Resources

Alice Wharton, Booster Fund Senior Manager at Co-operatives UK, and Tim Coomer, Co-operative and Community Finance (CCF), ran this webinar for advisors about the Community Shares…

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

Preview questions for the Booster Fund application form.

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

Download these template letters for societies that have run or are planning to run community share offers, or for individuals who have invested in community share offers.

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…

Co-ops are found in all sectors of the economy – from high street retailers to community-owned pubs and from fan-owned football clubs to farmer-controlled businesses.

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 a 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.   

Co-operatives UK's membership team hosted a discussion about the key concepts of membership, how to get to know them and how to keep them engaged with you. 

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