Community Business Week 2025
29 November > 5 December
Community Business Week backs the businesses that make where we live and work vibrant, resilient and inclusive.
This Community Business Week, we’re celebrating community businesses in all their forms by shining a light on the difference they’re making across the country. We’re encouraging everyone to discover, visit, or support their local community business during this week.
Attend a community business event
We’ve teamed up with five community businesses to celebrate Community Business Week between November 30 and 5 December.
Download the Community Business Week toolkit
Use Community Business Week to tell everyone about your community business, or a community business you love. Discover our toolkit full of ideas, posters, templates for social media, and even a press release to share with your local news and radio!
Where we come together
Sharing your advice to strengthen the future community business movement.
Don’t wait to be invited. Don’t be afraid. Be brave, be honest, be truthful. That's how we'll build a society that works for the communities we serve.
Gather evidence to help build your development plan. Don't underestimate the power of a well-worded survey. Conversations on the door step get the best results, and social media is good too.
Build your community business networks in your sector. It is so valuable learning from others and it's helped us move faster in the right direction.
"Ar scáth a chéile a mhaireann na daoine" - In the shelter of each other, people live. Look out for each other. Don’t fight each other for the scraps on the table. A shared pot can feed us all. Keep collaborating, dreaming, stay hopeful.
Change is ecological, not mechanical. Connect people, places and purpose, and the town will flourish.
Work at the speed of trust!
Stay adaptable, diversify income, and build strong local networks. Resilience grows when community and business support each other.
Never lose sight of the reason you started. It’s easy to get lost in the numbers, the funding bids, and the politics. But Community Kettle isn’t about paperwork or rent demands - it’s about people.
Get business advice from your council. Local councils should offer free advice on a range of issues affecting small business and cooperatives, from small business relief to local energy solutions.
Stories
As part of our 10-year anniversary campaign, we’re sharing new stories each month showcasing the diversity of community businesses and the innovative work taking place in communities across the country.
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