Issue 25 content:

• Cavalry comics and conferences!, Government launched urban development programme by way of glossy comics and press conferences instead of expected white paper
• National community business steering group elected
• A tremendous tonic: CBI visit to Govan Workspace
• Training for employment, new Government white paper
• Jobs for Raploch, Raploch Community Enterprises Ltd, Stirling, progress
• Scottish Development Agency: out of step?
• Action for Jobs (again!), lunch in Glasgow
• Success breeds success, Quintin Perry's personal reflections of his association with the community business movement
• CB News celebrates silver jubilee
• Strathclyde news: training packs; trainee managers programme; the five stages in setting up a community business; training for community workers; 'the boys done terrific!' SCB five-a-side team; development funding
• Communities at work: the contribution of community business, summary of the report by the Training and Employment Resource Unit (TERU), Glasgow University
• Ethical investment
• Local authorities and community enterprise: how community business can be used as part of a local economic development strategy
• Community work and community business: some sources of ambivalence - nine propositions
• News from the Co-op Movement: Bannockburn workers take initiative over privatisation at Bannockburn Bus Depot; national network of local CDA's conference '88; Coventry conference; food co-ops seminar
• Credit union news
• Community enterprise in Shropshire
• Publications