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Power to Change is to reopen its Powering Up Programme to support community businesses across England to develop and grow their leadership skills and their organisations. This round will support up to twenty organisations that are looking to deliver changes within their business to help them to become more environmentally sustainable, and up to twelve businesses looking to learn how digital skills could help their business develop and grow.

The Powering Up programme offers a tailored support package for each community business and is worth up to £20,000 in total, this can be drawn down over a 12-month period. It includes:

• Paid access to technical and business support providers (up to £9,000) who are brokered in to meet the specific needs of your community business
• Professional development and wellbeing support (up to £3,000) such as leadership coaching, peer mentoring, team building and mental health support.
• An £8,000 unrestricted grant to support you as a community business leader, and your team, to engage in the required support of the programme. This could be to cover your time, back fill a post, purchase essential equipment, or cover other expenditure that supports development and resilience of your community business.

The programme has a cross-cutting theme of diversity, equity and inclusion. Priority will be given to applications from areas of England facing high levels of deprivation, and organisations supporting or led by Minority Ethnic communities.

The closing date for applications is the 19th September 2022.