Growing Stronger Communities Together
We help community groups at every stage to take on, manage, and make good use of local land and assets.
Whether you’re just starting out, strengthening something that already exists, or exploring a new project to meet local needs, we offer practical, friendly support.
Our work includes strategic planning, structure, funding, and longer-term stewardship helping build resilience and confidence over time.
Taking on Land & Local Assets
Whether you’re exploring a small plot, a building, or a larger site, we help you understand what taking it on really involves. Together, we’ll look at options, responsibilities, and practical next steps so your project is grounded, realistic, and shaped by your community’s needs.
From food and shared spaces to housing, energy, or local enterprise - we help you turn a community idea into a clear, workable plan. Our approach is collaborative and down-to-earth: who’s involved, how things will run, and what it takes to keep the project going in the long term.
Community enterprises need funding to get started. We can help you build a simple picture of costs, explore grants, loans, and community shares, and prepare the kind of plans and materials that give funders confidence and help you move forward together.
Planning a Resilient, Local Project
Finding the Money & Getting Ready
Rooted in Place
Rooted in Place helps community groups take on, manage, and make good use of local land and assets.
We offer practical, friendly support to help you plan your project, understand what’s involved, choose the right structures, and find the funding you need. Whether you’re looking after a shared space, growing food, creating a community hub, or exploring housing or energy projects, we walk alongside you with advice you can trust.
Our Mission
Our mission is to support communities - and those who support them - to build projects rooted in local need and local ambition.
By offering clear, honest, and grounded support, we help turn ideas into real, sustainable projects: whether shared spaces, housing, energy, local enterprise, food projects or something new entirely. We’re here to walk alongside you, every step of the way.
Our Help
We help communities, and those who support them, make good use of land and local assets.
Support for Partners and Commissioners
Alongside our work with community groups, we support the organisations who enable community-led projects - including funders, local authorities, landowners, anchor institutions, and other partners.
Partners come to us when they want to:
understand the needs and realities of community groups,
design or commission support programmes,
ensure projects are grounded, workable, and locally shaped,
create fair, transparent processes for decision-making,
or explore new routes for community stewardship.
We offer clear, honest insight and practical support - from shaping early ideas, to facilitating partnerships, to helping projects move from discussion to delivery.
Our role is often to bridge perspectives, create shared understanding, and keep things moving in a way that feels collaborative and accountable.
If you’re enabling, funding, commissioning, or stewarding community-led work, we can help you do it in a way that is rooted in place and responsive to real needs.
We work with a wide range of groups - from early-stage organisers to established community businesses - and we tailor our support to where you are now.
Taking on land or local assets
For groups exploring their first site or considering how to expand or diversify, we help you understand options, responsibilities, and realistic next steps.
Planning or strengthening a project
Whether you’re shaping a new idea or developing an existing project, we provide grounded support with strategic planning, governance, team roles, and the practical decisions that help a group stay resilient for the long term.
Understanding costs & finding funding
Community-led projects often need a mix of grants, loans, or community investment. We help you build a simple picture of costs, explore funding routes, and prepare plans that give partners and funders confidence.
Support for Communities
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