“Levelling the playing field” by offering free resource packs for positive thinking, this community business is now trying to place town centre buildings in the hands of Coalville’s community.
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Loop:Frome
A collection, regeneration and delivery service for Frome’s food waste.
Kitty’s Laundrette
Founded on an ethos of radical inclusivity and responsibility, Kitty’s Laundrette enables its young co-operative members to take control of both their and their organisation’s work.
Kirklees Local TV
Harnessing the power of film to tell hidden stories, Kirklees Local TV is an internet-based TV station that provides a platform for young people to grow their confidence and agency.
LifeAfterHummus Community Benefit Society
Intergenerational and intersectional values are the driving ethos behind LifeAfterHummus, a community benefit society combating food poverty and food waste in central London.
October Books
Founded in the 1970s, radical co-operative bookshop, October Books in Southampton has expanded its reach to a new generation of young members and leaders.
Odd Arts
Being led by local young people’s ideas and experiences is foundational to how Odd Arts uses theatre to transform lives in Moss Side, Manchester, and beyond.
The Platform Café
As a space for community connection, The Platform Café in London provides a patient and understanding place for its young staff to grow.
Projekts MCR
Projekts MCR is a community space in Manchester for young people and their families to skate, learn new skills and socialise.
Hip Hop Heals
A Birmingham-based organisation that bridges the gap between hip hop and therapy.
Giroscope
Founded by a group of young radicals in Hull in the 1980s, Giroscope’s self-help housing is regenerating the neighbourhood with a new generation of young people.
BlueJam Arts
BlueJam Arts is a dynamic hub for intergenerational music and arts in rural Cumbria which puts young people in the lead of its programmes and operations, and their own creative potential.
Bristol Co-operative Gym
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
Coexist Community Kitchen offers a vibrant, welcoming space in central Bristol for people of all ages to find dignity and confidence through cooking.
Sister Midnight
The young women on a mission to establish Lewisham’s first community owned live music venue.
People Dem Collective
From a living room meet up to plans to take over a five-story building, People Dem Collective are proudly taking up space in Margate.
Friends of the Joiners Arms
A strong community standing up to save threatened LGBTQ+ spaces in Tower Hamlets, London.
Future Yard
A brand new community venue in one of the country’s most deprived wards exists as a template for how contemporary music venues can be run while proudly proclaiming: The Future is Birkenhead.
Wigan Warriors Community Foundation
From hosting free rugby camps to thousands of children every year to offering disability teams, this foundation is aiming to serve everyone in its community.
White Rock Neighbourhood Ventures
White Rock Neighbourhood Ventures are transforming derelict buildings in Hastings.
Radcliffe Market Hall
Breathing new life into an old market town.
Station South
An old train station connecting communities once again
Good Things Collective
A seaside hub bringing great ideas to life
Into Bodmin
A historic building turned cultural facility drawing visitors to the high street.
Chopwell Regeneration Group
Saving the local high street and supporting local people.
Pollenize
Pollenize uses the power of community and science to fight against pollinator decline.
Banister House Solar
Residents of Banister House turned disillusion into the UK’s largest community-owned solar energy project on social housing.
Huyton Juniors
Having successfully established a community football club for young people on disused parkland, Huyton Juniors then turned its attention to regenerating the space into a permanent community asset.
Glamis Hall
In 2014, Wellingborough Council decided it couldn’t afford to keep a day centre for the elderly open so residents, left reeling by its closure, stepped up and took it on.
Socco Cheta Hub
A new hub in South Norwood will bring together a diverse and vibrant neighbourhood where inequality and a lack of cohesion is threatening to splinter the community.
Hale Community Centre
Once a school caretaker’s bungalow, Hale Community Centre now takes care of a whole community often overlooked in an otherwise prosperous town.
Digital skills: Whitley Bay Big Local
Over the last year, Whitley Bay Big Local has changed how it has done many things. It’s organised itself differently. It’s changed how staff and members communicate.
Digital skills: Chilli Studios
Chilli Studios wants to get closer to its members, and it is implementing a series of digital innovations to help it do just that.
Digital skills: Queen’s Mill
Like many other organisations, the team from Queen’s Mill in Castleford has been wrestling with the question of how to reach the whole of the community.
Digital skills: Myatt’s Fields Park
Myatt’s Fields Park in south London is one of the smallest parks in the city. But you wouldn’t know it from the diversity of activity taking place.
Digital skills: Fordhall Farm
Fordhall Farm has found the last year easier than some other community businesses. Its activities are outdoor, and many have been less affected by lockdown. As a result, people have flocked to enjoy what it has to offer.
Real Ideas
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.
FC United of Manchester
When FC United set up as a supporter-owned football club, they weren’t to know how rewarding their role in the community would come to be.
AFC Lewisham
When a mother’s 13-year-old son was turned away by local football clubs, she decided to take matters into her own hands and set one up herself.
Nudge Community Builders
When traditional regeneration initiatives failed to deliver, residents decided to nudge their main street back to life, one building at a time.
Digital skills: Upper Norwood Library Hub
Last year, like a lot of community businesses, Upper Norwood Library Trust found itself facing a big problem. It had built all its services around its community hub. Now, suddenly, all those services had to move online.
Coin Street Community Builders
Making London’s South Bank a better place to live, work, visit and study
Loughborough Junction Action Group
Sowing & growing in one of London’s most deprived neighbourhoods
One Voice Blackburn
Growing the aspirations of young people in one of the most diverse and disadvantaged places in the country
Brixton Windmill
London’s last working windmill, now its newest education and community space
M-Prez
Supporting women and young adults into arts, culture, education, tech and science
NEDCare
Providing fair, community-owned home care in rural Dartmoor
Brighton Energy Coop
Building large scale renewable energy systems and using the income raised to fund innovative community projects
Yealm Community Energy
Bringing solar farms into community ownership and ploughing a proportion of profits into local community projects
Headingley Development Trust
A thriving community business providing a focal point for residents in the local community
Grand Junction at St Mary Magdalene’s Paddington
A Grade I listed church that has been brought back to life with a new cultural centre and café extension
Norwich Mustard
Norwich Mustard, keeping the city’s heritage industry in production
Equal Care Co-op
A platform co-operative that brings community together in social care
Wolves Lane Horticultural Centre
A food growing hub in the heart of North London promoting education and enterprise
Anstice Memorial Hall
Renovating Anstice Memorial Hall, a Victorian working men’s club
George Street Community Bookshop
A community bookshop preserving access to literature for everyone
Linskill and North Tyneside Development Trust
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.
Bromley-by-Bow Centre
Integrating health and wellbeing services into a vibrant community hub
Gawcott Fields Community Solar
A community energy project tackling fuel poverty in Buckinghamshire
Hulme Community Garden Centre
A community-led garden centre improving wellbeing and social inclusion
Leeds Community Spaces
Putting council community centres in Leeds into community hands
DoLittle Solutions
Training, education and employment for young people in Tower Hamlets
Real Ideas: Connected Schools
Harnessing underused school facilities to catalyse community activity
The Selby Trust
Dynamic social hub made possible by a dedicated and diverse community
New Wortley Community Housing
People-powered regeneration to deliver genuinely affordable homes
Hilsea Lido
A pool taken into community hands by the people of Portsmouth
Sheffield Renewables
A community business that develops, funds, builds, owns and operates renewable energy schemes in the Sheffield City region.
St Ann’s Redevelopment Trust (StART)
A community-led housing development providing affordable homes, promoting health & wellbeing, creating a green neighbourhood
Hour Community
A community café, transport and befriending business supporting the most vulnerable in Framlingham
Viva Arts and Community Group
The community theatre putting a rural town back on the map
Charles Burrell Centre
The former school site increasing job and skills opportunities in rural Norfolk
The Duke of Marlborough Pub
A beautiful historic pub cared for and restored by the local community
Leeds Community Homes
A people powered revolution for genuinely affordable homes in Leeds.
Stretford Public Hall
Restoring a Victorian grade II listed ballroom for community use
Shotley Pier
Restoring a Victorian railway pier for community use
Stepney City Farm
Neglected bombsite becomes inclusive community farm.
Bristol Ferry Boats
Beating the traffic with a 365 day community boat service
Crediton Community Bookshop
Fostering community pride and opportunities through reading and literacy
YES Brixham
Supporting local young people to become independent.
Barnsley Community Build
Building opportunities for young people and housing for vulnerable adults.
Homebaked CLT
Homebaked Community Land Trust is building affordable housing, brick by brick.
Granby Four Streets
A Turner Prize-winning housing and regeneration project in Liverpool.
South Tynedale Railway
A railway refurbishment over 40 years in the making.
The Anglers Rest
Saving and reviving the beating heart of the village