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What happens when you put business in community hands?

Charlotte Cassedanne, Clare Duncan and Colette Harvey from Power to Change

No one better understands the problems of a community than those who live there.

Community business: A business run by local people for local people.

Bringing back to life a 100-year old oyster farm to

reboot the local economy in Porlock

A community bookshop at the heart of the Mid-Devon town of Crediton

The first community pub on a council estate in Brighton

A community bakery that delivers employment and training in Liverpool

A community ferry boat improving commutes and celebrating Bristol’s heritage

A community kitchen and café training local people in Bermondsey

Design your own community business

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?

Help is at hand!

Independent trust providing community businesses in England

access to:

• Research

• Peer networks

• Business development

• Capacity building

• Training

• Events

• Social investment advice

• Funding

Our aim To create better places

through community business

We can help support you to…

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.

Transform your local into More than a Pub

Other support and funding

Advice, events and networks throughEngland: 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!

Interested in visiting a community business?

5-8 October 2017

Connect with others involved in community business on Facebook

Search ‘Community Business Network’ on Facebook

Any questions?

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