What is the Community Empowerment Act?

In North Ayrshire, community empowerment means giving local people the confidence, skills, and real decision-making power to shape local services, manage community assets, and drive positive change in their neighbourhoods.

• Local Control: Decisions are made as close as possible to the communities they affect through structures like our six locality partnerships
• Participatory Budgeting: Residents directly decide how public funds - such as local participatory budgeting initiatives - are spent on community projects
• Community Asset Transfer: Local voluntary and social enterprise groups can take over the ownership and responsibility of council-owned land and buildings
• Tackling Inequalities: Partners focus on wellbeing, reducing inequality, and ensuring vulnerable or marginalised voices are not left behind.