Issue 8 content:

• Money is the message, study of the needs of community business in Strathclyde by the Planning Exchange for CBS
• Publications
• Community business training, in Strathclyde and Lothian
• Levi Strauss and Co support for community based economic development in Scotland
• Link up to Europe, series of seminars on local employment initiatives
• Development in Central Region, first meeting of Management Committee of Community Business Central
• Denny Bonnybridge Project, community business, courses, seminars and publicity
• LEAP case study series
• CIRT community business monitoring project
• The Roughcast kids: Forgewood could be miles better, on Forgewood Enterprises gardening project and enterprise block with micro workspaces, LEAP survey on unemployment, Community Organised Jobs Action Counselling Service (COJAC)
• Off the peg solutions, on Bathgate's growth and decline
• Federation of Ayrshire Community Enterprises (FACE) formed
• VPP knitting project, Voluntary Project Programme organised by the Manpower Services Commission for unemployed people to develop skills through a constructive activity
• A government regional policy for community business? on research into the low impact of regional policy in Scotland
• Can the rules change?, seminar on the Enterprise Allowance Scheme
• Mohair and pure wool handknits from HAZE, Home Production Sales Organisation, Glasgow
• HPSO grant approved, urban aid grant for the 'second tier' community business
• Jobs Action Group (JAG) and Provanhall Holdings Ltd, Easterhouse feature on Radio 4 series