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.
Project evaluations
Evaluations and findings of past Power to Change projects and programmes.
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...
Community Business in England and Wales: new findings from Third Sector Trends
A new report explores how community businesses compare to other third sector organisations across England and Wales.
Community Improvement Districts pilot programme: Final report
Community Improvement Districts (CIDs) provide a new approach for community stakeholders to have more say on strategic direction of the high streets alongside local authorities, businesses and other local stakeholders.
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.
What does it take to strengthen the financial capabilities of community businesses?
Insights and learnings from the Financial Capabilities pilots, delivered by The Women's Organisation and Locality.
Understanding community businesses’ impact measurement needs
Since 2015, Power to Change has made significant investments in research, evaluation, and data analysis to better understand whether community businesses improve places, and, if so, whether we have supported them to do so.
Exploring barriers to funding and support experienced by marginalised community businesses
This report, produced by Spark Insights and Locality, and commissioned by Power to Change, explores the experiences of community businesses and organisations led by or supporting people experiencing marginalisation on the barriers and solutions to accessing funding and support.
Community Improvement Districts pilot: what we’ve learnt so far
The pilot programme for Community Improvement Districts (CIDs) has emerged from a continuing need to revitalise traditional high streets and town centres. We explore our learnings so far.
Space for community: strengthening our social infrastructure
A new report by the British Academy and Power to Change explores how social infrastructure contributes to communities’ wellbeing, helps develop their resilience and tackles deepening geographic inequalities.
The Community Dividend: Why the next government should empower communities
With a general election on the horizon, Power to Change has set out its key policy asks of the next government to create the conditions for community businesses to thrive.
Community businesses and high streets: ‘taking back’ and leading forward
This report takes a strategic look at the role community businesses can play in addressing the challenges of UK high streets. It considers how community businesses can succeed in high streets, what they can contribute, and what support they need to make a long-term difference to restore ‘pride in place’ in struggling town centres.
Community business climate action programme scoping study
Scoping the opportunities, considerations and areas of focus for the design of a community business climate action programme.
Learning for community energy groups in a post-subsidy world
Five ‘practical learning guides’ have been developed to share learning emerging from community energy innovation projects. These should be useful to community energy groups considering new approaches and also to other community businesses considering action on energy and climate issues.
Building our social infrastructure
Building our social infrastructure: why levelling up means creating a more socially connected Britain
Backing our neighbourhoods
This paper examines the role that community organisations can play in the government’s levelling up agenda.
Power to Change Strategy 2021 – 2025
With a new £20m injection of funding from TNLCF, we're outlining our plans for the next five years to be a catalyst for the community business sector, putting them at the heart of a fair recovery.
These Clubs are Ours: Putting football into community hands
These Clubs are Ours: Putting football into community hands, calls for government to put a Community Club Ownership Trust at the heart of football reform.
Growing community businesses: An interim evaluation of Bright Ideas, the Community Business Fund and Trade Up
