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Making Assets Work: The Quirk Review of community management and ownership of public assets
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23/05/07
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Summary/Overview:
The Quirk Review looked at the issue of community asset management and ownership and “how to optimise the community benefit of publicly owned assets by considering options for greater transfer of asset ownership and management to community groups.”.
The Quirk Review describes the current thinking around use of community assets to benefit community organisations of all kinds. It conveys this through the means of a spectrum of community management and ownership across which many different community organisations and assets interact.
Non-housing community assets covered are:
- Village or community halls
- Community centres
- Building preservation trusts
- Multi-purpose settlements and social action centres
- Development trusts and community enterprises
The various benefits and perceived risks of transferring assets are described and made accessible through a simple layout and use of bullet points, and significantly the inclusion of clearly written case studies which add to the ease of comprehension of what is a complex subject.
Current information on capacity building and funding is also provided. A clear glossary, appendices and bibliography serve to further clarify a document which strives to, and largely succeeds in making a fairly complicated subject comprehensible.
Author(s):
Barry Quirk, Stephen Thake, Andrew Robinson
Date:
2007
Source:
Development Trusts Association
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Type:
Other: Guide
Intended Reader(s):
Citizen, Activist, Practitioner
Intended Reader(s) - Specialist Groups:
Not Specialist
Focus:
General, Service Users
Policy Area:
Planning & Transport, Neighbourhoods, Volunteering, Community Development, Rural, General
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None available
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