Contents of the 1987 ESF training programme booklet: -Introduction -Community business in Strathclyde -The 1987 programme, detailing the stages of the training programme -Barlanark Community Enterprises Ltd: A case study (comic strip) -Statistical summary of the 1987 training programme -Conclusion: some lessons learned -Appendix, detailing each training programme with an evaluation of its effectiveness
Audio recording of the interview, Alan Kay.mp3, 2:26:08 hours, 81MB
Transcript of the interview, Alan Kay_Approved Transcript.pdf, 34 pages, 476kB
This item is an interview with Alan Kay recorded by Dr Gillian Murray in November 2014 as part of the CommonHealth history project. It is the oral history of Alan Kay's involvement in the social enterprise movement in Scotland from the late 1980s to mid 2010s. It includes his reflections on the sector and his work with John Pearce and others for Community Business Scotland, Community Enterprise Lothian, and latterly through freelance work. Click on the 'Download audio' link next to the icon above or on the URL link in the metadata section below. This will take you to the Glasgow Caledonian University edShare page where the items can be previewed and downloaded.
Alan’s background is in overseas development and he lived and worked in East Africa and South-east Asia before returning to Scotland in 1988. He joined forces with John Pearce, and worked with community-owned enterprises and social enterprises, firstly for Community Business Scotland as a researcher and then in 1991 for Community Enterprise Lothian, initially as a Training Officer. He moved to Indonesia to work with VSO as their Country Director from 1994 until 1997. On returning to Edinburgh he carried out numerous commissions for a wide range of clients in the statutory, charitable, public and third sector in the UK and abroad. He helped to found the Social Audit Network and continued for many years as an active Board member, acting as its Chair at one stage. In 2009 he became an Associate Lecturer at Glasgow Caledonian University (GCU) and assisted in the establishment of a Diploma and MSc in Social Enterprise. He then went on to become a Senior Visiting Fellow at the Yunus Centre for Social Business and Health at GCU where he advised on the 5-year CommonHealth research project. He was an active tutor with the Social Enterprise Academy for over 10 years and specialised in ‘social impact’ measures, working abroad for them on several occasions. He was also is on the board of the Community Development Journal for over 20 years, much of that time as the CDJ Treasurer. Alan was a long-standing Member of the Institute for Economic Development. Alan retired in 2018.
Audio recording of the interview, Alan Tuffs.mp3, 1:35:36 hours, 128MB
Transcript of the interview, Alan Tuffs_Online Transcript.pdf, 25 pages, 662kB
This item is an interview with Alan Tuffs recorded by Dr Gillian Murray in February 2016 as part of the CommonHealth history project. It is the oral history of Alan Tuff's involvement in setting up and running community enterprises in Scotland from the 1980s to 2010s and his reflections on the sector changes over time. Click on the 'Download audio' link next to the icon above or on the URL link in the metadata section below. This will take you to the Glasgow Caledonian University edShare page where the items can be previewed and downloaded.
Alan Tuffs trained as an architect. He moved from London to West Lothian with his family in the early 1980s. Inspired by a similar initiative in Govan, Glasgow, in 1983 he began work with John Pearce on what would become West Calder Workspace, which opened in 1985. By 1987 West Calder Community Holdings included a workspace, and Employment Opportunities Trust and West Calder Community Enterprises. Alan went on to work in community planning for Rural Forum and the Corrum Trust before starting Small Town and Rural Development Group with friend Colin Roxburgh in 1998, developing the Community Futures Project. Alan retired in 2013.
Colour photograph representing Badaguish, Speyside Trust's outdoor centre offering accommodation and outdoor activities to groups, including those with disabilities and additional support needs.
Community enterprise in Eire, Youth Employment Agency (YEA)
A development unit for Lothian, Community Enterprise Lothian Ltd (CELL)
Community Business London
Opinions: 'federations': history approaches and needs
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CBS development units seminar
The many shades of green, environment rally in Glasgow
Enterprise Development and Advisory Project (EDAP) a success
Women in Community Enterprise (WICE), information provision, training and campaigning
Designprint Ltd , Kilmarnock
Economic Creation Group (ECG) publicity bid
Publications
Conference reports: Tackling unemployment with enterprise; How to lobby effectively
What the parties didn't say!, policies and intentions towards community businesses
Action for Jobs, roadshow in Glasgow
Opinions: ommunity business and private enterprise
Lessons from America? USA social policy; community contracting
Community and Social Enterprise (CASE) training in West Lothian
First local co-operative development agency being established in Edinburgh
Community business researched, University of Glasgow's Training and Employment Research Unit (TERU) research commissioned by the Scottish Development Department (SDD)
Breich Enterprise Action Group (BEAG), a collective community response to unemployment in West Lothian
The struggle for Stonebridge, BBC2 "40 minutes" production
Strathclyde Community Business: review; a new community business for Ruchill; enterprise education in schools; what's it called..Cumbernauld, Cumbernauld Commmunity Business funding; the 1986 vocational training programme; pre-service training for community workers
Second CBS development unit seminar
Community Business Grampian, progress
Community business federations
Goodwill Enterprises Whitburn
Report on community business developments in London
Finance as if people mattered, Industrial Common Ownership Finance Ltd (ICOF) share issue
People in community business, William Currie
The do's and dont's of public speaking
Seminars and conferences
Background to Bootstrap Enterprises, Hackney, London
A decade of community enterprise, achievements of the movement in Scotland in new publication "The First Ten Years"
CBS incorporation
Opinions: community business and the social economy
Lessons from America: the Watts Labour Community Action Committee
Scottish Homes: a new agency for housing in Scotland', new government document
Development unit news: ACEHI; Lothian and Tayside; management trainee scheme in Strathclyde
Co-operative Wholesale Society (CWS) membership campaign
SCB, looking back to look ahead, review conclusions and proposals
Autumn/Winter training programme
Social auditing and community benefit
Convention '87 special: organising; seminar 'Local authorities and community enterprise'; programme; raiders of the lost ark, experience of community business; CBS Secretary's report for 1987
Social audit checklist
Development funding
SCB annual report 1986/87
Enterprise Development and Advisory Project (EDAP) and 'the Heineken effect'
Drumchapel Community Business Ltd
Working together: joint CBS/ACEHI meeting
What the parties said to ACEHI, regarding their policies for community business
Its no - ah problem, Park Area in Garvel Road , Barlanark, landscaped by Barlanark Community Enterprises
Community enterprise, a live issue on the regional agenda
Lessons from down under, re-discovering community business in Western Australia
Development unit news: hello from Tayside's Community Enterprise Support Team; moving forward with Community Enterprise Lothian (CEL); Shirley Grant takes the chair of ACE-HI; Central Region's new Community Enterprise Support Unit
Strathclyde news: community business dinner in Glasgow; Strathclyde Credit Union Development Agency; Prince Charles opens Greater Easterhouse Business Centre and War Road Business Centre; training programme; community business team for Easterhouse; Convention '87 report: setting our sights higher; community enterprise the next ten years; summary of the 1987 convention; Happy birthday Theatre Seanachaidh; Possil goes full steam ahead, Possil Community Business; Goodwood Designs, project of Port Glasgow Association of Tenants Groups Ltd; SCB's Manpower Services Commission Agency for enterprise projects; development funding
National news: making and selling news, community newsagents
Credit unions, truth in lending with no hidden cost: Greenock East Credit Union
News from Co-op movement: Scottish Co-operative Forum; Co-op Development Agency for Edinburgh opens
Craigsfarm update
Solway Community Business - filling the gap
Publications
Ecumenical Development Co-operative Society investment bank
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
