Community investment using IPS legislation

Research and development of a good practice guide focusing on community investment using Industrial and Provident Society (IPS) legal formats. This work has been commissioned by Co-operatives^UK to coincide with the Treasury Review of IPS legislation. The publication was launched at the Financial Services Authority by Ian Wright MP, Under-Parliamentary Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government.

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Baker Brown associates

Serving the social economy

Current projects

Organising and facilitating a public consultation process for Bristol City Council in the St Judes neighbourhood of inner-city Bristol, to engage the community in improvements to a local park and green open space

St Matthias Park improvement project public consultation

Community Shares Programme

Community Shares is a two-year action research programme funded by the Office of the Third Sector and managed by the Department of Communities and Local Government. Baker Brown Associates are the lead consultants to this programme, working for Co-operatives^UK and the Development Trusts Association. Further details of this programme are available at: www.communityshares.org.uk

 

Community investment in Community Supported Agriculture

Investigation into the scope for community investment in community supported agriculture (CSA) through the production of a thinkpiece on the topic, tested at two workshops with CSA practitioners.

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