How to set up, run and sustain a community hub to transform local service provision
Last updated: 26 May 2020
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Whether you are a local resident, a community group or a local authority officer, this resource provides an overview of the ways in which community hubs can support communities through neighbourhood focussed services.
What is a community hub?
- Community hubs most commonly operate out of buildings, from which multi-purpose, community-led services are delivered
- Community hubs often host other partners and access to public services. These co-locationapproaches are an efficient and effective use of resources
- Community hubs are in themselves a good use of local assets, and the model can help to underpin an enterprising and resilient community organisation.
Hubs and service transformation
- Community hubs can provide a means for alternative approaches to service delivery underpinned by the principles of community involvement and partnership
- Community hubs can facilitate this by providing a place where different local partners in a neighbourhood
- can come together and address the issues that matter most to them
- Community hubs can therefore support a neighbourhood focussed community-led approach.
This resource was originally written for the Our Place programme, but it is useful for those looking to support communities through neighbourhood focussed services.