Title: DTA Communities, Assets, Enterprise Sarah Benioff, Deputy Director, Office of the Third Sector, Cabi
1DTA - Communities, Assets, Enterprise Sarah
Benioff, Deputy Director, Office of the Third
Sector, Cabinet Office
2Contents
- About The Office of the Third Sector
- Development Trusts and Resilient Communities
- Government Support for Assets Investment
- Working in collaboration
- Whats next?
3The Office of the Third Sector
- Set up in May 2006, based in the Cabinet Office.
- Vision - A thriving third sector, enabling people
to change society. - Aims
- Enable campaigning and empowerment, particularly
for those at risk of social exclusion. - Strengthen communities, drawing together people
from different sections of society through
community participation. - Transform public services, through delivery,
design, innovation and campaigning. - Enable social enterprise growth and development,
combining business and social goals. -
4Development Trusts and Resilient Communities
- Challenges of the recession
- Uniqueness of DTA members
- Localism
5Importance of Assets
- Advancing Assets Programme
- 30 million Community Assets Programme
- The Asset Transfer Unit
- www.atu.org.uk
6St Clements Hall, York 10th Sep 2009
7Pauline Buchanan, St Clements Hall Preservation
Trust Angela Smith, Minister of the Third
Sector discuss building plans
8Government Measures to Support Investment
- Communitybuilders Programme
- Community Shares and Bonds www.communityshares.or
g.uk - The Wholesale Investment Bank
- consultation open until 7th October
- http//www.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/third_sector.aspx
9Working in collaboration
- Cross-sector collaboration
- Building Stronger Communities Report
(www.cabinet-office.gov.uk) - Backing Communities, Local Solutions
- (www.lga.gov.uk)
- Cross-government collaboration
10What next?
- Ongoing challenge of recession
- Huge interest in the work you do
- Sharing success achievements
11For more information
- www.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/thirdsector
- Sarah Benioff, Deputy Director, Office of the
Third Sector - Sarah.Benioff_at_cabinet-office.x.gsi.gov.uk