Abbie is an experienced worker co-operator and founder member of People Support Co-op, providing practical HR and governance support and advice to co-ops and community businesses.

Josh has numerous years experience in the co‑operative sector – in community led housing and worker co‑ops, as well as establishing and living in housing co‑operatives.  

Locality supports local community organisations to be strong and successful.  We offer specialist advice, peer learning and campaign with members for a fairer society. Together we unlock the power of…

Morven Lyon is Head of Democratic Finance at the Development Trusts Association Scotland (DTAS). She manages DTAS’ Democratic Finance Scotland programme which promote the use of community shares…

James has worked in the sports sector for more than 10 years. He has spent the majority of that time providing development support to sports clubs and their communities.

Andy has been investing in community shares for a decade and has helped to establish several co-operative societies in the Borders. 

Diana is an experienced small business advisor and facilitator specialising in communities, social enterprise and asset transfer and development. She draws on her training as a building surveyor and…

Hannah Morris a Business advisor for the Community Shares Wales Resilience Project run by Cwmpas.

Mudaser has a range of experience, supporting voluntary and community sector organisations nationally with a range of topics relating to their strategy, operations and governance.

Hannah is a Plunkett Foundation Adviser, Community Shares Licensed Assessor, Business Support for Co-ops Adviser, Plunkett Foundation Adviser and Power to Change Peer Broker , supporting…

BICs are quality certified organisations that support the development and growth of SMEs, innovative entrepreneurs and start ups.

Based in Northern Ireland, Tiziana holds a ILM Certificate in Social Enterprise Support and has been involved in co-operative development since 2012.

Matt has 6 years of experience of working with Grassroots Music Venues raising finance, including spearheading the Music Venue Trust "Own Our Venues" initiative which raised over £1m in Community…

Outlandish is a worker-owned cooperative and tech-for-good digital agency passionate about growing the democratic business movement. We are made up of around 15 co-owners and collaborators working on…

Patricia Calixto Pires is a Community Shares Practitioner with over four years’ experience in co-operative governance, management and community engagement. Patricia currently leads the Co-operative…