This file contains 2 folders of a range of documents including the following examples:

• Correspondence, meeting agendas and minutes relating to the operations of ICOM and ICOF
• Copies of loan applications to ICOF by workers' co-ops
• Drafts of an ICOM pamphlet on 'A Scottish Mondragon'
• Reports and correspondence with regional councils on co-operative solutions to unemployment
• Correspondence relating to the Industrial Common Ownership Act (1976) and the establishing of the SCDC

This file contains 3 folders of a range of documents including the following examples:

• Correspondence, meeting agendas and minutes relating to the operations of ICOM, ICOF and SCDC
• Pamphlet on the Industrial Common Ownership Act (1976) by Manuela Sykes
• Copy of the revised ICOM constitution
• Notes on the history of ICOF

This file contains 4 folders of a range of documents including the following examples:

• Correspondence, meeting agendas and minutes relating to the operations of ICOM and ICOF
• Correspondence relating to and a draft of an article by John Pearce for 'Co-operative News'
• Letter to James Callaghan PM with a proposal for British Leyland to be run as a co-operative from MPs and representatives of the co-operative movement

This file contains 3 folders of a range of documents including the following examples:

• Correspondence, meeting agendas and minutes relating to the operations of ICOM, ICOF and SCDC
• ICOF Annual Report and Accounts, December 1977
• World Conference: development and industrial cooperatives, preliminary programme 2, June 1978
• Appeal from Beechwood College for funding from ICOM Companies and individual members, September 1978
• ‘First of May’ Edinburgh Books Collective Newsletter No.7, 12 August 1978
• Article by Rita Rhodes 'Worker co-operatives and the unions', September 1978

This file contains 2 folders of a range of documents including the following examples:

• Correspondence, meeting agendas and minutes relating to the operations of ICOM, ICOF, and SCDC
• Sample chapter ‘How employees can take over ownership without paying a cent’ authorship unclear, not dated
• Article by Rita Rhodes ‘Worker’ co-operatives and the unions’, September 1978
• Copy of Industrial Common Ownership Act 1976, chapter 78, November 1978
• 'SCDC News', January 1979
• ICOM newsletter, February 1979

This file contains 2 folders of a range of documents including the following examples:

• Correspondence, meeting agendas and notes, financial statements and newsletters relating to the operations of ICOM, ICOF and the SCDC
• Conference programmes & reports
• Discussion papers on the state of the co-operative movement
• Printed pamphlet ICOF information for loan applicants
• Printed pamphlet featuring three workers co-ops that were founded in nineteenth century: Equity Shoes (Leicester); Walsall Locks; Leicester Printers
• Open University, Co-operatives Research Unit: correspondence, agendas and joining forms for 'Commonwork Seminars – The role of advisor to Co-operatives' September 1979
• SCDC Clydeside Co-operatives Development Project: description of project and job description for two development officer posts; press release for launch of project, August 1979

This file contains 3 folders of a range of documents including the following examples:

• Correspondence, meeting agendas and minutes, financial statements, newsletters, relating to the operations of ICOM, ICOF, and SCDC
• Conference programmes and reports
• Employ Limited: A case study discussing experience of a workers’ co-operative started in 1975 out of a redundancy situation, November 1979
• Prospectus, correspondence and report for British Trimark, January 1980
• Caversham Closures Co-operative Ltd Statement of affairs and report to creditors, November 1980
• Paper, 'The Clydeside Project: Entrepreneurial initiatives in establishing workers’ co-operatives', July 1980

This file contains 3 folders of a range of documents including the following examples:

• Correspondence, meeting agendas and minutes, financial statements, newsletters and reports relating to the operations of ICOM and ICOF
• ICOF Annual Report and Accounts, December 1977, 1980 and 1981
• Correspondence regarding the future funding of ICOF
• Correspondence and related accounts on the failure of Caversham Closures, December 1980
• Prospectus supporting application to ICOF for development loan for Craigton Bakery, Glasgow, October 1981

This file contains 3 folders of a range of documents including the following examples:

• Correspondence, meeting notes, newsletters and reports relating to the operations of ICOM, ICOF and SCDC
• Changing form of ICOF
• Discussion paper by ICOF on ‘The establishment and operation of local loan funds for worker co-operatives’ and another on ‘Notes on the operation of local ICOF funds’, January 1982
• Paper on EEC finance for Co-op development and worker co-ops
• Draft by John Pearce of proposals for the development of ICOF, March 1982
• Draft of proposed policy for ICOF consultancy work, September 1982
• Memorandum and Articles of Association of ICOF, April 1973
• Paper on EEC finance for Co-op development and worker co-ops
• Printed pamphlet ‘Financing of worker Co-operatives: Some practical proposals’, ICOF
• ‘The future of ICOF Ltd: Company Structure, Sources and Applications of Funds’, John Berry, October 1985
• Paper, ‘One Million Pounds for Common Ownership’, John Pearce
• ICOF: The Next Steps, Corporate Plan 1987-1997, John Berry, January 1988
• First draft ‘Methods of financing worker co-operatives in the UK: A study for the SME task force of the European Commission’ by Nigel Mason, May 1988

This file contains 1 folder:

• Meeting paper, 'A proposal for a pilot Commonwealth Exchange Programme “an Investment in People” (Zimbabwe, Scotland, Australia)'
• Constitution of the Commonwealth Association for Local Action and Economic Development (COMMACT), one copy not dated and one version revised 1999
• Proposal for Local Development Practitioners Association
• Typescript and handwritten notes on programme for workshop on development of small and medium scale enterprise & projects
• Leaflets on COMMACT vision and actions
• Proposed Constitution of the International Association of Local Development Practitioners
• Paper presented at the International commonwealth conference on Local Economic Development, Goa, 21-28 September 1988, 'Local Employment Initiatives, Grameen Bank’s Experience', by Mohammed Emdadul Haque
• Introduction to COMMACT with photocopies of extracts from 'CB News': 'Think Global – Act Local' by Ingrid Salomonsen; 'Working for Common Wealth' by John Pearce