Recent Work

Rich Regeneration was engaged by Birmingham City Council to develop practical tools for measuring the social value and impact of  transferring under-used land and property to the third sector. The project involved piloting the tools using two 'live' transfer projects in Birmingham and facilitating a national local authority action learning set focusing on the tool. The tools have been integrated into Birmingham's Protocol for Community Asset Transfer.

Rich Regeneration was engaged by the Department of Communities and Local Government to research and draft a guide to managing risks in asset transfer. The guide covers arrange of possible risks and mitigation measures and is based  on regional consultation events with local authorities and third sector representatives.

View the guide here

Rich Regeneration worked with consultants Renaisi on carrying out a review of community premises in the London Borough of Islington with a view to maximising community benefit and providing sustainable and suitable premises for the third sector in the borough.

The project involved carrying out consultation with the occupiers of community buildings in Islington and testing various future options including establishing a strategic trust to manage community assets in the long-term. The chosen solution will provide third sector occupiers with greater security and maximise community benefit for the people of Islington.

Rich Regeneration is part of a team led by Business in the Community taking forward the Under-served Markets Project which aims to use retail investment to regenerate deprived areas. Rich Regeneration co-researched and wrote the 'How to guide published in September 2007 focusing on the part that the planning system could play in channelling investment to deprived areas and in ensuring that regeneration benefits followed.  

The focus of the project is now on trying to influence emerging national planning policy ontown centres to ensure it continues to enable retail-led regeneration projects to come forward. 

To view the guide go to http://www.bitc.org.uk/resources/publications/usm_guide.html

Rich Regeneration were engaged to research and draft two guides on tackling worklessness, one focused on the role of the third sector, and one on unlocking community assets. The guides are aimed at practitioners in local authorities and have been published on the IDeA knowledge website.

The how to guides draw on best practice around the country and offer local authorities a step by step approach to improving their performance in tackling worklessness through working with the third sector and unlocking the potential of community assets.