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Kingland - LSE High Streets Report

At Power to Change, we are curious and rigorous; we do, test and learn. This means investing in high quality research, evaluation, and insight, and making our data freely available for others to use. Our evidence base shows that community business works to create thriving places when local people take ownership of spaces that matter and deliver services that communities need. We are committed to demonstrating the impact of community businesses, and sharing learning and insight about what support they need in order to thrive.

Previous research conducted by our Research Institute between 2015-2021, including all reports and datasets, is available on the Institute for Community Studies Repository.

Fixing the foundations: A communities strategy for Britain

Fixing the foundations: A communities strategy for Britain

This paper explores community cohesion, empowerment and growth in response to the riots across the UK this summer. The recommendations put communities in the lead, reflecting the importance of places to meet and the need for support from all levels of government.
Annual Report 2023

Annual Report 2023

Our 2023 annual report reviews the ninth year of Power to Change’s operations. It covers the grants we made and our future plans, alongside a financial review of 2023 and our statutory accounts.
Resilient Communities Fund: Review

Resilient Communities Fund: Review

The Resilient Communities Fund provided emergency support as quickly as possible to community businesses, to support them to implement energy resilience projects to become more resilient to both climate change and the cost-of-living crisis.
Leading the Way – Evaluation Report

Leading the Way – Evaluation Report

The Leading the Way programme aimed to increase the skills, confidence, and networks of community enterprise leaders. This report evaluates it's impact, including on their enteprises and communities.
Five years of Empowering Places: evaluation report

Five years of Empowering Places: evaluation report

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 community businesses...
Annual Report 2022

Annual Report 2022

Our 2022 annual report reviews the eighth year of Power to Change’s operations. It covers the grants we made and our future plans, alongside a financial review of 2022 and our statutory accounts.
Community Business Crowdmatch Evaluation

Community Business Crowdmatch Evaluation

This report was written by Clear Impact Consulting and retrospectively evaluates Community Business Crowdmatch, which ran between 2017 and 2022 in partnership with Crowdfunder UK.