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CREATE: A Community Allowance

This report details our proposal for a new Community Allowance: a simple and dynamic support package enabling local people to do valuable and preventative work in their local communities in partnership with community groups and public interest organisations who will provide training, work and personal support delivered very locally by trusted local organisations.

The money is already committed, the people are already in place, the local organisations are already active, the need for the work is already proven but the benefit system prohibits, traps and actively discourages people from doing these jobs.

CREATE Consortium includes:

• British Urban Regeneration Association
• National Community Forum
• Community Links
• Slivers-of-Time
• Development Trusts Association

Download a copy of the report and join in a discussion about the proposal on our blog site.

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