This article explores the role of culture and cultural action as a resource
for unlocking assets and reducing vulnerability with the view of building
long-term resilience in communities. Contextualized by the Small
Change asset-based approach and the United Kingdom-based Small
Change Forum (SCF) initiative, this article examines how culture
embodies valuable resources for building resilience in community
groups and ways in which cultural action can unlock and use existing
assets in communities to bring about change. The opportunities and
challenges for achieving development through cultural action are
outlined and principles developed which aim to add to the debate about
the role of culture in community development.