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The impact of community business on local communities: A feasibility study to test new measures based on the Community Life Survey

Repository entry 1 September 2017

This research tested a new way of measuring the social impact of community businesses on their local community, through a ‘hyperlocal’ version of the Community Life Survey in six pilot areas with strong community businesses.

The Community Life Survey (CLS) has been carried out annually by Kantar Public since 2012-13 on behalf of the Office…

The impact of community business on local communities: A feasibility study to test new measures based on the Community Life Survey – Research Summary

Repository entry 1 September 2017

# Preview | Download RI-09S-The impact of community business on local communities.pdf287kB Author(s) Deborah Willis Steven Coutinho Alice Fitzpatrick Joel Williams Citation Willis, D., Coutinho, S., Fitzpatrick, A. and Williams, J. (2017) The impact of community business on local communities:

A Review of the Private Rented Sector in England: Vulnerability and Innovation

Publication 30 August 2017

We are currently experiencing a major crisis in our housing system. England has the oldest housing stock in Europe as well as the slowest construction rates in the long and short-term. Our sluggish rate of housebuilding has inflated the cost

Neighbourhood economic models

Repository entry 1 August 2017

At the end of 2016, the Bank of England’s Chief Economist warned that regional inequality was ‘among the most important issues that we face today as a country’. Then as now, local economies in different parts of the UK were growing at an uneven rate, and some were simply not growing at all. Here at Power to Change we want to understand th…

Transforming Health: Shifting our health systems from illness treatment and prevention to health creation

Publication 11 July 2017

In spite of recent overall advancements in our society’s health and wellbeing, we are experiencing a crisis of major health disparities driven by growing inequalities. Experts recognize that while the NHS has much to be celebrated, its design is not

Realising Ambition Programme Insights: Issue 10 and Confidence Framework

Publication 5 July 2017

The Realising Ambition consortium, of which The Young Foundation was a part, produced a series of 12 Programme Insights rather than writing a long evaluation report at the end of the five-year programme. In our tenth Programme Insight we give

Taking the future into their own hands: Youth work and entrepreneurial learning.

Publication 2 July 2017

In the challenging times that most EU Member States are experiencing in the aftermath of the financial crisis, young people are at particular risk of being left at the margins of society. In 2016, approximately 1 in 10 young people

Community business and the Social Value Act

Repository entry 1 July 2017

The Power to Change Research Institute commissioned two independent researchers to undertake research to explore views of the Social Value Act among community businesses in early 2017. The Public Services (Social Value) Act came into force in January 2013. The Act requires commissioners of public services in England and Wales to consider the so…

Data for the community: Taking a look at how data assets are being used at a local level

Repository entry 1 July 2017

Outside government, there have been initiatives for the publication and use of data assets in the third sector and within local community groups. These initiatives have generally seen a limited scope, as they were centred around a single initiative or project; sometimes they used Open Data, but other times they created their own, new data. This…

Realising Ambition Programme Insights: Issue 9

Publication 30 June 2017

The Realising Ambition consortium, of which The Young Foundation was a part, produced a series of 12 Programme Insights rather than writing a long evaluation report at the end of the five-year programme. In our ninth Programme Insight, we combine

Barnet Community Transport

Repository entry 1 June 2017

# Preview | Download RI-06-CS-Barnet Community Transport.pdf651kB Author(s) Unspecified Citation Unspecified (2017) Barnet Community Transport. Case Study. Power to Change. Details Report type: Case Study Publisher: Power to Change Location: London

Bishops Castle and District Community Land Trust