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Empowering Places? Measuring the impact of community businesses at neighbourhood level

Repository entry 1 December 2021

Empowering Places is a programme of place-based investment that aims to demonstrate the role that concentrated clusters of community businesses can play in improving local areas and reducing inequality. To measure the impact of the programme, Power to Change commissioned Kantar in 2020 to conduct six ‘hyperlocal’ extensions of the gove…

Measuring the impact of community businesses at neighbourhood level

Repository entry 1 October 2020

Power to Change commissioned Kantar in 2019 to conduct a ‘hyperlocal’ version of the national Community Life Survey (CLS) in six operational areas centred around community businesses supported by Power to Change. Each area has a mean average population 1,500 people. The ‘hyperlocal’ design builds on studies conducted in 2017 and 2018 wh…

Empowering Places? Measuring the impact of community businesses at neighbourhood level – A baseline study

Repository entry 1 September 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

Repository entry 1 September 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?

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:

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