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The Hive application guidance – start‑up co‑op businesses
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Application guidance
This guidance is for people who are applying for The Hive support for start‑up co‑op businesses.
PLEASE NOTE
The Hive programme in its current form is…
The Hive application guidance – for support to convert to a co‑op
Content by The Hive
Application guidance
This guidance is for people who are applying for The Hive support for businesses looking to convert to worker or community ownership.
PLEASE NOTE
The…
The Hive application guidance – support for existing co‑ops
Content by The Hive
Application guidance
This guidance is for people who are applying for The Hive support for existing co‑ops – specifically support regarding:
Sustainability and growth.
Trading…
South of Scotland Enterprise Bill: Evidence to Rural Economy and Connectivity Committee
Related topic: Policy campaigns | Resource type: Policy briefingIn this submission we sought to influence the mission and governance of the new South of Scotland Enterprise Agency.
Creating reliefs for housing co-operatives
Related topic: Policy campaigns | Resource type: Policy briefingOur representation to government in 2018 sought to remove punitive taxes paid by a segment of housing co-operatives.
Community wealth building: the role of co-operatives
Related topic: Policy campaigns | Resource type: Policy briefingOur policy paper maps out how co-operatives could and should feature in Scotland's emerging community wealth building agenda.
Community Shares Booster Programme - Equity Match Request Form
Related topic: Community shares | Resource type: Application guidanceContent by Booster Fund
The Equity Match Request Form associated with the Community Shares Booster Programme.
Community Economic Development Lessons from two years’ action research
Related topic: Co-op development | Resource type: ReportThis 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…
Reporting your co-op difference diagram
Related topic: Finance | Resource type: GraphicsA simple, one‑page diagram, quickly and easily explaining what to include in your narrative reporting to highlight your co‑op difference.
National Co-operative Development Strategy
Related topic: Co-op development | Resource type: ReportWith input from 550 co-ops, the National Co-operative Development Strategy was an ambitious strategy to create a more participative economy, published in 2017.
Brexit safeguards for co-operatives
Related topic: Policy campaigns | Resource type: Policy briefingThe short paper sets the necessary safeguards to protect co-operatives during the Brexit process.
The Co-operative Option report
Related topic: Co-op development | Resource type: ReportThis 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.
Co-operatives UK Consolidation Project
Related topic: Governance | Resource type: ReportImpact Report 2015: Peer Power – Energy Mentoring Programme
Related topic: Community shares | Resource type: ReportContent by Community Shares
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…
Good News: A co-operative solution to the media crisis
Resource type: ReportThis document makes the case for bringing co-operative structures and business models to the media sector.