{"id":14991,"date":"2017-02-24T17:42:34","date_gmt":"2017-02-24T17:42:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/newsachive\/?p=14991"},"modified":"2017-02-24T17:42:34","modified_gmt":"2017-02-24T17:42:34","slug":"full-steam-ahead-for-plans-to-develop-community-assets-in-wales-big","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=14991","title":{"rendered":"Full steam ahead for plans to develop community assets in Wales: BIG"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Transforming old pumphouse buildings, chapels, and drill halls into community spaces and creating sustainable enterprises, arts venues, and business hubs are among projects sharing in \u00a3444,941 of grants from the Big Lottery Fund.<\/h3>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The money, from the \u00a39 million Community Asset Transfer 2 Programme (CAT2), aims to provide both capital and revenue funding to support the transfer of assets, such as land and buildings to community ownership. The assets can be transferred from individuals, the public or private sector.<\/p>\n<p>John Rose, Wales Director of the Big Lottery Fund, said: \u2018This programme is helping Welsh communities to become stronger and more sustainable by assisting them to obtain and develop assets and improve where they live. By helping to transfer assets to enterprising organisations that actively involve and benefit the communities they serve, we are ultimately helping more people to benefit from their local community assets and also generating local income and employment.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Davies, Alex &#8211; Big Lottery Fund Press Office, 23<sup>rd<\/sup> February 2017<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.biglotteryfund.org.uk\/global-content\/press-releases\/wales\/220217_wal_cat2_full-steam-ahead-for-plans-to-develop-community-assets-in-wales\" target=\"_blank\">Read more&#8230;.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Transforming old pumphouse buildings, chapels, and drill halls into community spaces and creating sustainable enterprises, arts venues, and business hubs are among projects sharing in \u00a3444,941 of grants from the Big Lottery Fund.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sector-newsblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14991"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14992,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14991\/revisions\/14992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}