The Role of Small-Medium Enterprises in Asset-Based Community Development in the UK

In recent years, Asset-Based Community Development (ABCD) has gained increasing attention across the UK as an alternative to deficit-led models of community support. Rather than starting with what communities lack, ABCD focuses on recognising, connecting and strengthening the assets that already exist — people, relationships, skills, organisations and local enterprise. Within this context, small and medium enterprises (SMEs) play a…