Reports, white papers, and policy memos on current policy issues related to community business.
Department stories: How communities are reimagining a national institution
Once a destination for generations of shoppers, department stores are on the decline. But community businesses are repurposing vacant department stores and town centre shopping spaces, driving new footfall to their town centres through vibrant offers that meet the needs of their community.
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.
Roots of renewal: Empowering communities, transforming Britain
This manifesto sets out how the new Government can help to create the conditions for community business to thrive.
Getting it right: Introducing and implementing a Community Right to Buy
This report offers detailed guidance for the Government on how to implement a Community Right to Buy. It is based on almost 10 years of knowledge working with communities and in-depth interviews with community leaders, politicians, civil servants and others.
Financing the future economy: How community businesses can access the right finance to achieve their ambitions
This report provides an overview of the finance and funding landscape for community business, outlining the challenges in accessing the right type of finance at the right time, and situating access to finance within the wider policy context.
The role of Community Energy in a Just Transition to Net Zero
This policy report highlights the support needed from government, local authorities, electricity systems operators, and funders to unlock the potential of Community Energy Businesses (CEBs) in achieving a Net Zero future.
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-powered high streets: how community businesses will build town centres fit for the future
This new Take Back The High Street report by Power to change explores the reasons why high street vacancy rates have increased and set out the policy change needed for community-led regeneration of our high streets.
Work in progress: Levelling up perspectives from the community to the national level
A new report on 'levelling up' from Power to Change reveals that some progress has been made for communities, but there is little impact being made, leading to public pessimism.
Empower communities, don’t just tinker with Westminster
Power to Change responds to the Labour Party’s Report of the Commission on the UK’s Future.
Take Back the High Street: Why now is the time for a High Street Buyout Fund
This paper puts forward the concept of a High Street Buyout Fund – an agile fund which will purchase high street buildings and transfer these into community management and ownership.
Backing our neighbourhoods
This paper examines the role that community organisations can play in the government’s levelling up agenda.
Policy Briefing: Creating better places through community business
