Focusing on ‘what’s strong, not what’s wrong’, asset based community development is helping local areas shake off their ‘deprived’ status and build themselves from the bottom up.
The Miners Community Arts Centre has been proving the power of asset based community development before the term was even heard of in the area.
Even while the juggernaut of economic growth continues, another economic story is on the rise. It’s the story of economics from within, a local economics that works with the grain of a place and the people that live there.