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Nourishing Community Businesses: Beyond Market Development

Repository entry 1 January 2022

This report, written by CRESR at Sheffield Hallam for Power to Change, builds on the themes of an earlier insight report, Food for Thought: Understanding Market Development (Dobson, Macmillan and Wells, 2020), which was prepared in late 2019 and published in February 2020. Since then there have been major changes within Power to Change, the com…

Rapid research COVID-19 Briefing #16: Community responses to COVID-19 – Connecting communities? How relationships have mattered in community responses to COVID-19

Repository entry 1 January 2022

This briefing, the 16th in a series seeking to understand how communities across England respond to COVID-19 and how they recover, explores the importance of ‘relational working’. It argues that approaches which rely on relationships to work, but also pay attention to the importance of relationships to the people that community groups …

The Power of Community: Learning from Bristol’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic

Repository entry 1 January 2022

During 2021, Voscur worked with academics and students from the University of Bristol to investigate how the sector had adapted to ensure delivery of vital services during Covid-19.

With many in our sector unable to deliver vital services by established means, we wanted to find out how our colleagues from across the sector had continued to ful…

Thematic Paper: Assets & Community Businesses

Repository entry 1 January 2022

Community assets – buildings or land which are used for the social interest or wellbeing of the wider community – can be essential to a community business’ service delivery and financial sustainability, and can contribute to greater community empowerment and pride. Power to Change supported communit…

Understanding the lived experience of ethnic minority students in postgraduate research

Repository entry 1 January 2022

This report presents the findings from the first qualitative research on the experiences of ethnic minority postgraduate research students accessing and studying at GuildHE member institutions. It captures, through interviews, students’ perceptions and experiences of studying a postgraduate research degree at smaller and specialist higher edu…

From food waste to fresh food and job opportunities

Transforming a brownfield site into a Renewable Energy and Urban Farm Campus in South Chicago to divert food from landfill and boost local jobs.

Civic Journey

Project 16 December 2021

This two-year programme, led and shaped by young people, worked to rethink the national infrastructure for youth support. It was funded by the National Citizen Service and DCMS, and delivered with the Universities of Sheffield and Huddersfield.

Podcasts and videos

Samanthi Theminimulle

Person 13 December 2021

Samanthi is interested in participatory research methods, inclusion and accessibility. In addition to her role at the Institute for Community Studies, she is is a facilitator with Civic Square and Enrol Yourself, and a trustee for the community land trust, RUSS.

Finding sustainability in an unfashionable market 

Feature 10 December 2021

Purple Shoots is supported by BOOST, a scheme helping organisations maximise their impact through partnerships with government, business and wider civil society.

Growing to build resilient jobs, homes and purpose 

Feature 10 December 2021

New Meaning – a skills centre preparing young people for careers in the building trade – seeks “to level the playing field so everyone has an opportunity.”

Peer-to-peer mental health support for those that need it most 

Feature 10 December 2021

How a chance meeting at a sport hall led to a mental health app, that’s been supported to grow by the BOOST programme, and is now a go-to support service for thousands of young people.