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.
All Social economy
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.
In 2019, we teamed up with Liverpool City Region Combined Authority and local social economy leaders to form Kindred, an independent CIC providing repayable, interest-free money to STOs.
In November 2020, Kindred developed the Black and Brown-led Social Traders (BlaST) Network. Its mission is to increase social impact and help accelerate change to address inequalities in the Liverpool City Region.
A Turner Prize-winning housing and regeneration project in Liverpool.
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.
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.
Making London's South Bank a better place to live, work, visit and study
A food growing hub in the heart of North London promoting education and enterprise
A homegrown community café tackling poverty through education and training
A diverse community café and LGBT+ centre uniting residents in an inclusive space
A community bookshop preserving access to literature for everyone
A community-driven visual arts hub, promoting well-being and enterprise