What we are calling for

Some communities not only have severe socio-economic challenges, they also lack social infrastructure – defined as places and spaces to meet, digital and physical connectivity, and an active and engaged community.

Research by Oxford Consultants for Social Inclusion (OCSI) and Local Trust has identified 225 neighbourhoods that have a double disadvantage: the highest levels of deprivation and the weakest social infrastructure. These areas experience notably poor outcomes- not only compared to affluent areas, but also with places that are equally deprives but where a base layer of social infrastructure has been retained. Their challenges are often complex and multi faceted, requiring coordinated action across both central and local government to address them.

‘Left behind’ neighbourhoods have traditionally missed out on funding. They are in urgent need of a new funding response that provides targeted investment and supports sustainable, community-led change.

We successfully persuaded government to dedicate the next wave of dormant assets (from stocks, shares, bonds, insurance and pension policies) to create a new, independent endowment – the community wealth fund.

The government was due to announce its intensions about the design of the fund in May 2024 however due to the calling of the election, parliament was dissolved. We are now working to influence the new government’s approach to the community wealth fund.

The community wealth fund would be based on four principles:

Provision of long-term funding (10 -15 years)

Neighbourhood investment at the hyper-local level

Community-led decision making

Building community confidence and capacity

Distribution according to these principles would shift the dial in these areas, giving residents the means to develop the services and facilities that meet their needs and aspirations, and build social and economic capital. Join Us

 

The Community Wealth Fund Alliance

The community wealth fund is supported by an Alliance of over 700 organisations from civil society, and the public and private sectors. Members include over 50 local and combined authorities from across England.

Alliance members

The following organisations have joined the alliance and endorsed the community wealth fund proposal:

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16-2-25 Advice Advocacy Action

3peducation

3rd Age Hostelling and Housing/Sparkle Housing Co-operative.

4 Community Trust CiC

A New Direction

A2NDVOICE

Abram Ward Community Cooperative

Access – The Foundation for Social Investment

ACE – Action in Caerau & Ely

ACO Projects

Action for Happiness

Action Funder

Action Homeless Leicester

Action with Communities Rural Kent

Active Community Enterprise

Acumen Academy UK

Addington Recreation Ground

Age UK Doncaster

Age UK Rotherham

Age UK Thanet

Age Uk Waltham Forest

Airedale Enterprise Services

Albion Incorporated

All the Small Things CiC

Allerdale Borough Council

Alridha Foundation

Alyth Development Trust

Ambassadors Football

Ambition Lawrence Weston

Anawim Birmingham’s centre for women

Annfield plain community centre

APTCOO

Arcade Group Dewsbury

Arches Local (Central Chatham, Luton Arches)

Art and Soul Tribe CIC

Art and Soul Tribe CIC

Art Therapy Yorkshire

Arts and Crafts Community Centre

Artsmill

Aspire Housing

Aspire Learning, Support and Wellbeing

Aspire Wrestling Alliance Ltd

Association of Charitable Foundations (ACF)

Association of Charitable Organisations (ACO)

Association of Chief Executives of Voluntary Organisations (ACEVO)

Atkinson Foundation

Auckland Youth and Community Centre Limited.

Awaaz FM Community Radio CIC

Axis Educational Trust

Aylesham Community Trust

Bark ‘N’ Bound

Barnet Council

Barnfield Big Local

Barnsley Council

Barrow Borough Council

Barrow Cadbury Trust

Barrow Island Community and Sports Trust

Barrowcliff Big Local

Basingstoke Voluntary Action

BCVS

Beechwood, Ballantyne & Bidston Big Local Partnership

Befriending Networks

Bell Green Community Centre

Belle Vue Community, Sports & Youth Centre

Berkshire Community Foundation

Better Way Recovery

Big 4 Littlemoor

Big Local Broad Green

Big Local Central Jarrow

Big Local DY10 HBG

Big Society Capital

Bilston People’s Centre

Bilston Resource Centre

Birch Park Community Hub

Birmingham City Council

Black Country Innovate CIC

Black Heroes Foundation

Blackhall Community Centre

BLAST Fest Ltd

BlindAid

Bloom Finance Group

Blue Dragonfly Resources Ltd

Bodie Hodges Foundation

Bolsover District Council

Bolsover Woodlands Enterprise Ltd

Bolton at Home

Bountagu Big Local

Bradford Community Alliance CIC

Bradford Youth Development Partnership

Bradley Big Local Community Land Trust Limited

brap

Brereton Million

Briardale House Youth & Community Projects Ltd

Bridges Outcomes Partnerships

Brighter Opportunities for Special People (BOSP)

Brislexic

Bristol CLT

British Blind Sport

British Science Association

Britwell Youth and Community Project

Britwell Youth and Community Project

Brixton Pound

Bromley By Bow Centre

Brookside Big Local

BUD (Lead Positive Change)

Build Aid

Build Community Development

BuildAid

Building Communities Trust

Burnley Council

Burnley Leisure and Culture

Burnley, Pendle and Rossendale Council for Voluntary Service

Burnside Centre

Burton Hub Community Centre

Bushbury Hill EMB

Buttle UK

C2O futureplanners

Calderdale Council

Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation

Cambridge Council for Voluntary Service

Cambridgeshire County Council

Camden Council

Campaign for Better Transport

Canolfan Pentre CIO

CAPE Mental Health Charity

Captivate Enterprise

Careby, Aunby & Holywell Village Hall

Carers Forward CIC

Carnegie UK

Cartwheel Arts

Castle Cavendish Foundation

Catalyst Support ltd

Catch22

Caution Your Blast Ltd

Centre for Excellence in Community Investment

Centre For London

Centre for Mental Health

Centre4

CERT Ltd

Chance Heritage Trust

Changing Lives

Changing Streams CIC

Charities Aid Foundation

Charity Finance Group

Charity Retail Association

Chartered Institute of Fundraising

Chesterfield Borough Council

Children England

Church Urban Fund

Chuter Ede Community Association CIO

CIQ Agency

Citizens Advice Ashfield

Citizens Advice Newcastle

City Bridge Trust

Civil Society Consulting CIC

Clarion Housing Group

Co create Exeter CIC

Co-operative and Mutual Solutions Ltd

Co-operatives UK

Cob in the Community CIC / FP&SG Residents Forum

Cognitive Paths

Collaborative Future

Colyer-Fergusson Charitable Trust

Common Capital

Communities 1st

Communities Engage and Thrive

Communities That Work

Community Alliance Broxbourne and East Herts

Community and Business Support CIC

Community and Business Support CIC

Community Campus 87 Limited

Community Infrastructure Group CIC

Community Land Use

Community Managed Libraries National Peer Network

Community Organisers

Community Revival UK (LTD)

Community Southwark

Community Spirit Wirral (Community Food)

Community Transport Glasgow

Community Ventures

Compass Community Partnerships

Concordia

Connected Voice

Connecting@Veor CIC

Continuum CIC

Cooperatives West Midlands

Council

Counter Community

CraftA

Creative Folkestone

Creative Futures Midlands

Cricket Arena CIC

Cripplegate Foundation and Islington Giving

Cross Keys Homes

Crowdfunder

Croydon Voluntary Action

Crystalisr

Culture bridge

Dalton Parish Council

Data Associates LTD

Daventry Volunteer Centre

David Russell Associates

Dementia Support

DERIC Youth & Community Project

Design Council

Development Trusts NI

Devonshire West Big Local

DGBG Services Limited

DIAL Peterborough

Directory of Social Change

Discover Children’s Story Centre

Doncaster Metropolitan Borough Council

Dorset Community Foundation

Dover Big Local

Dover District Council

Dover Town Council

Dover Town Team Ltd

Dowlas Property Group

Durham County Council

Ealing Community Network

Earlsfield Community Land Trust

Easington Social Welfare Centre

East Durham Creates

East Lancashire Model Railway Charitable Organisation

East Marsh United

Eastbourne Eco Action Network CIC

Eastfield Community Association

Eastside Community Trust

ELCAP

Elson Community library and Hub

Emmaus UK

Energise Sussex Coast

Energy4All

English Symphony Orchestra

Enterprise CUBE

Equal Care Co-op

ERVAS

Esmee Fairbairn Foundation

Esolperth English Language Lessons

Ethical Business Exchange

Even Better

Ewanrigg Local Trust

Families & Community Support Service

FAR Skate Foundation

Favoured Locations Ltd

FC Kirkby CIC

Fedcap

Feel Good Factor (Leeds)

Ferries Family Groups

FFG Foundation

Fiesta FM

Filwood Centre

Finesse the Future

Firs Community Benefit Society

First Choice Homes Oldham (Stronger Communities)

FIRST Face to Face Ltd

First Love Foundation

First Stop Darlington

Fishwick and St Matthews (FAM) Big Local

Five10Twelve

Flank Digital

Fleetwood Trust

Food, Farming and Countryside commission

FoodCycle

Forum for the future

Foundation Scotland

Four Estates

Fraddon Village Hall

Frickley Athletic Community Foundation

Friends of Barnfield Estate Ltd

Friends of the Earth

Friends Provident Foundation

FSE Group

FSN Charity

Fun 4 Kidz/L30 Community Centre

Funding for All

Futures Are Created Together F.A.C.T CIC

Fylde Coast Advice & Legal Centre

Gaddum

Gallows Close Centre

Gasped

Gaunless Gateway Big Local

Gawthorpe Textiles Collection

Gekoglass

Genisys ARCt

Genisys ARCt

GHBL – Senior Citizens Working Group

Giroscope

Give Us A chance

GL Communities

Gloucester community building collective

Gloucestershire Bike Project CIC

GoDubris

Good Stuff in St Leonards

Goodwin Development Trust

Govanhill Baths Community Trust

Grapevine

GRASS Cliftonville CIC

Greater Manchester Centre for Voluntary Organisation (GMCVO)

Greening Wingrove Community Interest Company

Grounded Community Charity

Groundwork

Groundwork Yorkshire

Growing Links CIC

Growing Together Northampton

Growing Well Ltd

Hackney Cooperative Developments

Hackney Playbus

Halifax Opportunities Trust

Halton Borough Council

Hamara Healthy Living Centre Leeds

Hammersley Homes Ltd

Happy Stance Yoga Therapy

Happy Village

Harpurhey Neighbourhood Project

Hartcliffe & Withywood Community Partnership

Hartlepool Borough Council

Harton Academy

Hateley Cross Big Local

Havering Volunteer Centre

Headway Arts

Headway Thames Valley

Health for All Leeds

Healthy Living Centre Dartford

Heart of England Community Foundation

Heart of Hastings Community Land Trust

Heart of Pitsea

Heart of Sidley

Heeley Trust

Heritage Trust of Lincolnshire

Herring House Trust

Heswall Disabled Children’s Holiday Fund

High Peak Borough Council

High Rise Communications

Highfields Community Association (t/a Highfields Centre)

HNM Ltd

Home-Start Knowsley

Home-Start West Berkshire

Hope Not Hate

HOPE not hate Charitable Trust

Horden Youth & Community Centre

Hospice Hope

HS4LC

HSA

HSA

Hull City Council

Hull Sisters

Human-Nature Escapes CIC

Human-Nature Escapes CIC

HVOSS

iCan Health and Fitness CIC

Ideas Alliance

Ideas Test

IFB Gaming

Igloo

Ilays

Impact Hub Birmingham CIC

In Kind Direct

Incredible Edible Marshland

Innovative Vision Organisation

Innovira

Inspired Neighbourhoods CIC

Inspiring connections south west CIC

Intergenerational Foundation

Interlink RCT

International Development Foundation for Community Integration & Support Services CICCIC

Iona Consultancy

It`s All About Culture

It’s Like This Studio

Jade Mutua Foundation Trust

JAGS Foundation

Jaywick Sands Community Land Trust

Jokes Arts Music

Jokes arts music uk cic

Joseph Rowntree Foundation

Journey Enterprises Ltd

Just For Women Centre

Just Straight Talk

Kakamega Days For Girls

Katherine Low Settlement

KEDA Consulting

KensingtonVision CIC

Kent Community Housing Hub

Kent Organic and Wildlife Gardening

Kidz Aware

Kindred Legacy

Kings Bromley Parish Council

Kingswood and Hazel Leys

Kirkholt Million Big Local Partnership

Kjelgaard (UK) Limited

Knowle West Health Park Company

La Belle Alliance Square Community Group

LA Consulting

Lakeside enterprise fargosford Ltd

Lambeth Council

Lancaster District CVS

LCC Big Local

Leaders in Community

Leapfrog Finance

Learn to Rug Making

Leicester Community Services

Leigh West Big Local – Leigh Neighbours Project

Library of Things

Lidget green healthy living centre

Life Into Words

Linking Lives UK

Listen to Locals

Little Chefs Big Chefs CIC

Liverpool City Region Combined Authority

Lloyds Bank Foundation

Local Spark Torbay

Local Trust

Locality

LocalMotion

Lofthouse Gate Community

London Communities Commission

London Community Land Trust

London Funders

London Legal Support Trust

London Wildlife Trust

London Youth

Longbenton Youth Project

Longview Productions Ltd

Luton Borough Council

Mablethorpe, Trusthorpe and Sutton on Sea (Coastal Community Challenge)

Macclesfield PCN

Magic Club

Makor Hayim

Manchester City Council

Manchester Community Central (MACC)

Manchester School of Architecture

Marsh and Micklefield

MATCH Mothers

Matchmothers.org

Mayor of Greater Manchester

Mayor of the West Midlands

Medway Council

Medway Plus

Middleton Popstars Academy of Performing Arts Ltd

Misfits Music Foundation

Mizzi Boys Mentorship

Moorsley & District CIC

More Human

More In Common

MTVH

My Clubmoor

Mydex Community Interest Company

N-Gage

NACCOM

Nansa

National Association for Voluntary and Community Action (NAVCA)

National Children’s Bureau

National Community Land Trust Network

National Literacy Trust

NCVO

Neighbourhood Development and Support Unit

Neighbourly Care

NEON Community Hub

Neston Community Youth Centre Ltd

Network for Justice

Network of Wellbeing

New Citizenship Project

New Leaf New Life CIC

New Local

New Witheven

Newark Sports Association

Newcastle City Council

Newham Council

Newington Big Local

NIHR Devices for Dignity Med tech Cooperative

No5 Young People

North East Wellbeing

North Lincolnshire Council

North West Ipswich Big Local Trust

Northfleet Big Local

Northwood Community Centre Association

Northwood Together

NWG Network

Olive Tree Cancer Support Group

One Knowsley

One Palfrey Big Local

OneBomb ABC

Open Door Community Foundation

Orchestras Live

Ore Community Centre

Organisation

Our Roehampton

Oxfordshire Youth

PAD-CIC

Paddington Development Trust

Park Community School

Parr Sports & Community Centre

Partneriaeth Ogwen

Pathway Housing Solutions

Pathway Housing Solutions

Pembrokeshire Care Society

Pendle Borough Council

People’s Health Trust

Permaculture Association

Persona Insight CIC

Peterborough City Council

Peterborough Environment City Trust

Placeshapers

Plastic Free Sheerness

Platform Thirty1

Plunkett Foundation

Plymouth Octopus Project (POP)

POhWER

Police and Crime Commissioner Merseyside

Poplar HARCA

Portsmouth City Council

Positive Activities

PostScript360 Limited

Power Through Sport CIC

Power to Change

Preston City Council

Preston Cooperative Education Centre

Pro Bono Economics

Project Architects

Proverbs31Woman CIC

Purple Elephant Productions

Quality of Life Foundation

Quality of Life Foundation

Queen Mary University

R L Glasspool Charity Trust

Rainbow CommUnity Projects

Ramsey Million Big Local

Ramsey Neighbourhoods Trust

Rastrick

Rastrick Big Local

Reaching People

Reading Refugee Support Group

Real Ideas Organisation

RecommendMe

Redcar & Cleveland Voluntary Development Agency

Reflections Yorkshire CIC

REMAKe (Revolutionary East Marsh Arts Kollective)

Remakery Brixton Ltd

Renaisi

Resort Margate CIC

Restore (York) LTD

Retrofit Balsall Heath

Reviving the Heart of the West End

Revolutionary Roots Youth and Community Centre

Ridrum International

Right to Succeed

Robin Hood Health Foundation

Romney Marsh Community Hub

Rooted In Homes

Roseworth Big Local

Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council

RSPCA Bolton and District Branch

RSPCA Canterbury and District Branch

RSPCA Chesterfield and North Derbyshire

RSPCA Hull & East Riding

RSPCA Manchester and Salford Branch

RSPCA Warrington, Halton and St Hel

Rudheath and Witton Together

Rumbles Catering Project Ltd

Rural Coffee Caravan

Rushey Green Time Bank

S. W. Community Services

Safe Regeneration Ltd

Saffron African-Carribean Centre CIC

Salford CVS

SALTo Arts Productions

Salvation Army

Sandwell Council

Sankofa CPN

Scarborough Borough Council

Scawsby community centre association

School for Social Entrepreneurs (SSE)

Scottish Communities Finance Ltd

Scottish Green Village

SEARCH

Sector3

Sector3

Sefton Council

Sefton CVS

Selby Town

Self Injury Support

Set Them Up Foundation CIC

SEUK

Shared Assets

Sharrow Community Forum

Sheffield City Council

Sheila McKechnie Foundation

SHISABA Water Resource Initiative (SHWARI)

Shoreham Football Club

Shores Centre

Shropshire Peer Counselling & Advocacy Service

Shrublands Youth and Adult Centre Charitable Trust

Skaped

Skills Construction Centre

Skimstone Arts

Skynest

Small Change

Small Charities Coalition

Smart Dog Education CIC

Smithdown Social Arts Hub

SO18 Big Local, Harefield, Townhill Park & Midanbury

SOAR Community

Social Ark

Social Echo North Huntingdonshire CIC

Social Enterprise Kent

Social Enterprise Network Scotland

Social Enterprise UK (SEUK)

Social Finance

Social Investment Business (SIB)

Social Minds

Soha Housing

Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council

Soul Purpose 360 CIC

South Asian Health Action

South Durham Enterprise Agency

South East London Community Energy

South Lanes Community

South Sudanese Community Initiatives Centre

South Tyneside Borough Council

South Yorkshire Community Foundation

Southampton City Council

Southern Housing

Southwark Council

Southwark Pensioners Centre

SOVEREIGN

Spacehive

Sporting Inspirations CIC

SportWorks

SportWorks

Springfield & Beech Hill CommUnity

St Hilda’s East Community Centre

St Ives Community Land Trust

St Ives Community Land Trust

St James Street Big Local

St Lawrence Church

St Matthews Big Local (Leicester)

St Rocco’s Hospice

St Stephens Neighbourhood Centre ltd

St Vincent’s Family Project

Stalemate Ltd

Starlings Support CIC

Station House

Stayfit Stay Focused

Steps to Work

Stevenage Borough Council

Stir to Action

Stockport User Friendly Fellowship

Stockton-on-Tees Borough Council

Stoke-on-Trent City Council

Stour Space

Stratford Town Trust

Stratford Upon Avon Town Trust

Streetlight UK

Sunbeam Forum LTD

Sunderland City Council

Support Northamptonshire

Sustainable Drumchapel

Sustainable Exercise Partnership (StEP)

SWAD (Sex With A Difference)

Take Off

Tang Hall

Tapestry Innovation Ltd

Tees Valley Rural Action

Telford & Wrekin Council

Tempus Novo

Tempus Novo

TH!NK FC

Thames Life

Thanet District Council

Thanet Health Community Interest Company

Thanington Neighbourhood Resource Centre C.I.O

The Access to Justice Foundation

The Bevy Pub

The bideford Community Centre

The Big League CIC

The Brixton Project

The Cares Family

The Cellar Trust

The Clydesdale Restaurant Ltd

The Coalfields Regeneration Trust

The Coalfields Regeneration Trust

The Craft House

The Curiosity Project CIC

The Democracy Collaborative

The Diana Award

The Emily Davison Centre

The Equality Trust

The Exchange Creative Community

The Family Centre

The Fore

The GameChanger Consultancy

The Gateway Collective CIC

The Girlington Centre

The Highlife Centre

The Hubb Foundatu

The Hyde Group

The Maybury Centre Trust

The Metro Mayor for the West of England

The Mighty Creatives

The Millin Charity

The Moorlands Community Charity

The NewBridge Project

The Panel for the Civil Society Futures Inquiry

The Paperweight Trust

The Peninsula Trust

The Portland Inn Project CIC

The Small Axe

The Social Investment Consultancy

The Toy House

The Ubele Initiative

The Ware Charities

The Wharton Trust

The Wilderness Foundation UK

The Wise Group

The Young Foundation

Thinkfc and Coalville CAN CBS

Third Sector Leaders

Thorpe Edge Community Project

Three Parishes – Gobowen, St Martins and Weston Rhyn

Thrive Trafford

Thurnscoe

Thurrock Lifestyle Solutions CIC

Tim Parry Johnathan Ball Peace Foundation

Time and Talents

TJE Consulting

Together for Change

TPAS

Trafford Council

Trafford Domestic Abuse Services

Trafford Veterans CIC

Tranmere Tunnels Volunteer Ltd

TransformmentalhealthCIC

Transition Highbury

Transition Town Brixton

Trust for London

Tudor Trust

UK Community Foundations

UK Youth

Unit of Health and Educational Development Society

Unity

University of Manchester

UnLtd

Up Our Street

Urban Forest Collective

Urban Forest Collective CIC

Urmston Musical Theatre

Use ‘Ya’ Loaf Community Interest Company

Venture Together

Veterans Tribe CIC

VIEW(DOVE) Ltd

Voice4Change

Voluntary Action Doncaster

Voluntary Action LeicesterShire

Voluntary Action North Lanarkshire

Voluntary and Community Action Trafford

Voluntary Organisations Network North East

Volunteer Centre Blackpool, Wyre and Fylde

Volunteering Matters

Wakefield Council

Wakefield Music Collective

Wargrave Big Local

Warnborough Foundation CIO

Warrington Borough Council

Warriors Community Projects

Warwick Ahead

Wear Valley Community Action Group

Welsh Air Ambulance Charitable Trust

Welsh House Farm

Wembley Central Big Local

Wembley Central Big Local

West End Morecambe – Big Local

West Lindsey District Council

West Northamptonshire Social Enterprise Towns

WHALE Arts

Whitby, Scarborough & Ryedale Disability Action Group

Whitley Bay Big Local

Wigan Council

Wigton Bath Trust

Wild Pear CIC

Windmill Hill Big Local

Wirral Borough Council

Wirral Society of the Blind and Partially Sighted

Wolverhampton City Council

Women’s Budget Group

Wood Street Walls

Woodlands Speaks

Woodsend Medical Centre

Worcester Community Trust

Worsley Hall (Wigan) Community Resource Centre

Yardo

YiS Young People’s Mental Health

Ykids

YMCA

Yorkshire in Business

YorSpace

Young Lives Consortium

Youth connect

Z’s Defence Academy

Zebra Business Thinking

Zinthiya Ganeshpanchan Trust

Champions

Some members are Champions, who have decided to take a more active role in supporting the campaign. If your organisation is interested in becoming a Champion, please email CWF@localtrust.org.uk.  

Building Communities Trust

Carnegie UK

UK Trust Centre for London Community

CVS Connected Voice

The Counter Community of Stoke & North Staffs

Crystalisr

East Riding Voluntary Action Service

Groundwork

Leapfrog Finance

Lloyds Bank Foundation for England and Wales

London Funders

No5 Young People

Place Shapers

Salvation Army

Tempus Novo

CraftA

Voluntary Organisations Network North East

Coalfields Regeneration Trust

 

The All-Party Parliamentary Group for ‘left behind’ neighbourhoods, was a cross-party group of MPs and Peers which ran from 2020-2024. The group was committed to developing policy solutions for ‘left behind’ neighbourhoods, and had been advocating on behalf of the Community Wealth Fund proposal. 

Governance

The Community Wealth Fund Alliance Advisory Group represents the wider Alliance, providing strategic advice and direction to the campaign. The group includes representatives from People’s Health Trust, NCVO, NAVCA, Lloyd’s Bank Foundation for England & Wales, Demos, Brookside Big Local, and Local Trust.

Local Trust provides the secretariat to the campaign.