COMMUNITY BUSINESS

Run by and for a local community
to make places better.

Community businesses reduce social isolation, revive empty buildings and lead on new developments. With grit, agility and empathy, local people share their professional and lived experience to find innovative solutions to complex issues.

Community business: the facts

42,000

paid staff with 86% living locally

£220m

contribution to the uk economy through community-owned spaces

85%

community businesses tackle social isolation

11,000

COMMUNITY BUSINESSES IN ENGLAND, WITH A TOTAL INCOME OF £1BN

1,724

unique community businesses supported by power to change

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