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The Legacy of Big Local
Published: 2018
The purpose of the research was to explore what the five Big Local areas close to spending their £1 million were thinking and doing about the legacy of Big Local. By legacy we mean “What remains when the Big Local £1 million is spent”. By understanding what these areas were doing, Local Trust would then be able to think about the support,…
The Social Process of Supporting Small Charities: An Evaluation of the Lloyds Bank Foundation Grow Pilot Programme
Published: 2018
This independent evaluation examines the support delivered by Lloyds Bank Foundation to ten small charities with a turnover of less than £75,000 across areas of high deprivation in Redcar ad Cleveland and Neath Port Talbot. This support aimed to help build capacity through business planning, marketing, fundraising, service evaluation and volun…
Identifying Community Businesses in National Datasets
Published: 2017
Community businesses are small businesses, although they have many distinctive features that differentiate them from small private businesses. A core research question for Power to Change is around the definition and understanding of community business – how big is the community business market in England, how does it break down across indust…
Power to Change Annual Grantee Survey 2017
Published: 2017
This is the second in a regular series of annual reports on the experiences of Power to Change grantees. It is based on a survey of all 331 organisations that received grant offers between January 2015 and August 2017. The survey was carried out between 21st September and 31st October 2017. The response rate was 33%. Overall, the survey conclud…
Supporting analysis of the community business market in 2017
Published: 2017
This technical appendix supports Power to Change’s 2017 report on the community business market. It provides more detail 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 on the…
The community business market in 2017
Published: 2017
Each year, the Power to Change Research Institute commissions research to estimate the size and shape of the community business sector in England.
This year’s report considers the structure, size and shape of the community business market in England in 2017 and considers the outlook for the year ahead. The report follows on from those of 201…
The community business market in 2017 – Research Summary
Published: 2017
# Preview | Download RI-11S-The Community Business Market in 2017.pdf237kB Author(s) Abigail Diamond Tim Vorley Oliver Mallett John Higton Sophie Spong Andrew Corley Irshad Mulla Citation Diamond, A., Vorley, T., Mallett, O., Higton, J., Spong, S., Corley, A. and Mulla,
The Economics of Community Asset Transfers: An Economic Framework to define and measure Social Value in Community Asset Transfers
Published: 2017
A common feature across community businesses in different sectors is for their business model to be heavily reliant on and/or driven by Community Asset Transfers (CATs). A CAT is the transfer of the ownership and/or management of an asset from its public-sector owner (usually a local authority) to a community organisation for less than market v…
Alt Valley Community Trust
Published: 2017
# Preview | Download RI-10-CS-Alt Valley Community Trust.pdf575kB Author(s) Unspecified Citation Unspecified (2017) Alt Valley Community Trust. Case Study. Power to Change. Details Report type: Case Study Publisher: Power to Change Location: North West
Bristol Community Ferryboats
Published: 2017
# Preview | Download RI-10-CS-Bristol Community Ferryboats.pdf599kB Author(s) Unspecified Citation Unspecified (2017) Bristol Community Ferryboats. Case Study. Power to Change. Details Report type: Case Study Publisher: Power to Change Location: South West
Burton Street Foundation
Published: 2017
# Preview | Download RI-10-CS-Burton Street Foundation.pdf823kB Author(s) Unspecified Citation Unspecified (2017) Burton Street Foundation. Case Study. Power to Change. Details Report type: Case Study Publisher: Power to Change Location: Yorkshire and the Humber
Bytham Community Shop
Published: 2017
# Preview | Download RI-10-CS-Bytham Community Shop.pdf778kB Author(s) Unspecified Citation Unspecified (2017) Bytham Community Shop. Case Study. Power to Change. Details Report type: Case Study Publisher: Power to Change Location: East Midlands