Resources

We made a series of policy recommendations in our response to government's call for evidence on Social Investment Tax  Relief (SITR)  in 2019.

This paper aims to locate platform co‑ops – or co‑operative platforms – within the co‑operative sector and the wider digital economy, and explore how the International Co‑operative…

Our response to UK government's consultation on how it should take account of social value in the award of central government contracts.

Why the design of the UK Shared Prosperity Fund must include a significant role for community economic development

Housing co-ops have so much to offer. They deliver affordable housing in a climate where both house prices and rents are rising.  They help to control and build powerful…

In this submission we sought to influence the mission and governance of the new South of Scotland Enterprise Agency.

Our representation to government in 2018 sought to remove punitive taxes paid by a segment of housing co-operatives.

Our policy paper maps out how co-operatives could and should feature in Scotland's emerging community wealth building agenda.

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…

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. 

The short paper sets the necessary safeguards to protect co-operatives during the Brexit process.

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.

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…

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