Resources

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

**Plunkett Foundation:** Funding a community business with community shares

**Bristol Energy Network:** Community Buildings Toolkit

**Platform Places:** Toolkit for Community Asset Developers

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

**Stir to Action:** Various training offers

**Historic England:** Guidance on historic buildings

**Community Energy Pathways:** All you need to know about community share offers

**Historic England:** Heritage Works for Creative Businesses

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

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

**Action Greater Bedminster:** BS3 and Beyond

**Power to Change:** The new high street playbook

**Ethical Property Foundation**: Charity property briefing

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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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