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Supporting community business<\/strong>
In the North East<\/h2>\n

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1. Empowering places<\/a><\/h4>\n

2. Increasing social investment<\/a><\/h4>\n

3. Case studies<\/a><\/h4>\n

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5. Blogs<\/a><\/h4>\n

[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.16″ _module_preset=”default” custom_padding=”0px||1px|||” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.16″ _module_preset=”default” custom_padding=”||0px|||” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.16″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.16″ _module_preset=”default” header_4_text_color=”#01D6A5″ global_colors_info=”{}”]Well over a hundred community businesses in the North East have received direct funding from Power to Change with community hubs, pubs and shops, and health and wellbeing organisations being most prevalent. But that\u2019s just part of the story in a region where consortia working and investment in anchor organisations is reaping benefits and leveraging further support for local people who know what they need.<\/p>\n

Empowering places<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n

The Wharton Trust<\/a>, one of the earliest grantees in the region, is one such anchor organisation who, as part of the Empowering Places programme, has really evolved its approach in Hartlepool to become more commercially minded over the years.<\/p>\n

Through their wealth building work with the local authority and their willingness to engage with issues and organisations outside of the ward they serve, they are building an infrastructure sector that can catalyse and nurture the community to be proactive in seeking their own solutions to local problems, or gaps in provision, using the community business model.[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.16″ _module_preset=”default” custom_padding=”0px|0px|14px||false|false” locked=”off” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.16″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.16″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/www.powertochange.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Sunderland-Homegrown-CIC-June-2017-11.jpg” title_text=”Sunderland Homegrown CIC, June 2017 %9111%93″ _builder_version=”4.16″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_image][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.16″ _module_preset=”default” custom_padding=”0px|||||” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.16″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.16″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n

Increasing social investment<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n

Power to Change also funds Tees Valley Community Foundation<\/a> alongside the Wharton Trust to provide a pipeline programme to support early-stage community businesses ideas. They, together with lots of other partners, are part of the Local Access Redcar Cleveland and Hartlepool<\/a> programme, which builds on this further by increasing opportunities for social investment.<\/p>\n

Further funding from Power to Change is enabling the Wharton Trust to buy 15 houses in the Dyke House area of Hartlepool. Dyke House sits within the top 2% of deprived wards in the UK and is in the lowest 5% for employment rates in the country. The trust will have a social contract with their tenants to be community organisers, and this combination of acquiring assets and building community power is how you reinvigorate hope and potential in under-invested communities.[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ prev_background_color=”#ffffff” _builder_version=”4.16″ _module_preset=”default” background_color=”#E6E6E6″ custom_margin=”-25px||-60px||false|false” top_divider_style=”slant” bottom_divider_color=”#1E2D5A” bottom_divider_flip=”horizontal” locked=”off” collapsed=”off” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.16″ _module_preset=”default” custom_padding=”66px|||||” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.16″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_testimonial author=”Bonnie Hewson” job_title=”Place-based investment manager” company_name=”Power to Change” quote_icon=”off” _builder_version=”4.17.1″ _module_preset=”default” body_font=”GT Super||||||||” body_text_align=”center” body_text_color=”#0378B5″ body_font_size=”19px” author_text_align=”left” author_text_color=”#1E2D5A” position_text_color=”#4B40FB” company_text_color=”#4B40FB” background_color=”RGBA(0,0,0,0)” width=”100%” max_width=”800px” module_alignment=”center” custom_margin=”|-14px||||” custom_padding=”0px|1px|0px|0px||” locked=”off” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n

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\u201cYou have to build from the ground up; where people are and what they need. Even if a place is labelled as \u2018left behind\u2019 and in need of \u2018levelling-up\u2019 it doesn’t mean it’s without assets and without resources in its community. Even when people live in crisis almost all the time, there is still power in that place – community spirit and care for one another. People know what they need, they need investment, but how you invest is as important as how much. It needs to come with a big side helping of trust.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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