The Community Ownership Fund
20 May 2022 at 10:16:42
The UK government has launched a new £150 million Community Ownership Fund to help ensure that communities across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland can support and continue benefiting from the local facilities, community assets and amenities most important to them.
The Community Ownership Fund intends to launch the updated
prospectus and assessment criteria guidance in the week commencing
23 May 2022 with a view to open the first bidding window in the
week commencing 6 June 2022. We have made some changes to the
eligibility requirements and application process for the fund
having learnt lessons from the review of the first bidding round.
These changes will be explained in the updated Community Ownership
Fund prospectus. Further supporting documents and the assessment
criteria guidance will be published soon after prospectus is
launched.
In order to promote the fund and to explain to any prospective
applicants what is required in order to submit a strong bid,
officials at the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and
Communities will be hosting webinars on Wednesday 8th June and
Thursday 16th June. If you are interested in attending one of these
events, please complete the following form expressing your interest so that we can
forward on an invite. Do not worry if you are unable to attend a
webinar, we will also be making a recording of the event which can
be sent on request using the same form.
Further information: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/new-levelling-up-and-community-investments#the-community-ownership-fund
