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Common good land use in England: State of the sector report 2019
Published: 2019
# Preview | Download ORC-2019-11-Common good land use in England.pdf4MB Author(s) Unspecified Citation Unspecified (2019) Common good land use in England: State of the sector report 2019. Research Report. Shared Assets. Details Report type: Research Report Publisher: Shared Assets Location:
Flipping the Coin: The two sides of Community Wealth in England
Published: 2019
The Young Foundation’s 2018 Patchwork Philanthropy report showed for the first time that not only is public sector spending unequally distributed geographically, but so too is philanthropic spend by charities, trusts and foundations. Some of the regions with the highest levels of deprivation receive some of the lowest levels of investment, re…
Power to Change – First Data Visualisation
Published: 2019
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Quick guide to common good land use: For potential common good land users
Published: 2019
# Preview | Download G-2019-11-Quick guide to common good land use.pdf597kB Author(s) Unspecified Citation Unspecified (2019) Quick guide to common good land use: For potential common good land users. Practice Guide. Shared Assets. Details Report type: Practice Guide Publisher: Shared
Achieving local economic change: what works?
Published: 2019
This research examines the impact of community-led partnerships in deprived areas and what makes these successful in achieving local economic change. The research team reviewed evidence from forty years of English regeneration initiatives and interviewed expert practitioners on what works. Local Trust commissioned the research from the Departme…
Achieving local economic change: what works? Executive Summary
Published: 2019
Since the late 1980s, successive governments have sought to include local stakeholders in the delivery of regeneration funding. Communities have been invited to decide boundaries, lead local partnerships and determine the type, scale and duration of area- based initiatives.This research examines the impact of these community-led partnerships in…
Building an inclusive economy through community business: The role of social capital and agency in community business formation in deprived communities
Published: 2019
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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 …