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The Community Champions fund provides small grants to support individuals in the UK in developing their skills and access to information and wider networks and/or to help them realise community projects and pass on their expertise to others. These individuals are able to inspire their communities to become involved in regeneration and learning activity. The Skills for Regeneration project aimed to assess the skills and knowledge developed by recipients of Community Champions grants in leading and participating in community-based regeneration projects. The project looked at what recipients went on to do with the skills gained from the program, and how Community Champions could be improved. The project found that Community Champions made a real difference for a large proportion of those interviewed and the communities in which they work. Relatively few recipients undertook formal learning through the program. The greatest skills and knowledge gains were achieved by ‘learning by doing’. The analysis revealed a need to target less experienced and less qualified potential Champions and to offer more and better pathways for sustainable projects and greater learning gains.