Building community wealth in London: learning, partnerships and what comes next

Across London, funders and community organisations are developing new approaches to community asset development - securing and stewarding local assets, shifting power to communities, and building the conditions for long-term local wealth. Strong examples exist across the city, but they remain too often isolated, and the structural barriers - high land values, competing local authority priorities, and limited access to patient capital - make this work difficult to scale.

This session brings together Barking & Dagenham Giving, Footwork and Platform Places to share their experience and thinking on what it really takes to make community-led asset development work - from the funding relationships and governance models that enable it, to the question of how we build something more joined-up and London-wide. The session will draw out practical learning for funders and leave plenty of space for questions and conversation.

This session will be particularly relevant if you fund place-based work, community ownership or local wealth building — or if you're curious about what it would take to move from isolated projects to a more joined-up, London-wide approach.