Evaluation Report — May 2022 Helping community businesses be more resilient – Lessons learnt from the Trade Up programme One of Power to Change’s three Rachel Sturgis
Evaluation Report — Apr 2022 How can funders support established community businesses? Lessons learnt from the Community Business Fund programme Power to Change funded the Community Business Fund (CBF) programme between 2016 and 2021 to support existing community businesses to progress towards greater self-su Waseem Meghjee
Evaluation Report — Apr 2022 How can funders support early-stage community businesses? Lessons learnt from the Bright Ideas programme Power to Change funded the Bright Ideas programme between 2016 and 2021 to support community groups to develop, test and launch their community business ideas. Waseem Meghjee
Working Paper — Feb 2022 Thematic Paper: Assets & Community Businesses Community assets – buildings or land which are used for the social interest or wellbeing of the wider community – can be essential to a community business’ service delivery and Waseem Meghjee
Working Paper — Jan 2022 Thematic Paper: Sector & Community Businesses This working paper explores how the concept of sector can be useful for funders to understand and support community businesses. Waseem Meghjee
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
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
Evaluation Report — Sep 2021 Valuing the contribution of volunteers to community businesses supported by the Community Business Fund This research seeks to understand the value of volunteers to community businesses supported by the Power to Change Community Business Fund (CBF). Amanda Norrlander
