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A curated and searchable collection of community-related research reports, case studies and publications
Community Pubs: A better form of business – 2019
Published: 2019
This state of the sector report from the Plunkett Foundation, funded by Power to Change, shows community pubs thriving and making a significant contribution to community development. In 2018: The community pub sector grew by 13% with 11 new pubs opening during the year 95 known community pubs in total were trading across the UK at the end of 20…
Community Shops: A better form of business – 2019
Published: 2019
This state of the sector report from the Plunkett Foundation, funded by Power to Change, shows community shops thriving and making a significant contribution to community development. In 2018: 16 new shops opened 363 community shops were trading in the UK by the end of the year £541,000 total share capital was raised from their communities by …
Community-led housing and health: a comprehensive literature review
Published: 2019
This review of the existing academic and grey literature on the relationship between community-led housing and health was commissioned by Power to Change in Spring 2019. Academics from the University of the West off England used Barton and Grant’s ‘health map’ framework to ensure the review considered a range of conditions that impact on …
Community-led housing and health: a comprehensive literature review – Research Summary
Published: 2019
# Preview | Download RI-23S-Community-led housing and health.pdf234kB Author(s) Katie McClymont Emma Griffin Laurence Carmichael Rachael Marsh Citation McClymont, K., Griffin, E., Carmichael, L. and Marsh, R. (2019) Community-led housing and health: a comprehensive literature review – Research Summary. Research
Support for community businesses in Liverpool City Region
Published: 2019
Community businesses care about value for money, flexibility and the quality of support, along with the guidance to assist them along the way both in finding the support and in accessing what is available. Community businesses also clearly stated that they would like funders and social investors to work in collaboration with each other more in …
The community business success guide to contracted and commissioned services
Published: 2019
# Preview | Download G-2019-10-The community business success guide to contracted and commissioned services.pdf687kB Author(s) Unspecified Citation Unspecified (2019) The community business success guide to contracted and commissioned services. Practice Guide. Power to Change. Details Report type: Practice Guide Publisher:
A guide to local government for community businesses
Published: 2019
# Preview | Download G-2019-09-A guide to local government for community businesses.pdf1MB Author(s) Unspecified Citation Unspecified (2019) A guide to local government for community businesses. Practice Guide. Power to Change. Details Report type: Practice Guide Publisher: Power to Change Location:
Empowering Places? Measuring the impact of community businesses at neighbourhood level – A baseline study
Published: 2019
Power to Change’s latest piece of research sets a starting line from which we can measure the social impact of community businesses on their local communities. The report was researched and written by Kantar Public. It is based on a hyperlocal version of the national Community Life Survey, an annual nationally-representative survey that provi…
Empowering Places? Measuring the impact of community businesses at neighbourhood level – A baseline study – Research Summary
Published: 2019
# Preview | Download RI-22S-Empowering Places-Measuring the impact of community businesses at neighbourhood level.pdf827kB Author(s) Steven Coutinho Rebecca Hamlyn Alice Fitzpatrick Joel Williams Richard Crawshaw Citation Coutinho, S., Hamlyn, R., Fitzpatrick, A., Williams, J. and Crawshaw, R. (2019) Empowering Places?
Left behind? Understanding communities on the edge
Published: 2019
The research described in this report was commissioned by Local Trust from OCSI. It suggests that a lack of places to meet (whether community centres, pubs or village halls); the absence of an engaged and active community; and poor connectivity to the wider economy – physical and digital – make a significant difference to social and economi…
Left behind? Understanding communities on the edge: Executive summary
Published: 2019
The research described in this report was commissioned by Local Trust from Oxford Consultants for Social Inclusion. It was designed to explore the impact a lack of civic assets has in deprived communities across England.
You can find more reports written or commissioned by Local Trust here.
More Than a Pub programme evaluation – Interim Report
Published: 2019
The main aims of the evaluation were to develop a better understanding of the economic, social and environmental impacts of community controlled pubs, and to identify the key conditions for success of community owned pubs. The evaluation was developmental, designed to respond to the evolving needs and interests of both the More than a Pub progr…