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Charlene Stagon

Person 22 November 2022

Charlene brings extensive experience leading large, complex innovation programmes across the public sector, arts and culture, health and care and local communities. She is skilled in developing partnerships that explore how people-powered innovation can create meaningful change in complex systems.

Rizwana Hamid 

Person 17 November 2022

With over 30 years’ experience as a producer and director for the BBC, Channel 4 and other international broadcasters, Rizwana’s films have won awards, been used as evidence in internal enquiries, and influenced policy change. 

Felicia Barrow

Person 14 November 2022

Felicia is passionate about our organisation and a gifted communicator, with expertise in operations, policy development and implementation, change management and frontline service delivery for the private, public, and charity and not-for-profit sectors. She is a Foundation Chartered Manager (fCMgr) in Management and Leadership.

Micheal Omoniyi

Person 10 November 2022

In 2019, Micheal was named by the Financial Times among the 100 most influential leaders in tech. He is founder of The Common Sense Network and a range of other organisations and charities

Kate Hainsworth

Person 9 November 2022

Kate is an experienced CEO, skilled in managing non-profit organisations – especially in the arts and local community activity – and rooted in her home region of Leeds, Bradford and West Yorkshire.

Looking back, moving forward: how to fund and support community businesses

17 November 2022
9:00am – 10:30am

A panel event hosted by our Institute for Community Studies and Power to Change.

Eddy Adams 

Person 3 November 2022

Eddy is an adviser, writer, moderator and events facilitator, working internationally on urban policy and growth inequality. He works extensively with Rotterdam, as well as with Glasgow, Turin, Milan, Bilbao and Berlin. 

Supports and challenges for community businesses: Lessons learnt from Power to Change’s legacy programme evaluations

Repository entry 1 November 2022

This report summarises findings from a desk-based review of 17 publications commissioned by Power to Change, to share findings on the support and challenges that are faced by community businesses. Looking across Power to Change’s grant and support programmes such as the Bright Ideas, Trade Up and Community Business Fund programmes, the report…

Telling the whole story: why we must be open about the complexities of citizen science research

Blog 31 October 2022

Dr Helena Hollis says support structures can be developed to build participatory research capacities for the future.

New project will ‘support people of all faiths and circumstances’

News 25 October 2022

Project to develop a Group Theory of Change supports CUF’s broader ambition to understand ‘what works’ for hyperlocal faith-based social action.

Interview with Shenel Birant

“Growing up in the UK, my family wanted me to understand my culture and identity”. Shenel explains how she engaged with her communities and embarked on her own civic journey.

‘In our quest for environmental sustainability, social responsibility is key’

Blog 19 October 2022

Previewing our upcoming report, Helen Goulden looks for the ‘S’ in ESG – and asks if political and economic turbulence could knock it into the long grass?