BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Power to Change - ECPv6.15.16//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Power to Change X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://www.powertochange.org.uk X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Power to Change REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/London BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20240331T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20241027T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20250330T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20251026T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20260329T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20261025T010000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251129T080000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251205T170000 DTSTAMP:20260721T031534 CREATED:20251006T165650Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251201T115752Z UID:91698-1764403200-1764954000@www.powertochange.org.uk SUMMARY:Events | Community Business Week 2025 DESCRIPTION:  \nSaturday 29 November> Friday 5 December\n\n\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n This #CommunityBusinessWeek\, we’re celebrating the businesses that make our towns\, cities\, and communities vibrant\, resilient\, and inclusive. \nFrom pubs and farms to libraries and community centres\, community businesses are transforming lives and places across England. We’re encouraging everyone to discover\, visit\, or support their local community business during the week. In this spirit\, we’ve teamed up with five community businesses across the country to celebrate Community Business Week in person. \n \n Community Business Week 2025\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Our event partners\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n We Can Make\n Location: Bristol \n Date: Sunday 30 November  \nTime: 4.30 – 8.30pm \nA community lights switch-on\, festive celebration\, and drinks. We Can Make will also be showcasing their new retrofit-themed light-up interactive game\, Street Lighter. \n \n \n \n Join in\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Star and Shadow Cinema\n Location: Newcastle \n Date: Saturday 29 – Sunday 30 November  \nTime: 12pm-9:30pm   \nAn ‘open doors weekend’ full of music\, films and community activities. \n \n \n \n See what's on\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Civic Square\n Location: Birmingham \n Date: Thursday 4 December  \nTime:  3–8pm \nAn afternoon of sharing\, learning\, and celebration\, reflecting on a year of organising around street scale and neighbourhood retrofit. Expect site tours\, dinner\, conversation\, and screenings – all exploring how we can build thriving neighbourhoods in a changing climate.  \n \n \n \n Register\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Friends of Stretford Public Hall\n Location: Greater Manchester \n Date: Thursday 4 December  \nTime: 5.30-10.30pm \nAn evening of talks and live music\, marking 10 years of community power in Stretford and celebrating community businesses from across Greater Manchester and the North West. \n \n \n \n Register\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Edberts House\n Location: Gateshead \n Date: Friday 5 December  \nTime: 4:30–7pm  \nA community Christmas lights switch on\, with food\, market stalls\, music\, and crafts. \n \n \n \n Register\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Get involved\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Download the toolkit\nThis toolkit will have everything you need to shout about Community Business Week and help you promote your community business. Expect: explainers\, social media assets\, flyers\, posters\, stickers\, guides for putting on events\, and support for local press outreach. \n  \n \n Get yours...\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Share your advice\nCommunity businesses work hard day in\, day out to serve their communities – and it’s not always easy. To build solidarity\, share your one piece of advice for others working at a community-led business. \n  \n \n Add yours\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Community Business Week 2025\n \n Celebrating ten years backing community business URL:https://www.powertochange.org.uk/event/community-business-week/ CATEGORIES:Celebrating 10 years ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.powertochange.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/CBW_WebsiteHeaderImage.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Power to Change":MAILTO:comms@powertochange.org.uk END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251118T183000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251118T200000 DTSTAMP:20260721T031535 CREATED:20251105T181533Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251118T161659Z UID:92701-1763490600-1763496000@www.powertochange.org.uk SUMMARY:Event | From the ground up: Community business & Britain’s next decade  DESCRIPTION:For the past decade\, Power to Change has seen community business grow steadily into a movement that spans the country. While our economy is still failing to improve living standards for everyone and too many communities feel powerless to make change\, this collection advances a vision of Britain’s future where power and resources are in local hands and calls on those who can make it happen.  \nMarking our 10th anniversary\, the collection brings together creative thinkers\, practitioners\, and local and national leaders to reflect on the past decade of community business and explore how communities can meet the challenges ahead with resilience and unity. \nYou can already read some of the brilliant contributions from the likes of Vidhya Alakeson\, Nick Garland and inspiring community business leaders like Sacha Bedding in Hartlepool.  \nThe launch will feature a panel discussion chaired by Anoosh Chakelian\, Britain Editor of the New Statesman and essay contributor. \n \n Sign up for the event\n \n Read the collection\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Speakers\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Anoosh Chakelian (Chair)\n Britain Editor at the New Statesman \n Anoosh Chakelian is an award-winning social affairs journalist covering politics\, policy and social affairs across Britain. She is host of the award-winning New Statesman Podcast and co-presents the Westminster Reimagined podcast series with Armando Iannucci.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Emily Bolton\n Chief Executive and Founder of Our Future \n Emily Bolton is the CEO and co-founder of Our Future – working to back post industrial communities to create a thriving future. Previously part of the founding team and latterly executive board member at Social Finance. Her work has focused on creating impact at scale. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Rachel Coldicutt\n Executive Director of Careful Industries \n \n\nRachel Coldicutt is a researcher and strategist specialising in inclusive\, community-powered innovation and the social impacts of new and emerging technologies. Rachel has been working in technology since the 1990s and is currently founder and executive director of research consultancy Careful Industries. She was previously the founding CEO of responsible technology think tank Doteveryone and was awarded an OBE for services to the digital society in the 2019 New Year’s Honours.   \n\n\nRead Rachel’s essay \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Hetan Shah\n Chief Executive of The British Academy and Chair of Our World in Data \n Hetan is chief executive of the British Academy\, the UK’s national academy for the humanities and social sciences. He is Chair of Our World in Data\, a website providing long run data and evidence on global challenges. Hetan was appointed in 2024 by the UK Parliament to the board of the National Audit Office\, the UK’s independent spending watchdog. He is Visiting Professor at the Policy Institute\, Kings College London and a Fellow at Birkbeck College\, University of London. Hetan serves on a number of advisory boards including at the Resolution Foundation and UCL’s Policy Lab. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n James Plunkett\n Convenor of Kinship Works \n \n\nJames is a writer and consultant with nearly 20 years experience in UK policy-making\, including roles across the private\, public\, and third sectors\, from Downing Street to leading think tanks and charities. He convenes of Kinship Works\, an organisation supporting more human alternatives to bureaucracy. He posts on Blue Sky\, Medium\, and Substack. \nRead James’s essay \n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Patrick Hurley MP\n MP for Southport \n Patrick Hurley is the MP for Southport and Chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group for the Social\, Co-operative and Community Economy.   \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Josiah Sulc \n CEO\, Rooted In \n Josiah is CEO of Rooted In\, a community development charity providing services and training opportunities and operating two community cafes in Allerton and Lower Grange\, West Bradford. Through Rooted In Community Homes\, the organisation is seeking to address a lack of affordable family housing in the neighbourhood\, with an ambitious plan for 52 new community homes built by and for local people. \n \n \n \n Sign up for the event\n \n Read the collection URL:https://www.powertochange.org.uk/event/event-from-the-ground-up-community-business-and-britains-next-decade/ LOCATION:British Academy\, Westminster\, 10-11 Carlton House Terrace\, London\, SW1Y 5AH\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Celebrating 10 years ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.powertochange.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Promoting-content-4-e1762366510644.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Power to Change":MAILTO:comms@powertochange.org.uk END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR