{"id":11,"date":"2025-01-08T17:50:03","date_gmt":"2025-01-08T17:50:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/poweringcommunities.co.uk\/?page_id=11"},"modified":"2025-04-03T19:03:30","modified_gmt":"2025-04-03T19:03:30","slug":"11-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/poweringcommunities.co.uk\/?page_id=11","title":{"rendered":"Why?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-cover alignfull is-light has-contrast-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-5a1070b52799033bc849b61699ba0060\" style=\"margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;padding-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--60);padding-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50);padding-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--60);padding-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50)\"><span aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-cover__background has-base-background-color has-background-dim-100 has-background-dim\"><\/span><div class=\"wp-block-cover__inner-container has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-container-core-cover-is-layout-873ee6b1 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class=\"wp-block-navigation__responsive-container-close\" \n\t\t\t\tdata-wp-on--click=\"actions.closeMenuOnClick\"\n\t\t\t><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\" aria-hidden=\"true\" focusable=\"false\"><path d=\"m13.06 12 6.47-6.47-1.06-1.06L12 10.94 5.53 4.47 4.47 5.53 10.94 12l-6.47 6.47 1.06 1.06L12 13.06l6.47 6.47 1.06-1.06L13.06 12Z\"><\/path><\/svg><\/button>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"wp-block-navigation__responsive-container-content\" \n\t\t\t\tdata-wp-watch=\"callbacks.focusFirstElement\"\n\t\t\t id=\"modal-1-content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<ul class=\"wp-block-navigation__container is-responsive items-justified-center alignfull wp-block-navigation\"><li class=\" wp-block-navigation-item wp-block-navigation-link\"><a class=\"wp-block-navigation-item__content\"  href=\"https:\/\/poweringcommunities.co.uk\/\"><span class=\"wp-block-navigation-item__label\">Powering Communities<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\" wp-block-navigation-item wp-block-navigation-link\"><a class=\"wp-block-navigation-item__content\"  href=\"https:\/\/poweringcommunities.co.uk\/?page_id=62\"><span class=\"wp-block-navigation-item__label\">Approach<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\" wp-block-navigation-item wp-block-navigation-link\"><a class=\"wp-block-navigation-item__content\"  href=\"https:\/\/poweringcommunities.co.uk\/?page_id=67\"><span class=\"wp-block-navigation-item__label\">Scope<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\" wp-block-navigation-item wp-block-navigation-link\"><a class=\"wp-block-navigation-item__content\"  href=\"https:\/\/poweringcommunities.co.uk\/?page_id=60\"><span class=\"wp-block-navigation-item__label\">Vision<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\" wp-block-navigation-item wp-block-navigation-link\"><a class=\"wp-block-navigation-item__content\"  href=\"https:\/\/poweringcommunities.co.uk\/?page_id=38\"><span class=\"wp-block-navigation-item__label\">Your Community<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\" wp-block-navigation-item wp-block-navigation-link\"><a class=\"wp-block-navigation-item__content\"  href=\"https:\/\/poweringcommunities.co.uk\/?page_id=11\"><span class=\"wp-block-navigation-item__label\">Why?<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\" wp-block-navigation-item wp-block-navigation-link\"><a class=\"wp-block-navigation-item__content\"  href=\"https:\/\/poweringcommunities.co.uk\/?page_id=64\"><span class=\"wp-block-navigation-item__label\">How?<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\" wp-block-navigation-item wp-block-navigation-link\"><a class=\"wp-block-navigation-item__content\"  href=\"https:\/\/poweringcommunities.co.uk\/?page_id=16\"><span class=\"wp-block-navigation-item__label\">Contact<\/span><\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div><\/nav>\n\n\n<p class=\"is-style-text-subtitle is-style-text-subtitle--2\"><strong>Breaking Cycles. Building Futures.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-vertical is-content-justification-stretch is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-353c4f5a wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<p>Inequality doesn\u2019t happen overnight. It\u2019s shaped by generations of underinvestment and structural bias.<br>From housing and education to income and health, early disadvantages often compound\u2014and can limit opportunities over a lifetime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At Powering Communities CIC, we believe people are not defined by the challenges they face. Every community holds knowledge, strength, and vision. Everyone deserves the chance to thrive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We pay close attention to how overlapping factors\u2014like race, gender, disability, or family structure\u2014can deepen inequality. Our work is intersectional, inclusive, and always grounded in lived experience.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This work takes time. It requires trust, care, commitment. and investment. Over the long-term &#8211; not just quick pay-outs.<br>But when communities take the lead, they don\u2019t just change their own outcomes\u2014they help create&nbsp;wider change and show what is possible, beyond their neighbourhood or town.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-11","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poweringcommunities.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/poweringcommunities.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/poweringcommunities.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poweringcommunities.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poweringcommunities.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/poweringcommunities.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":187,"href":"https:\/\/poweringcommunities.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11\/revisions\/187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poweringcommunities.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}