Centre for Progressive Change

What Centre for Progressive Change does

The Centre for Progressive Change (CPC) is a UK-based, privately held not-for-profit organisation founded in 2020 by veteran community organiser Amanda Walters, headquartered at Victoria SPACES in London. It builds national campaigns to change UK policy and legislation using an interdisciplinary methodology that combines community organising, mobilising, advocacy, business engagement, communications, and campaign research. Its two flagship campaigns are Safe Sick Pay, a coalition campaign advocating reform of the UK's statutory sick pay system, and Cleaners United, an alliance of unions and community organisations focused on working conditions for commercial cleaners.

CPC operates a three-product revenue model alongside grant funding. It sells paid training (Organising Foundation Course, self-taught at £160 or group at £255–320 with sliding scale), a free Map The Power course on Power Structure Analysis, and bespoke consultancy services for campaign strategy, coaching, and implementation. Foundation funding from Trust for London, Rowntree, Unbound, Barrow, Network for Social Change, Civic, AWRT, and abrdn Foundation underwrites campaign operations. Go-to-market is community-led: CPC runs its own national campaigns, coordinates a coalition of 100+ organisations and 180+ MPs/Peers, and delivers training and consultancy through direct digital (Kajabi platform) and 30-minute consultative phone-based sales motions.

The organisation's most significant outcome to date is the successful contribution to the Employment Rights Bill, which received Royal Assent in December 2025 with sick pay reforms benefiting approximately 8–10 million workers — including day-one eligibility and removal of the lower earnings limit. Technology is not a core competency; CPC is a methodology- and coalition-driven organisation with a small team of roughly 5–6 staff plus a board and advisory group drawn from Citizens UK, TUC, Trussell Trust, Living Wage Foundation, and Which?.

Name

Centre for Progressive Change

Legal name

Centre for Progressive Change

Website

https://centreforprogressivechange.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

2020

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

The Centre for Progressive Change is a UK not-for-profit founded in 2020 that builds national progressive campaigns and provides paid training and consultancy on community organising methodology; it led the Safe Sick Pay coalition whose reforms passed in the 2025 Employment Rights Bill, benefiting roughly 8 million workers.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Political Campaign Services

NAICS

Social Advocacy Organizations (81331), Other Social Advocacy Organizations (813319), Research and Development in the Social Sciences and Humanities (54172)

SIC

Services-Management Consulting Services (8742), Services-Social Services (8300), Services-Engineering, Accounting, Research, Management (8700)

akta.pro primary industry

Civil Society Strengthening & Civic Space (BPADAGAD)

akta.pro secondary industries

Democracy, Voting Rights & Civic Participation Advocacy (BPAGAFAJ), Change Management & Transformation Consulting (BPAHAGAC)

Keywords

• Community organising training
• Progressive campaign consulting
• Policy advocacy services
• Campaign strategy training
• Social movement research

Headquarters

HQ city

London

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B and B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Others

Revenue model

1. Training programmes: Revenue generated from paid training courses including the Organising Foundation Course offered in self-taught (£160) and group (£255-320 with sliding scale) formats, and free Map The Power course.
2. Consultancy services: Bespoke consultancy services offered to support organising campaigns including strategy and planning, organising skills coaching, and implementation support.
3. Foundation funding: Funding received from charitable foundations including Trust for London, Rowntree, Unbound, Barrow, Network for Social Change, Civic, AWRT, and abrdn Foundation to support campaign operations.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

The Centre for Progressive Change (CPC) drives national campaigns to change UK policy and legislation on progressive issues, conducts research on what works for progressive change at scale, and shares its expertise through paid training courses and bespoke consultancy services. Its core work combines community organising, mobilising, advocacy, business engagement, communications, and campaign research.

Product overview

The Centre for Progressive Change is a campaigning and training organisation offering a portfolio of advocacy campaigns and educational products. Its core campaigns include the Safe Sick Pay Campaign and Cleaners United Campaign, which use community organising methodologies to drive national policy change. The organisation complements its advocacy work with training products including the Organising Foundation Course (available as self-taught at £160 or group training at £255-320), and a free Map The Power Course on Power Structure Analysis. Additionally, it offers bespoke consultancy services covering campaign strategy, organising skills coaching, and implementation support.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Safe Sick Pay Campaign: National campaign advocating for reforms to UK statutory sick pay system to make it safer, more accessible and adequate for workers
• Cleaners United
• Map The Power Course
• Organising Foundation Course

Products and services

• Organising Foundation Course (Self-Taught) A self-paced online course providing basic theory and tools for winning progressive campaigns, including 8 video lectures, 5 readings, 5 practical exercises, and 8 optional assignments, with 120 days of access for a one-time £160 payment. Aimed at individual community organisers, activists, and aspiring campaigners.
• Organising Foundation Course (Group) Group training course delivered with a cohort via weekly Zoom seminars, featuring 8 seminars, 8 assignments, and access to professional organiser trainers, with sliding scale pricing of £255-£320 and installment payment options. Aimed at community organisers seeking peer learning and direct coach support.
• Map The Power Course Free online course on Power Structure Analysis taught by veteran campaign researcher Kevin Connor, covering how to identify sources of opposition power, understand institutional relationships, and build coalition strategies for campaign effectiveness. Aimed at new and aspiring campaigners as an introductory offering.
• Campaign Consultancy Services Bespoke consultancy services for organising campaigns, covering Strategy & Planning (power structure analysis and overall strategy), Organising Skills (coaching and shadowing), and Implementation (hands-on campaign support). Booked via a 30-minute free phone consultation and aimed at trade unions, community organisations, and civil society groups running progressive campaigns.

Quantifiable outcome

• £4.1 billion net economic benefit from sick pay reform according to WPI Economics report
• +4 more outcomes

Named customers9 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

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Partnerships

21 partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• MindcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerMental health charity partner in Safe Sick Pay coalition advocating for workers with mental health conditions to have access to adequate sick pay.
• Young Lives vs CancercoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCancer charity partner highlighting financial hardship faced by young cancer patients on inadequate SSP.
• EquitycoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerEntertainment trade union partner in Safe Sick Pay coalition.
• OxfamcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerInternational development charity partner in Safe Sick Pay campaign.
• PCS (Public and Commercial Services Union)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCivil service trade union partner in Safe Sick Pay coalition.
• General Federation of Trade UnionscoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerTrade union federation partner supporting sick pay reform campaign.
• OrganisecoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerWorker organising platform partner representing gig economy and low-income workers in sick pay campaign.
• iRMO (Irish in Britain Migrant Organisation)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerMigrant rights organisation partner in Cleaners United alliance.
• LAWRs (London Action and Rights for Retail Workers)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerRetail workers rights organisation partner in coalition.
• POMOCcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCentral and Eastern European migrant workers organisation partner in Cleaners United.
• EFA (English for Action)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerLondon charity combining language teaching with community organising, partner in Cleaners United.
• EERC (East London Refugees)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerRefugee support organisation partner in Cleaners United alliance.
• WoRC (Women on the Rise)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerWomen workers rights organisation partner in Cleaners United.
• Legal & GeneralcoreGTM or Marketing PartnerFTSE100 company hosting sick pay symposium with CPC and implementing sick pay changes in property division; cross-sector business champion for reform.
• WPI EconomicscoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerEconomics consultancy that produced £4.1 billion sick pay reform benefit report commissioned by CPC.
• AutonomycoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerResearch organisation that co-published cleaners report with CPC on working conditions.
• MS SocietycoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerMultiple sclerosis charity partner in national day of action for Safe Sick Pay.
• Leukaemia CarecoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerBlood cancer charity partner in Safe Sick Pay coalition.
• Covid-19 Bereaved Families for JusticecoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerBereaved families group partner advocating for sick pay reform highlighted by pandemic.
• Health EqualscoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerHealth coalition partner in national day of action.
• Clean For GoodminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerOrganisation partner in Safe Sick Pay coalition.

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Emerging players

• Compass: UK progressive movement organisation that campaigns on a broad range of economic and social policy issues. Compass shares CPC's progressive orientation and policy-influencing ambitions but operates primarily through research and movement-building rather than community organising.
• Autonomy: UK research organisation focused on the future of work, precarious employment, and worker protections. Autonomy co-published a cleaners' working conditions report with CPC and serves as an evidence partner, making it a research-led complement to CPC's organising-led approach.
• Trussell Trust: UK anti-poverty charity operating a national network of food banks and running campaigns on the structural causes of poverty, including inadequate Statutory Sick Pay. CPC's Communications Lead Andy May previously headed media at Trussell, and the organisations share overlapping policy objectives on SSP reform.

Direct peers

• Living Wage Foundation: UK organisation that accredits employers paying the real Living Wage and runs campaigns to expand accreditation. CPC's founder previously led the Living Wage campaign at Heathrow, and CPC's Cleaners United campaign directly extends this same low-pay worker advocacy lineage.
• 38 Degrees: Large UK digital campaigning organisation that mobilises members on progressive policy issues through petitions, emails, and direct action. CPC operates at a smaller scale but uses a similar citizen-led progressive advocacy model targeting UK parliamentary outcomes.
• Citizens UK: UK-wide community organising coalition that trains and coordinates member organisations to run campaigns on social issues. CPC's founder Amanda Walters and Communications Lead Andy May both worked at Citizens UK, and CPC applies the same broad-based community organising methodology.
• Organise: Worker-led organising platform that runs campaigns on issues such as gig economy rights and low-pay sectors. Organise is a coalition partner on Safe Sick Pay and shares CPC's focus on mobilising low-income workers into collective advocacy for better employment conditions.

Broad incumbents

• New Economics Foundation: UK think tank that produces economic research and campaigns on inequality, workers' rights, and progressive policy reform. NEF operates at greater scale with broader research and policy remit, comparable in producing the evidence base for campaigns CPC and others then operationalise.
• Trades Union Congress (TUC): UK national trade union federation representing 48 member unions and 5.5 million workers. TUC is a direct Safe Sick Pay coalition partner and CPC's advisor Kate Bell leads its Rights, International, Social and Economics department — TUC operates at a far larger scale with a wider remit covering all worker policy issues.
• School for Social Entrepreneurs: UK charity providing training, mentoring, and support to social entrepreneurs and mission-driven leaders. SSE has directly supported CPC's founder Amanda Walters since 2020 and offers comparable training and capacity-building programmes for the social change sector.

Market position

Strengths1 record

Weaknesses1 record

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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