Community Development

Community Assets

The Community Development Practice Hub takes an Asset Based Community Development (ABCD) approach. 

Community Assets include the skills, knowledge and interests of individuals, and the many resources of the voluntary, community and business sectors locally. 

As such Community Assets not only include ‘physical assets’ such as Buildings and Land (e.g. also sometimes referred to alone as ‘Community Assets’!) but also the resources of sectors, organisations, communities and individuals. 

There is no one definition of Co-production that everyone agrees on, as approaches to it are constantly developing and changing. The term “co-production” will mean different things to different people, but it is vital to listen and be responsive to the voices of people with lived experience in the design, delivery and review of systems and services for people experiencing multiple disadvantage. 

BVSC Multiple Disadvantage Team works on the Making Every Adult Matter (MEAM) project transforming services and systems for people facing multiple disadvantage. They support organisations to engage through Co-production , a Co-production Coalition and a Trauma Informed Framework.  

For more information contact BVSC Head of Multiple Disadvantage, Harpal Bath, [email protected]  

BVSC Health & Social Care Team support co-production. Further advanced co-production training and other projects related to this are under development. 

BVSC Older People & Communities Team supports Co-production. For more information contact: Rosie Barrett, Head of Older People & Communities, BVSC: [email protected]