This file contains 10 items:

• "Community business news" issue 6, November 1985, containing cover article titled 'It’s ACE in the Highlands and Islands' reporting on the inaugural meeting, 1985
• Map artwork, location of community co-operatives, ACE-HI, 1989
• 2 sheets of artwork, ACE-HI logo and design for ‘I love ACE-HI’ banner
• 3 black and white photograhps including assembly at Co Chomunn Stafainn when ACE-HI was established abd ACE-HI staff
• 3 items of artwork including: photographs of a perspective sketch of proposed and existing shop; hand drawn sketch of 'Community arts' header for leaflet or newsletter

This file contains 5 items:

• "Highlands and Islands community enterprise", ACE-HI journal, issue 2, May 1986
• "Highlands and Islands community enterprise", ACE-HI journal, issue 4, June 1987
• "Highlands and Islands community enterprise news", ACE-HI newspaper, issue 2, Summer 1989
• "Highlands and Islands community enterprise news", ACE-HI newspaper, issue 4, Autumn 1990
• ACE-HI annual review 1990

This series consists of 5 files:

• Reports on specific community enterprises in the Highlands and Islands, 1980-2003
• Stationary, leaflets, photographs and newspaper cuttings of community enterprises in the Highlands and Islands, 1980-1991
• Association of Community Enterprise in the Highlands and Islands (ACE-HI) articles, artwork and photographs, 1985-1989
• Association of Community Enterprise in the Highlands and Islands (ACE-HI) publications, 1986-1990
• Information manual on community enterprises, 2002

The Association of Community Enterprises in the Highlands and Islands (ACE-HI) was established in 1986, with HIDB support, to provide support for community enterprises. It offered help and advice and sharing skills and knowledge for community co-operatives and community businesses across the region. It closed in 1996.

This series consists of 2 files:

• Papers and speaker notes for presentations delivered by HIDB representatives , 1979-2010
• Conference programmes, articles and workshop papers, 1986-2020

This file contains 5 items:

• CBS Annual Convention 1986 programme, Community Business Scotland, 1986
• CBS Annual Convention 1987 leaflet with programme and booking form, Community Business Scotland, 1987
• "Gathering", issue 2, spring 2006, the news magazine of HISEZ, Highlands and Islands Social Enterprise Zone, including details of speakers at the HISEZ second annual conference at Strathpeffer on 20 April 2006
• Leaflet, 'A history of social enterprise in Scotland', Glasgow Caledonian University (GCU), 2019
• Mapping community co-ops workshop papers, GCU, 2020

This file contains 10 items:

• Community co-operatives: a guide, November 1977, HIDB [known within the community as 'The manual']
• Community co-operatives: facts and figures, HIDB information sheets, August 1980
• Assistance to community co-operatives, HIDB four fold financial assistance leaflet, 1981
• Community co-operatives seals, HIDB sheet with black and white illustrations of the seals, May 1982
• What are community cooperatives, HIDB information sheet, c1980s
• Community co-operatives: general description, HIDB sheet with Community co-operatives: chronology of scheme, on reverse side, c1983
• Community co-operatives, draft conditions of grants and loan aid, HIDB, version A3 using 'Model rules, HIDB 1979' and version A4 using 'Model rules, HIDB 1983'
• Community co-operative model rules, 2nd edition, HIDB pamphlet, 1983
• Community co-operatives, photocopy of computer printouts with statistics on turnover and funding, 1985, and employment and turnover, January 1987
• HIDB bi-lingual letter head in English and Gaelic, undated

This file contains 4 items:

• Election of management committee, HIDB, August 1982
• The setting up process, HIDB, August 1982
• Community survey, HIDB, August 1982
• Appointment of Manager, HIDB, August 1982

This series consists of 6 files:

• HIDB guidelines and general information on community co-operatives, 1977-1987
• Progress reports on the Community Co-operatives Scheme by the HIDB Community Development Division, 1979-1986
• 'North 7' HIDB news quarterly, 1969-1970
• 'North 7', The Highlands and Islands magazine, HIDB 1970s, 1971-1979
• 'North 7' The Highlands and Islands magazine, HIDB 1980s, 1980-1981
• HIDB information sheets on setting up and running community co-operatives, 1982

The Highlands and Islands Development Board (HIDB) was the Government's regional development agency for the Highlands and Islands of Scotland from 1965 to 1991. It was established to help improve the economic and social conditions in the region and enable it to make an effective contribution to the national economy. The HIDB's Community Co-operatives Scheme ran from 1977 to 1989, offering support and funding for the establishment of community co-operatives across the Highlands and Islands. Inspired by community co-operatives in the Irish Gaeltacht, the HIDB scheme was piloted initially in the Western Isles and within the first year of operation four co-operatives (known locally in the Gaelic form, Co-Chomuinn) had been set up at Ness, Pairc, Eriskay and Vatersay. Within two years the scheme was extended to other areas and by 1984 there were nineteen community co-operatives trading in the region. The scheme ultimately enabled the creation of over a hundred self-sustaining community owned enterprises throughout the Highlands and Islands. Articles on the scheme and other HIDB work were published in 'North 7'. This was published by the HIDB as a quarterly newspaper from 1967 and in 1971 changed to magazine format.

This series consists of 2 files:

• Reports on on social economy, community development and land ownership in the Highlands and Islands, 1992-2003
• Report on Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE) management structures, 1992

Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE) was the successor body to HIDB. It was established in April 1991 with headquarters in Inverness and the HIDB local area offices were replaced by Local Enterprise Companies (LECs). HIE provided strategic leadership to its network, support services to the LECs and implemented wider Highlands and Islands programmes and major projects.

This file contains 1 item:

• Information manual, 'All you ever needed to know about community enterprises, published by Community Enterprise Lochaber, originally in ring binder, 2002

This file contains 1 item:

• Cape Gael Associates Co-operative leaflet, c1980s

This series consists of 2 files:

• Reports on other co-operatives, 1973
• Leaflets on other co-operatives, c1980s

This file contains 4 newspapers:

• Summer 1969, issue 6, annual report special
• Autumn 1969, issue 7
• July 1970, issue 9, annual report special
• Special issue, c1970

This file contains 1 folder:

• Issue 37, January/February 1980 to issue 47, September/October 1981

This file contains 3 folders:

• Issue 10, August 1971 to issue 17, December 1973 (folder 1)
• Issue 18, July 1974 to issue 27, Nov/Dec 1977 (folder 2)
• Issue 28, March/April 1978 to issue 36, November/December 1979 (folder 3)

This file contains 9 items:

• 'Community co-operatives: a Highlands and Islands experiment', paper by R J Storey, HIDB, presented at the 5th International Seminar on Marginal Regions, Trinity College, Dublin, 30 July-4 August 1979
• 'Community enterprise in the Highlands and Islands', paper by Roy N Pedersen, HIDB, presented at the New Economic Agenda, conference of the Findhorn Foundation, 13-20 October 1984
• 'The role of a development agency in the arts in rural and peripheral areas', paper by Dr John Watt, Social Development Officer, HIDB, presented at the International Symposium on Arts Provision in Rural Areas, May 1985
• 'Community enterprise in the Highlands and Islands: a decade of evolution', paper by R N Pedersen presented at the Ninth International Seminar on Marginal Regions, 5-11 July 1987, Skye and Lewis, 8 June 1987
• 'Community enterprise in the Highlands and Islands: into the second decade', paper by Dr John A Watt, Senior Social Development Officer, HIDB, presented at the International Conference on Rural Entrepreneurship, Silsoe College, Cranfield Institute of Technology, September 1988
• Speaker notes of R N Pedersen for OECD Conference, Inverness, typed and pasted onto index cards, 12 May 1988
• Speaker notes of R N Pedersen on social development and community enterprise, typed and pasted onto index cards, c 1988
• 'Social development and community enterprise in the Highlands and Islands', paper by R N Pedersen presented at the Irish North West Community Development Institute Conference: On problems of peripheral areas of Europe, May 1989, 26 April 1989
• 'Community enterprise in the Highlands and Islands', speaker notes of R Pedersen for presentation on the HIDB community co-operatives experiment, c2010

This file contains 3 reports:

• Community co-operatives review of progress, staff paper 3339, Policy and Research Division, for Board meeting on 27 February 1979, File ref PRH/4/2 HIDB, January 1979
• Community co-operatives progress report to November 1984, R N Pedersen, 15 January 1985
• Community enterprise progress report 1985, R N Pedersen/HG/FM, 25 March 1986

This file contains 1 report:

• 'Managers and management committees', report by J A Watt, HIE (based on HIDB Management Unit Paper, 1982), 6 February 1992

This file contains 6 reports:

• ‘Community and Economy, A Social Development Strategy for the Highlands and Islands of Scotland’, HIE, c1992
• ‘An Assessment of the Social Economy in the Highlands and Islands: Summary report’, HIE, ERM Economics, London, November 1996
• ‘Inhabited islands of Scotland, population 5 or more in 1991’, HIE map, copyright Wendy Price, Cartographic Services, 1997
• ‘Highland and Islands Community Confidence Survey – Wave 3’, research proposal, System 3, Edinburgh for HIE, 28 August 2001
• ‘Community Land Ownership’, HIE, c2003
• Part 3 of the Land Reform (Scotland) Act 2003, ‘The crofting community right to buy – your questions answered’, c2003

This file contains 1 item:

• 'The Guide to Co-operatives at Mondragon in the Basque Country', December 1973

This file contains 3 reports:

• '5000 Years on – Papay Looks to the future', special pamphlet, reprinted from "The Orcadian", 17 July 1980
• 'Co Chomunn Nis, its birth, life and death' confidential report by R Pedersen requested by ACE-HI, 11 September 1986 (closed due to data protection for 70 years from 1986)
• 'Assynt Crofters Trust, The next generation', report of the ‘Fling in the Fank’ conference, Stoer, North Assynt, 28-30 August 2003

This collection is part of the Social Enterprise Collection Scotland. The collection covers records kept by Roy Pedersen while working for the Highlands and Islands Development Board and its successor Highlands and Islands Enterprise from 1971 to 2001. The records have been arranged into 5 series reflecting these and other organisations Roy Pedersen worked with and includes:

• Highlands and Islands Development Board (HIDB) publications, reports and information sheets relating to the Community Co-operatives Scheme, 1969-1987
• Conference and workshop papers, speaker notes and articles relating to social development and community co-operatives, 1979-2020
• Community enterprises in the Highlands and Islands reports, publications, photographs and miscellaneous material, 1980-2003
• Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE) reports on social economy, community development, land ownership and HIE management structures, 1992-2003
• Miscellaneous reports and leaflets, c1980s

This file contains 19 items:

• Papay Community Co-operative Ltd commemorative cover addressed to David Lea, Manager, Papay Community Co-operative, 1980
• Teachd ar Tìr notecard with image of Peteran's Croft, Mingarry, containing hand written message from Duncan Macrae to Roy Pedersen on funds raised, 30 October 1981
• Photocopy of hand-drawn Teachd ar Tìr seal, c1982
• Island of Vatersay Community Co-operative (Co Chommuun Bhatasaidh Ltd) leaflet, 1982
• 4 black and white photographs of community co-operatives including, Co Chomunn Iochdair; Co Chomunn Nis Snack Bar; Rothesay; and Co Chomunn Scalpaigh Upholstery Project, c1980s
• 3 colour photographs by Alex Gillespie Photography, Fort William, showing construction of a petrol station and a fuel tanker travelling to Strontian, with attached note from photographer, c1980s
• 4 newspaper cuttings regarding community co-operatives in the Highlands and Islands, 1988-1991
• Timespan, Helmsdale, leaflet, 1990
• Bute Enterprises Ltd leaflet, undated
• 2 Co Chomunn Stafainn Ltd (Staffin Community Co-operative) leaflets, undated