Naomi Jones

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

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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…

Community business and the Social Value Act

Repository entry 1 July 2017

The Power to Change Research Institute commissioned two independent researchers to undertake research to explore views of the Social Value Act among community businesses in early 2017. The Public Services (Social Value) Act came into force in January 2013. The Act requires commissioners of public services in England and Wales to consider the so…