Growing Community Assets (GCA) is a fund being delivered by a Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE) led consortium of national partners.

One of the most innovative of Big Lottery Fund (BLF) schemes, GCA will empower communities to take control of assets to shape and dictate their own future. Growing Community Assets is one of four investment strands in the Big Lottery Fund’s Investing in Communities programme which will run until 31 March 2009.

Through Growing Community Assets the Big Lottery Fund aims to enable communities to acquire assets that will help them become stronger and more sustainable. GCA funding will provide communities with the means to seize other opportunities and realise their own potential. It will provide communities with the ability to deliver high quality services and amenities by themselves in a way that is financially and environmentally sustainable and brings high levels of community benefit. Funding through GCA will allow communities to acquire, improve, develop, manage and sustain them as well as protect the environmental assets.