‘We are the economy’: the community businesses coming together to transform Liverpool

Eighty-four community businesses are forming a network to support each other

(Hazel Sheffield)

It’s the day after the Premier League final in north Liverpool, and Jurgen Klopp can be seen stomping the pavement outside Homebaked, a bakery that has been selling pies to Liverpool fans and locals since it opened in 2013.

Liverpool might have lost out to Manchester City in the Premier League, but there are other reasons to be cheerful. As well as selling pies – a record 800 on the day of the Premier League final – Homebaked has a sister organisation: a community land trust to own buildings for the good of residents. With ownership, locals can no long be subject to the whims of government plans such as housing market renewal, which left so many surrounding properties empty.