community development

Listen to the winning Co-operative Debate at Co-operatives 2010, proposed by Wooldale Co-operative Society and Anglia Regional Co-operative Society, and read the original debate proposal.

The Commission of Inquiry into the Future of Civil Society was established to explore how civil society could be strengthened in the UK and Ireland. The Inquiry Commission was chaired by Geoff Mulgan and was also informed by an International Advisory Group.

A new financial instrument for social, economic and physical renewal.

The Government committed to supporting the Community Development Finance sector, and this brochure was produced to to promote Community Development Finance by providing an introduction to the sector and an update on then recent developments.

The research report "Towards Sustainable Credit Union Development" (1999) by Paul A Jones marked a watershed in the development of the credit union movement in Britain.

It revealed important findings about the context and situation of the British credit union movement and pointed the way to a new and more realistic, business and market oriented approach to the development of credit unions in the country.