With the right planning reforms, partnerships and policy changes, our CEO's research estimates that CLTs could deliver up to 7,636 social homes.
Interested? The conversation continues at Building with Communities Conference on 21 June - bit.ly/BWCom2024

Proud to be included in this article in The New Statesman today. Bringing buildings into use is hard and takes time and energy. There is lots to do, so thank you Power to Change for highlighting the kind of support needed and the difference we are making Plymouth City Council Plymouth SE Network #Plymouth

COMMUNITY POWER 🎆 | Our Chief Executive Tim Davies-Pugh in the The New Statesman today on community ownership, featuring our research with More in Common on #LevellingUp .
Thread below or read here 👇
newstatesman.com/spotlight/2024…
#CommunityPower

BLOG 📝 | The Labour Party has recently published its plan to save the high street. But what’s missing, and how can Labour drive a community-powered revolution on our high streets?
Read here 👇 powertochange.org.uk/news/power-to-…

#CommunityPower #TakeBackTheHighStreet

NEWSLETTER 🗞️ | Labour's plans for high streets, funding news, resources, events and more. Read this month's news 👓⤵️
mailchi.mp/powertochange.…

Great to have Tracy For Mayor 🌹 meeting Alliance partners and mission-led orgs for an insightful roundtable on how combined authorities can support our work #FixingTheFuture in local and regional economies. Thanks Todd @Shine for hosting us!

Great to rep Power to Change at this event.

I spoke about a Community Power Act and the We're Right Here: the campaign for community power campaign, our work in Liverpool with K I N D R E D and the opportunity to make business support work for the social economy, now WYCA is taking on LEP functions.

Good piece. One for the #socialinfrastructure heads

COMMUNITY POWER 🎇 | 'In precisely the places that the market shuns, and where the state is often distrusted, community businesses offer a different route to revitalising a place.'

Josh Westerling for Joseph Rowntree Foundation on community business tackling hardship ⤵️
jrf.org.uk/neighbourhoods…

Communities offer life-saving protection in hard times

Our next set of blogs on how to get the most out of them is just up -- Josh Westerling julian dobson & Ed Wallis of Locality

Brilliant day yesterday sharing WeCanMake model for unlocking urban infill sites for community-led homes with community groups, councils & housing associations from across Wales. This is how to scale & replicate #CommunityLed 🙌

📆 Last week we launched our series on tackling hardship in neighbourhoods.

💡 This week, Rachel Casey and Katie Schmuecker consider building resilience and power in communities and organisations to prevent hardship spiralling and reshape the systems: jrf.org.uk/neighbourhoods….

Labour's plan is good, but for communities to #TakeBackTheHighStreet we need:

✅ A strong Community Right to Buy
✅ A level playing field with business rates
🤩 A British High Street Investment Vehicle
🤩 More Community Improvement Districts

Our plan👇
powertochange.org.uk/news/labours-h…