This file contains 1 folder:

• Papers of Board of Directors' meeting on 21 July 1999 including -- agenda -- minutes of the meeting on 25 May 1999 -- CBSN work report -- HiLDA Sulthan Bathery, Kerala, quarterly report of the Community Business Development Programme to March 1999 -- CBSN annual report 99/00 outline
  -Letter from Inland Revenue recognising CBSN as a charity, 13 August 1999
• Papers of Board of Directors' meeting on 13 March 2000 including -- agenda -- minutes of the meeting on 24 January 2000 -- CBSN work report -- letter questioning the government sponsorship of 'New Sector' magazine, 21 February 2000 -- CBS Network newsletter, May 2000 -- letter from George Reid MSP regarding draft constitution of the cross-party International Development Group of the Scottish Parliament, 30 March 2000 -- notes on welcoming speech, 'People before profit', delivered at the First gathering of the networks in Edinburgh on 21 January 2000 -- CBS Network newsletter, February 2000 (part removed for data protection)
• Papers of Board of Directors' meeting on 9 May 2000 including -- agenda -- minutes of the meeting on 13 March 2000 -- CBSN website report, 20 April 2000 -- CBSN work report -- social enterprise consultants database report, 13 April 2000 -- Neighbourhood Initiatives Foundation in Scotland, discussion paper, 7 March 2000 -- draft questionnair for research into the needs of local community businesses -- supporting papers for revised bid to the National Lottery Charities Board -- outline for study visit to community enterprises in Central Scotland for visitors from Stutterheim, South Africa -- leaflet on community self-reliance in Stutterheim
• Papers of Board of Directors' meeting on 27 June 2000 including -- agenda -- minutes of the meeting on 9 May 2000 -- CBSN work report
• Papers of Board of Directors' meeting on 30 August 2000 including -- agenda -- minutes of the meeting on 27 June 2000 -- CBSN marketing strategy tasklist --work report -- report on SCEIF -- Concise project leaflet -- notes on Rural Shops Initiative
• Papers of Board of Directors' meeting on 25 October 2000 including -- agenda -- minutes of the meeting on 30 August 2000
• Papers of AGM on 25 October 2000 including -- agenda -- minutes of AGM on27 October 1999 -- CBSN financial statements to 31 March 2000 -- CBSN financial statements to 31 March 2001
• Minutes of Board of Directors' meeting on 4 April 2001
• Minutes of Board of Directors' meeting on 30 May 2001
• Minutes of Board of Directors' meeting on 8 August 2001
• Agenda and papers for events on 4 December 2001 including -- programme of events -- AGM notification letter and agenda -- minutes of the AGM on 25 October 2000 -- list of CBSN Directors 2000/01 and nomination form
• Minutes of Board of Directors' meeting on 14 January 2002
• Agenda and papers for AGM on 17 December 2002 including -- AGM notification letters -- agenda -- list of CBSN Directors 2001/02 and nomination form
• Papers of Board of Directors' meeting on 17 December 2002 including -- agenda -- minutes of meeting on 28 October 2002

This file contains 1 folder:

• Minutes and papers of the Board of Directors' meeting on 17 March 2003 including -- agenda -- minutes of the meeting on 31 January 2003
• Minutes and papers of the Board of Directors' meeting on 16 January 2004 including -- agenda -- minutes of the meeting on 17 December 2002
• Companies House annual return for CBSN, 23 December 2003 (removed for data protection)
• Papers of AGM on 16 January 2004 including -- AGM notification letter -- agenda -- minutes of AGM held on 17 December 2002 -- list of CBSN Directors 2001/2002 -- letters from Brian Maloney and Co, Accounts regarding audited accounts -- CBSN financial statements to 31 March 2003 -- CBSN Services financial statements to 31 March 2003
• Agenda and accounts for COMMACT UK AGM on 16 January 2004
• Papers of the Board of Directors' meeting on 17 February 2004 including -- agenda -- minutes of the meeting on 4 November 2003 -- notes on presentation by Johnathan Bland on 'The UK Social Enterprise Coalition' on 31 October 2003
• Minutes of Board of Directors' meeting on 4 October 2004
• Papers of the Board of Directors' meeting on 1 November 2004 including -- agenda -- bank reconciliation as of 29 October 2004
• Letter to Lloyds TSB Foundation for Scotland regarding release of year two award with attached progress report on the South India NGOs Sustainability Consortium, 29 October 2004
• Letter of thanks from Anekal READ Centre for educational support, 16 November 2004 (part removed for data protection)
• Companies House annual return for CBSN, 1 December 2004 (removed for data protection)
• Letter from Greater Easterhouse Managed Workspaces Ltd (GEM) with enclosed Articles of Association, 8 December 2004
• Minutes of Board of Directors' meeting on 13 December 2004

This file contains 1 folder:

• Papers of AGM on 31 January 2005 including -- Extract from the minutes of the AGM on 31 January 2005 -- agenda -- minutes of the AGM on 16 January 2004 -- paper one on proposed amendments to the Articles of Association of CBSN -- paper two on composition of the Board of Directors 2003/2004 and nomination form -- CBSN financial statements to 31 March 2004 -- CBSN Services financial statements to 31 March 2004
• Papers of the Board of Directors' meeting on 31 January 2005 including -- agenda -- minutes of the meeting of 13 December 2004 -- Financial reports for CBSN and CBSN Services to 31 January 2005
• Minutes and agenda of the Board of Directors' meeting on 16 May 2005
• Companies House changes in particulars for CBSN, 31 May 2005 (removed for data protection)
• Minutes of Board of Directors' meeting on 28 June 2005
• Correspondence with the Inland Revenue regarding charitable status of CBSN following changes to the Memorandum and Articles of Association, 1 June 2005 - 28 September 2005
• Agenda of Board of Directors' meeting on 5 September 2005
• Charity recognition letter from Inland Revenue, 17 October 2005
• Papers of Board of Directors' meeting on 14 November 2005 including -- agenda -- minutes of meeting on 5 September 2005 -- CBSN financial report
• Circular letter from 'New Sector' regarding membership of the new Industrial and Provident Society for community benefit into which 'New Sector' converted, 25 November 2005
• Papers of AGM on 29 November 2005 including -- agenda -- composition of the Board of Directors and nomination form -- minutes of the AGM on the 31 January 2005
• Companies House changes in particulars for CBSN, 6 December 2005 (removed for data protection)
• Minutes of Board of Directors' meeting on 14 November 2005
  -CBSN and CBSN Services financial statements to 27 January 2006
• Minutes and papers of Board of Directors' meeting on 17 March 2006 including -- agenda -- draft minutes of meeting on 27 January 2006 -- CBSN, CBSN Services and Social Audit Network (SAN) financial statements to 17 March 2006
• Agenda and minutes of Board of Directors' meeting on 5 May 2006
• Minute of Board of Directors' meeting conducted via email on 15 June 2006
• Letter of resignation from the Board of Directors from Elspeth Barker, 1 September 2006
• Agenda of Board of Directors' meeting on 4 September 2006
• COMMACT UK accounts for 2006, 6 February 2007
• Papers of the AGM on 8 February 2007 including -- agenda -- composition of the Board of Directors and nomination form -- minutes of the AGM on 29 November 2005 -- CBSN financial statements to 31 March 2006 -- CBSN Services financial statements to 31 March 2006
• Papers of Board of Directors' meeting on 8 February 2007 including -- minutes of meeting on 11 December 2006 -- CBSN financial statement to 31 January 2007 -- CBSN annual report 2005-2006
  -Printout of CBSN entry in the Scottish Charity Register, 4 October 2007
• Companies House changes in particulars for CBSN, 30 October 2007 (removed for data protection)

This series consists of 4 sub-series:

• CBS and CBSN publications and reports, 1986-2004
• CBS and CBSN information sheets, bulletins and legal structures guidance, 1990-2002
• National Network of Community Business members mailings, 1995-2001
• CBSN and COMMACT UK newsletters, 2001-2008

This file contains 1 folder:

• Community business in Scotland 1986 directory, CBS (digital copy provided)
• Directory of community businesses 1989, CBS
• Directory of organisations offering support to community enterprises , October 1994, National Network of Community Businesses, listed in sections for Scotland, England, Wales and Northern Ireland
• Directory of community businesses in Scotland 1995, CBS

The community business directories detail the businesses in alphabetical order organised by region.

Issue 2 content:

• CBS: What's been happening
• Enterprise allowances - but not in Scotland
• Community business directory
• Community farms and gardens
• New video film about community businesses in Strathclyde
• Strathclyde urban aid 1982/83
• "Start your own business" training course
• Home production sales and advisory unit
• Small business initiatives for West Lothian

Mock issue containing humorous articles produced as an in-house joke, including a feature '7:84' on women in community enterprise.

Issue 5 content:

• A growth in industry, on the annual convention
• Publications
• Coodham Unemployment Project, Kilmarnock
• Greater Springburn Enterprises Ltd, Glasgow
• HAZE, knitwear range from HPSO at Scottish Trade Fair
• Despair or hope?, in the community business movement
• And just like Topsy it growed and growed, Easterhouse Festival Society is five years old
• Garthamlock Community Shops, official opening
• Legal structures, for community businesses
• Finance for community enterprise, cash-in on EEC money: Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC), US, finance for community-based economic development inititiatives
• How do community businesses start
• CBS membership 1982/83

Issue 7 content:

• Strathclyde Leaps, on Strathclyde Regional Council agreeing to set up a community business development unit
• How can the Scottish Development Agency back community business
• Publications: newsletters; LEAP case study series; Bootstrap Enterprises annual report 1982
• The Sheffield experiment with the Council trying to influence the local community into desirable directions and developments
• Comment on Strathclyde's plans, Strathclyde Regional Council's plans for backing community businesses
• Pallion Residents Enterprises (PRE), community business in Sunderland based in an old clothing factory
• Community Business Lothian (CBL), aims, community business information kit
• Community business groups in Lothian: Craigs Farm; Self Help Employment Leith Focus (SHELF); Wester Hailes Community Enterprise Ltd; Castlecliff Workshops; Breich Enterprise Action Group (BEAG); Gorgie City Farm
• Lothian catches up on CBL's first executive committee meeting
• West Calder Workspace, premises discussion
• Community business training in Lothian with CBS and LEAP
• Enterprise allowance scheme - a new start or the same old story?
• New developments at Craig's Farm, Livingston
  -Frustration in Govan, Govan Workspace and Scottish Development Agency backing for development of Elderpark Workspace
• Your news, on funding for Community Business News
• Wigtown Rural Project launched
• Monitoring project, on eight community-based employment initiatives in the UK by the Community
• Initiatives Research Trust (CIRT)
• Jobs for warmth?, launch of Scottish Neighbourhood Energy Action
• Urban Aid 1983-84 applicationsby community groups to Strathclyde Regional Council

Issue 9 content:

• EEC action, backing community business
• LEAP extended again, a further 6 month extension
• Publications
• Business opportunity horizons, LEAP preliminary study into work done by or for Local Authorities which could be won by community businesses
• What a good idea!, Work and Wellbeing experiment in the Netherlands to release employed people to do work in the community 1-2 days a week
• Dumfries seminar, to discuss the potential for community business and local economic development
• Seminar in Nuremberg looking at ways in which government policies can be changed to provide support for local employment inititatives
• Value for money, cost-effectiveness of community-based economic development looking at Garthamlock Shops and Community Workspace in Easterhouse
• The Co-operative Union: an outline,
• West Calder Workspace, now launched
• An industrial goodwill in Whitburn, study investigating a project to recycle donated industrial/commercial office equipment for resale to community groups and charities
• News from Wales, on new community initiatives including Cantref Teifi, Trosol, Hen Gapel and the role of Antur Teifi as a community entrepreneur
• Little Pockets of Hope: the story of Govan Workspace, case study about to be published
• Strathclyde Federation of Community Businesses, inaugral meeting
• Market studies, of community businesses in Strathclyde, funded by LEAP
• Community contracting, research project sponsored by Scottish Office to look at setting up community contracting schemes in Scotland
• New policies for old problems, conference looking at ways to tackle unemployment
• CBS Board, elections
• CBS office move
• George Burt retires, as CBS convenor and Board member