Slides from a presentation designed to help you map your community business on a page, whether established or just an idea. This supports the talk given by Power to Change at the Eden Project, as part of the Big Lunch Extras programme.

2. Business in Community Hands
BIG LUNCH EXTRAS Community Camp at Eden Project
22nd – 25th April 2016

3. • Introducing ourselves and community business
• Three stories
• How to get involved
Welcome

4. The Power to Change team here today
Rose Seagrief,
Programmes Manager, Bristol office
Dot Zacharias, Head of Regional
and Local Investment
Mark Gordon, Director of
Communications and Partnerships
Chelsea Otto,
Programmes Administrator

5. A brief introduction to Power to Change
• New charitable trust established in 2015 to grow,
support and develop community business in
England
• £150 million endowment from Big Lottery Fund to
spend over 10 years
• Positive response to austerity, decline of high
streets and loss of basic services in communities
• At the heart of our approach is the devolution of
power to local people to make their places better

6. Our mission and objectives

7. Community business in 2015

8. What is community business?
Community
business must be
community led

9. Angler’s Rest, Bamford Community Pub

10. Granby Four Streets, Liverpool

11. Burton Street Foundation, Sheffield

12. Why this works

13. What makes a good community business

14. How to get people involved

16. Thank you
Please contact:
info@thepowertochange.org.uk