How Community Businesses Can Save The High Street
Polly Swann
Tuesday, 1 December 2020
Polly Swann, co-author of the Power To Change working report, "Saving The High Street: The Community Takeover" joined us to explain further on what a community business is, how they can help shape a regenerative high street, and how to work with the local authorities and organisations around you to make an impact that will benefit local residents, and those visiting from outside.
As a fashion or creative business, is working on a community model for your local area more in your interests than being an outright social enterprise?
In this Lesson you will learn:
- About the role community businesses play in high street regeneration and supporting the local area and its residents more widely
- What defines a "community business"
- About the Power to Change trust, the support it offers to local businesses and the findings of its report, 'Saving the High Street'
- Strategies to ensure your business is relevant to the local area
- Approaches for working with local councils, fellow local business owners, as well as residents
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