Resources

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

To ensure transparency and enable member scrutiny we publish summaries from our board's most recent discussions and decisions.

The governance wheel depicts the key areas of governance that should be in place within a thriving co-operative business. 

This report summarises the lessons learned from a two year nationwide action research programme of Community Economic Development (CED). It will be of practical interest to…

A simple, one‑page diagram, quickly and easily explaining what to include in your narrative reporting to highlight your co‑op difference. 

With input from 550 co-ops, the National Co-operative Development Strategy was an ambitious strategy to create a more participative economy, published in 2017. 

This report, released in 2015, summarises the views of the groups involved in the Energy Mentoring Programme run by Co-operatives UK's Community Shares Unit. It and highlights the…