Issue 27 content:

• City strategy for community business, from Glasgow District Council
• Skill survey in Ferguslie Park
• Trusts bid for new role, as local points of delivery for training and small business advice
• Tayside Community Enterprise Support Team
• Finding other funds, for co-operatives
• Working for common wealth, conference in Goa, India
• Convention '88 overview
• In the marketplace, promoting a community business without spending vast sums of money
• Valleymedia - what does it do?
• Selling the secret of success, seminar on marketing and sales
• Making your business visible, Touch Point Productions for promotional videos and publications
• Thanks, Glen Buchanan, outgoing CB News editor
• CE-UK plans seminar
• Alloa's success, Alloa Community Enterprise in fourth year of trading
• Community Enterprise Support Unit (CESU) is one year old!
• Raploch revisited, Raploch Community Enterprise, Stirling looks back on first year of trading
• Community enterprise Scotland?, CBI Chairman talks about how the new Enterprise Scotland will help local communities
• Fellowships in employment, German Marshall Foundation fellowship study tours in USA
• Report from conference looking at research by Community Economy Ltd (CEL) into the development of local enterprises on 13 housing estates
• Co-op Forum, overview of Scottish co-operative Forum second annual conference, in Glasgow
• Lessons from America?, report from the German Marshall Fellowship on community development in the US
• Focus on Govan's food co-op
• Official opening at Ware Road, Easterhouse, SCB area office
• Towards the next five years, John Pearce's talk at the SCB AGM
• What's wrong with Employment Training?
• CB reviews
• Whose business is the community? Can community business fill the gap left by the Community Programme?