Sophie Glover is studio manager at Makers HQ, a community interest company on Union Street in Plymouth. Makers HQ is bringing textile manufacturing back to …
Jess Steele is the founder of Jericho Road, a company she started to support her work as an organiser and a leader in Hastings and …
Andrew Moore is a director of Yealm Community Energy, a social enterprise in South Devon that invests in renewable electricity and uses the profits for …
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Paulette Singer is co-founder of the Clitterhouse Farm Project, which was started by local residents within five minutes walk of Clitterhouse Farm in 2013 to …
Sally-Anne Watkiss is treasurer of Homebaked, a community-run bakery opposite the Liverpool football stadium in Anfield. When did you notice things start to change? We knew the …
The Chichester Community Development Trust provides spaces for hire and community projects in a suite of community-run buildings in Graylingwell Park, Roussillon Park and Keepers …
Lindy Morgan and is the regeneration team leader at the Southmead Development Trust, which supports communities in the Southmead area of North Bristol. On September 20, …
Melissa Mean is head of arts at the Knowle West Media Centre, a living lab in the Knowle West area of Bristol. The centre leads on …
Joanna Holmes is the chief executive of Barton Hill Settlement, a community hub that has been serving the Barton Hill area of Bristol since 1911. …
Kay Johnson is the director of the Larder, a co-operative that promotes healthy, seasonal and sustainable food in Preston. The co-op provides accredited catering and …
Clare Owens (right) is co-founder and co-director of Squash Liverpool, a food, arts and environment focused community organisation in South Liverpool. Squash began as the …
Jeff Hurst is the chief executive of YMCA Newcastle, where he has started a social enterprise called Urban Mushrooms to help young people get training …
Sophie Glover is studio manager at Makers HQ, a community interest company on Union Street in Plymouth. Makers HQ is bringing textile manufacturing back to …
Jess Steele is the founder of Jericho Road, a company she started to support her work as an organiser and a leader in Hastings and …
Grace Harrison and Rachael O’Byrne are project co-ordinators at Kitty’s Laundry in Everton, a cooperative that opened in May. What’s the point of the project? Grace: Originally …
Andrew Moore is a director of Yealm Community Energy, a social enterprise in South Devon that invests in renewable electricity and uses the profits for …
Lee Robb is a co-founder of the Repair Cafe Belfast. The cafe, which has popped up in various venues across Belfast since October 2017, is …
Camilla de Bernhardt Lane runs Aquafolium, a social enterprise connecting people with nature in Devon, with her husband Mark. In 2018, Aquafolium has been introducing …
Alex Walker is the chairman of Ekopia, a community with 250 members in the Findhorn Ecovillage near Inverness in Scotland. Each member of invests small sums of …
On December 12, I attended a meeting in Westminster about what still needs to be done to improve people's access to money in the UK, …
Ailie Rutherford, a Scottish artist, started the People’s Bank of Govanhill during a residency at Govanhill Baths in 2015. It has grown into a long-term project, mapping the …
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Sarah Gorman is the chief executive of Edberts House, a community charity in Gateshead. In October 2018, Power to Change awarded Edberts House a £60,537 …
Julia Darby is the director of NEDCare, a community-owned care provider in Mortonhampstead, Devon. What do you do? I’m Julia Darby and I am the executive director …
Fiona Ward is the co-ordinator for Caring Town, an initiative to make sure people in Totnes and the surrounding parishes have access to the health …
How can community volunteers become full-time activists? How can we create leaders that act as facilitators rather than heroes? How can groups scale up small …
In the the last 60 years a massive, worker-owned co-operative has taken the Basque Country in northern Spain from the brink of bankruptcy to prosperity, …
The day before the Budget, a trio of business owners gathered outside 10 Downing Street carrying tote bags emblazoned with the logo of the East End …