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How Elinor Ostrom and community businesses prove people power works

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Building on community spirit to revive high streets: how local authorities can work with community businesses

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Improving lives through community business

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The Cappuccino Index

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Understanding the impact of Covid-19 on community businesses

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The prospects for community businesses in the North of England

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What are we learning so far from the COVID-19 response? Part 2

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What are we learning so far from the COVID-19 response?

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All our best evidence, all in one place

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Standing the test of time

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How can community businesses keep up the ‘good work’ beyond COVID-19?

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Putting a value on people power

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Relief in sight – Making Social Investment Tax Relief work better for community businesses

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What makes community businesses durable?

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How are community businesses improving the wellbeing of local communities?

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Covid-19: how is it affecting community businesses and what support is available?

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3 ways to kick-start local economies after the crisis

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Market development, field building or systems change?

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How can community hubs be more sustainable?

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“Good lives are about more than social care.”

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How can we support deprived communities? Start with data

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Supporting community businesses at every step – what are we learning?

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9,000 community businesses helping local people thrive

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‘A small refuge for wildlife amongst the concrete’: common good land use and community business

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Introducing our latest grantees for research benefitting community businesses

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‘The idea of citizen participation is a little like eating spinach: no one is against it in principle because it is good for you.’

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On the frontline of social change – the importance of community businesses in community wealth building

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Better places through community business: updating our hypotheses

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Does community business really make places better? A baseline study to measure impact

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Doing more for less – why do community businesses take on public service contracts?

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Rural environments and exceptional people make for successful community pubs in phase 1 of More Than A Pub Programme

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Where’s your local community asset?

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Moving community health and care from the margins to the mainstream

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Bridging the gap between Liverpool’s community business ambition and reality

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Community business and Bristol’s One City Approach

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Unity in diversity: Learning from the Community Business Fund

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10 principles for designing a better grantee experience

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From lift off to impact: Evolving our approach to impact measurement

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Realising the potential for community business and anchor institutions

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Community businesses’ impact on health and wellbeing – what’s the evidence?

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Call for expressions of interest: research that will benefit the community business sector

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Community University Partnership Initiative

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An optimistic outlook for the community business sector

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Are we on the verge of a community business revolution in the Liverpool City Region?

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Is collaboration critical for community business success?

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In support of community assets

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How do community businesses differ from other third sector organisations?

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Better places through community business?

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Learnings from the recent ‘Community business in place’ report

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Using the Indices of Multiple Deprivation – it is (so much) more than just a top-line indicator

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Call for expressions of interest: research that will benefit the community business sector

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Tackling loneliness – new funding announced

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Finding innovative ways for health and social care through community business

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Two years in: what have we learned?

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Local government: a new impact investor?

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What works – community businesses share their success factors

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Could CITR offer more money and better terms for community businesses?

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What makes a successful community business?

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Could CITR offer more money and better terms for community businesses?

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The business of delivering social impact

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Better places through community business: What are our hypotheses?

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Inviting expressions of interest for research that will benefit the community business sector

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Investing in community wellbeing

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Whose round is it this time? Local Authorities and social investment

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Growing a culture of social impact investing in the UK

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“Living the values” – being accountable to your community

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Land and data for common good

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Laying the ground for a new way of measuring impact

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Shining a light on community libraries

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The Latest on Localism

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What is the best evidence for community-centred care?

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We need more than money to solve the mental health crisis

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New relationships: The future of the Social Value Act

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Community transport, housing, pubs – external factors to success

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Learning from the nineteenth century

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Known knowns in social investment

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Community transport, housing, pubs – people lead success

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Community transport, housing, pubs – business success factors

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Community transport, housing, pubs – business success factors

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What does a successful community business look like?

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What is community accountability?

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Running a community business – it ain’t easy, but it can be done

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The road ahead for community social and health care

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The challenges ahead on mental health spending

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Hidden Treasure: How we found a secret map of £7bn council assets

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Love and carnations

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How a quiet revolution in property unfolded

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Communities and finding a ‘just price’

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Small is beautiful? The mission-led business review

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