Is a cooperative right for you?

Are you looking for an alternative business model? Is your business at the succession planning stage?

Or are you looking for the right model for your startup? Do you want it to be equitable, inclusive and empowering for everyone involved? Then the cooperative model might be right for you.

Cooperative and community-owned businesses are run by their members to meet their shared needs. Members have a say in how the cooperative is run, making it a fairer, more collaborative and democratic way of doing business.

Join this one‑hour webinar to find out more about cooperatives, the benefits they offer and how to get a cooperative business off the ground.

Dane Pollard and Rhys Evans are governance advisors at Co-operatives UK and are the first point of contact for all governance and legal enquiries. They support new cooperatives and mutuals through incorporation and advise established organisations on governance arrangements, processes and policies.

This webinar is brought to you by Grow London Local, East Sussex Growth Hub, Kent & Medway Growth Hub, Ambitious Essex Growth Hub and Hertfordshire Growth Hub.

Growth Hubs help businesses and entrepreneurs to start, grow and succeed by unlocking their potential through access to tailored business advice and online resources. Whatever the stage of your business journey, be it the spark of entrepreneurism or ambitions to scale internationally, your local Growth Hub provides access to expert guidance, enabling you to seize new opportunities and overcome any barriers to growth.

The webinar is delivered by Co-operatives UK. As the voice of the UK’s cooperative movement, Co-operatives UK empowers and supports cooperative enterprise with specialised knowledge and expertise, to grow the cooperative economy and create a fairer society.

If you have any questions, please contact us at eventenquiries@growlondonlocal.london.