Stories

A community lobster hatchery sustaining fishing heritage and trade

Renovating Anstice Memorial Hall, a Victorian working men’s club

Making a Victorian garden cemetery fit for the future

A social hub designed to meet the needs of a growing population

Building opportunities for young people and housing for vulnerable adults

Providing affordable workspace, enterprise support and training

A community led Edwardian bathhouse in the suburbs of Leeds.

Building large scale renewable energy systems and using the income raised to fund innovative community projects

Beating the traffic with a 365 day community boat service

London’s last working windmill, now its newest education and community space

Integrating health and wellbeing services into a vibrant community hub

A community business supporting disabled adults into employment

The former school site increasing job and skills opportunities in rural Norfolk

A homegrown community café tackling poverty through education and training

The last pub in North Maidenhead saved by the community, for the community

Fostering community pride and opportunities through reading and literacy

Transporting the local community with its fleet of eight minibuses

Training, education and employment for young people in Tower Hamlets

A community hub pioneering social prescribing in Gateshead

A platform co-operative that brings community together in social care

A community-driven visual arts hub, promoting well-being and enterprise

A Grade II listed Victorian hub providing workspace, education and training for local people

A community vineyard providing volunteering opportunities and health benefits to local people

Saving and evolving The Joiners Arms to become London’s first late-licence LGBTQI community-run pub

Transforming a grade II listed school house into a community hub for a commuter town

A community energy project tackling fuel poverty in Buckinghamshire

A community bookshop preserving access to literature for everyone

Bringing the less mobile members of the community to a vibrant community centre

A housing and regeneration project behind the Turner Prize

A Grade I listed church that has been brought back to life with a new cultural centre and café extension

The Green Estate has turned wasteland into an attraction, challenging negative perceptions and providing employment.

Creating a community space for gardening and wellbeing

Providing therapeutic services and cultivating wellbeing in Wigan

Investing in community-owned solar panels to tackle energy poverty

A community hub that’s binding the fabric of the community

A thriving community business providing a focal point for residents in the local community

A community hub serving one the most diverse communities in England

A community café, shop and exhibition space in Lewisham

A pool taken into community hands by the people of Portsmouth

Improving their neighbourhood brick by brick and loaf by loaf

A community café, transport and befriending business supporting the most vulnerable in Framlingham

A community-led garden centre improving wellbeing and social inclusion

Transforming a Grade II listed Victorian factory into a community meeting and conference hub

UKs largest salt-water lido serving the community of Penzance and beyond.

Local library opened by Mark Twain reopened in community hands

A community launderette improving social cohesion

Improving health and regenerating a former mining community

A people powered homes revolution for 1000 affordable homes in Leeds

Putting council community centres in Leeds into community hands

Putting a historic London canal into community use

When threatened with the potential demolition of the community centre, people of Linskill and North Tyneside came together to turn the building into a community asset.

A community-owned football club

Supporting women and young adults into arts, culture, education, tech and science

Providing fair, community-owned home care in rural Dartmoor

Upgrading the first community-owned health and wellbeing centre in Leeds

People-powered regeneration to deliver genuinely affordable homes

A community orchard in Newquay supporting mental health and environmental education

Norwich Mustard, keeping the city’s heritage industry in production

Growing the aspirations of young people in one of the most diverse and disadvantaged places in the country

A sports club that is transforming a deprived district of St Helens

A community-owned cooperative uniquely combining skateboarding with community development

A regenerated market hall providing a local and ethical community space

Harnessing underused school facilities to catalyse community activity

A thriving community garden on a disused bowling green

A community digital media centre giving a platform to Sheffield voices

A community business that develops, funds, builds, owns and operates renewable energy schemes in the Sheffield City region.

Restoring a Victorian railway pier for community use

A diverse community café and LGBT+ centre uniting residents in an inclusive space

Bringing economic prosperity to isolated communities in the Pennines

Transforming an Edwardian hospital site to revive a dying rural community

Breathing new life into an iconic local heritage asset

A community-led housing development providing affordable homes, promoting health & wellbeing, creating a green neighbourhood

Self-building a community cinema, music and arts hub in Newcastle-upon-Tyne

An unused station house turned community hub connecting rural communities in Suffolk

Neglected bombsite becomes inclusive community farm

Stocksbridge Leisure Centre, closed by the council in 2013, is now running at a surplus by and for the community.

Ensuring Fish Island’s regeneration works for local people and creative businesses

Restoring a Victorian grade II listed ballroom for community use

A community nursery and garden centre training vulnerable young people

Saving and reviving the beating heart of the village

The first community owned pub on an estate

Recycling unwanted & unused bikes to benefit marginalised groups in Bristol

A beautiful historic pub cared for and restored by the local community

A unique and much-loved base for a diverse community of individuals and groups

A 200 year old pub saved by the community

A vibrant and enterprising community pub for villagers with a café, shop, playground and a range of community activities

Dynamic social hub made possible by a dedicated and diverse community

A 100-year-old community owned library launching a network for their peers

The community theatre putting a rural town back on the map

A community minibus service increasing employability and alleviating poverty

Putting the heart back into a divided community

A food growing hub in the heart of North London promoting education and enterprise

Bringing solar farms into community ownership and ploughing a proportion of profits into local community projects

Supporting local young people to become independent