Taking Back Control: Why community power matters to our economy and society and what gets in its way - Vidhya Alakeson (CEO, Power to Change)

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This was presented at mySociety's TICTeC Local 2019 conference, which was held on 1st November 2019 at City Hall in London. More details on the conference can be found here: https://tictec.mysociety.org/local/2019

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Taking Back Control
Vidhya Alakeson
Chief Executive, Power to Change
Why community power matters
to our economy and society
and what gets in its way

Four interlocking crises
Regional
inequality
Loss of social
infrastructure
Crisis of
representative
democracy
Climate
change

Four ways communities
are taking power
6,300
community-
owned
buildings
and land
Credit unions,
crowd funding,
community
shares
Local authority
services,
social prescribing
Neighbourhood
planning,
resident-led
regeneration
Community
ownership
Community
finance
Community-led
service delivery
Community
decision-making

Four ways communities
are taking power
6,300
community-
owned
buildings
and land
Community
ownership
Credit unions,
crowd funding,
community
shares
Community
finance
Local authority
services,
social prescribing
Community-led
service delivery
Neighbourhood
planning,
resident-led
regeneration
Community
decision-making

Community
business market
9,000
community
businesses in
England
33,600
staff employed (the
average community
business employs
nine members
of staff)
£0.6bn
in assets
125,200
volunteers

Homebaked
A community-run
bakery and land trust
in Liverpool

We Can Make Bristol
A community housing
developer in Bristol

Wight Community Energy
A community energy
business on the
Isle of Wight

Four barriers to greater
community power
Policy Finance Community
capacity
Risk appetite

Ultimately it’s all about power
Nobody is telling us what to do.
At every step, this is guided by us.
The people of the place have sorted
it out for themselves and for the new
people who are now moving in.
Ronnie Hughes
Granby Four Streets

Thank you
Contact details
@vidhyaalakeson
vidhya.alakeson@powertochange.org.uk

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