A step up for people and places
The CREATE Consortium wants every community to be able to offer the Community Allowance - providing a step up for people and places. The Community Allowance offers a way out of the benefits trap for individuals and their families. It also gives communities a new way of working enabling them to develop local solutions to improve and regenerate their communities.
We want community organisations to be able to pay people to do work that strengthens their neighbourhood without it affecting any of their benefits - creating local jobs and opportunities.
On a recent visit to Manchester, David Cameron heard all the Community Allowance difference when he visited "inspirational" St Peter's Partnership.
Being able to offer the Community Allowance would allow St Peter’s Partnership to work more flexibly and increase the impact of their work in the wider community.
To find out more and all the latest news visit our blog
Read our
new publication on the Community Allowance; a collection of essays from Lord Adebowale, Phillip Blond, Sir Trevor Chinn, Hilary Cottam, Julian Dobson, Will Hutton , Glenn Jenkins, Neil O'Brien, Dame Barbara Stocking and Julia Unwin CBE amongst others.
Find out how the Community Allowance can help communites
develop local solutions here Find out how the Community Allowance could develop stepping stone jobs and support people back to work here
Watch our 5 minute film Benefits Rule which tells the story of how the benefits trap affects Lisa Banks, a resident on an estate in Milton Keynes.
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