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Events | Community Business Week 2025
Saturday 29 November
> Friday 5 December
This #CommunityBusinessWeek, we’re celebrating the businesses that make our towns, cities, and communities vibrant, resilient, and inclusive.
From pubs and farms to libraries and community centres, community businesses are transforming lives and places across England. We’re encouraging everyone to discover, visit, or support their local community business during the week. In this spirit, we’ve teamed up with five community businesses across the country to celebrate Community Business Week in person.
Our event partners
We Can Make
Location: Bristol
Date: Sunday 30 November
Time: 4.30 – 8.30pm
A community lights switch-on, festive celebration, and drinks. We Can Make will also be showcasing their new retrofit-themed light-up interactive game, Street Lighter.
Star and Shadow Cinema
Location: Newcastle
Date: Saturday 29 – Sunday 30 November
Time: 12pm-9:30pm
An ‘open doors weekend’ full of music, films and community activities.
Civic Square
Location: Birmingham
Date: Thursday 4 December
Time: 3–8pm
An afternoon of sharing, learning, and celebration, reflecting on a year of organising around street scale and neighbourhood retrofit. Expect site tours, dinner, conversation, and screenings – all exploring how we can build thriving neighbourhoods in a changing climate.
Friends of Stretford Public Hall
Location: Greater Manchester
Date: Thursday 4 December
Time: 5.30-10.30pm
An evening of talks and live music, marking 10 years of community power in Stretford and celebrating community businesses from across Greater Manchester and the North West.
Edberts House
Location: Gateshead
Date: Friday 5 December
Time: 4:30–7pm
A community Christmas lights switch on, with food, market stalls, music, and crafts.
Get involved
Download the toolkit
This toolkit will have everything you need to shout about Community Business Week and help you promote your community business. Expect: explainers, social media assets, flyers, posters, stickers, guides for putting on events, and support for local press outreach.
Share your advice
Community businesses work hard day in, day out to serve their communities – and it’s not always easy. To build solidarity, share your one piece of advice for others working at a community-led business.