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A sustainable food and drink supply for the UK

A pilot in Yorkshire aims to provides the opportunity to convert every tonne of carbon removed from the atmosphere to create a new income stream for farmers.

Partners

The Climate Challenge Cup 2021 was delivered by a unique UK-US collaboration of organisations, with The Young Foundation working with a number of diverse partners.

Finalists

The Cup celebrates existing partnerships between research organisations, civic authorities and local communities in the UK and US. We shortlisted 12 inalists, who showcased their projects to an audience of global change-makers at COP26.

Paul Oberg

Person 1 December 2021

Paul joined The Young Foundation in 2021, having held a similar role with The Land Trust. Paul has 15 years’ experience in the charity and not-for-profit sector, having begun his career in the corporate world. He is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland and brings experience across HR, and IT, as well as finance.

Tate Gronow

Person 1 December 2021

Tate oversees and manages key project processes to develop our Peer Research Network. She also works with the Communications and External Affairs Team to support, create, deliver and maintain communications outputs and events.

Iqra Farooq

Person 1 December 2021

Iqra manages the HR department and provides support across the organisation. Prior to joining The Young Foundation in 2017, she worked at AEG Europe, based at the O2, in a similar capacity. Iqra has more than five years’ HR experience and is CIPD-qualified.

Community Business Climate Action Programme Scoping Study Literature Review

Repository entry 1 December 2021

This rapid literature review was undertaken by CAG Consultants in late 2021 as part of a scoping study to inform Power to Change’s new Climate Action Programme under development. It takes a wide perspective of available data to provide an overview of development needs/opportunities, funding and support gaps for community businesses …

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…

The Community Business Market in 2021

Repository entry 1 December 2021

This is the seventh in a series of annual reports published by Power to Change on the state of the community business market. This iteration is the fifth researched and written by CFE Research. It uses survey and  interview data to describe a community business market bouncing back financially from the worst of the pandemic, diversifying t…

The Community Business Market in 2021 – Summary

Repository entry 1 December 2021

This report summarises the seventh Power to Change annual report into the structure, size, shape and outlook for the community business market in England. It finds that community business are bouncing back from the impact of the pandemic more financially confident and economically stronger.

Understanding local patterns of volunteer activity during COVID-19

Repository entry 1 December 2021

The Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport commissioned The Young Foundation to undertake an initial scoping study to identify some of the ways in which volunteers were mobilised at local levels during the COVID-19 pandemic. The aim of the research was:

to identify some of the ways in which volunteer groups operated and develo…

Volunteering in community business: a digest of recent research

Repository entry 1 December 2021

Volunteers are critical to how community businesses help to make places better. They help root community businesses in their local communities, and their time is central to community businesses’ financial viability. In fact, some community businesses would not exist at all were it not for volunteers.

This digest summarises three re…