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Homes in Community Hands – Baseline Evaluation Report
Published: 2020
Power to Change’s Homes in Community Hands (HCH) programme provides grants to help build and refurbish affordable housing. Specifically, the programme is supporting the development of community-led housing (CLH) in England and has been allocated £7.6 million to do this. Between 2016 to 2018 £1.8 million in grants was disbursed in a vanguard…
Rapid Research COVID-19 Briefing #4: Blending formal and informal community responses
Published: 2020
In Briefing 3: Grassroots Action, Rob Macmillan explored the literature on the value of informal community activity in conditions of crisis. This included a classification of responses (Whittaker et al, 2015) from established crisis response organisations to expanding organisations meeting the demands of the moment as well as extending organisa…
Community Businesses in the North of England 2020: New comparative analysis from the Third Sector Trends study
Published: 2020
This report compares the activities of local community businesses with those of other types of third sector organisation (TSOs) in the North of England. The report draws upon findings from the longitudinal Third Sector Trends study, which was most recently run again in 2019. Within the report, 2019 findings about community businesses are compar…
Left Behind areas 2020 – Interim Set
Published: 2020
A Community Needs Index was developed to identify areas experiencing these second set of challenges by combining a series of indicators, conceptualised under three domains:
Social Infrastructure: Measures of the presence of key community, civic, educational and cultural assets in and in close proximity to the area.
Connectedness: Measures o…
Rapid Research COVID-19 Briefing #3: Grassroots action – the role of informal community activity in responding to crises
Published: 2020
The establishment of COVID-19 mutual aid groups at community level has been a remarkable and praised feature of the first few months of the coronavirus crisis. Yet little is so far known about how they formed, how they work, and what role they play. This briefing examines some of the literature on the value of informal community activity- espec…
State of rural community business: A snapshot view in June 2020
Published: 2020
The Coronavirus crisis affected lives in all corners of the world, almost no community has gone unchanged in some way since global awareness of the outbreak began in the Spring of 2020. For community-owned and run businesses across the UK, Covid-19 presented both daunting challenges and unexpected opportunities.
This report loo…
The English Village and Community Hall Survey 2020
Published: 2020
The English Village and Community Hall Survey 2020, written on behalf of Action with Communities in Rural England (ACRE), is a detailed look at village halls across England. The ten-year survey provides a snapshot of the state of England’s varied and essential village and community halls, their funding, use and changes over time. With over 2,…
Assessing the value of volunteers in community businesses
Published: 2020
This report reviews the existing evidence on the importance of volunteering to community businesses and derives estimates of the overall economic value of volunteering to community businesses. It estimates the number of hours worked by volunteers within community businesses, the value (£) of this time across the community business sector and b…
Community business in England: Learning from the Power to Change Research Institute 2015-19
Published: 2020
Community business in England: Learning from the Power to Change Research Institute 2015–19 This ‘compendium’ report summary brings together the key findings relating to community business from 70 research reports, evaluation reports and working papers produced from 2015 to the end of 2019 by the Power to Change Research Institute. These …
CORE case study: Wight Community Energy – the impact of Community Benefit Fund grants
Published: 2020
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CORE case study: Yealm Community Energy – monitoring the impact of Community Benefit Fund grants
Published: 2020
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Next Generation case study: Bath and West Community Energy – Flex Community
Published: 2020
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