A step up for people and places

The CREATE Consortium is proposing that Government establish the Community Allowance in the UK benefits system to enable people to get out of the benefits trap and to enable communities to regenerate. All that is needed is a change to the benefits regulations.

We want community organisations to be able to pay people to do work that strengthens their neighbourhood without it affecting any of their benefits.

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.

Back the campaign to pilot the Community Allowance for anyone on any benefit.

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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