A great new film by @powertochange.org.uk looks back at a decade of supporting over 2,000 community businesses.

It celebrates the role of community businesses in bringing vision, opportunity, connection and joy to places across the country.

Watch the film: youtu.be/14XUwJCDPVU?...
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Celebrating ten years backing community business - Power to Change Power to Change turns ten this year. To celebrate a decade backing community business, we are bringing you a programme of events, stories, and essays, celebrating the community business sector, reflec...

🌟 Special thanks to Coalville C.A.N, Safe Regeneration,
@futureyard.org @wittonlodge.bsky.social and their teams and community members who appear in the film.

📚 You can still explore all the stories, essays, films, and comics from our anniversary campaign: bit.ly/4oqtR3v

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Person in an apron smiling behind the counter at a cafe with decorative graphics promoting Community Business Week 2025 and Power to Change.

#CommunityBusinessWeek may be over, but the movement continues! Read advice from others looking to make a change at the grassroots - and leave a message of your own:
👉 www.powertochange.org.uk/what-we-do/community-bus...

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Community Business Week - Power to Change This Community Business Week, we're celebrating community businesses in all their forms by shining a light on the difference they're making across ...

#CommunityBusinessWeek may be over, but the movement continues! 💪
👉 You can still leave a message of support on our digital notice board: buff.ly/WsycwK5

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Three Seas - Power to Change Three Seas is helping to tackle the housing crisis in Cornwall by developing old coastguard cottages into affordable long-term rental accommodation for loca ...

✅ Three Seas – Tackling the housing crisis in Cornwall by developing old coastguard cottages into affordable homes for local people.
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Events - Power to Change Evidence and ideas

📍 #GreaterManchester
Stretford Public Hall @stretford.bsky.social celebrates ten years of community power with an evening of talks & live music.
🕠 5:30–10:30pm

Find out more & join the events here: buff.ly/D3kJpdT
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Maff's reminder that connection doesn’t need an agenda - and that simply showing up for one another can pull on the thread of social isolation and knit people more closely together - feels especially powerful in uncertain times.

⚡ Download the collection: buff.ly/P316yCW

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Erika's essay shows what happens when money moves differently - when wealth created in communities is owned, shared, and reinvested by them. It's a road map for economic transformation.

Download the full collection here: buff.ly/FqyH7IA.
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🎉 To celebrate ten years of backing community business, we’re bringing back #CommunityBusinessWeek! 🎉

From 29 November - 5 December, we’re celebrating the businesses that make our towns, cities & communities vibrant, resilient & inclusive: buff.ly/P9g3QkE
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Community Business Week 2025 - Power to Change Save the date! Community Business Week is coming: 29 November to 5 December 2025. Join the movement.

🎉 #CommunityBusinessWeek is coming!
🗓️ 29 Nov–5 Dec 2025
💡 Digital toolkit coming soon
👇 powertochange.org.uk/event/community-business-week #PowerToChange10

Two people work on installing solar panels on a rooftop with text overlay discussing a historical perspective on community and public policy, featuring Nick Garland from IPPR.

📖 @npjgarland.bsky.social pens our next 10-year anniversary essay, exploring the history of past regeneration efforts to help guide today’s public policy, and offering three lessons as the government pursues its new Pride of Place agenda.

Read: http://bit.ly/4qoNpXz #PowerToChange10

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This month, we visit Edberts House in Gateshead, a physical bedrock of the community, and a literal next-door neighbour on the estate for many. Discover how they're pioneering community-led health and wellbeing through prevention and connection: buff.ly/j7kPmRE #PowertoChange10

🎉 #CommunityBusinessWeek is coming!
🗓️ 29 Nov–5 Dec 2025
❄️ As part of our 10th anniversary campaign, it's a nationwide moment to shine a light on community business.
💡 A digital toolkit is coming soon to help you get involved
👇 powertochange.org.uk/event/community-business-week #PowerToChange10

Celebrating ten years backing community business - Power to Change Power to Change turns ten this year. To celebrate a decade backing community business, we are bringing you a programme of events, stories, and essays, celebrating the community business sector,…

🎉 We’re celebrating a decade of backing community business by bringing you a programme stories, essays, and events setting out a community-powered future.

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October Books - Power to Change Founded in 1977, October Books is a co-operative, a radical neighbourhood bookshop and community hub in Southampton. The shop provides a mixed retail offeri ...

This month's story sees how October Books, an independent, radical neighbourhood bookshop & cooperative community hub in Southampton, has been a hub of ideas, connection & resilience for decades.
Read how they've become a high street fixture: www.powertochange.org.uk/evidence-and... #PowertoChange10

The leaders who make things happen: lessons in governing from community business - Power to Change Community businesses drive change where it matters most—locally. From leading Power to Change to advising Number 10, Vidhya Alakeson knows more than most th ...

As part of our #PowertoChange10 celebrations, we're asking thinkers and doers to reflect on our current moment.

This one's a big one.

Vidhya Alakeson, our ex-CEO + now the PM's Deputy CoS, reflects on three years in the cut-and-thrust of politics and what it's taught her about how change happens.

The leaders who make things happen: lessons in governing from community business - Power to Change Community businesses drive change where it matters most—locally. From leading Power to Change to advising Number 10, Vidhya Alakeson knows more than most th ...

Quick read of Vidyha's essay here 👇
www.powertochange.org.uk/evidence-and...

Read all the essays and stories in our 10-year anniversary campaign here 👇
www.powertochange.org.uk/celebrating-...

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Dive into all our stories and essays from our ten year anniversary campaign 👇
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Legacy West Midlands - Power to Change Beginning life as a heritage organisation, Legacy West Midlands has become a catalyst to the growth of the social economy in Soho and Handsworth. As well as ...

This month's story hears how Legacy West Midlands nurtures connection in the community through focusing on physical & mental wellbeing. Take a look at their ambitious plans to transform a local church into a community hub & how they're helping to grow the local #socialeconomy 👇 #PowertoChange10

You’re invited to dinner: The unlikely allies reimagining our high streets - Power to Change Platform Places shows how community leaders, local business owners, asset owners and councils can gather—not as adversaries, but as co-creators of a shared ...

"It started with a question, over Zoom, in lockdown: Who are we not talking to?"

✍️ Read our cofounder Bex's reflections on the #PlatformPlaces cross-sector movement — and how (with @powertochange.org.uk and many others) we're seeing the next 10 years of community-led high streets.

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🎥 Jo Leek (@lpoolcityregion.bsky.social ) and Jen Van der Merwe from @kindredlcr.bsky.social reflect on their ambition for community business in Liverpool.

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🎥 Maff Potts was instrumental in setting up Power to Change ten years ago. He's since founded @camerados-org.bsky.social - and knows community business can be trusted to keep innovating and delivering in a way that serves their communities best.

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💭 A week on from our tenth anniversary reception, we’re listening back to some of our guests' and speakers' ambitions for community business:

🎥 Mary Portas sees community business as a modern, forward-thinking way of doing business that looks after local people.

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In this essay, the latest in our 10th anniversary collection, @platformplaces.bsky.social co-founder, Bex Trevalyan, explores how grassroots collaboration & imaginative placemaking are breathing life into Britain’s high streets 👉 buff.ly/4gfEioE #PowertoChange10

Guests had a flick through our time capsule, and took away copies of Meteor Strike, a comic produced with Magic Torch Comics, an Inverclyde-based community business.

You can read the comic and catch up on our 10th anniversary campaign here: buff.ly/H9UXPbB

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Celebrating ten years backing community business - Power to Change We believe communities should have the power to change what matters to them in their local area.

Keep up to date with the campaign by:

📧 Signing up to our newsletter www.powertochange.org.uk#newsletter_f...

#️⃣ Following #PowertoChange10

🌐 Checking back in on our website www.powertochange.org.uk/celebrating-...

🌠We loved working with Magic Torch Comics CIC on ‘Meteor Strike’, a comic bringing to life how community business can help communities tackle some of the big issues of today and in the future – if only the conditions are enabled for them to do so.
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Celebrating ten years backing community business - Power to Change We believe communities should have the power to change what matters to them in their local area.

To celebrate our 10th anniversary, we're sharing stories of innovation taking place in communities, and thoughts on how #communitybiz can help address the pressing issues shaping our world over the next decade.

www.powertochange.org.uk/celebrating-ten-years/ #PowertoChange10

📣 We know community business works to create thriving places. We have seen and evidenced it over the last decade. We also know there is so much more they can do. This year we are reflecting, celebrating, and looking to the future.

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To celebrate 10 years backing community business, we're sharing new stories each month showing that the future of business is community business. Read more about:
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