News and Events
- 9 tips to put your community business on the map
- 12 questions to explore community accountability
- Community as remedy: How B Inspired tackles health and social care
- People with Bright Ideas for a community business urged to apply for share of £3.2m fund
- Bristol’s newest investment fund secures over £10 million to address citywide inequality
- Local Heroes: How to sustain community spirit beyond Covid-19
- £6.5 million boost for Liverpool City Region’s socially trading organisations
- Vital lifeline to help communities save their local pubs from closure after lockdown
- Community ownership key to survival of Britain’s High Streets
- How to build a multi-million emergency funding programme in 35 days
- A vision for the future of Bristol’s voluntary sector beyond Covid
- Create new £400m fund to help football fans buy their clubs
- Pioneering community solar farms generate £60k for communities
- SAFE Regeneration, Bootle
- Diversity, equity and inclusion: where are we now?
- The Empowering Places model and emerging impact
- How to make places even stickier
- Ibe Hayter: Everyday Climate Hero
- Sandra Salazar D'eca: Everyday Climate Hero
- How can community businesses thrive and be sustainable?
- England’s first Community Improvement Districts could be the lifeline that helps save our high streets
- It's vital that levelling up delivers for communities
- Recognising the value of community organising
- How funders can support community business asset ownership
- £4 million fund to boost local community businesses across the North East
- Milestone £31m refinancing deal for community solar partnership
- Britain’s high street crisis reaches tipping point
- Why now is the time for a High Street Buyout Fund
- Evaluating change for Empowering Places
- How can funders support early-stage community businesses?
- How can funders support established community businesses?
- The future of civil society infrastructure funding
- Helping community businesses be more resilient with Trade Up
- Understanding community life at a hyperlocal level
- Assessing our Diversity, Transparency and Accountability
- Learning about what works (and what doesn’t) for community energy businesses
- Understanding the financial impact of Power to Change’s grant-funding on community businesses
- Inclusive local economies through traditional retail markets
- What can community businesses do for our high streets?
- Empowering Places: The impact of the programme on community businesses
- What next for the communities agenda?
- Untangling TWINE
- What we've learned from three years of evaluating Empowering Places
- Two thirds of people favour community power to restore trust in politics compared to just half for House of Lords reform
- Accelerating the Social Economy in the North East
- New support for community businesses facing cost of living crisis
- New hope for communities in the year ahead
- Meet the Makers and Maintainers in community tech
- New research explores solutions for building resilient communities and tackling geographic inequalities
- £2.2 million fund will help communities take ‘levelling up’ into own hands
- Space for community: strengthening our social infrastructure
- Supporting the social economy through the UK Shared Prosperity Fund: a guide for lead authorities
- What next for community energy businesses? Exploring next generation business models
- Driving Hendon’s high street revolution
- Spring Budget 2023 Analysis: Unexpected wins, but ongoing challenges for community business
- Levelling up perspectives from the community to the national level
- Creating inclusive community spaces on our high streets
- Exploring barriers to funding: insights from community businesses experiencing marginalisation
- Unlock your high street buildings with a social value lease
- New co-funding collaboration heralds greater support for community businesses
- Exploring barriers to funding: restoring capacity, agency, choice and trust
- Evolving Power to Change for the long-term
- Funding and infrastructure organisations must find their North Star to tackle marginalisation
- Traded income and the link to a more resilient and impactful sector
- Visiting community powered places with Platform Places
- New report reveals struggling high streets across Britain and highlights community businesses leading regeneration efforts
- Bringing more investment into the community business sector
- Supporting community businesses to better measure their impact
- What we’ve learnt about strengthening community businesses’ financial capabilities
- How can we build an ecosystem that supports community businesses to be financially savvy?
- Five lessons for local authorities to grow their social economy
- What makes a community thrive? Our visit to Witton Lodge
- Creating a more diverse and equitable community tech sector
- What have we learnt about the value and impact of supporting crowdfunding among community businesses?
- Community led approaches are breathing new life into Britain's high streets
- Community businesses are more confident, diverse, and optimistic than other third sector organisations
- Sharing our impact
- Empowering Places: reflecting on five years of place-based investment
- Catalysing the community energy sector
- Why Power to Change is staying around for community business
- The local Impact of Empowering Places
- New report sets out roadmap to help assess and amplify the positive climate impacts of community businesses
- Creating high streets of the future through Community Improvement Districts
- How community businesses are driving climate action
- Meet the community businesses on the Discovery Fund
- How we are tackling DEI, using Data and Discovery
- Community business is key to building a local political economy that works for everyone
- King's speech failed to recognise the potential of community business
- A tale of two cities: the disconnect between Westminster and communities
- Our response to Government’s consultation on the £87.5 million Community Wealth Fund
- Hyperlocal 2023: the transformative power of long-term investment in community business
- Chancellor’s Autumn Statement misses opportunity to back community business
- Unlocking the Potential of Community Energy
- How to grow community enterprise leaders: 5 key learnings from our Leading the Way programme
- New project on privately-owned social infrastructure
- New proposals could ensure resources are available to facilitate community ownership
- Biggest ever transfer of community energy assets in the UK is completed
- Scaling community energy: four key lessons
- Clusters of community business at a hyperlocal level make places more resilient
- Fostering community power through regional social action hubs
- Community ownership key to saving local council assets
- Empowering Change: How Makers & Maintainers are transforming community technology
- Tax-cut heavy Spring Budget lacks critical investment in communities
- Why should the private sector care about space for community?
- Powering up Britain
- Labour’s high streets plans a welcome step to Take Back the High Street
- Power to Change’s plan to take back the high street
- What the mayoral elections mean for communities
- How we’re backing community business
- Unlocking finance for community business
- Funding for community business must be more affordable, flexible and accessible, new report finds
- Financing the future economy report launch
- What are we doing to help finance the future economy?
- Social investment that serves communities
- Putting communities at the heart of our future economy
- Do party manifestos matter?
- How can the new government make change happen?
- A community-powered vision for a new government
- Community shares are crucial to a future economy that works for all
- Tackling cost-of-living and climate resilience through the Resilient Communities Fund
- English Devolution Bill and Community Right to Buy could be transformational for community business
- Push devolution beyond the town hall to restore trust in government
- A new look for Power to Change
- Private space, public good – the private sector and social infrastructure
- Places and spaces matter: a Community Right to Buy
- It’s just the beginning for community power
- Governing in partnership: How can Labour collaborate with business and civil society to create lasting change?
- Delivering missions locally: meet the Liverpool City Region’s community businesses
- Political influencing in action: what we're doing at the party conferences
- Power in your hands: community ownership driving local growth
- Getting a Community Right to Buy right
- Postcard from Brighton: The communities agenda at the Liberal Democrat Party Conference
- Power to Change welcomes new Deputy CEO
- Labour conference ‘24: What did we learn for community business?
- Getting the value right for a Community Right to Buy
- A Conservative Party in flux
- Power to Change appoints three new Trustees
- £2.5bn of levelling up funding stuck in limbo, public demand significant change in approach
- A Budget of choice
- Make high streets great again