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• Together for communities programme

  15/02/10
  Key “community anchor” organisations and social housing providers are invited to demonstrate the value of the existing or emerging partnerships that they have built or may be building. Communitybuilders support for the “Together for Communities” programme will run until March 2011.

• Community Matters have a new Youth Engagement Toolkit

  22/09/09
  Community Matters have a new Youth Engagement Toolkit available on its website.

• Free Handyperson Home Security Training

  22/09/09
  A programme of free handypeople home security training for voluntary and community sector organisations working with vulnerable clients

• Launch of The Social Investment Business

  18/09/09
  The Social Investment Business is the new trading name for Futurebuilders England Fund Management Limited which manages the Futurebuilders Fund, The Social Enterprise Investment Fund, The Communitybuilders Programme and the loan element of the Modernisation Fund.

• Communitybuilders now open for applications

  07/09/09
  Communitybuillders opened for applications on 7 September 2009.

• 'Community sector organisations in receipt of patient capital grow faster than general charities' – evaluation of ACF

  09/07/09
  A report by the Centre for Social Evaluation Research at London Metropolitan University found that ACF funded organisations had, as a group, increased their income, reserves, assets and organisational capacity.

• Communities to benefit from asset transfer 'centre of excellence' as Blears launches the Asset Transfer Unit

  27/04/09
  The Asset Transfer Unit, which is led and managed by the DTA in association with Community Matters and the Local Government Association, was launched by Hazel Blears on 27th April at Stockwell Community Centre in London.

• Community Shares: promoting enterprise, equity and engagement through community shares and bonds

  03/02/09
  With the gloomy economic climate being topic of choice in all sectors, community-owned enterprises and the Government are set to provide a shining light leading the way for communities across the country to create common wealth in their local areas and transform communities for good.