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What works: Successful health and wellbeing community businesses
Published: 2018
This short report takes a look at the enablers to success for community businesses in the health and wellbeing sector. It is part of a series of reports into ‘what works’ for community hubs and sports and leisure and health and wellbeing community businesses. It was produced by SERIO, an applied research institute at the University of Plymo…
What works: Successful sport and leisure community businesses
Published: 2018
This short report takes a look at the enablers to success for community businesses in the sports and leisure sector. It is part of a series of reports into ‘what works’ for community hubs and community businesses in the sports and leisure and health and wellbeing sectors. It was produced by SERIO, an applied research institute at the Univer…
Zest
Published: 2018
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An assessment of community-based social enterprises in three European countries
Published: 2018
# Preview | Download RI-12-CS-An assessment of community-based social enterprises in three European countries.pdf2MB Author(s) Nick Bailey Reinout Kleinhans Jessica Lindbergh Citation Bailey, N., Kleinhans, R. and Lindbergh, J. (2018) An assessment of community-based social enterprises in three European countries.
An assessment of community-based social enterprises in three European countries
Published: 2018
Power to Change commissioned a team from the University of Westminster, Delft University of Technology and Stockholm University to carry out a comparative study of community-based social enterprise (CBSE) in England, the Netherlands and Sweden. National policy was reviewed and three case studies were selected from each country, in order to prov…
An assessment of community-based social enterprises in three European countries – Research Summary
Published: 2018
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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…