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Measuring the impact of community businesses at neighbourhood level

Third party research

Relationship Makers Impact Review

Third party research

Shifting the Balance: Local adaptation, innovation and collaboration during the pandemic and beyond

Evaluation

Empowering Places – Interim Evaluation Report

Third party research

The ‘Locally Rooted’ Community Business: meanings, practices, challenges and the role of community assets

Research summaries

Navigating uncertainty and remaining resilient: The experience of community businesses during Covid 19 – research summary

Research Institute reports

Navigating uncertainty and remaining resilient: The experience of community businesses during Covid-19

Guides

The Good Councillor’s Guide To Community Business

Third party research

Empowering Places

Third party research

Health on the high street

Working papers

Network Support: Community business peer networking before and during coronavirus

Working papers

Growing community businesses: An interim evaluation of Bright Ideas, the Community Business Fund and Trade Up

Research Institute reports

Employment and skills – the role of community businesses – technical appendix

Research summaries

Employment and skills – the role of community businesses – research summary

Research Institute reports

Employment and skills – the role of community businesses

Third party research

We can’t actually be a pub, we can only be ‘more than’ a pub: The Bevy in lockdown

Guides

A short guide to community business

Evaluation

Trading Up: Match Trading® for Community Businesses as a powerful incentive for regeneration post-COVID

Third party research

Community shops: a better form of business 2020

Third party research

Community pubs: a better form of business 2020

Third party research

Understanding a maturing community shares market

Third party research

Think Big, Act Small: Elinor Ostrom’s radical vision for community power

Third party research

Community-managed libraries as community hubs

Policy papers

Community Improvement Districts: A Discussion Paper

Case studies

Wight Community Energy

Case studies

Nadder Community Energy

Case studies

Yealm Community Energy

Case studies

Lockleaze Loves Solar

Case studies

Chester Community Energy

Case studies

Brighton Energy Coop

Case studies

Green Fox Community Energy

Third party research

The English Village and Community Hall Survey 2020

Third party research

Housing by the community, for the community

Third party research

The Community Asset Transfer of Leisure Facilities in the UK: A Review and Research Agenda

Working papers

Saving the High Street: the Community Takeover

Evaluation

The impact of community businesses on people

Third party research

Findings of Bristol BAME sector review

Working papers

Impact of the Covid-19 pandemic: Community Business Market survey 2020

Evaluation

Homes in Community Hands – Evaluation Report

Third party research

Building a sustainable data ecosystem around community assets in England

Third party research

Community Businesses in the North of England 2020: New comparative analysis from the Third Sector Trends study

Research Institute reports

Community business in England: Learning from the Power to Change Research Institute 2015–19

Evaluation

Evaluation summary: Next Generation Energy – interim report

Working papers

Assessing the value of volunteers in community businesses

Third party research

Relief in Sight: Making Social Investment Tax Relief work better for community businesses

Third party research

Exploring the durability of community businesses in England

Third party research

A systematic review of the community wellbeing impact of community business

Working papers

Connecting the dots: The funding landscape for community business

Working papers

Food For Thought: Understanding market development in the community business sector

Third party research

Community hubs: Ten strategies for sustainability

Guides

The Community Hub Handbook

Third party research

The community asset transfer of libraries: considerations in community managed libraries taking a lease

Third party research

Community Business Support in Liverpool City Region

Guides

The community business success guide to delivering services from a community space

Research Institute reports

Supporting Analysis of the Community Business Market Report 2019

Research summaries

Research Summary: The Community Business Market in 2019

Research Institute reports

The Community Business Market in 2019

Consultation responses and submissions

Power to Change response to a consultation on statutory guidance for local authorities on providing youth services

Third party research, Guides

Quick guide to common good land use

Third party research

Common good land use in England: state of the sector report 2019

Guides

The community business success guide to contracted and commissioned services

Research summaries

Research Summary: Community-led housing and health: a comprehensive literature review

Research Institute reports

Community-led housing and health: a comprehensive literature review

Third party research

Community pubs: a better form of business 2019

Third party research

Community shops: a better form of business 2019

Third party research

Building an inclusive economy through community business: the role of social capital and agency in community business formation in deprived communities

Consultation responses and submissions

Power to Change response to consultation on the future definition of Public Service Mutuals

Third party research

Power Partnerships – Localism Summary Report

Research summaries

Research Summary: Empowering Places? Measuring the impact of community businesses at neighbourhood level – a baseline study

Research Institute reports

Technical appendix: Empowering Places? Measuring the impact of community businesses at neighbourhood level – a baseline study

Research Institute reports

Empowering Places? Measuring the impact of community businesses at neighbourhood level – a baseline study

Third party research

Striking a balance: a study of how community businesses in Bradford, Hartlepool and Middlesbrough build working relationships with the public, private and third sector

Evaluation

More Than a Pub Programme Evaluation Interim Report

Guides

A guide to local government for community businesses

Consultation responses and submissions

Power to Change response to consultation paper on Social Investment Tax Relief

Third party research

Community Hubs – Understanding survival and success

Case studies

Ashton Keynes Village Shop, Wiltshire

Case studies

Gatis Community Space, Wolverhampton

Case studies

Mareham le Fen Community Centre, Lincolnshire

Case studies

Pinchbeck Community Land Trust, Lincolnshire

Case studies

Devizes Canoe Club, Wiltshire

Case studies

The Old School, Lover, Wiltshire

Case studies

St John’s Place, Wiltshire

Case studies

TISBUS, Wiltshire

Case studies

The Workspace, Wolverhampton

Case studies

The Eldonian Village, Liverpool

Case studies

Katherine Low Settlement, Wandsworth

Case studies

Kensington Library, Liverpool

Research summaries

Research Summary: Our assets, our future: the economics, outcomes and sustainability of assets in community ownership

Case studies

RaKAT Community Transport, Richmond and Kingston

Case studies

Bilston Town Community Football Club, Wolverhampton

Case studies

Landmark Arts Centre, Richmond-Upon-Thames

Research Institute reports

Technical Report: Our assets, our future: the economics, outcomes and sustainability of assets in community ownership

Case studies

Coningsby Community Hall, Lincolnshire

Case studies

Belchford Co-op, Lincolnshire

Case studies

Richmond Parish Lands Trust, Richmond-Upon-Thames

Case studies

Croxteth Sports and Wellbeing, Liverpool

Case studies

The Peterborough Arms, Wiltshire

Case studies

Wilsford Community Land Trust, Lincolnshire

Case studies

Wilton Community Land Trust, Wiltshire

Research Institute reports

Our assets, our future: the economics, outcomes and sustainability of assets in community ownership

Case studies

Squash, Liverpool

Case studies

ETNA Community Centre, Richmond-Upon-Thames

Case studies

Rotunda, Liverpool

Case studies

The Well, Wolverhampton

Case studies

Big Venture Community Centre, Wolverhampton

Consultation responses and submissions

Power to Change response to consultation paper on Social Value in Procurement

Guides

The community business success guide to retail

Third party research

Growth, sustainability and purpose in the community business market in the Liverpool City Region

Evaluation

Community Business Fund: Interim Evaluation Report

Consultation responses and submissions

Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government: A Communities Framework

Third party research

Community business and anchor institutions

Research Institute reports

Systematic review of community business related approaches to health and social care

Research summaries

Research Summary: Systematic review of community business related approaches to health and social care

Research Institute reports

Supporting analysis of the Community Business Market in 2018

Research Institute reports

Annual Grantee Survey 2018

Consultation responses and submissions

Power to Change response to FCA consultation paper CP18/34: Regulatory fees and levies

Consultation responses and submissions

House of Lords Select Committee on the Rural Economy

Consultation responses and submissions

IPPR Commission on Economic Justice

Consultation responses and submissions

House of Lords Select Committee on Citizenship and Civic Engagement

Consultation responses and submissions

Response to Cabinet Office Mission-led Business Review

Third party research

Community Shops 2018

Third party research

Community Pubs 2018

Research summaries

Research Summary: The Community Business Market in 2018

Research Institute reports

The Community Business Market in 2018

Third party research

Community Asset Transfer: The role of intermediation across the Liverpool City Region

Working papers

Community Business in 2030 – Literature review

Third party research

Community Business in 2030

Policy papers

Policy Briefing: Creating better places through community business

Case studies

Case studies of collaborative community businesses

Working papers

Community business and collaboration

Third party research

How do community businesses differ from other voluntary and community organisations in the North of England?

Research Institute reports

Better places through community business: A framework for impact evaluation

Working papers

Community business in place

Working papers

Re-thinking the English indices of multiple deprivation

Third party research

Sustainable Social Care: What role for community business?

Working papers

A grant framework for new build community-led housing projects

Working papers

Targeting funding to support community-led housing

Working papers

Delivering a community-led housing enabling hub service

Third party research

Village halls, rural community hubs and buildings: The size, scale, scope and potential of these community business

Case studies

Case studies of community businesses providing health and wellbeing services

Third party research

The role of community businesses in providing health and wellbeing services: Challenges, opportunities and support needs

Research summaries

Research Summary: Learning from the Power to Change Research Institute 2016-17

Research Institute reports

Community business in England: Learning from the Power to Change Research Institute 2016-17

Guides

The community business success guide to lettings

Guides

The community business success guide to cafés

Guides

Understanding Community Asset Transfer guide – for community organisations

Working papers

Investing in Localism: How Local Authorities Can Provide Good Finance for Community Business

Research summaries

Research summary: Factors that contribute to community business success

Research Institute reports

What works: Successful community hubs

Research Institute reports

What works: Successful health and wellbeing community businesses

Research Institute reports

Factors that contribute to community business success

Case studies

Case study: Jubilee Park Woodhall Spa Ltd

Case studies

Case study: Zest Community

Case studies

Case study: Timperley Sports Club

Case studies

Case study: Netherton Community Centre

Case studies

Case study: Wellspring Healthy Living Centre

Case studies

Case study: BS3 Community Development Centre

Case studies

Case study: Projekts MCR

Case studies

Case study: The Old Co-op Community Building

Case studies

Case study: Aspire Ryde

Case studies

Case study: MSH Health and Wellbeing CIC

Case studies

Case study: Origin Sports

Case studies

Case study: The Cheese and Grain

Case studies

Case study: Unlimited Potential

Case studies

Case study: Stocksbridge Community Leisure Centre

Case studies

Case study: The Sweet Project

Research Institute reports

What works: Successful sport and leisure community businesses

Guides

Community Asset Transfer guide – for councillors

Research summaries

Research summary: An assessment of community-based social enterprises in three European countries

Case studies

An assessment of community-based social enterprises in three European countries: Case study appendix

Research Institute reports

An assessment of community-based social enterprises in three European countries

Third party research

People Power: Findings from the Commission on the Future of Localism

Working papers

Register of hypotheses

Third party research, Guides

Economic appraisal of community asset transfers – a short guide

Research Institute reports

Supporting analysis of the Community Business Market in 2017

Research summaries

Research Summary: The Community Business Market in 2017

Working papers

Identifying Community Businesses in National Datasets

Research Institute reports

The Community Business Market in 2017

Research Institute reports

Annual Grantee Survey 2017

Third party research

The Economics of Community Asset Transfers

Videos

Lessons in leadership from social business

Case studies

Alt Valley Community Trust

Case studies

Heeley Development Trust

Case studies

Burton Street Foundation

Case studies

Friends of Stretford Public Hall

Case studies

Crediton Community Bookshop

Case studies

Sutton Community Farm

Case studies

Pennine Community Power

Case studies

New Wortley Community Centre

Case studies

The Bristol Cable

Case studies

Bythams Community Shop

Case studies

Sheffield Renewables

Case studies

Bristol Community Ferryboats

Research summaries

Research Summary: Community accountability in community businesses

Research Institute reports

Community accountability in community businesses

Working papers

Neighbourhood Economic Models

Working papers

Data for the community – a look at how data assets are being used at a local level

Guides

The community business success guide to room hire

Working papers

Follow the money

Research Institute reports

The impact of community business on local communities: A feasibility study to test new measures based on the Community Life Survey

Research summaries

Research Summary: The impact of community business on local communities

Policy papers

Social Value Act policy recommendations

Research Institute reports

Community Business and the Social Value Act

Third party research

Community Shops 2017

Third party research

Co-operative Pubs 2017

Research summaries

Research Summary – What works: Successful community pubs

Case studies

The George and Dragon Pub

Case studies

The Drovers Inn Pub

Case studies

The Centurion Pub

Case studies

The Anglers Rest Pub

Research summaries

Research Summary – What works: Successful community housing

Case studies

Homes for Holsworthy

Case studies

Granby Four Streets

Case studies

Bristol Community Land Trust (Success Factors)

Case studies

Bishops Castle and District CLT

Case studies

The Friendly Transport Service

Case studies

Tavistock Country Bus

Case studies

Cuckmere Community Bus

Case studies

Barnet Community Transport

Research summaries

Research Summary – What works: Successful community transport

Research summaries

Research Summary: The Community Business Market in 2016

Case studies

South Tynedale Railway (Assets)

Case studies

Croydon Saffron Central (Assets)

Case studies

Bristol Community Land Trust (Assets)

Case studies

Brighton Open Market (Assets)

Case studies

Alt Valley Community Trust (Assets)

Research summaries

Research Summary: A common interest – The role of asset transfer in developing the community business market

Research Institute reports

What works: Successful community pubs

Research Institute reports

What works: Successful community housing

Research Institute reports

What works: Successful community transport

Policy papers

Treating mental health in the community

Research Institute reports

Annual Grantee Survey 2016

Research Institute reports

A common interest – The role of asset transfer in developing the community business market

Working papers

Uncharted Investment

Videos

A common interest – The role of asset transfer in developing the community business market

Research Institute reports

The Community Business Market in 2016

Consultation responses and submissions

Better social measures: A submission to the Public Accounts Committee

Research Institute reports

Analysis of applicants to the Initial Grants Programme

Research Institute reports

The Community Business Market in 2015

Research Institute reports

What if we ran it ourselves? Getting the measure of Britain’s emerging community business sector

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