Produced by Local Trust in partnership with Power to Change and Locality, the Community Hub Handbook is a new, free resource that gives you everything you need to know about creating a thriving community hub – such as Community Organisers’ 22 Social Action Hubs.

From financial planning to creating a space that’s attractive and providing valuable services, the handbook is packed with information, case studies, checklists, templates, and practical tools – including Community Organisers’ Principles of Practice – and sets out how to run a thriving community hub and ensure its future is secure.

The handbook covers a wide range of business essentials – such as building relationships, acquiring premises, securing sustainable income, marketing, staffing, governance, and more…

Download a copy of the Community Hub Handbook HERE.

This handbook is a response to the Community Hubs: Understanding survival and success research, accompanied by two blogs. The first from Steve Wyler, co-author of the report and Niamh Goggin, Director of Small Change and member of Local Trust’s community hubs advisory panel.