Connecting Spaces
Consulting Services for not for profit organisations and councils
Connecting Spaces Ltd is the consultancy and trading arm of Chichester Community Development Trust (registered charity).
The company was founded to empower and enable voluntary and community groups at the beginning of their asset transfer journey and support them throughout the process, including:
Feasibility Assessment
Community Consultation
Business Planning
Finding and Securing Funding
Capital Appeals
Managing and Maintaining assets
We also work with town, city, borough and county councils, delivering presentations, tours and training. The subjects we cover include working and engaging with developers, engaging resident associations and working with communities.
We take an innovative approach to buildings and land acquisition, with a successful track record in funding, delivering, and running thriving community businesses. We work with purpose-led organisations to establish projects and trading operations in the heart of their communities, safeguarding assets for future generations.
Let’s Start from the Very Beginning…
Our experience extends beyond our multi-million-pound development of heritage spaces, with considerable experience in working alongside planners, councils, and developers to understand the need of a community at the very beginning of a new development. The most successful spaces are the results of combined consultation in both design and purpose – interrogating the existing local and regional provision, the demographic of the community that will inherit the space and the challenges those are likely to bring.
Understanding the gaps and working to create spaces that will fill them on a practical and aesthetic level. Creating and developing community assets is not about meeting obligations, it’s about delivering social impact that creates transformative change. A space designed around need, not just necessity of construction.