These contain details of all cash transactions. Debit (Dr) and credit (Cr) transactions were recorded in separate books until 1973/74 when both were recorded in the same book on opposite pages. Details include date of transaction; description; amount (with columns for different categories of transaction); and monthly totals.
Scottish Education Department questionnaire on college catering services, December 1972 - September 1973
Enquiry on charges for staff and student meals across the Scottish Colleges, June 1973 - August 1973
Note of meetings of the Special Sub-Committee on College Catering Services, 23 July 1973; Refectory Committee meetings on 11 February 1976, 19 May 1976
Review of refectory prices, September 1973
Arrangements for sales of butter at reduced prices to non-profit making organisations, November 1973
Deficit for central catering facilities and halls of residence, March 1974 - February 1985
Grading of residential staff and charges for accommodation, April 1974 - December 1974
Corporation of the City of Glasgow, Environmental Health Department report on premises inspection, 17 April 1975
Memos on refectory costs, January 1976
Students’ Union catering, June 1976
Results of College catering provision survey, May 1976; results of refectory survey, November 1977
Hospitality for visitors, May 1976 - September 1981
Cleaning the refectory, November 1977
Student complaints about catering services, 1977
Building work on new refectory, September 1985 - November 1985
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
Strathclyde news: Eurotrain on the rails, Garnock Workspace; SCB under review; Barrowfield video; Clyde Foods stops trading; training courses; training packs; Barry organises SCB Library; development funding; staff exchange with Department of Employment and Training in Western Australia
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: ACE-HI; 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/ACE-HI meeting
What the parties said to ACE-HI, 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
Removing a blanket of disadvantage, Tony Worthington MP reflects on recent Scottish Office sponsored evaluation and the future of community business
Calvay regeneration, Calvay Housing Co-operative, Easterhouse, sets up sister community business trading companies
Watching the weather, nationwide community business Weather Watchers Network
Community business works!, impressions on Scotland from Simon White, department of Employment and Training, Western Australia
Innovation in the cashless economy local economic trading systems (LETS)
A special type of credit union for the third sector, on the community credit system in Vancouver, Canada
Strathclyde news: Employment Training Scheme not for SCB; second trainee managers programme; major growth in real jobs; good Crief, residential training weekend for community business directors; Strathclyde social trends gets worse; new Easterhouse sub-team; employment trends show no improvement; SCB lifts the first community business cup in five-a-side football; food co-ops conference
Affinity of fraternity of ethnic loan clubs
Credit Union Development Agency for Lothian
Working for common wealth, conference in Goa
What's new in West Calder? West Calder Workspace Ltd; West Calder Employment Opportunities Trust Ltd; West Calder Community Enterprises Ltd
Community business and community enterprise, the evolving model
Basquing in co-operation? National Network of Local CDA's conference '88, overview
CBS annual report, 1990, feature articles: 'The story so far: a preview of the CBS directory'; 'From the 70's to the 90's'; 'From the third to the first sector', how community business can become a more significant force in the national economy'
CBS annual report, 1991, feature articles: 'Award winners'
CBS annual report and accounts, 1992, folded pamphlet opening out to a poster 'in the business of communities' about community business in Scotland
CBS annual report, 1992, smaller folded pamphlet without poster
CBS annual report, 1992-93
CBS annual report, 1993-94
CBS annual report, 1994-95
CBS annual report, 1995-96
CBS annual report, 1996-97
CBSN annual report, 1998-99
CBSN annual report, 1999-2000
CBSN annual report, 2000-2001
CBSN annual report, 2002-2003
CBSN annual report, 2003-2004
CBSN annual report, 2004-2005
CBSN annual report, 2005-2006
CBSN annual report, 2006-2007
Annual reports included the Convenor's report; Director's/Chief Executive's report; feature articles; CBS membership list; CBS accounts; AGM minutes; Board of Directors; CED report and accounts (1989-1993 reports); SCEIF Chairman's report (1989-1991 reports); advertising for community businesses and related organisations (1989-1991 reports). The annual reports for 1987-1988 and 2001-2002 have not been retained.
A decade of community enterprise, CBS annual convention 1987 programme
Annual convention 1988, Raploch, programme
CBS annual convention 1990 report
National Convention of Community Businesses, 20-21 August 1993, Edinburgh, pack folder containing programme; convention leaflet; AGM notification letter; AGM agenda; minutes of the 1992 AGM; list of Board of Directors; election nomination form; delegates list; introductory letter; fringe meeting details; exhibitor details; luncheon voucher; invitation to the Lord Provost's reception; CBS annual report 1992-1993; leaflet for book by John Pearce, 'At the heart of the community economy'; Community Enterprise Support Unit (CR) Ltd leaflet, 'The Community Credit Union Handbook'; leaflet for COMMACT Europe Annual Conference 1993
National Convention of Community Businesses, 19-20 August 1994, Aberdeen, pack folder containing programme; workshop programme; introductory letter; workshop outlines, fringe meeting details; memo from the New Economics Foundation regarding the 'Measuring Social Wealth' fringe meeting; order form for the CBS Directory 1994; delegates list; Community Economic Development newsletter from Grampian Council, 'CED News', vol 1 no. 1, August 1994
National Convention of Community Businesses, Dumfries, 20-21 October 1995, programme
National Convention of Community Businesses, Stirling, 29-30 November 1996, pack including: programme; introductory letter, workshop outlines; delegate list; 'New Sector' magazine, issue 26, November 1996; delegates list; CBS annual report 1995-96
Policy into Practice, National Convention of Community Businesses, Liverpool, 5-6 September 1997, programme
Outline plans for the convention, some with handwritten notes, 31 March 1985- 19 August 1985 (folder 1)
Letters to/from invited guests, speakers, organisers and suppliers , June 1985-12 November 1985 (folder 1)
Draft letter to possible stand holders and replies, 13 August 1985-11 November 1985 (folder 1)
Draft letter to all community businesses in Scotland regarding the convention, 13 August 1985, 4 October 1985, and 8 November 1985 (folder 1)
List of invited exhibitors (folder 1)
Letters to potential sponsors of the convention and replies, 10 September 1985-18 November 1985 (folder 1)
Draft flyer for the convention (folder 1)
Notes from meetings of the Convention 85 Steering Group, 28 August 1985 - 19 September 1985 (folder 1)
Floor plan for conference room at Elderpark Workspace, 8 October 1985 (folder 1)
Press release, 17 October 1985 (folder 1)
List guests for the convention lunch including invited guests, speakers, judges, exhibitors and other individuals (folder 1)
Mailing list and letter to Labour Group secretary in regional and district councils in Scotland inviting representatives to the convention and lunch, 6 November 1985 (folder 1)
Mailing list and letter to Councillors inviting them to the convention and lunch, 6 November 1985 (folder 1)
Outlines of convention workshops and information for exhibitors (folder 1)
Press invitation to the official opening with programme of events, 13 November 1985 (folder 1)
Mailing list and letter requesting organisations to promote the convention, 14 November 1985 (folder 1)
Final convention programme and registration form, annotated with handwritten notes (folder 1)
Accommodation list for the hotel (folder 1)
Convention 85 information pack, detailing content of each workshop, debate, seminar, programme and general information on arrangements (folder 2)
Copies of papers and talks delivered at the conference, including draft speech notes of John Prescott MP (folder 2)
Report of the convention debate, 17 December 1985 (folder 2)
Report on media coverage, including photocopies of press cuttings (folder 2)
Memos, report on the convention and copy of presentation by David J Weston delivered to 'The Other Economic Summit' Conference on 'Green economics: the community use of currency, 27 November 1985 (folder 2)
Letters regarding feedback on the convention, 16 December 1985 and 18 December 1985 (folder 2)
Convention 85 information pack with handwritten notes from the convention on the reverse (folder 2)
The 1985 Convention was held in Elderpark Workspace, Govan, Glasgow on the 21-23 November 1985
CBS, 'Submission to the Secretary of State for Scotland' with proposals for a programme of funding to support community businesses in Scotland, c1981
CBS, 'Summary of points in submission to Scottish Office', urging the Secretary of State for Scotland to establish a programme of funding to assist the establishment and development of community business in Scotland, 15 October 1981
'Suggestions for simple system to expedite payments of urban aid money to community enterprise groups', 17 November 1982 -Booth S and Pitt D, 'Community enterprise: lessons, issues and options', report prepared for Strathclyde Regional Council, University of Strathclyde, December 1982
CBS, 'Report of consultation on community employment initiatives', Glasgow, 4 February 1983 -Two chapters of unnamed report on community business and factors affecting choice of products or services forming the basis of their trading activities, including chapter 6 on methodology of survey sent to groups on LEAP's circulation list and chapter 8, an introduction to the project aiming to determine if community business can be effective in providing permanent employment opportunities, date stamped 20 March 1983
CBS, 'Proposal to the Scottish Development Agency' for support for community businesses, June 1983
CBS document 'What is a community business' with the definition on page 1 and subsequent pages describing named community businesses in Scotland
Community Business Central, 'Progress report November 1983 - August 1984'
'Manifesto 85' lobbying campaign documents including -- Photocopy of article 'Eleven point plan for common ownership', "ABC News and views", Winter 1984 --Handwritten and typescript notes from CBS lobbying seminars held on 27 November 1984, 31 January 1985 and 31 December 1985 -- photocopy of page from 'Third Sector' magazine with dates for the Scottish political party conferences circled -- draft manifesto with letter, 8 February 1985 -- draft manifesto -- letter regarding next meeting of the Lobbying Group, 15 March 1985-- second draft of manifesto with letter, 26 March 1985 -- handwritten notes from CBS manifesto meeting on 3 May 1985 -- draft of leaflet 'Community business is working' --quotation for printing of A3 leaflets 'Community business works' -- versions 1 - 5 of press release and invitation to the press conference on 17 June 1985 -- final draft manifesto -- Strathclyde Community Business Ltd circular letter regarding press conference to launch the manifesto, 5 June 1985 -- draft and printed manifesto leaflet -- circular letter sent with the manifesto
CBS response to 'Scottish Enterprise' white paper on integration of the enterprise development functions of the SDA and the Training Agency and decentralisation of services to a more local level through the creation of Local Agencies, March 1989
Response of CBS to the 'Review of Urban Programme', May 1991
CBS handouts on community action and local development and the community business development process
Memos and correspondence regarding financial issues and boosting funds through membership fees, February 1984
Handwritten notes of the membership-finance group meeting on 22 April [1985?]
Membership Income targets 1985/86, 24 April 1985
CBS financial summaries 1984/85 to 1985/86, April 1985 - August 1985
Lists of membership fees received December 1984 - November 1985 (part removed for data protection)
Request for funding from the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation
Draft and final letters to local authorities, advisory agencies, charitable organisations and individuals regarding membership of CBS, June 1985 (part removed for data protection)
Letter regarding cost of the membership drive and reduction in distribution of CB News, 12 June 1985
Donation correspondence and background information from the City Design Co-operative to CBS , Glasgow, 23 September 1985 - 10 October 1985
Copy acknowledgement letters from CBS to new members, November 1985 - February 1986
CBS Network and COMMACT UK newsletter, Autumn 2006: including articles on -- Community Building Ventures (CBV), READ project and HiLDA Trust -- Jagran Jan Samiti and projects with tribal people in Udaipur, Southern Rajasthan, India -- Visit from professors from the University of Hygogo, Japan -- COMMACT International and COMMACT UK update -- CBS Network membership -- Social Audit Network (SAN) -- New Sector magazine -- Scottish Social Enterprise Coalition -- CBS Network Services Ltd -- CBS Network website relaunch -- Future strategy and membership
CBS Network and COMMACT UK newsletter, Winter 2006/2007: including articles on Community Building Ventures (CBV), classroom block for Bangalore, Akshaya Centre in Wayanad -- Jagran Jan Samiti update and Adivasi Andolan Network meeting and demonstrations -- Friends of HiLDA Trust, Kerala -- Visit from professors from the University of Hygogo, Japan -- COMMACT International and COMMACT UK update -- European network for Economic Self-help and Local Development (Euronetz) general assembly in Berlin on 26 November 2006 -- CBS Network membership -- Social Audit Network in Scotland (SAN Scotland) social audit programme -- New Sector magazine -- Scottish Social Enterprise Coalition update -- CBS Network Services Ltd working with REAP, CRNS, Social Enterprise Sunderland -- New publication by Colin Roxburgh and Alan Tuffs, 'Community futures: community engagement in Scotland's first National Park' -- Future strategy and membership
CBS Network and COMMACT UK newsletter, May 2007: including articles on COMMACT update -- Community Building Ventures, collaborative projects with COMMACT India and COMMACT UK -- Teeside and Renton school visit to Bangalore -- Visit to University of Hyogo, Japan -- Jagran Jan Samiti update -- CBSN social accounting and specialist workshops -- Future strategy and membership
Community Building Ventures, India report 2007
CBS Network and COMMACT UK newsletter, January 2008: including articles on COMMACT International update -- Community Building Ventures (CBV), house-building project in Huliyar District -- READ Centre, Bangalore -- Jagran Jan Samiti update -- Social accounting masterclass -- The HiLDA Trust and Akshaya Federation -- Social accounting and audit roadshows -- CEST project -- CBSN and COMMACT UK proposed merger -- Future strategy and membership
CBS Network and COMMACT UK newsletter, July 2008: including articles on COMMACT International update -- COMMACT UK links -- COMMACT India tasks for 2008/09 - Social Enterprise World Forum, Edinburgh, September 2008 -- Community Building Ventures (CBV) update - The HiLDA Trust and Adshaya Federation update -- READ Centre, Bangalore -- Jagran Jan Samiti update -- Social accounting masterclass in Hyderabad -- Social accounting and audit roadshows -- SAN report, 'Really telling accounts!', recommendations and presentation event -- CEST European transnational project, sustainable further training and competence strategies for the social economy, themes and workshops -- Strategy, membership and partnerships
CBS Network newsletter, October 2001: issue 4, including articles on -- the meaning of 'community' -- social audit manual -- social capital and the CONCISE Project -- credit union handbook -- Research Into Supporting the Social Economy (RISO) -- Social Audit Network meeting -- Links with Japan -- The Scottish page: update on what is happening
CBS Network newsletter, January 2002: issue 1, including articles on -- Bridge to the Social Economy project -- annual gathering of the networks -- Social Audit Network meeting -- social audit manual --COMMACT -- Scottish page: support for the social economy in Scotland; new convenor for CBSN -- discussion paper: defining the social economy, social enterprises and social capital -- discussion paper: mapping support organisations in the social economy in Scotland
CBS Network newsletter, April 2002: issue 2, including articles on -- Ian Hunter, Convenor of CBSN -- Bridge to the Social Economy project -- annual gathering of the networks -- Social Audit Network meeting -- COMMACT -- Scottish page: support for the social economy in Scotland; Equal project (SCVO); Equal project (Social Enterprise Scotland)
CBS Network newsletter, the Scottish pages, May 2003: issue 2, including articles on -- new CBS members -- Scottish Social Enterprise Coalition update -- Social Enterprise and the Social Economy in Scotland report -- Scottish Firms Scotland explore franchising -- Charity Bank -- training courses -- social accounting and audit seminar -- the cat's pyjamas: three day residential programme on social business -- proposals for a community interest company (CIC) -- Social Enterprise Institute conference, how to build successful social enterprises
CBS Network newsletter, August 2003: issue 3, including articles on -- update from CBSN; social enterprise: a strategy for Scotland -- Social Audit Network -- Scottish version of the DTI procurement toolkit -- Equal training seeking advisors
CBS Network newsletter, February 2004: issue 1, including articles on -- update from CBSN -- Social Audit Network meetings -- international collaboration -- Social Enterprise courses -- Scottish pages: news from networks; Scottish Social Enterprise Coalition update -- social enterprise events -- REAP social audit project Moray/Aberdeenshire -- Equal, quality and impact tools project; CBSN conference speech by George Shand; Feedback on the CBSN gathering and SAN event
CBS Network newsletter, November 2004: issue 2, including articles on -- Bridge to the Social Economy project -- national lottery funding for Strengthening the Scottish Social Enterprise Coalition (SSEC) project -- international collaboration -- Social Audit Network - CBSN future developments -- Fifteen go to the country, report on the Scottish Social Enterprise Coalition away day
CBS Network newsletter, June 2005: issue 1, including articles on -- Scottish Social Enterprise Coalition (SSEC) project -- international collaboration -- Social Audit Network - CBSN future developments and membership -- Social accounting and audit: the manual and interactive CD
