Powering Up diversity, equity and inclusion reports
These interim and final reports outline the diversity, equity and inclusion approach taken during the Powering Up programme.
‘No-code’ but not alone
A guide for community businesses developing the right tech with the right type of support, drawing on lessons from our Powering Up programme.
Powering Up final evaluation
This evaluation report presents the findings of Renaisi-TSIP’s evaluation of the Powering Up programme, a collaborative and innovative programme working to support the growth of community businesses, funded by Power to Change.
Community Business Market Report 2024
Our first bi-annual report on the community business market shows the positive impact they continue to have on local communities, other businesses, and their high streets.
Roots of renewal: Empowering communities, transforming Britain
This manifesto sets out how the new Government can help to create the conditions for community business to thrive.
Resilient Communities Fund: Review
The Resilient Communities Fund provided emergency support as quickly as possible to community businesses, to support them to implement energy resilience projects to become more resilient to both climate change and the cost-of-living crisis.
Financing the future economy: How community businesses can access the right finance to achieve their ambitions
This report provides an overview of the finance and funding landscape for community business, outlining the challenges in accessing the right type of finance at the right time, and situating access to finance within the wider policy context.
Five years of Empowering Places: evaluation report
Empowering Places was a unique five-year programme designed by Power to Change to explore ways in which ‘locally rooted’ anchor organisations, operating in areas of high deprivation, could be supported to catalyse community businesses...
The ‘Year Zero’ reporting approach
New report exploring the 'Year Zero' approach to understanding the impact of Power to Change's investment
Trading Up: Match Trading® for Community Businesses as a powerful incentive for regeneration post-COVID