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Community Shares Practitioner Training Guide 2021
Related topic: Community shares | Resource type: Application guidanceContent by Community Shares
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
Related topic: Community shares | Resource type: ReportContent by Community Shares
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…
Revive and thrive: Why co‑ops are pivotal to a fairer, stronger Scotland
Related topic: Policy campaigns | Resource type: ReportThis report highlights the success of co‑ops in helping Scots weather the Covid‑19 storm and makes six recommendations for Scottish government to act on, now and after the next…
Impact Reports
Related topic: Co-operatives UK | Resource type: ReportThe Impact Report is a snapshot of what Co-operatives UK has achieved together with its members each year.
Recovery Share Offers Guidance
Related topic: Community shares | Resource type: Application guidanceContent by Community Shares
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.
The Co-op Economy: Previous reports
Related topic: Research | Resource type: ReportPublished annually, the Co‑operative Economy Report reveals turnover, membership and employee figures for thousands of co‑op businesses across the UK.
Platform Co-operatives – solving the Capital Conundrum
Related topic: Fundraising | Resource type: ReportContent by Unfound
Published in February 2019, this report outlines the conditions necessary for platform co‑operatives to become viable alternatives to Big Tech corporations.
Shared Space: How Scottish housing co-ops build communities
Related topic: Policy campaigns | Resource type: ReportHousing 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…
VIDEO: Glenwyvis Distillery – “What can YOUR community create?”
Related topic: Fundraising | Resource type: FilmContent by Business support for co-ops
Incredibly, some 3,000 people, from across the Scottish Highlands and beyond, raised an incredible £2.6 million which enabled the planning and development of GlenWyivs distillery –…
VIDEO: Bristol Wood Recycling Project
Related topic: Fundraising | Resource type: FilmContent by Business support for co-ops
Bristol Wood Recycling Project collects tonnes of good quality timber from construction yards and other businesses around the city that would otherwise be wasted.
VIDEO: Co-operate - a film to celebrate #CoopDifference
Related topic: What is a co-op? | Resource type: FilmContent by Co-op Fortnight
"Not through competition but co-operation of each, the people's strength." Our Co-operate video is inspired by co-ops across the UK.
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.
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.
Impact 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…
Video - What is a co-op?
Related topic: What is a co-op? | Resource type: FilmSo what exactly is a co-op? Watch our short animation and share with your friends!