Anchor community organisation tackling climate change and socio-economic issues in a deprived area of Bristol
All South West
England's largest community-owned wind turbine powering over 3,000 homes in Lawrence Weston.
In 2018, Power to Change joined forces with Bristol and Bath Regional Capital, Big Society Capital, and Bristol City Council to create and co-fund a first-of-its-kind blended fund for Bristol.
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’ new community businesses. The programme hypothesised that this, in turn, would contribute to an overarching vision of more prosperous places, with more jobs and opportunities for local people.
Media by, and for the local community.
Facilitating creative programmes to infrastructurally support local need.
A community arts venue putting Bristol on the map and keeping community at its heart.
A collection, regeneration and delivery service for Frome’s food waste.
Accessible, affordable, and inclusive, Bristol Co-operative Gym is founded by millennials, run by its members, and designed to strengthen everyone in the community.
Coexist Community Kitchen offers a vibrant, welcoming space in central Bristol for people of all ages to find dignity and confidence through cooking.
A historic building turned cultural facility drawing visitors to the high street.
Supporting local young people to become independent.
Pollenize uses the power of community and science to fight against pollinator decline.
An organisation evolving to meet the ever changing needs of their community.
Real Ideas is many things: social enterprise; catalyst; anchor and enabler, but at its simplest it’s an organisation providing support and space to people in communities with good ideas.
When traditional regeneration initiatives failed to deliver, residents decided to nudge their main street back to life, one building at a time.
Providing fair, community-owned home care in rural Dartmoor
Bringing solar farms into community ownership and ploughing a proportion of profits into local community projects
A thriving community garden on a disused bowling green
UKs largest salt-water lido serving the community of Penzance and beyond.
A community orchard in Newquay supporting mental health and environmental education
Making a Victorian garden cemetery fit for the future
Recycling unwanted & unused bikes to benefit marginalised groups in Bristol
Harnessing underused school facilities to catalyse community activity
Beating the traffic with a 365 day community boat service.
The Bookery: fostering community pride and opportunities through reading and literacy.