Practitioners directory
This directory lists co-op practitioners offering a range of expert services for new-start co-ops, existing co-ops and businesses looking to convert to co-ops. Use the 'programmes' filter to find practitioners for the Business Support for Co-ops programme and Community Shares programmes.
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Alice Hemming
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Co-operative Futures Ltd
I have founded and worked in many place-based co-operatives and community businesses in Oxford and have firsthand experience of business and organisational development.
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Michael Beaven
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Our Community Enterprise CIC
Michael has over 25 years of experience in financial management and fundraising within the voluntary and public sectors, including company formation, business planning, building purchase, income…
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Jim Brown
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Freelance
I am the strategic adviser to the Community Shares Unit, now partly retired, but still working in a freelance capacity a couple of days a month.
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Alan Collard
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Ironmonger Community Advisors
Alan has provided advisory services to community groups and enterprises for the past 8 years on behalf of Plunkett Foundation.
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Hannah Morris
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Cwmpas (formerly Wales Co-operative Centre)
Hannah Morris a Business advisor for the Community Shares Wales Resilience Project run by Cwmpas.
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Hannah Nadim
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241 Co-operators
Hannah is a Plunkett Foundation Adviser, Community Shares Licensed Assessor, Power to Change Peer Broker and graduate of the Barefoot Co-operative Development programme.
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South West Co-operative Development Limited
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South West Co-operative Development Limited
SWCD provides expert business development and support services for all forms of new and existing co-operatives, community owned businesses, and social enterprises.
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Andrew Woodcock
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Acorn Co-op Support and Co-op Culture
Andy is an experienced ecological community entrepreneur with a speciality in housing co‑ops, land trusts, community ownership and worker co‑ops that have an ecological or sustainability focus.