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Show filtersPower to Change allocates new funding for community businesses
The funding is provided through the Community Business Trade Up Programme run by the School for…
Green Elephant Co-op at Halton Mill boosts trading through match trading grants
Match trading is a new type of grant funding that pound-for-pound matches an increase in income…
100th Community Shares Standard Mark presented during communities week
Suffolk-based Eden-Rose Community Ltd aims to raise £80,000 from the local community
Power to Change fund open for applications from community businesses
The Bright Ideas Fund will be open for applications between 26 June and 31 July 2018
Historic pub reopens after four years thanks to community shares campaign
The Chequer Inn in Kent had been earmarked for development until locals intervened to save it
New co-op could take the place of Colman’s Mustard in Norwich
Social entrepreneur Robert Ashton and Labour councillor Steve Morphew have organised a crowdfunding campaign to set…
Plunkett Foundation welcomes another community pub to the co-op fold
The Auctioneers Arms in Staffordshire has been saved after locals raised more than £200,000 in community…
£3m boost for local communities wanting to develop their own businesses
So far, the Community Shares Booster has supported 15 community businesses, awarding over £100,000 in development…
£8m community development programme launched to grow co-ops
The five-year programme from Co-operatives UK and Power to Change will look at ways to build…
Another threatened local pub transfers to community ownership
The Gardeners Rest in Neepsend, Sheffield, has been bought by its regulars after a community share…
Shotley Pier community group reaches its £58,000 fundraising target
The group hope to return the 120-year-old structure, in the River Stour in Suffolk, to full…