Power to Change Community Business Renewal Initiative

The deadline for applications is 17 May 2021 at 10am.

The Powering Up programme allows community business leaders and their teams to access specific technical expertise, alongside professional development and wellbeing support.

The technical support can include:

  • Digitising your services and/or your internal systems
  • Adapting or developing your business mode
  • Human resources advice including employment, redundancy and furlough
  • Health and safety advice including Covid-19 compliance
  • Financial planning including managing cash flow, crisis and change management support.

The professional development and wellbeing support includes:

  • Professional and leadership coaching
  • Peer-to-peer mentoring via a network of community business leaders
  • Resilience and wellbeing support.

The programme is open to any community business in England to apply; however, they will be prioritising support to community businesses in the most deprived areas of England, as well as organisations that are supporting and led by disabled people and/or people from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME*) groups.

For further details and the application form click here.