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
37,800
jobs for people in the most deprived areas
£220m
contribution to the uk economy through community-owned spaces
85%
community businesses tackle social isolation
11,300
total number of community businesses in 2020, up from 5,500 in 2015
1,724
unique community businesses supported by power to change
Community business case studies
Stories of community change
What is community business?
Grit, AGILITY AND EMPATHY
All over England, people are coming together to make the places they live better.
There’s a growing movement of communities taking back control of their local areas through business. Hundreds of thousands of people working to improve the places where they live – buying the last pub in the village, running their local football club, saving their public halls and local libraries.
The latest stories
Community ownership key to levelling up Britain’s high streets, according to new research
A new report from the Centre for Regional Economic and Social Research at Sheffield Hallam University and Power to Change has shone a light on the need and opportunity for supporting communities to save ailing high streets and support the levelling up agenda.
What can community businesses do for our high streets?
Community businesses could succeed in revitalising Britain’s high streets – with the right support. New research by the Centre for Regional Economic and Social Research at Sheffield Hallam University explores how.
Power to Change appoints three new trustee directors
New appointments bring diversity of expertise and experience to community business sector