Links

Clients and colleagues

Co-operative Business Consultants
promoting co-operative and participative management

Aegis Associates
social enterprise support in the West Midlands

Baker Brown

research and development practice specialising in the social economy and adult learning

Co-Housing Bristol

a co-operative that has come together to create a mutually supportive, socially inclusive neighbourhood in Bristol

Co-operative Assistance Network (CAN)

provides specialist development services to co-operatives and community enterprises through business advice, training design and delivery, group facilitation, feasibility studies, development planning support and accessing appropriate funding.

Co-operative College

working with membership based organisations and enterprises – helping them to become commercially and socially successful

Co-operative & Mutual Solutions (CMS)
employee owned Industrial and Provident Society providing specialist consultancy support to co-operatives and social enterprises in the North West UK

Co-operative Solutions
enterprise development, project management, training and consultancy within the economy generally and the social economy specifically

Eighth Day
democratically run, worker-controlled cafes and shop

Essential Trading
workers co-operative that specialises in supplying organic, GMO free, Fair-Trade, vegetarian and vegan wholefoods

ns magazine
aims to promote the principles and practice of democratic enterprise, common ownership, co-operation and community control within the social economy

Olive cooperative
seeks to raise awareness of the difficulties faced by Palestinians, and to support those working for a just peace in Palestine and Israel, by arranging tours to Palestine and Israel and selling Palestinian fairly traded goods in the UK.

Principle Six
network of men and women working in co-operative businesses, employee owned firms and social enterprises, aiming to increase the amount and quality of new business won by its members through the giving and receiving of business referrals.

Suma
UK's largest independent wholesaler and distributor of quality vegetarian, fairly traded, organic and natural foods, with an equal pay for all policy

The Phone Coop
consumer co-operative, providing phone and internet services.

Unicorn Grocery
worker co-operative owned and run by its workforce, offering a stunning range of wholesome and organic foods to its South Manchester customer base

UpStart
training and support services for groups and individuals wanting to set up new co-operatives in the South West

Womens Stand

Feminist online shopping - postcards, greetings cards & magazines

Useful resources

Businessballs
free organisational and development resources

Gaian Economics
Economics Respectful of People and the Planet

Geo
Grassroots economic organising (USA)

Master of Management
Master of Management - Co-operatives and Credit Unions is an innovative web-based co-operative management program bringing together co-op and credit union professionals from around the world
(Saint Mary’s University, Halifax, Nova Scotia)

Ownership Associates
strategic and technical advice to groups exploring employee ownership (USA)

The Take
The Take is a documentary film by Naomi Klein and Avi Lewis about how workers in Argentina are taking over the factories abandoned by their owners

Upside Down World
online magazine uncovering activism and politics in Latin America.

Wales Institute for Research into co-operatives

University of Wisconsin Centre for Co-operatives