Abstract: The community governance patterns in the UK are the policy oriented governance model.The government achieves the goal of community development through the increased social policy implementation efforts.This paper uses the fact literature analysis and other methods to explain the foundation of the British community governance practice,the overall strategy of the community governance and the basic characteristics of community governance.The results show that the main function of the government in community governance is providing policy support and processing supervision. " Social enterprise" plays an important role in providing public services.