Resources

Investing in community shares is a simple, direct and engaging way of supporting businesses that serve your community.

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.

Our guide to forming a music teachers' co-operative references various booklets and fact sheets published by Co-operatives UK and the Musicians’ Union and draws upon David…

With legal firm Mills and Reeve, we have developed a briefing and checklist to ensure you know what to do to be sure your employees are safe to drive.

A guide to creating member value by aligning co-operative strategy, performance measurement and reporting

A comprehensive guide to the different options for financing a community enterprise.

A comprehensive guide to understanding the systems and processes concerned with the running of a sustainable community enterprise.

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…

Community Shares: Inside the Market Report 2015

Law firm Mills & Reeve have allowed us to share this briefing paper on equality, diversity and discrimination within employment. 

This document makes the case for bringing co-operative structures and business models to the media sector.