Research Report — Dec 2021 The Community Business Market in 2021 This is the seventh in a series of annual reports published by Power to Change on the state of the community business market. John Higton
Research Summary — Dec 2021 The Community Business Market in 2021 - Summary This report summarises the seventh Power to Change annual report into the structure, size, shape and outlook for the community business market in England. John Higton
Research Summary — Dec 2021 Volunteering in community business: a digest of recent research Volunteers are critical to how community businesses help to make places better. Richard Harries
Research Report — Dec 2021 Understanding local patterns of volunteer activity during COVID-19 The Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport commissioned The Young Foundation to undertake an initial scoping study to identify some of the ways in which volunteers wer Eve Avdoulos
Working Paper — Dec 2021 Community Business Climate Action Programme Scoping Study Literature Review This rapid literature review was undertaken by CAG Consultants in late 2021 as part of a
Research Report — Dec 2021 Empowering Places? Measuring the impact of community businesses at neighbourhood level Empowering Places is a programme of place-based investment that aims to demonstrate the role that concentrated clusters of community businesses can play in improving lo Steven Coutinho
Research Summary — Nov 2021 How to enable Community-Led Housing: Learning Brief 2 - Building Positive Relationships with Hub Stakeholders As part of the ongoing evaluation of Power to Change’s Homes in Community Hands programme, this learning brief shares key insights on how to enable community-led housing. Tom Archer
Practice Guide — Nov 2021 Empowering Places – Change Framework This is a working ‘change framework’ for the Empowering Places programme – a five-year programme designed to empower communities to build community businesses. Lily O'Flynn
Working Paper — Nov 2021 Leading to Net Zero - Evidence review of communities pioneering low carbon standards The consultancy firm Hoyle and Dean was commissioned by the Community Land Trust Network to undertake a “soft touch” review of the approach various community-led housing develop Nathan Kempson
Research Summary — Nov 2021 Rapid research COVID-19 Briefing #15: Community responses to COVID-19 - Changing community needs and looking to the future The pandemic has been accompanied by a searching analysis of its multi-faceted challenges, uneven consequences and intensifying social needs. Mandy Wilson
Working Paper — Nov 2021 Levelling the land: Social investment and ‘left behind’ places Local Trust commissioned independent advisor and researcher Dan Gregory to explore whether social investment in its current forms could support the regeneration of the most depr Dan Gregory
Research Summary — Nov 2021 How to enable Community-Led Housing: Learning Brief 1 - Enabling and catalysing community-led housing As part of the ongoing evaluation of Power to Change’s Homes in Community Hands programme, this learning brief shares key insights on how to enable community-led housing. Tom Moore