🛤️ As part of Power to Change’s 10-year anniversary, our teams are out visiting more community businesses than ever, listening and learning to ensure we are always grounded in community business.

📖 Take a look at our 10-year campaign: bit.ly/4oqtR3v

They have ambitious plans to launch a Green Skills Academy — providing place-based skill provision to ensure local people benefit from new, green jobs in Bristol & Avonmouth. With just 3 employees, Ambition Lawrence Weston show what’s possible when committed local people lead the way. bit.ly/43hbFRw

Today, they run a community energy CIC & the UK’s largest land-based wind turbine, the development of which was supported by Power to Change.
The turbine's income helps them run their busy community centre, offering everything from support groups & fitness classes to climate action & free services.

Register to join us at the launch event (link updated): www.powertochange.org.uk/event/event-...

Get a flavour of the collection to come by reading some brilliant essays already available from the likes of Vidhya Alakeson, former Power to Change CEO, now in No.10. buff.ly/p1QW8v3

View the collection so far - more essays to come! 👉 buff.ly/MDgS9Le

Panellists:
🎙️ James Plunkett, Kinship Works @jamestplunkett.bsky.social
🎙️ Rachel Coldicutt, Careful Industries @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social
🎙️ Hetan Shah, British Academy & Our World in Data @hetanshah.bsky.social
🎙️ Emily Bolton, Our Future
🎙️ Nick Plumb, Power to Change @nickplumb.bsky.social

📍 The £500m Better Futures Fund is a landmark proof point of this new approach — showing how public & private capital can work together to deliver social outcomes. We want to build on this momentum, positioning the UK as a global leader in social outcomes partnerships. Read now: buff.ly/82BAGTt

🔧 Targeted reforms — modernising pensions, Gift Aid, and wealth advice — could unlock even more resources for inclusive growth.

📍The creation of an ‘Office for the Impact Economy’ would provide a clear front door for collaboration, dismantling government silos and accelerating partnership delivery.

🧠 A mindset shift is needed. The government must act as a catalyst — crowding in private and philanthropic capital, not replacing it.
An ‘Office for the Impact Economy’ would provide a clear front door and unlock collaboration.

💡 The impact economy is already delivering renewal across the UK — tackling child poverty, clean energy, affordable housing and more.

🤝 Greater partnership between government and the impact economy could scale innovation, align capital and share risk to address national challenges.

And we've captured the lessons in local growth from Liverpool in this blog: buff.ly/PZefkwG

Congratulations Kindred! Here's to five years — and to the future of community-powered economies. 💥

As part of our 10-year anniversary campaign, Erika Rushton, Kindred's Strategy Director, penned an essay on how they turned Liverpool's local economy into a social one: buff.ly/ZPWPhPT

From pioneering patient finance to building networks of mutual support, Kindred is reshaping how we think about inclusive growth.

📚 Learn more on Kindred’s development: buff.ly/NyO7w2S