Introductory Pack on Funding and Finance: Guide to Trading

This guide provides a starting point for voluntary and community organizations that want to generate income through trading activities. It was produced by the Sustainable Funding Project of NVCO for the Finance Hub, and published in 2006  DOWNLOAD

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Serving the social economy

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The following documents, all written by Jim Brown, can be downloaded in pdf format. To open files in this format you need Adobe Acrobat Reader. If you do not possess this software, you can download it free by clicking here.

 

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The social enterprise numbers game

The government claims there are at least 55,000 social enterprises in the UK. But are their figures to be believed? This article scrutinizes the evidence used to arrive at this estimate. A version of this article first appeared in the Social Enterprise Magazine, Issue No. 57, May 2007 DOWNLOAD

This article, published in Society Guardian on 12 September 2007, was written in response to the government’s consultation document which proposed the creation of a £20 million risk capital fund for social enterprises. DOWNLOAD

Fatal attraction

Community investment using IPS legislation

A practical guide to using Industrial and Provident Society (IPS) legislation to raise equity capital from communities. The publication identifies 60 societies that have together raised over £47million from their members. DOWNLOAD

(Clear Print version) Published 2008.

Practitioners Guide to Community Shares

Published in July 2011, this is the latest and most comprehensive guide to community shares, produced by the Community Shares programme, a joint initiative between Co-operatives UK and Locality, funded by the Cabinet Office and the Department of Communities and Local Government. DOWNLOAD

This report provides a summary of the findings from the first year of the Community Shares Programme, a two-year action-research project. The report was published in April 2010. DOWNLOAD

The Community Shares Programme: One Year On

This short publication is aimed at people who are contemplating purchasing community shares and is written in non-financial language. Published 2010. DOWNLOAD

Investing in Community Shares