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Climate action support for community businesses
Supporting community businesses to make a real difference in the shift to a fairer, greener economy.
Celebrating community businesses
There are some benefits of online events. In December, together with SSE, we brought together 54 community business leaders from across England to celebrate completing our Community Business Trade Up programme.
Supporting innovative community energy businesses
Community energy businesses are taking risks, and building new skills, through Power to Change’s Next Generation programme.
The concept of sector and community business
Is the concept of sector useful in understanding and supporting community businesses?
England’s first Community Improvement Districts the lifeline to save our high streets?
Nick Plumb reveals the two London high streets named England’s First Community Improvement Districts in a bid to revive the UK’s struggling town centres
Measuring the impact of community businesses at a neighbourhood level
We are continuing to build the evidence base about how community businesses impact on health and wellbeing, employability, social isolation, their local environment, and much more.
A new era for place-based funding?
Rachel Laurence reflects on how one organisation, BD Giving, navigated the early stages of the Covid-19 pandemic and what this tells us about the future of place-based funding.
Why Power to Change is supporting We’re Right Here, the campaign for community power
Vidhya Alakeson lays out the challenges facing communities striving to make their places better and why they need more power
How can community businesses thrive and be sustainable?
A review of Bright Ideas, Trade Up, and Community Business Fund, Power to Change programmes focused on community businesses growth, early-stage support, advisory for growing income, and capital investment support.
How to enable community-led housing
Tom Archer talks about lessons from our Homes in Community Hands programme, ahead of launching two learning briefs on how to enable community-led housing.
What does a just transition mean to me?
Climate hero Mark Pepper of Ambition Lawrence Weston shares his thoughts on attending and speaking at COP26.
Real Ideas: From green shoots to mighty oaks
Real Ideas are a pioneering social enterprise supporting people to build better futures. In this blog, Ed Whitelaw reflects on the role of community business in parks and the importance of community climate heroes.
How will COP26 encourage community climate action?
How will COP26 encourage community climate action? Will Walker, our climate action manager, blogs from COP26.
Carbon Co-op: The people powered revolution
Carbon Co-op are a community energy organisation based in Greater Manchester. In this blog, Jonathon Atkinson discusses the importance of community climate action and reflects on what it all means at COP26.
Sandra Salazar D’eca: Everyday Climate Hero
Sandra Salazar D’eca, founder of Go Grow With Love & head grower at Black Rootz, has been named as an Everyday Climate Hero in a new campaign shot by renowned photographer, Rankin.