Community Matters Annual Conference 2011 and AGM

Saturday 15th October 2011

Location: Kingsway Hall Hotel, Covent Garden, London

Main Plenary

• Download speech by Gerwyn Jones, ex-chair of Community Matters
• Download speech by Ben Cairns, founding Director of IVAR

Final Plenary

• Download speech by David Tyler, Chief Executive

Download presentations from the following workshops:

Making asset transfer simpler

• Asset Transfer - Karen Cheney, Birmingham City Council
• Best Practice For Community Asset Transfer - Community Matters Regional Coordinator Al Bell
  

Becoming enterprising

• Presentation by St George's Community Hub
• Themes arising from workshop and useful resources
• Websites for additional reading

Commissioning and social value

• Community Right to Buy and Community Right to Challenge - how will they work? by Angela Harrowing, Department for Communities and Local Government
• Commissioning and Community Organisations by David Tyler, Community Matters

Localism - what it means for you

• Localism Bill - Responding to the Community Rights

Playing with your building's future

• Read a blog post by workshop leader, David Wilcox and his thoughts on how the game went on the day