Community Wealth Fund Alliance

Join the alliance

The Community Wealth Fund Alliance (CWFA) is a group of over 400, mostly civil society, organisations calling for the establishment of a Community Wealth Fund to invest in the most ‘left behind’ neighbourhoods. Research suggests that there is an urgent need for funding to improve social infrastructure including transport and digital connectivity in these neighbourhoods in order to improve their prospects. A Community Wealth Fund would provide this vital funding.

We are asking Government to dedicate the next wave of dormant assets coming on stream from bonds, stocks, shares, insurance and pension policies to establish the Community Wealth Fund.

The Fund would be a new independent endowment with distribution guided by the following principles:

• provision of long-term funding (10 -15 years)
• investment at the hyper-local level (directly to communities of c.3,000 – 10,000 residents)
• community-led decision making
• appropriate support provided to build community confidence and capacity.

Distribution along these lines would support the development of economic and social capital in these areas whilst giving power back to communities who have felt disenfranchised.

Put your name to this proposal and join the growing number of Alliance members helping to make the Community Wealth Fund a reality. Together we can convince the government to invest in the future of our communities.

If you would like to find out more about the campaign and how you can get involved, contact Sophie Page at sophie.page@localtrust.org.uk.

Read our original making the case document for the Fund here.

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