We back community business from the ground up.
Community businesses are helping communities across England to build stronger local economies and better places to live.
With the right conditions, community businesses can thrive. But they face the same challenges as other businesses, with growing demand and less funding support.
We’re here to back community business from the ground up.
How we’re backing your community business
Working in partnership
We’re bringing partners together to fund and develop projects that demonstrate what works for community business.
Demonstrating what works
Help us test and learn what works for community business. Get involved in our current and upcoming opportunities for community businesses.
Resources for you
Through our evidence and our work with partners, you can access a variety of resources to help your community business.
Shaping the conditions that affect your business
We use our experience to bring partners together to do, test and learn what works. We use this activity to inform the policy, practice and behaviour of those that have an impact on community business – policymakers at all levels, funders, social investors and mainstream financial institutions.
We invest in research and evidence and share it openly so that all communities can learn what works (and what didn’t).
Get inspired
There’s a growing network of 11,000 inspirational and energetic community businesses up and down the country.
No matter your size, function or location, there’ll be other community businesses who have faced the same challenges.
Read their stories and learn more about community businesses.
News and views
Beyond the post-its: Local growth lessons from Liverpool and beyond
Settle: community power and placed-based growth
