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Community Shares Practitioner Training Manual 2024
Related topic: Finance | Resource type: Application guidanceFind out more about our upcoming community shares practitioner training programme before you apply.
Co-operative and Mutual Economy 2023
Related topic: Co-op development | Resource type: ReportOur ground-breaking Co-operative and Mutual Economy 2023 report presents a compelling case for harnessing the full potential of co-operatives and mutuals in the UK.
Community shares report 2023: Communities doing it for themselves
Related topic: Business planning | Resource type: ReportContent by Community Shares
It has been a decade since the Community Shares Unit launched in 2012 with over £210 million raised using this unique form of finance.
Community Shares Practitioner Training Guide 2021
Related topic: Finance | 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: Fundraising | 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…
Recovery Share Offers Guidance
Related topic: Fundraising | 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.
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.
The make-up of a co-op board
Related topic: Governance | Resource type: Film This film introduces some of the aspects of director recruitment for co-ops.
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.
Community Shares Booster Programme - Equity Match Request Form
Related topic: Fundraising | Resource type: Application guidanceContent by Booster Fund
The Equity Match Request Form associated with the Community Shares Booster Programme.
Co-operatives UK Consolidation Project
Related topic: Governance | Resource type: ReportImpact Report 2015: Peer Power – Energy Mentoring Programme
Related topic: Finance | 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…