Resources

It has been a decade since the Community Shares Unit launched in 2012 with over £210 million raised using this unique form of finance.

An overview of the Community Shares Practitioner Training Programme 2021. Includes details on the workshops and follow up accreditation and assessment process. 

The Community Shares Standard Mark is awarded to community share offers that meet national standards of best practice.

Empowering Places aims to build more resilient communities by supporting community businesses to provide benefits and opportunities for local people.  

Understanding a maturing community shares market is the most comprehensive report ever published on the community shares sector – funded by Power to Change and Community Shares…

The purpose of this guidance is to support societies to use community shares to improve their solvency as part of their response and recovery to the current Covid-19 crisis. 

Presented by BBC broadcaster Elizabeth Alker, More Than a Shop welcomes guests with something new and radical to say about the big issues of our day and doing business the right…

During the Covid-19 pandemic, we’ve seen some inspirational stories of co‑operation. For Co-op Fortnight 2020, we collected just a few of those inspiring stories from co‑operatives…

Speaking up for our planet: turning talk into action explores climate change and climate justice. 

This More Than a Shop podcast explores the changing landscape of UK high streets.  

Food, glorious food is the focus of the sixth More Than a Shop podcast episode.   

The fifth episode in the More Than a Shop podcast series explores something we all, sadly, will inevitably face in our lives.  

This episode of podcast More Than a Shop explores the need for new conversations, support networks and funding focused on mental health across the UK.  

More Than a Shop presenter Elizabeth Alker chats to two people convinced that the UK economy would be transformed if more businesses were worker and employee owned.

Ch-ch-ch-changes: Disrupting the music industry explores some of the challenges facing musicians and ways to challenge the ‘norms’ that have emerged in recent years and decades…

Podcast series, More Than a Shop, debuts with an episode looking at the challenges facing the UK’s education system.