Policy publications

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.

A manifesto for the age of localisation

This paper outlines what the next government must do to give community businesses the right powers, resources, and backing.

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.

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