Resources

A practical guide to changing (London's) public spaces providing illustrative projects and accessible tools that demonstrate how innovative ways of co-producing public spaces can help to bring about social, as well as economic and environmental, benefit.

A video exploring how the Scottish Government’s Making Places fund and Shetland Islands Council, the Scalloway (Shetland) local community council took upon themselves to lead on a process where the community would be the priority for a new local place plan.

This book presents 25 case studies of this civic economy – rooted in age-old traditions of the associational economy but using new organising tactics, ways of connecting with people and approaches to collaborative investment.

A series of modules produced to support the sustainable transfer of publicly-held assets into community ownership and provides advice and guidance on making an application for asset transfer helping to ensure it is robust.

National programme to support communities to bring derelict and vacant land back into temporary use. This toolkit is designed to support anyone thinking of taking on a stalled space site.

Talk by Cormac Russel, the Managing Director of Nurture Development, the leading Asset-Based Community Development (ABCD) organisation in Europe.

This guide explores asset-based community development (ABCD) within local government. It lays out the key steps in implementing ABCD and uses real stories to illustrate the approach in different contexts.