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A curated and searchable collection of community-related research reports, case studies and publications from the Institute for Community Studies and other organisations.
Bright Ideas, Trade Up, and Community Business Fund: Year 2 Evaluation Report
Published: 2021
This report outlines evaluation findings from Renaisi’s evaluation of Power to Change’s Bright Ideas and Trade Up programmes, and its Community Business Fund. Each of these is different from the others and specifically targets different stages and support needs in the community business life cycle. However, they were all designed to supp…
Rapid research COVID-19 Briefing #11: Community responses to COVID 19 – Power and communities
Published: 2021
Community spirit has flourished and community power has been realised during the pandemic. But as thinking turns to recovery and ‘building back better’, it is timely to think critically about how power operates within and between communities, and to consider what this might mean for its potential for transformation. In this briefing we look…
Power in Big Local partnerships
Published: 2021
This report is about the practice of decision making in a resident-led, place-based programme. It explores the operation of power within decision making, how decisions are made, by and with whom and in what contexts.
It considers how particular ideas gather appeal, how some voices are heard more than others, and how beliefs in ‘the right way…
Evaluation of Bright Ideas, Trade Up and the Community Business Fund: Impact on people and place learning paper
Published: 2021
This report builds on Renaisi’s interim evaluation report of Power to Change’s Bright Ideas and Trade Up programmes, and its Community Business Fund, as well as contributing additional evidence to existing research around the impact of community businesses on people and place.
Amongst other things, it finds that:
Communi…
Together We Plan!
Published: 2021
This handbook offers useful approaches to support Big Local partnerships develop and plan their work during the COVID-19 crisis and future uncertainty.
You can find more reports written or commissioned by Local Trust here.
The Community Business Market in 2020 – Research Summary
Published: 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…
The Community Business Market in 2020
Published: 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…
Supporting analysis of the Community Business Market Report 2020
Published: 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…
Rapid research COVID-19 Briefing #10: Community responses to COVID-19 – Striking a balance between communities and local authorities
Published: 2021
This briefing draws on research with five local authorities in England to examine how relationships between communities and local government have played out during the COVID-19 pandemic. It draws attention to a complex and interlinked response to the crisis from communities and local councils, founded upon a consistent and collaborative approac…
Does State-Driven Social Economy Work? The Case of Community Business in South Korea
Published: 2021
What is the role of the government in enhancing social economy? South Korea has implemented projects and programs to enhance social economy. This paper discusses the positive role of government intervention by looking at the case of community business in South Korea. In addition, some limitations are discussed. Qualitative data based on in-dept…
Community business: The power on your doorstep – Power to Change 2020 Impact Report
Published: 2021
This is Power to Change’s second impact report. It draws together existing and new evidence from the Trust’s first six years to provide an updated picture of both Power to Change’s impact on its grantees and the wider marketplace, and the impact that grantees are having on people and places. It is intended for use by Power to Change, our …
Community business: The power on your doorstep – Executive Summary – Power to Change 2020 Impact Report
Published: 2021
This is the executive summary of Power to Change’s second impact report.