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.
Social economy
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.
Kindred in Liverpool City Region
In 2019, we teamed up with Liverpool City Region Combined Authority and local social economy leaders to form Kindred, an independent CIC providing repayable, interest-free money to STOs.
Black and Brown-led Social Trader’s (BlaST) Network
In November 2020, Kindred developed the Black and Brown-led Social Traders (BlaST) Network. Its mission is to increase social impact and help accelerate change to address inequalities in the Liverpool City Region.
Digital skills: Whitley Bay Big Local
Over the last year, Whitley Bay Big Local has changed how it has done many things. It’s organised itself differently. It’s changed how staff and members communicate.
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.
Coin Street Community Builders
Making London's South Bank a better place to live, work, visit and study
Wolves Lane Horticultural Centre
A food growing hub in the heart of North London promoting education and enterprise
Community Catering Initiative
A homegrown community café tackling poverty through education and training
Sidney Street Community Cafe
A diverse community café and LGBT+ centre uniting residents in an inclusive space
George Street Community Bookshop
A community bookshop preserving access to literature for everyone
Exchange Creative Community CIC
A community-driven visual arts hub, promoting well-being and enterprise