Provides communities with a introduction to Community Right to Buy. The guidance covers:
Engaging in community asset transfer involves three core elements:
This module aims to provide organisations with the knowledge and practical skills required to explore the feasibility of engaging in community asset transfer. It focuses on a number of areas, including the user demand and organisational asset transfer readiness.
This new PDF has been developed by Community Ownership Support Service (COSS). It is used by COSS advisors to identify where you are in the process, as laid down in Part 5; Asset Transfer, in the Community Empowerment (Scotland) Act 2015. It helps to guide you through the steps along the way to achieving your goals. Side one of the poster shows the four phases of the asset transfer process and signposts each phase of the journey. Side two gives more detail and links to relevant information for each phase.
Asset transfer route map web.pdfFundraising for the development and ongoing management of your community asset will be a key part of your early planning. If you haven’t done it before it can seem daunting. This guide aims to help you to establish a funding package; highlighting options to raise money beyond loan and grant funding. It has been updated in 2019 to reflect the recent changes to fundraising regulations.
DTAS Beyond The Ususal Suspects_WEB.pdf
A practical guide to the benefits and techniques for involving and consulting local communities in community asset based projects.
Last updated July 2020
Involving Your Community 2020.pdf2233 DTA Scotland Your Church Your Community Guidance 24pp Doc 20.6.23.pdf
DTA Scotland Your Church Your Community Guidance.pdf
This publication has been produced in response to the concern about the closure of public toilets across the country and the awareness of the need for good public toilets to promote health, access and inclusion. Increasingly communities are looking at how they can become involved in saving or providing public toilets, so here we present some facts and examples of how other communities have gone about saving this service.
Below you will also find the accompanying webinar, delivered by Sandra Macaskill of CaskieCo, who has researched and written the publication for the Community Ownership Support Service, this webinar will draw on the experiences from urban and rural communities, discuss the issues to be considered and highlights some of the innovative approaches being taken.
Please note - this resource was written in 2018 and has not been updated to reflect guidance in relation to Covid-19
Public Toilets 2022.pdfCOSS Guidance for Relevant Authorities - Managing Risk in Community Asset Transfer
DTAS Managing Risk FINAL.pdfThrough this study, Development Trusts Association Scotland (DTAS) has sought to establish the current scale and nature of community ownership of assets across Scotland. The research was conducted by DTAS’ Community Ownership Support Service (COSS).
Community Ownership in Scotland - A Baseline Study