The introduction of Community Rights (Right to Buy, Challenge and Build) offers new opportunities for voluntary and community groups to have a say and a stake in their local area - but do they really know what they mean?

Our members think that community rights have the potential to improve local services and help local groups to have a voice, but there is trepidation about the potential to fractionalise services and further disadvantage some marginalised communities.

Urban Forum is working as part of a consortium of organisations to deliver more information on the new Community Rights through its partnership with Locality and the MyCommunityRights service and a series of nine free events held around England.

The MyCommunityRightsonline hub is run by Locality and takes you through each of the Community Rights - Right to Bid, Right to Challenge and Right to Build - as well as the Neighbourhood Planning agenda and explains Community Asset Transfer.

Allied to this, Urban Forum can help you prepare your Community Right to Challenge Bid, with access to grants and expertise. This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

Details of the free events and presentations for download can be found here .