Resources

guides, toolkits and reports

**Power to Change**: Keys to the future: how we build a new era of community ownership (July 2026)

**Artspace Lifespace**: Vacant Property Toolkit (June 2026)

**Power to Change:** The new high street playbook (May 2026)

**Ethical Property Foundation**: Charity property briefing (April 2026)

**Platform Places:** Toolkit for Community Asset Developers (updated May 2026)

**Bristol City Council:** Vacant commercial property grant scheme

**Stir to Action:** Various training offers

**Historic England:** Guidance on historic buildings (various documents)

**Community Energy Pathways:** All you need to know about community share offers (Nov 2025)

**Historic England:** Heritage Works for Creative Businesses (March 2026)

**Action with Communities in Rural England:** Village & Community Halls: A Net Zero Design Guide (Sept 2025)

**Locality:** Understanding Community Asset Transfer (guide for community organisations) (updated July 2022)

**Action Greater Bedminster:** BS3 and Beyond (March 2024)

**Power to Change:** New 2026-2030 strategy: Shaping a future powered by community business (March 2026)

**Plunkett Foundation:** Funding a community business with community shares (Jan 2019)

**Bristol Energy Network:** Community Buildings Toolkit (Oct 2025)

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Thanks to National Lottery players, Platform Places and partners have received almost £2.5 million over three years from The National Lottery Community Fund, the largest community funder in the UK. The funding will be used to enable communities to come together and secure long-term spaces for the activities and services that they need the most. Learn more. This programme resources local leaders in neighbourhoods in Newcastle, Sheffield, Liverpool City Region, Bristol and London, working towards shifting multiple buildings into long-term local ownership. Supporting partners also include Architectural Heritage Fund, Power to Change and Social Investment Business.

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