Cathy Harris

Nourishing Community Businesses: Beyond Market Development

Repository entry 1 January 2022

This report, written by CRESR at Sheffield Hallam for Power to Change, builds on the themes of an earlier insight report, Food for Thought: Understanding Market Development (Dobson, Macmillan and Wells, 2020), which was prepared in late 2019 and published in February 2020. Since then there have been major changes within Power to Change, the com…

Community business and the foundational economy

Repository entry 1 September 2021

This report looks at the role of community businesses which exist within the foundational economy (the range of goods and services that ensure places can function, and enables people in those places to thrive). With a focus on four places (Grimsby, Leeds, Leicester and Plymouth) this research offers insight into the democratising, empower…

Volunteering in community business: meaning, practice and management

Repository entry 1 September 2021

This report attempts to fill in some of the gaps in understanding what volunteering means in practice in a community business context. Through a wide-ranging qualitative study, researchers from the Centre for Regional Economic and Social Research explore how volunteering is conceptualised and managed, the role and influ…

Network Support: Community business peer networking before and during coronavirus

Repository entry 1 November 2020

Power to Change supports and promotes community businesses both through specific programmes and through wider field-shaping market development. This strand of work aims to build a supportive policy environment and infrastructure for community business to flourish. As part of an ongoing evaluation of the market development work, this paper exami…

Our assets, our future: the economics, outcomes and sustainability of assets in community ownership

Repository entry 1 July 2019

Power to Change and the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government commissioned this research in mid-2018. The scope of the project was to create a national picture of community asset ownership, to assess their financial health and economic impact. The project sought to address evidence gaps identified in earlier work commissioned by…

Our assets, our future: the economics, outcomes and sustainability of assets in community ownership – Research Summary

Repository entry 1 July 2019

# Preview | Download RI-21S-Our assets, our future.pdf179kB Author(s) Vita Terry Rebecca Moran Eliza Buckley Mike Aiken Ian Wilson Stephen Parkes Cathy Harris Elaine Batty Tom Archer Citation Terry, V., Moran, R., Buckley, E., Aiken, M., Wilson, I., Parkes, S.,

Technical Report – Our assets, our future: the economics, outcomes and sustainability of assets in community ownership

Repository entry 1 July 2019

This technical report supports Power to Change’s 2019 report ‘Our asserts, our future,’ which provides the state of community asset ownership in England as well as assessing the sector’s financial health and economic and social contribution. This technical report provides more detail on case study selection, methods deployed and results…