{"id":1599,"date":"2015-06-16T13:10:32","date_gmt":"2015-06-16T12:10:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.powertochange.org.uk\/?p=600"},"modified":"2021-08-02T12:52:09","modified_gmt":"2021-08-02T11:52:09","slug":"communities-taking-back-control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.powertochange.org.uk\/news\/communities-taking-back-control\/","title":{"rendered":"Communities taking back control"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two recent news articles highlighting the different ways local communities are taking back control have inspired the Power to Change team.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Bob Thust<\/span>, our Director of Community Business Programmes, highlights a Telegraph article about people in the Yorkshire town of Otley, who have successfully listed all 19 of the town\u2019s pubs as assets of community value (ACVs), giving them protection at a time when 29 are closing each week across the country.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThis is a remarkable example of local people coming together to protect their community assets.\u00a0 Listing assets as ACVs is a first step, but an important one.\u00a0 What the people of Otley have achieved should provide huge encouragement to others.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Read the article: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/foodanddrink\/foodanddrinknews\/11624363\/The-town-that-refuses-to-call-last-orders-on-its-pubs.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The town that refuses to call last orders on its pubs<\/a>: The Telegraph, 23 May<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Sophie Macken<\/span>, a consultant in our grants team, recommends a Guardian article about a community in Frome, Somerset, who have rejected big party politics and taken back control of their local council by voting for independent candidates.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cFrome\u2019s example of flatpack democracy represents a different approach to community participation and, like community business, is a great way for communities to take back power.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2015\/may\/22\/flatpack-democracy-peoples-republic-of-frome\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">How Flatpack Democracy beat the old parties<\/a>:\u00a0Guardian, 22 May 2015)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bob Thust, our Director of Community Business Programmes, highlights a Telegraph article about people in the Yorkshire town of Otley, who have successfully listed all 19 of the town\u2019s pubs as assets of community value (ACVs), giving them protection at a time when 29 are closing each week across the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":321,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","inline_featured_image":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[340],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.powertochange.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1599"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.powertochange.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.powertochange.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.powertochange.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.powertochange.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.powertochange.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1599\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.powertochange.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.powertochange.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.powertochange.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.powertochange.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}