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What happens when you put business in community hands? Presentation Slides
- 2. @peoplesbiz powertochange.org.uk What happens when you put business in community hands? Charlotte Cassedanne, Clare Duncan and Colette Harvey from Power to Change
- 3. No one better understands the problems of a community than those who live there.
- 4. Community business: A business run by local people for local people.
- 5. Bringing back to life a 100-year old oyster farm to reboot the local economy in Porlock
- 6. A community bookshop at the heart of the Mid- Devon town of Crediton
- 7. The first community pub on a council estate in Brighton
- 8. A community bakery that delivers employment and training in Liverpool
- 9. A community ferry boat improving commutes and celebrating Bristol’s heritage
- 10. A community kitchen and café training local people in Bermondsey
- 12. Design your own community business
- 13. Recipe for a community business What do local people need? What can we sell as products or services? How will it include everyone from our community? How will we run it together?
- 14. Help is at hand!
- 15. Independent trust providing community businesses in England access to: • Research • Peer networks • Business development • Capacity building • Training • Events • Social investment advice • Funding
- 16. Our aim To create better places through community business
- 17. We can help support you to…
- 18. Get your bright community business idea off the ground… Bright Ideas Fund For community groups in England with a community business idea they want to get off the ground. This includes business planning and grant funding.
- 19. Transform your local into More than a Pub
- 20. Other support and funding Advice, events and networks through England: www.mycommunity.org.uk Wales http://www.dtawales.org.uk/ Scotland http://www.dtascot.org.uk/ Northern Ireland https://dtni.org.uk/ Awards for all – small grants from Big Lottery Fund www.biglotteryfund.org.uk Join the community business workshop this afternoon!
- 21. Interested in visiting a community business?
- 22. 5-8 October 2017
- 23. Connect with others involved in community business on Facebook Search ‘Community Business Network’ on Facebook
- 24. Any questions?
Editor's Notes
- CHARLOTTE Good morning everyone. We’re Charlotte, Clare and Colette from Power to Change, the independent trust that supports community businesses in England. You’ve all been doing fantastic work in your communities and we want to share some more stories of people who have come together to make a difference to where they live by running a business together.
- COLETTE We believe no one understands a community better than the people who live there. Nobody better understands the problems an area might face or the way to deal with them. This is why we fund and support community businesses: local people who come together to take over a local asset like [a closing pub or empty shop], answering to the community as they bring it back to life, and recycling money back into the local area. run services needed by that community, such as [a post office or leisure centre], in a way that benefits local people address a local issue such as [fuel poverty, lack of employment opportunities for young people, homelessness, social tension], by running a business that helps address it
- CLARE Community businesses can keep services alive and bring greater prosperity to the areas in which they are based. They can bring jobs, skills and training, and promote self-reliance. They help strengthen the community as a whole, and foster community integration. A community business is a business run by local people for local people. Community businesses are built on the simple idea that while it’s hard to solve problems alone, by working together we can achieve so much more. A community business is owned and run by your community for your community. They are open to anyone locally who wants to get involved. Their profits are recycled back into the area to enrich local lives. FYI - Pictured top left clockwise: Supporting wellbeing through sport at East Lancashire Football Development Association Therapeutic gardening at Fordhall Farm Getting creative at Bamford Community pub Learning how to bake pies at Homebaked in Liverpool
- CHARLOTTE Community businesses are rooted in a place – its history, its present and its future opportunities. For example, the seaside town of Porlock in Somerset revived a 100 year old local trade – oyster farming – to provide employment opportunities for young people. It was the community who came up with the idea. The community who came up with a sustainable business solution. Charlotte to explain Porlock Oysters
- CHARLOTTE Community businesses succeed because local people have a say in what services they want and need. They have a real say in the way the business develops. For example, Crediton Community Bookshop in Devon has over 300 shareholders who can contribute ideas and suggestions which are reviewed monthly. They can also elect board members and scrutinise the accounts at the Annual General Meeting. By involving local people, community businesses make sure they are providing services local people need and can afford.
- CLARE Community businesses trade for the benefit of the local community – their a social business with a local impact. They reinvest profits into running activities and services for local people. For example, The Bevy community pub on a Brighton estate runs a Friday Friends lunch club for over 30 elderly people – for many it’s the only time of the week they leave the house and socialise. They also run cookery courses for children in their training kitchen, have a community choir, and offer local people health checks amongst many other activities. Like all community businesses, they are much more than just a normal business – they are business operating for the community.
- CLARE VIDEO – Whole thing?? Another example is Homebaked, watch the three minute video here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQdcOEbKSeI
- COLETTE Bristol Community Ferry Boats, Bristol In 2013, the community took ownership of a ferry boat fleet and set up Bristol Community Ferry Boats as a community benefit society. Has over 900 shareholders, the majority of whom are Bristol residents. Shareholders can elect board members and scrutinise accounts at the Annual General Meeting. 120 members turned out for the most recent Annual General Meeting in February 2017.
- COLETTE VIDEO – Whole thing? And they aim to have a positive impact on all parts of the community. They don’t just engage with one group – they are totally inclusive and help strengthen community cohesion.
- CHARLOTTE There’s loads more inspiring examples of community businesses in the booklet and leaflets about community business in your goodie bag. The community business sector is growing steadily, as more and more people want to make their own opportunities, and improve the areas they live in by running their own business. You could be one of these!
- CHARLOTTE So for the next 5 mins we want you to have a go at designing your own community business.
- CHARLOTTE There’s a few questions to help you get started. Dave Chapman will be doing a much more technical session on this this afternoon but we just wanted to get you thinking. CLARE Get feedback/CB ideas from each group.
- COLETTE Now that you’ve had a go at designing your own community business, you’re probably thinking it’s quite a hard thing to do. But help is at hand.
- COLETTE Setting up a community business may seem daunting but you’re not on your own. Power to Change, an independent organisation, uses Lottery funding to provide an initial grant and free advice to get your idea off the ground, tailored to your specific needs. In addition, they can connect you to a network of other people who have set up community businesses who can also provide motivation and support.
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- CLARE
- CLARE If who have a local community asset but don’t know what it could be turned into? Or a community business idea that you don’t know how to get off the ground? Our Bright Ideas Fund offers community groups up to 15 days support and grants up to £20,000 to develop budding community business ideas. [For example, We’ve invested in: Harlesden Letts, a community lettings agency fighting for more affordable rents in one of the priciest areas of London And The Playground, a community skatepark in Great Yarmouth are looking to bring youth facilities back to a deprived seaside town]
- CHARLOTTE If you are a community looking to save your local pub? Or maybe you want to transform your local pub so it provides services for your local community? Then the ‘More than a Pub’ programme is for you. It is a two year support programme which offers a comprehensive package of business development support, advice and loan and grant funding to community groups in England to help them establish community-owned pubs that can clearly demonstrate how they will bring significant social, economic and environmental benefits to their communities. The programme aims to support 80 community-owned pubs to open over two years and will offer a flexible package of support including access to an advice line, events, workshops, peer-to-peer study visits, and business development advice. It will also offer flexible bursary awards to fund very early stage activity, such as community consultation work, and a grant and loan package.
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- CHARLOTTE
- CHARLOTTE Date for your diary Community business weekend is taking place from the 5-8th October this year. Last year was our first ever Community business weekend, and it’s around to stay. Why not, take the opportunity to: Visit your local community business, these can be found on our map. Community businesses will open their doors, throw fun events and tell you what they offer for the local community.
- CLARE Only last week, we launched the Community Business Network – connecting up the 7000 community businesses and those involved in them. The group has been a huge success so far, with members sharing tips and asking for help. If you want to meet people like yourselves, and ask for help from those with experience in setting up a community business – then this is the place for you. If you search ‘Community Business Network’ on Facebook, you can ask to join the group.
- COLETTE We’re here all weekend if you have questions. We have leaflets about our programmes and you can sign up to our newsletter.