Measuring progress: Sustainable development indicators 2010, published by Defra today, brings together an extensive range of economic, social and environmental indicators to provide a statistical over
Pressure on government budgets and the opportunity to boost public sector productivity is fuelling growing interest and debate around different ways of delivering public services including health, edu
A video short of Ursula Lidbetter of Lincolnshire Co-operative explaining "Why co-operatives are a great way to run a business". Produced for Co-operatives Fortnight 2010 "There is an alternative".
The Community Shares Programme is a two-year action-research project funded by the Office of the Third Sector and the Department for Communities and Local Government working in partnership with the Development Trusts Association and Co-operatives UK. The purpose of this programme is to investigate how members of the public can invest in enterprises serving a community purpose.
Launched in January 2009, the Programme has contributed to the rapid growth of interest and activity in community investment. This report - written by Jim Brown, Co-operatives UK and the Development Trusts Association - details the impact of the project one year on.
This is a Canadian guide to starting a worker co-operative created in 2009, lots of good stuff, but obvioulsy be aware the legal aspects will be different for UK based Co-operatives. Check out www.uk.coop/simplylegal.
This is not a call for a new programme of re-nationalisation. Instead, it is an argument for greater community-based business ownership and the active engagement of a wider group of interests in owning and running socially-relevant enterprises. Significant change will only happen if there is a social movement with sufficient support to make it happen. If we want change, then it is for us – not governments, markets or institutions – to bring about change.
A Paper written by Cliff Mills, and produced by Mutuo.
This might be of interest - a guide produced in the US by the Network of American Tech Worker Co-operatives to setting up a worker co-operative for technology freelancers.Â
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