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.

Guidance for co-operatives to ensure elections are fair for all candidates and the members of a co-operative.

An opportunity to discover how platform co‑ops can put power and profits in the hands of service providers, rather than tech giants.

Discover how platform co-ops can put power and profits in the hands of service providers, rather than tech giants.

As part of the Sociocracy in co‑operative organisations resource, you can access these editable templates.

Ahead of the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow, Co-operatives UK commissioned research into the climate activity of co-ops in the UK and what support was needed.

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

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

When registering a new co‑op you need governing documents. These are different depending on the legal form your co-op takes. We have a range of model rules available which you can…

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. 

Health and safety managers from three large retail co-operatives share their expert health and safety knowledge in this hour-long webinar on dealing with COVID-19 on retail…