS) will work with partners across Government and the third sector as part of a coordinated implementation plan. The shared aim is to support communities that are keen to take on the management and ownership of community assets such as village halls, community centres and recreation facilities.
The £30 million Community Assets Fund from OTS is a key part of the implementation plan. This will support partnerships between local authorities and community-led, third sector organisations, to enable communities to have a greater stake in the buildings they use. It will offer grants to refurbish assets so that they are of greater social value to local people who use them.
Speaking at a Development Trust Association symposium, Campbell Robb, Director General of the OTS, said:
“The aim of the Community Assets Fund is community empowerment; to release the potential and imagination of the sector to find new ways to deliver services and create places that bring people together.”
Work to implement the recommendations of the review is already underway – for example Capacitybuilders has just announced that it will support a series of workshops on asset management run by the Development Trusts Association.