Asset-based thinking and practice
Asset Based Community Development and asset-based approaches have been around for many years, locally, nationally, and globally. We not only fund the proliferation of the ABCD model in Leeds but a number of Asset-Based projects. This page showcases some of the wide and broad ranging examples of asset-based thinking, approaches and models.
Asset-Based projects we fund
Hey Neighbour
Hey Neighbour asks neighbourhoods what they need and what ideas might work to improve the wellbeing of the local area. We believe that by working in a strength based way working with people in neighbourhoods to develop and fund ideas, communities are encouraged to offer their own resources, time, equipment to carrying out neighbourliness actions for their communities.
Neighbourhood Matching Scheme
A 3 year UK Shared Prosperity Fund in partnership with Voluntary Action Leeds and the Leeds Anchor Network to work in the pirority wards of Leeds to foster volunteer opportunities with an asset-based focus.
Asset-Based Approaches Leeds City Council
Active Leeds
Get Set Leeds Local is a place-based approach taken by Active Leeds, in Leeds City Council. It aims to work collectively, building capacity and capabilities to enable more people to move more often. Successful Get Set Leeds Local projects have been built on the foundations of an asset-based principles and a co-production approach.
NESTA Upstream Collaborative
Nesta and Collaborate worked closely with the Upstream Collaborative, a group of practitioners from 20 pioneering local authorities over a year that has informed the development of a framework which characterises what new operating models in local government look like in practice. Ideas and experiences have been captured in the New Operating Models Handbook, a set of six learning products. Leeds City Council developed: Asset-Based Community Development for Local Authorities - How to rebuild relationships with communities through asset-based approaches.
