Empowering Places – Change Framework

This is a working ‘change framework’ for the Empowering Places programme – a five-year programme designed to empower communities to build community businesses. The framework sets out the desired vision and outcomes of the programme, as well as pointing to the elements of the programme that enable progress towards the vision and outcomes. The framework was developed by Renaisi three and a half years into the five-year programme, using data collected throughout the evaluation.1 It illustrates outcomes that have been achieved, and outcomes that are aspirational and assumed. This is currently a working document that has received editing and strengthening by Empowering Places catalysts and programme staff, but may change again as the programme continues to evolve.