Co-operative and community business support including conversion to worker owned

Are you looking to start or grow a co-operative or community business? Do you want to convert your existing business into a democratic business that is owned by the workers, users, customers or community?

We have decades of experience and provide support on behalf of national bodies like Co-operatives UK and the Community Shares Unit. Among our team, we have Licensed Community Shares Practitioners.

Get in touch to discuss how we can help. 

We deliver the following support and services:

• Advice on legal and organisational structures.
• Feasibility studies and market planning.
• Business Planning.
• Financial planning.
• Community finance support, including drafting community share offers.
• Advice on grant and loan finance.
• Governance audit and advice on governance “health”.
• Facilitated planning for start-up or organisational change.
• Advice on measuring and reporting social impact.
• Delivery of training on all of the above.

We specialise in the following areas:

Worker co-operatives, Community Businesses, Community Share Offers, Community Agriculture, Community Food Enterprise, Community Energy, Housing Co-operatives, Community Land Trust, Co-operative shared workspaces and hackspaces, Employee Ownership and Succession, Worker buyouts, Community buyouts.

How we work:

We will not work with organisations which exist primarily for the creation of private profit, consolidate the ownership of assets into private hands, adversely affect the natural environment, or exploit people and other animals.

We provide support through support programmes and as a direct consultancy service.

We are providers on programmes that may be able to provide two to six days of support for a commitment fee of £100.