Resources

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

Read our policy paper setting out why city regions should include measures to support the creation of employee and worker owned businesses.

The Ownership Hub raises awareness of the benefits of employee and worker ownership at a national level.

In this paper Co-operatives UK makes proposals for how Greater Manchester Co-operative Commission’s recommendations might be implemented.

Community Economic Development (CED) gives people the opportunity to meaningfully shape the economy where they live. It enables those living, working and doing business in an area…

Read the full #1MillionOwners proposal for the 2020 Comprehensive Spending Review

Thinking about transferring ownership of your business to your employees?  Our checklist outlines ten key questions around employee buyouts to help you understand whether this is…

When applying to The Hive you should first read the application guidance.

In Newcastle, things are changing – bouncers are clubbing together. Watch an inspiring film about a unique new co-op of self-employed bouncers, and find out how YOU could reimagine…

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. 

Simply Start-up shows how ordinary people have worked together to successfully build businesses which are both part of, and also strengthen, their communities.

This short report highlights new evidence of people’s discontentment with the amount of control they have over the economy, their workplaces and their local communities.