John Higton

The Community Business Market in 2021 – Summary

Repository entry 1 December 2021

This report summarises the seventh Power to Change annual report into the structure, size, shape and outlook for the community business market in England. It finds that community business are bouncing back from the impact of the pandemic more financially confident and economically stronger.

Volunteering in community business: a digest of recent research

Repository entry 1 December 2021

Volunteers are critical to how community businesses help to make places better. They help root community businesses in their local communities, and their time is central to community businesses’ financial viability. In fact, some community businesses would not exist at all were it not for volunteers.

This digest summarises three re…

The Community Business Market in 2021

Repository entry 1 December 2021

This is the seventh in a series of annual reports published by Power to Change on the state of the community business market. This iteration is the fifth researched and written by CFE Research. It uses survey and  interview data to describe a community business market bouncing back financially from the worst of the pandemic, diversifying t…

The role of volunteers in community businesses

Repository entry 1 June 2021

This study examined the structure and role of voluntary labour for community businesses. Four chapters discuss the profile and working patterns of volunteers, how volunteers are recruited and employed, how volunteers’ skills are utilised, factors covering their training and professional development and the wider motivations to volunteer.

Supporting analysis of the Community Business Market Report 2020

Repository entry 1 March 2021

This Supporting Analysis document supports Power to Change’s 2020 report on the community business market. It provides more information on the technical details of estimating market size for individual sub-sectors, and for the market overall. There are two appendices and a bibliography in this document. – Appendix A covers the survey and qu…

The Community Business Market in 2020

Repository entry 1 March 2021

This is the sixth in a series of annual reports published by the Power to Change Research Institute on the state of the community business market. This iteration is the fourth researched and written by CFE Research and utilises the same robust methodological approach as 2019, enabling continued confidence in the findings.

The research makes us…

The Community Business Market in 2020 – Research Summary

Repository entry 1 March 2021

This report summarises the sixth Power to Change annual report into the structure, size, shape and outlook for the community business market in England. The 2020 iteration benefits from the same robust methodological approach as 2019, enabling continued confidence in the findings. The market size estimates are based on pre-Covid-19 data but the…

Community Business Market Survey 2020: Impact of the Covid-19 pandemic

Repository entry 1 August 2020

This report is the first of two to be published around the 2020 annual Community Business Market Survey data. These research findings are based on questions relating to the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic in the 2020 iteration of Power to Change’s annual Community Business Market survey. This paper provides top-level findings about the impact…

Supporting analysis of the Community Business Market Report 2019

Repository entry 1 December 2019

This technical appendix supports Power to Change’s 2019 report on the community business market. It provides more information on the technical details of estimating market size for individual sub-sectors, and for the market overall. There are two appendices and a bibliography in this document. – Appendix A covers the survey and qualitative …

The Community Business Market in 2019 – Research Summary

Repository entry 1 December 2019

# Preview | Download RI-24S-The Community Business Market in 2019.pdf229kB Author(s) John Higton Rachael Archer Rebecca Steer Irshad Mulla Amelia Hicklin Citation Higton, J., Archer, R., Steer, R., Mulla, I. and Hicklin, A. (2019) The Community Business Market in 2019

The Community Business Market in 2019

Repository entry 1 December 2019

This is Power to Change’s fifth annual report on the community business market in England. It uses a refined methodology and the most accurate data to describe the structure, size and shape of the community business market in 2019 and consider the outlook for the year ahead.

Supporting analysis of the Community Business Market Report 2018

Repository entry 1 February 2019

This technical appendix supports Power to Change’s 2018 report on the community business market. It provides more information on the technical details of estimating market size for individual sub-sectors, and for the market overall. There are three appendices in this document. – Appendix A covers the survey and qualitative methods adopted i…