Enterprising communities

All communities face challenges. Yours might lie in a beauty spot where locals cannot compete with second home buyers in the property market. Somewhere else people are worrying about a declining population with its attendant school closures and withdrawal of bus services. Yet somewhere else the major employer is under threat.

The challenges facing your community may fit neatly into a familiar category or may be unique. Either way, there's a simple choice; let things take their course or do something about it.

Dig under the surface of any community and you'll unearth extraordinary riches of skills, experience, contacts and energy. Pull them together and you can create a powerful force far greater than the individual sum of the butcher, the baker, the...

People will pull together if they believe their efforts will make a difference. Across the country groups are tapping into their community's bank of enterprise skills and getting stuck in to schemes addressing childcare, local trading opportunities, sustainable transport links, redundant buildings, community finance and a host of others in all sorts of innovative ways.

PIE's enterprise programmes are for people inspired to make a difference in their own communities and for those charged with helping them to do so.