Financing the future economy
Think tank: Power to Change
Author(s): Jessica Craig
May 16, 2024
This report from UK think tank Power to Change looks at how community businesses can access the right finance to achieve their ambitions.
This report draws on what Power to Change has learned from funding, supporting and advocating for community business since 2015 about the challenges community businesses face in accessing the right types of finance, at the right time, to sustain and grow their businesses.
It highlights the range and complexity of the sources of finance used by community businesses to start up, grow and sustain their businesses, and the relative challenges and opportunities that these present.
It also situates access to finance within the wider policy context and provides recommendations on how funders, investors and government at all levels can unlock finance for this vital sector to create a fairer and more sustainable economy.
