My Community
My Community was commissioned by MHCLG (formally DCLG) in 2014 to encourage the use of the community rights and Localism Act. Since its launch, My Community has hosted various support programmes (including Neighbourhood Planning), a help centre and advice service, a wide range of resource and guides, and an online Advice Community Forum.

My Community now has nearly 200,000 website visitors each year, over 5,000 subscribers to the network, a social media community of over 11,500 and over 500 people registered on the online forum. Going forward the programme will go through another exciting change – as Neighbourhood Planning moves to a new home, and funding from MHCLG comes to an end this month, My Community will become a ‘gateway’ for advice and support for the entire community sector and a place where the community movement gathers and connects.
The website will be transforming into a sector owned platform and Locality will be working with a range of new and experienced partners to support people and groups in the early stages of local community engagement. The website will take people on a journey, exploring what they want to achieve for their local community and signposting to all the relevant advice, networks and tools.
The refreshed My Community website will be developed in stages over the coming year and will include:
- online resources, knowledge articles and step-by-step guides
- grants and funding information from across the whole community sector
- an online advice forum for local people to connect with others across the country and get community-sourced advice
- the My Community monthly Digest of news, events, funding and resources
- My Community’s popular Facebook and Twitter communities.
As part of the new focus on digital peer to peer networking and advice, the advice line and live chat will be closing and My Community Champions will now only be available to give advice and support on the Advice Community Forum, alongside other people all working to transform their communities.
The My Community Advice line will be closing on the 23 March 2018. After this date, you can access community-sourced support and advice by signing up to the Advice Community forum, a wealth of online support, resources, guides and tools on MyCommunity.org.uk and funding, news, events and new resources by signing up to receive the My Community Digest.
Sign up to the My Community Digest for news, funding, events, resources and to keep up to date with the changing face of My Community.