Volunteers managing village halls can look forward to new opportunities for making improvements to their buildings and managing energy bills in the New Year.

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The £150m Community Ownership Fund is to help communities across the UK to take ownership of assets at risk of closure. It will run until March 2025. Your asset does not have to be listed on your local authority asset register to apply.

It has been running since May and round three started on December 6^th and runs until 11.59 on 31^st January 2024.

Read about it and find support on how to apply from ‘My Community’ here https://mycommunity.org.uk/community-ownership-fund

There is more information about this and the Governments levelling up programme here:

https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/new-levelling-up-and-community-investments#the-community-ownership-fund