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
The latest stories
Tax-cut heavy Spring Budget lacks critical investment in communities
The Chancellor’s budget announced some funding for communities but does not go far enough to support local growth.
Empowering Change: How Makers & Maintainers are transforming community technology
This blog shares highlights from conversations between ‘Makers & Maintainers’ community tech programme grantees, and the programme evaluator, inFocus.
Community ownership key to saving local council assets
New polling for Power to Change shows the public want communities to have priority in purchasing local council assets being sold off.