“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.

“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.
A collection, regeneration and delivery service for Frome’s food waste.
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.
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.
Intergenerational and intersectional values are the driving ethos behind LifeAfterHummus, a community benefit society combating food poverty and food waste in central London.
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.
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.
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 is a community space in Manchester for young people and their families to skate, learn new skills and socialise.
A Birmingham-based organisation that bridges the gap between hip hop and therapy.
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 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.
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.
The young women on a mission to establish Lewisham’s first community owned live music venue.
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.
A strong community standing up to save threatened LGBTQ+ spaces in Tower Hamlets, London.
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.
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 are transforming derelict buildings in Hastings.
Breathing new life into an old market town.
An old train station connecting communities once again
A seaside hub bringing great ideas to life
A historic building turned cultural facility drawing visitors to the high street.
Saving the local high street and supporting local people.
Pollenize uses the power of community and science to fight against pollinator decline.
Residents of Banister House turned disillusion into the UK’s largest community-owned solar energy project on social housing.
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.
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.
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.
Once a school caretaker’s bungalow, Hale Community Centre now takes care of a whole community often overlooked in an otherwise prosperous town.
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.
Chilli Studios wants to get closer to its members, and it is implementing a series of digital innovations to help it do just that.
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.
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.
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 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 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.
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.
When traditional regeneration initiatives failed to deliver, residents decided to nudge their main street back to life, one building at a time.
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.
Making London’s South Bank a better place to live, work, visit and study
Sowing & growing in one of London’s most deprived neighbourhoods
Growing the aspirations of young people in one of the most diverse and disadvantaged places in the country
London’s last working windmill, now its newest education and community space
Supporting women and young adults into arts, culture, education, tech and science
Providing fair, community-owned home care in rural Dartmoor
Building large scale renewable energy systems and using the income raised to fund innovative community projects
Bringing solar farms into community ownership and ploughing a proportion of profits into local community projects
A thriving community business providing a focal point for residents in the local community
A Grade I listed church that has been brought back to life with a new cultural centre and café extension
Norwich Mustard, keeping the city’s heritage industry in production
A platform co-operative that brings community together in social care
A food growing hub in the heart of North London promoting education and enterprise
Renovating Anstice Memorial Hall, a Victorian working men’s club
A community bookshop preserving access to literature for everyone
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.
Integrating health and wellbeing services into a vibrant community hub
A community energy project tackling fuel poverty in Buckinghamshire
A community-led garden centre improving wellbeing and social inclusion
Putting council community centres in Leeds into community hands
Training, education and employment for young people in Tower Hamlets
Harnessing underused school facilities to catalyse community activity
Dynamic social hub made possible by a dedicated and diverse community
People-powered regeneration to deliver genuinely affordable homes
A pool taken into community hands by the people of Portsmouth
A community business that develops, funds, builds, owns and operates renewable energy schemes in the Sheffield City region.
A community-led housing development providing affordable homes, promoting health & wellbeing, creating a green neighbourhood
A community café, transport and befriending business supporting the most vulnerable in Framlingham
The community theatre putting a rural town back on the map
The former school site increasing job and skills opportunities in rural Norfolk
A beautiful historic pub cared for and restored by the local community
A people powered revolution for genuinely affordable homes in Leeds.
Restoring a Victorian grade II listed ballroom for community use
Restoring a Victorian railway pier for community use
Neglected bombsite becomes inclusive community farm.
Beating the traffic with a 365 day community boat service
Fostering community pride and opportunities through reading and literacy
Supporting local young people to become independent.
Building opportunities for young people and housing for vulnerable adults.
Homebaked Community Land Trust is building affordable housing, brick by brick.
A Turner Prize-winning housing and regeneration project in Liverpool.
A railway refurbishment over 40 years in the making.
Saving and reviving the beating heart of the village