Naomi Jones

Five years of Empowering Places: Evaluation report

Repository entry 1 July 2023

Empowering Places was designed by Power to Change as an experiment to explore what happens when local anchor organisations are supported to catalyse community businesses in deprived communities in England.

This evaluation report is the final in a series of six reports and several short
ethnographic films. The interim reports took a formative a…

Empowering Places: Impact on the community and wider place

Repository entry 1 October 2022

Empowering Places aims to build more resilient and prosperous communities by building the capacity of local organisations to catalyse and support the growth of new community businesses. It funds locally rooted ‘catalyst’ organisations in six areas of high deprivation. Each catalyst receives up to £1 million (July 2017–December 2022)…

Empowering Places: The impact of the programme on community businesses

Repository entry 1 February 2022

Empowering Places aims to build more resilient and prosperous communities by building the capacity of local organisations to ‘catalyse’ and support the growth of new community businesses. It funds locally rooted ‘catalyst’ organisations in six areas of high deprivation. The evaluation aims to take a realistic approach to understand…

Empowering Places – Change Framework

Repository entry 1 November 2021

This is a working ‘change framework’ for the Empowering Places programme – a five-year programme designed to empower communities to build community businesses. The framework sets out the desired vision and outcomes of the programme, as well as pointing to the elements of the programme that enable progress towards the vision and outcomes. …

Catalyst Profile: Abram Ward Community Cooperative, Wigan

Repository entry 1 August 2021

# Preview | Download ptc_area_profile_wigan_v3.pdf457kB Author(s) Lily O’Flynn Naomi Jones Waseem Meghjee Citation O’Flynn, L., Jones, N. and Meghjee, W. (2021) Catalyst Profile: Abram Ward Community Cooperative, Wigan. Case Study. Power to Change. Details Report type: Case Study Publisher: Power

Catalyst Profile: B-Inspired, Leicester

Repository entry 1 August 2021

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Catalyst Profile: Centre4, Grimsby

Repository entry 1 August 2021

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Catalyst Profile: Made in Manningham, Bradford

Repository entry 1 August 2021

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Catalyst Profile: Real Ideas, Plymouth

Repository entry 1 August 2021

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Catalyst Profile: The Wharton Trust, Hartlepool

Repository entry 1 August 2021

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Empowering Places: The programme model and emerging impact

Repository entry 1 August 2021

The Empowering Places programme funds locally rooted ‘catalyst’ organisations in six places, over five years to empower communities to develop community businesses. Through the development of new community businesses, the programme aims to provide benefits and opportunities to local people and create more resilient places.

The program…

Enablers and barriers to delivering place-based change through the Empowering Places programme

Repository entry 1 August 2021

The Empowering Places programme funds locally rooted ‘catalyst’ organisations in six places, over five years to empower communities to develop community businesses. Through the development of new community businesses, the programme aims to provide benefits and opportunities to local people and create more resilient places.

The programme, d…