Big Lottery Fund

The Community Assets programme supported the transfer of buildings and similar assets from local authorities to third-sector organisations.

We commissioned Rocket Science to evaluate the progress and achievements of the programme between 2008 and 2011.

Read an overall review of the programme in the final report. This outlines key findings and considerations from the three-year evaluation of the Community Assets programme, run by the Big Fund on behalf of OCS. - 588KB

This is supported by a series of appendices:

• Appendix A – Findings  from the final project survey This document outlines findings from a survey of projects for the final evaluation report. - 810KB
• Appendix B – Six in-depth case studies This document presents six in-depth case studies from the Community Assets programme - 285KB
• Appendix C – A consideration of the wider policy context 
  - 273KB at the end of the evaluation
• Appendix D – A report from a learning event in November 2010 This document summarises discussions and key points from an event that brought together projects tand the evaluation team. - 196KB
• Appendix E – Reflections on Big Fund’s management This document summarises Big Fund staff reflections on managing the programme. - 204KB of the programme
• Appendix F – Programme outcomes framework This document presents the framework that the evaluators and projects used to consider progress. - 319KB

Earlier reports and documents

• Our summary of findings to the end of the second stage This document provides a general overview of the programme, what the evaluation has been looking at, and what it had found (to late 2009). - 466KB.
• Rocket Science’s first report 
  - 526KB
• Rocket Science’s seond report This report highlights findings from the evaluators’ survey of projects in 2009. - 370KB
• An outline of what the Office of the Third Sector wanted the evaluation to look at This document sets out the main requirements that BIG and the Office of the Third Sector specified for the evaluation. - 16KB
• Rocket Science’s plans for the evaluation This document summarises our plans for the evaluation of the Community Assets programme. - 88KB.

More resources

• The Legacy Impact Tool 
  - 1,633KB allows projects funded under Community Assets to track progress towards outcomes in a consistent and comparable way.
• The Big Lottery Fund's wider learning on asset transfer and capital projects.

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