Jargon Buster
- Capacity building
Support, techniques and initiatives which aim build the capacity of individuals or organisations within communities to contribute effectively to regeneration projects.
- Capital funding
Money spent on the purchase or improvement of fixed assets such as buildings, roads and equipment.
- Community businesses
Organisations which are established to provide services and/or employment in a local community. Their focus is about building the community and the local economy, but doing so in a business-like way as independent and self-supporting organisations.
- Community Chest
Community Chests were administered by voluntary sector 'lead organisations' and offered small grants to community groups for projects to help them renew their own neighbourhoods.
- Community planning
The process where a local authority and partner organisations come together to plan, provide and promote the well-being of their communities. It promotes the active involvement of communities in the decisions on local services which affect people's lives including for example health, education, transport, the economy, safety and the environment.
- Community strategies
The plans which local authorities are now required to prepare for improving the economic, environmental and social well being of local areas and by which the councils are expected to co-ordinate the actions of the public, private voluntary and community organisations that operate locally.
- Crime Reduction Partnerships
Statutory partnerships formed as a consequence of the Crime and Disorder Act 1998 which required the police and local authorities and others to work together to tackle crime and disorder within a local authority area.
- Crime Reduction Programme
A government funded programme which consists of a series of diverse initiatives which have been shown to be effective at reducing crime or the fear of crime.