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Simply Legal
Related topic: Governance | Resource type: Leaflet / GuideSimply Legal is a guide with all you need to know about legal forms and organisational types for co‑operatives and community owned enterprises.
Simply Start-up
Related topic: Co-op development | Resource type: Leaflet / GuideSimply Start-up shows how ordinary people have worked together to successfully build businesses which are both part of, and also strengthen, their communities.
Simply Buyout
Related topic: Governance | Resource type: Leaflet / GuideA guide to employee buyouts and becoming an employee owned business.
Simply Performance
Related topic: Finance | Resource type: Leaflet / GuideA guide to creating member value by aligning co-operative strategy, performance measurement and reporting
Simply Finance
Related topic: Finance | Resource type: Leaflet / GuideA comprehensive guide to the different options for financing a community enterprise.
Simply governance
Related topic: Governance | Resource type: Leaflet / GuideA comprehensive guide to understanding the systems and processes concerned with the running of a sustainable community enterprise.
Business Support – help for your co-op: Application guidance
Content by Business support for co-ops
Introduction
Help for your co-op is a business support programme for existing co-ops that have been incorporated and trading for more than 18 months.
If you have not started…
Business Support – convert to a co-op: Application guidance
Content by Business support for co-ops
Introduction
This support is for organisations aiming to convert to co-op within the next 12 months.
To be eligible for this programme you must be an organisation that has…
UnFound Accelerator – application guidance
Content by Unfound
Turn your pioneering idea into a successful platform co-op business
Introduction
The UnFound Accelerator is a business support programme for platform co-ops.
The UnFound…
Business Support – start your co-op: Application guidance
Related topic: Business planningContent by Business support for co-ops
Introduction
Start a co-op is a business support programme for people wanting to launch their own co-op. To be eligible for this programme you must fall into one of the following…
Sociocracy in co-operative organisations
Introduction
Sociocracy, also known as dynamic governance, is a values-based governance system centered on the concept of equal voice (every member heard). Growing in popularity…
The Community Shares Handbook
Content by Community Shares
1. Introduction to community shares
This Handbook sets out guidance for societies and practitioners who provide advice on community shares, a term used to describe the…