Ailsa Raeburn Head of the Community Assets Team

Ailsa Raeburn Head of the Community Assets Team Highlands and Islands Enterprise Neil Ritch Director of the Big Lottery Fund Scotland

A Long Term Partnership 15 Years of joint work supporting and funding communities to buy, develop and manage community assets. £ 90 Million of grants to date distributed through the partnership The UK’s largest grant maker working with the UK’s most effective and experienced community asset development organisation

• 52 awards made • £ 9, 900, 000 distributed • 83, 829 acres in community ownership

SLF III – Headline changes to the new Fund § Increase in scale - £ 3 m - £ 10 m pa § Increase in scope – extension to whole of Scotland § Eligibility criteria

Outcomes - Our communities will: • Achieve more sustainable economic, environmental and/or social development through ownership of land buildings. • Have a stronger role in and control over their own development. • Own well managed, financially sustainable land buildings.

Capital support § Increased to maximum of £ 1 m § Exceptional circumstances provision § Legal and other fees associated with acquisition

Revenue support § Feedback from clients and evidence from successful projects § Disparity of support across Scotland § The hard work starts on the day of acquisition

Revenue support § Pre acquisition support will now be available across Scotland § Maximum intervention amounts § Dependent on asset type and group capacity § Quick application process

Revenue support § § Post acquisition support Extending to three years Maximum £ 100, 000 Amount subject to asset type and group capacity

§ SLF III to date § Emerging themes § Support available through the new Fund

A New Portfolio Investing £ 250 million by 2020 • • People Led Strengths Based Connected Simplified, engaged processes

3 Approaches and Community Assets

Medium&&largegrants Grants for improving lives: Medium (<£ 150 k) & Large (<£ 1 M) Grants for community-led activity: Medium (<£ 150 k) Grants for community asset projects Later in 2016 - Large (<£ 1 M) All for up to 5 years

Large Grants for Community Assets Up to £ 1 M up to 5 years Ownership and development of assets

Sustainable Community Assets SI ü Sustainable Community ownership ü Positive development of assets LGf. CA SLF ü Long term viability ü Flexible response to community need ü Growth in capacity Community ü Emerging ideas about community ü MORE GOOD STUFF!

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