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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
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260927
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SUMMARY:Party conferences 2026:
DESCRIPTION:This page will be updated regularly throughout the conference season with the latest information and confirmed speakers.  \n  \nLabour Conference\, 27 – 30 September\n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				Our programme of fringe events:\n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				A symbol of a British renaissance: The civic high street  \nSunday 27 September\, 1- 2 pm\, Arena Room Sherwood   \nA thriving high street is more than a place to shop. It’s where people meet\, live\, access services they need\, and use businesses they care about. If our high streets are to be the symbol of a British renaissance\, we need to pull together to fundamentally change their offer to communities.   \nThis panel discussion asks what policies\, partnerships\, investment and support are needed to bring about a mixed-use\, civic model where high streets are reimagined as places for local services\, heritage and culture\, community and housing.   \nPanel:   \n\nJess Craig\, Policy Manager\, Power to Change (Chair) \nChris Curtis\, MP for Milton Keynes North\nBev Craig\, Mayor of Greater Manchester (invited) \nLouise Haigh\, First Secretary of State (invited)\nLaura Onita\, retail correspondent at the Financial Times\nJo Cooper\, CEO Back on the Map\, Sunderland\n \n\nWhat’s next for communities policy?   \nSunday 27 September\, 4-5 pm\, Arena Room Aire   \nThe Community Right to Buy showed what is possible when community organisations\, campaigners and policymakers pull in the same direction to give people more power over the places where they live. Join Power to Change and the Co-operative Party for a timely discussion on the next big policy ambition for the community power movement.  \nPanel:   \n\nJo Platt MP\, Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Prime Minister (Chair) \nFlorence Eshalomi\, Minister for Communities\nNick Plumb\, Director of Policy and Insight\, Power to Change  \nFin Irwin\, Founder and Co-Director intoBodmin  \n \n\nPower & Place: Where now for community power \nMonday 28 September\, 6pm\, ACC\, Arena Room Derwent \nRefreshments provided   \nRos Wynne-Jones\, the Mirror’s Real Britain columnist\, hosts a conversation between:   \n\nAngela Rayner\, Secretary of State for Housing\, Communities and Local Government (invited) and;  \nPlace leader Liam Kelly\, CEO of Make CIC and Pride in Place Board Chair in nearby Central Birkenhead.   \n\nBridging perspectives from the centre of government and the heart of a community driving change on the ground\, this event explores what the next chapter of devolution looks like and how the government can fulfil its commitment to restore pride in place.    \n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				Liberal Democrat Conference 19-22 September 2026  \nIf you’re attending the Liberal Democrat Party conference in Brighton this year and want to connect\, please contact lucy.symington@powertochange.org.uk.  \n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				Green Party Conference 2–4 October 2026 \nIf you’re attending the Green Party conference in Brighton this year and want to connect\, please contact ellie.radcliffe@powertochange.org.uk.  \n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				\n			\n				See all events
URL:https://www.powertochange.org.uk/event/party-conferences-2026-community-power-from-the-margins-to-the-centre/
LOCATION:Various venues
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SUMMARY:Study visits | Civic High Street Collective
DESCRIPTION:The Civic High Street Collective brings partners together to champion a mixed-use\, civic model where high streets are reimagined as places for local services\, heritage and culture\, community and housing. Across the country\, there are inspiring examples of what’s possible. But action is needed to scale this approach and make it the norm. \nJoin a visit to Bristol\, Sunderland or Hastings this autumn to see the civic high street in action. Capacity is limited\, so please register your interest\, and we will confirm your place at least two weeks ahead of the visit. \nThese events are being run in collaboration with the Royal Society of Arts and will welcome Fellows from their network alongside members of the Civic High Street Collective. \nWhen and where?\nWednesday 30 September – Bristol\, hosted by Artspace Lifespace \nThursday 22 October – Hendon\, Sunderland\, hosted by Back on the Map \nTuesday 10 November – Hastings\, hosted by Hastings Commons \nFor the first study visit to Bristol\, expressions of interest close on 14 September. \n			\n				Register your interest
URL:https://www.powertochange.org.uk/event/civic-high-street-collective-study-visits/
LOCATION:Various venues
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SUMMARY:Westminster Reception | Civic High Street Collective
DESCRIPTION:The Civic High Street Collective brings partners together to champion a mixed-use\, civic model where high streets are reimagined as places for local services\, heritage and culture\, community and housing. Across the country\, there are inspiring examples of what’s possible. But action is needed to scale this approach and make it the norm. \nOn Wednesday 4 November 2026\, the Collective will come together in Westminster for an evening reception celebrating the growing movement for the civic high street. \nComplete the form below to register your interest. Full details to follow. \n			\n				Secure your place
URL:https://www.powertochange.org.uk/event/westminster-reception-civic-high-street-collective/
LOCATION:Westminster\, London
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