Power to Change

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Closing next week ⏰ As Associate Director, you will play a pivotal role in the development and implementation of our practice work and delivery partnerships as part of our think-do approach. Find out more & apply 👇 powertochange.org.uk/who-we-are/joi…

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📩@CooperativesUK @RoseMarley1 and other partners have written to @RachelReevesMP backing continued support & investment for community ownership and welcoming the proposed Right to Buy. See below👇

Radical change in public services is urgently needed. We need to shift from ‘doing to’ people & communities & towards ‘doing with’. We’re excited to be part of the movement calling for this change. Find out more at our event in March 👇 kingsfund.org.uk/dowith

Is your community share offer looking for a development grant or investment? Timescales for next two panels: 🥦5th March panel - submissions by 12 February 🐸27 March panel - submissions by 6 March Guidance and EOIs here: uk.coop/resources/boos…

Community-owned or run venues like @future_yard demonstrate how to do things differently. Being a CIC, they're accountable to the community and bring a new kind of opportunity and experience to a traditionally deprived area. Find out more 👇 #IVW25 powertochange.org.uk/evidence-and-i…

🎶 It's Independent Venue Week 2025 🌟 Grassroots music venues are cultural hubs that nurture emerging talent as well as helping create resilient and vibrant local economies.

We're so pleased to continue working closely with the @WestMids_CA to shape a bright future for the West Mids. Read more about our work with regions here: powertochange.org.uk/our-work/for-r…

📢🎉 Our Chief Exec, Tim Davies-Pugh, has been appointed an expert on West Midlands Mayor, Richard Parker's, "Growth for Everyone" taskforce - ensuring economic growth benefits all communities, creating more resilient and prosperous local economies. wmca.org.uk/news/mayor-app…

Our CEO @James_Plunkett is one of the signatories of this letter to the Chancellor, Rachel Reeves, calling for the government to introduce a new tranche of ambitious community ownership funding alongside a #CommunityRightToBuy. #combiz

We believe passionately in the importance of community-owned heritage. Our CEO, @MEMckeague, is one of many leaders calling on the government to introduce a new tranche of community ownership funding and support to sit alongside the #CommunityRightToBuy. Read the letter. ⬇️

Our CEO @antlondon wrote to the Treasury with others, welcoming the commitment to a Community Right to Buy, and calling for it to be backed up with more community ownership funding. The letter is below. You can read about the Community Right to Buy here: locality.org.uk/what-is-commun…

I'm very happy to be a co-signatory to this letter.

Learnings from our Chief Exec from a decade of supporting social trading organisations. 👇

Today the Chancellor is talking about growth. We've joined forces with leaders locally and nationally to make a clear call to back community ownership and drive growth people can see and feel in their local area. Read our letter 🖊️ powertochange.org.uk/evidence-and-i…

VACANCIES 💼 | Join our Practice & Innovation Team to design and deliver a varied programme of practice & delivery partnerships. Find out more 👇👇 powertochange.org.uk/who-we-are/joi…

Power. Prevention. Place. These are the pillars of an emerging 'new local', writes @Jesstud in a new think piece. newlocal.org.uk/articles/what-… Because the system isn't unfixable - it's being mended from the ground up, alongside communities - & it's time national players took note.

On this day next month, we'll be learning about what we can all do to secure community power in 2025. It's only by campaigning together that we can achieve change that people can feel. 🗓️ 27 Feb | 13:00 Register to join the webinar 👉 buff.ly/4gdQnbX

Enterprise grants empower charities, social enterprises, and community businesses to generate income through trading while receiving crucial development support. ✨ Learn more and register your interest to be part of the showcase event: funderscollaborativehub.org.uk/blogs/the-new-…

Our Chief Exec, Tim Davies-Pugh, is stepping into the role of Chair of the Enterprise Grants Taskforce. Read about his journey into enterprise grantmaking and a decade of supporting social trading organisations. 👇 funderscollaborativehub.org.uk/blogs/the-new-…