Heart of BS13
Anchor community organisation tackling climate change and socio-economic issues in a deprived area of Bristol
South West
Ambition Community Energy
England's largest community-owned wind turbine powering over 3,000 homes in Lawrence Weston.
Bristol City Funds
In 2018, Power to Change joined forces with Bristol and Bath Regional Capital, Big Society Capital, and Bristol City Council to create and co-fund a first-of-its-kind blended fund for Bristol.
Empowering Places
Empowering Places was a unique five-year programme designed by Power to Change to explore ways in which ‘locally rooted’ anchor organisations, operating in areas of high deprivation, could be supported to ‘catalyse’ new community businesses. The programme hypothesised that this, in turn, would contribute to an overarching vision of more prosperous places, with more jobs and opportunities for local people.
The Bristol Cable
Media by, and for the local community.
Knowle West Media Centre
Facilitating creative programmes to infrastructurally support local need.
Trinity Centre
A community arts venue putting Bristol on the map and keeping community at its heart.
Loop:Frome
A collection, regeneration and delivery service for Frome’s food waste.
Bristol Co-operative Gym
Accessible, affordable, and inclusive, Bristol Co-operative Gym is founded by millennials, run by its members, and designed to strengthen everyone in the community.
Coexist Community Kitchen
Coexist Community Kitchen offers a vibrant, welcoming space in central Bristol for people of all ages to find dignity and confidence through cooking.
Into Bodmin
A historic building turned cultural facility drawing visitors to the high street.
YES Brixham
Supporting local young people to become independent.
Pollenize
Pollenize uses the power of community and science to fight against pollinator decline.
Wellspring Settlement, Bristol
An organisation evolving to meet the ever changing needs of their community.
Real Ideas
Real Ideas is many things: social enterprise; catalyst; anchor and enabler, but at its simplest it’s an organisation providing support and space to people in communities with good ideas.
Nudge Community Builders
When traditional regeneration initiatives failed to deliver, residents decided to nudge their main street back to life, one building at a time.
Yealm Community Energy
Bringing solar farms into community ownership and ploughing a proportion of profits into local community projects
Redcatch Community Garden
A thriving community garden on a disused bowling green
Newquay Community Orchard
A community orchard in Newquay supporting mental health and environmental education
Arnos Vale Community Cemetery
Making a Victorian garden cemetery fit for the future