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 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 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
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
Report by Community Business Scotland setting out four proposals of ways in which the Agency could assist in the creation, development and support of community businesses in Scotland and the finances required to implement them.
'Sustainable Sustainability', Rudo M Chitiga, Commonwealth Foundation
CBS Network's projects and programmes in Scotland and throughout the UK
CBS Network's European links
CBS Network's International links
CBS Network Services Ltd
CBS Network's organisation
CBS Network's finances
Conclusion
Contact details
This document is held in several collections within the Social Enterprise Collection (Scotland), the digitised copy is from the John Pearce collection.
Audio recording of the interview, Colin Roxburgh.WMA, 1:06:17 hours, 63MB
Transcript of the interview, Colin Roxburgh_Interview Transcript.pdf, 18 pages, 254KB
This item is an interview with Colin Roxburgh recorded by Dr Gillian Murray on1 December 2015 as part of the CommonHealth history project. It is the oral history of Colin Roxburgh's involvement in community development and the community enterprise movement from the 1980s to 2010s. Click 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.
Colin Roxburgh has a background in community development and worked on some of the early community business projects in the Strathclyde Region in the early 1980s, such as the Local Area Advisory Project (LEAP) and later Strathclyde Community Business (SCB). He left SCB in 1989 and then worked as a freelance community consultant in Scotland, Ireland, New Zealand and Canada.
The Community Business Scotland, 'Community business 1986 directory' lists the activities of over 80 trading community businesses which had become established in Scotland. It includes an overview of community business setting the context, its contribution to community economic development, support for and appraisal of community business and listing of community businesses by region.
Murray, G, 2018, 'Community business in Scotland: an alternative vision of 'enterprise culture', 1979-97' Twentieth Century British History. 10.1093/tcbh/hwy007
This paper was an outcome of the CommonHealth research project. It provides a history of an alternative vision for enterprise culture by examining the community business movement in Scotland, the largest experiment of its kind in the UK in the 1980s and a forerunner of social enterprise.
Kinnock's commitment, Leader of Labour Party, Neil Kinnock, speaking on commitment to putting co-operatives and their development 'at the centre' of the economic programme
Publications
EIB Developments Ltd, Erskine, Inchinnan and Bishopton Development Company Ltd set up to support individuals and groups to set up in business for themselves
Co-op fair, at Kensington Town Hall opened by EEC Commissioner
A union bank, the Unity Trust set up my trades unions and the Co-op Bank
The third sector economy, problems, local economy, progressive local authorites
The Glasgow Business Club formed to help create and stabilise the performance of small firms in Glasgow
A newcomer's look at community business, newly appointed manager of the Denny Emplyment Creation Group
A view from the edge - community businesses in Strathclyde
Community business in Lothian: Craigsfarm Ltd; Handicabs (Lothian) Ltd
Darnley Mill, potential for job creation and community enterprise at the Darnley Mill and Walkmill Glen Reservoir, Glasgow
Housing co-ops, what and where are they in Scotland
Community action in Wigtown
Women in Co-operation, Industrial Common Ownership Movement (ICOM) Women's Link Up and Scottish Co-operatives Development Committee (SCDC) Forum
Scottish Co-operative collaboration
Some financial terms explained
The cost of unemployment, calculated by the Centre for Alternative Industrial and Technological Systems (CAITS)
Strathclyde Community Business Ltd, John Pearce, Head of the new agency
'Creating employment in the community' conference, overview
At the opening of Elderpark Workshpace
Publications
Stoneyburn Workshops Ltd, Breich Valley, West Lothian
How the recession is hitting Scotland
Strathclyde colour supplement, Strathclyde Community Business; Spring training programme; Port Glasgow Community Enterprises Ltd; Garnock Workspace; Drumchapel Community Business; Forgewood Enterprises Ltd
Stoneyburn Workshops Ltd
Tackling unemployment in the Western Isles, Eriskay Co Chomunn
Community enterprise in Canada
A lesson for Wales? Antur Broydd Cymru (Welsh Community Enterprise)
What shall we do with the profit?, ways to use surplus finance
Third sector economy, appraisal of community business ventures in North East Scotland
Decaying Britain, Royal Insitute of British Architects (RIBA) leaflet on construction, housing policy, urban regeneration, post-war estates
Manifesto '85
1985 CBS convention
1986 community business directory
Newcastle group visit Scotland, to study community business
Aussie body line bowling, talk by Director of Community Employment Inititatives Unit (CEIU), Western Australia
CECOP conference
New face at Community Business Central
Central Home Producers exhibition
Ferguslie looks to the future, Ferguslie Park Community Holdings Ltd
Stathclyde colour supplement: SCB annual report 1984/85; directory of community businesses in Strathclyde region; Autumn training courses; new '85 VPP; strategy discussion
CB's and the third world
Rural developments, the Braeval Project, Aberfoyle
CB on TV
Women in community enterprise
Shuttle diplomacy!, the International Council for Adult Education, Toronto, Canada forming working group on economic self-management
SFHA conference, community business workshop at Scottish Federation of Housing Associations conference
It's ACE in the Highlands and Islands, new association, ACE-HI
Community business in London
Appropriate education for local economic development
Community enterprise, what is it?
BP to fund training programme
Worthington addresses international conference, International New Towns Association (INTA) conference in Glasgow
Urban Programme conditions
Strathclyde Community Business Ltd: Govan Workspace newsbrief; Bute Enterprises; Garnock Workspace news; Self-employment - can we help?, the Enterprise Development and Advisory Project
Convention '85
Credit Unions and CB's
Model legal structures
Marketing manual
Focus on Lothian KICC start!, Knightsridge Initiative Co-ordinating Committee, community programme in Livingston
Livingston Mill Farm
West Lothian Forum of community and Co-operative Enterprises
Clatt the what? Aberdeenshire community business tearoom and craft shop opened
Does community business work? new research evaluation funded by Scottish Office
CBS Board
Secretary's report fro 1985, outline of CBS's work
CBS corporate plan 1986-1990
Community business and trade unions
Opinions, air your views on important policy issues affecting community business
A new consultancy fund for CBS
Strathclyde Community Business: appraisal and monitoring; BP funded management training programme; architectural award for Govan Workspace; Ayrcraft gets off the ground; SCB's VTPin 1985, programme report and evaluation; EDAP rap! Enterprise Development and Advisory Project; Possil Security Service; New success for Ferguslie, Flagstone Enterprises diversification; Cranhill Credit Union
Regional developments: Borders; Dumfries and Galloway; Grampian; Combine harvester!, Community Business in the North East (COMBINE); Lothian Labour group visits CB's; Start your own business course in West Calder
On the World scene: Canadian news; TOES steering committee; 'Health and the new economies'
Community business directory
Seanachaidh tells tales, new community business in Port Glasgow
Do they really want to create jobs?, Scottish Development Agency and Manpower Service Commission
CBS seminar series 1986
Co-op co-ordination and fair
'Opinions', membership and involvement
Regional round-up: Setback in Grampian, for community business development unit; Tayside success; Lothian news; making jobs in Edinburgh conference; Highlands and Islands ACE-HI news, priorities and progress; CBS to help rural areas; beating unemployment in Cornwall, convention
World News: Scotland scores in USA trip, with German Marshall Fellowships; community business in Canada and Australia, scholarship from the Commonwealth Relations Trust
Credit unions and community business
Scottish Development Department research project on community business
Community business in London
Community education pioneers, at Moray House College of Education
Goodwill Enterprises Whitburn Ltd
Strathclyde Community Business Ltd: Inverclyde contributes £15,000 to loan fund; seminar 'How the UK's largest community business development agency works'; appraisal and monitoring; development funding; dramatic increase in jobs
Women in Community Enterprise, national conference
Running the world, Sport Aid fundraising
The Scottish Development Agency (SDA) 'hands off involvement'
Denny: a wasted opportunity, Employment Creation Group (ECG) and SDA funding
Clyde Foods and food co-ops, setting up, running and case study
Publications
CB's and housing associations
West Calder news, Workspace Company the the Employment Opportunities Trust
CBS goes into business, consultancy; training for community businesses in Leicester
CBS, exciting constitutional changes, establishment of Community Business Scotland Ltd and Community Economic Development Ltd
CBS annual convention 1986 programme
CB conference in London
Scottish Co-operative Forum proposed
Management training from SCBL and HIDB, funded by BP
Ireland, the Youth Employment Agency (YEA)
South of Scotland community business development project
CBS co-opted on to ACE-HI Committee
Inside knowledge, Co Chomunn na Eirisgeidh Ltd
The National Co-operative Development Agency: remit, progress and growth
Co-op fair '86
Model legal structures
Strathclyde Community Business Ltd: seminar; community businesses in Strathclyde; training programme, development funding; Cumbernauld Community Business Ltd, the search for core funding; Ferguslie Park training weekend; SCB Board members; Kilmarnock Community Business Initiative; Inverclyde CB exhibition a success
CBS membership 1986/87 and annual accounts 1985/86
New CB research by CBS, article in "Local Economy" journal
Para Handy sails into Scottish folklore, Neil Munro book launched by Seanachaidh Presentations Ltd
Help available from enterprise trusts, seminar
Leicester City Council engages the Co-operative Advisory Group to undertake research
CB News: Scottish Community Enterprise Investment Fund (SCEIF); Commonwealth Association for Local Action in Economic Development launched; 'Volunteer activity and the older person' conference; ethical savings account launched; ACE-HI conference; James Millar obituary; alternative Nobel Prizes, the Right Livelihood Awards; Keeping Glasgow in Stitches, Needleworks sewing project; independent study of charities announced; help for industry from voluntary enterprise; Scotland's economic summit; use your elected representative; convention '89 report
A policy for equality, Women in Community Enterprise (WICE) proposed policy
Built on trust, the thinking behind community development trusts
Trusting in local people, Woodlands Community Development Trust co-ordinating the regeneration of East Woodlands, Glasgow
CEL justifies confidence, Community Enterprise Lothian given vote of confidence
SCB has an interesting and challenging year ahead
Contracting in local government
Publishing - the story of success, on Seanachaidh Publications Ltd
What the Community has in store
Enclosure:
Scottish Development Agency, Scottish Recycling Forum conference leaflet
Recycling and community enterprise, statistics from Save Waste and Prosper (SWAP)
The fabric of Glasgow, Needleworks banner-making project for 1990 Glasgow City of Culture
New title for community business, publication from Seanachaidh
Embroidery exhibition at Galerie Mirages, Edinburgh, touring Scotland
Your help requested, to support village school in Koudougou, Burkino Faso
No meeting of minds on recycling, at Forum meeting
Unity in enterprise, on the churches' role in community based economic development
Tackling a social evil, church initiative Grangemouth Enterprises
Cover theme: Linking up the churches involvement in local economies; Church starts work agency; Linking up, national conference on 'Churches and the local economy'
Community enterprise: in the backyard of the community enterprise community, looking at the reasons for the community enterprise movement being less successful in England than Scotland
A voice from the community, Edinburgh Community Newspaper Trust
Where Credit is due, the response of a Canadian fishing community to bank closures
New business in boards, Cowie Woodcutters Ltd, Stirlingshire
Airth commmunity shop opens
A concept of law, preview of community owned Legal Services Agency, Glasgow
CED consultants looks forward!, advertising feature for Community Economic Development Ltd
CB News: Fund deadline extended, SCEIF; Short courses, Employment Inititiatives Unit, Birmingham; Report on top down initiatives; New food co-op, Middlefield, Aberdeen; Mobile creche started, Creche-N-Go, Rochdale; A voice from the community, formation of an association for community newspapers; Human survival, national convention called by World Disarmament Campaign; Secondment survey, from Action Resource Centre (ARC); Applications invited for travelling bursary award; Sheffield venue for CE-UK AGM; City of Discovery to host 1990 CBS convention; Community run swimming pools, in the Highlands; New booklet on women working in co-operatives; New economic consultancy launched in the Midlands; prime opportunity for Valleymedia, Midlothian; MP puts community in enterprise, Tony Worthington debate; EEC launches poverty programme; Great recovery of cans, recycling
Oil and troubled waters, the less beneficial economic impact of North Sea oil and the role for community enterprise in Grampian region
A growing concern, development of community enterprise in Leicester
Tuned in to the community, East End Radio Ltd, Easterhouse, Glasgow
Coming out of the broom cupboard, Benarty Community Enterprise Group lease closed Co-operative Wholesale Society (CWS) store in Fife
Home thoughts from abroad, report of seminar on German Marshall Fund fellows trip to USA
New initiative in the Valleys, South Wales
What should a sponsor look for?, on BP's funding policy
Finding a firm foundation, the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation
Bootstrap Enterprises, a project funded by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation in London
Mulholland's memories, Felix Mulholland gives a lighthearted account of visiting community businesses
CBS, lame duck or soaring eagle?, critical appraisal of the role of CBS
SWOT analyisis
Book reviews
Advert for Scottish Community Enterprise Investment Fund (SCEIF)
CB News: SCEIF opens for business; Secondment makes big impact, report from Action Resource Centre (ARC); Dundee now a city of recovery, as Britain's 3rd recycling city; Possil secures city's culture, contracts for Possil Community Business for Glasgow City of Culture programme; Tullibody Communtiy Enterprise new grasscutting contract; Buckhaven Parish Church Training Agency wins award
Trading fairly, profile of two Traidcraft suppliers
New co-op for Rochdale, Shomiti clothing co-operative
CB News: Cardenden Community Store to open in Fife; Radio skills course offered by East End Radio, Glasgow; New contract for Tullibody Enterprise Services; Trainees with Poldrait Service and Industry adopt special Olympics athlete; Farm's Laundrette opens, at Craigsfarm; Friendly paper available
Recycling: it takes three to tango, report by Project Executive for Recycling at the Scottish Development Agency
Dundee, city of recovery, a recycling city
Recycling, a little step at a time, Scottish Development Agency recycling forum in Glasgow
Sounding a cautionary note, on recycled paper
Gartcosh.. a by word, recycling waste paper
Leeds City Council says Save Waste and Prosper (SWAP)
Getting on the job, Falkirk Paper Recycling Project
When cleaning out means cleaning up, Great Recovery uplifting waste paper from Council offices
High-tech BITS in Falkirk, Business Information and Training Services
The birth of a new idea, Little Feet Nursery Services, Greenock
Lost opportunities, call for stronger links between community council and community business
Creating networks, community enterprise in the Midlands
Developing the economy of Cleveland, the Community Enterprise Development Officer (CEDO) initiative
Convention 1990 workshops
Advert for Scottish Community Enterprise Investment Fund (SCEIF)
CB News: Grants for Scottish Homes; MP re-opens printworks, printers owned by Bute Enterprises; New community enterprise in Manchester, New City Furniture Ltd; Caring in the community, awards scheme; Kick start for Kirkby; Changing the economy, new community newspaper from Community Enterprise Lothian; Recycling guide to be published; Applications invited for Commonwealth Relations Trust travelling bursary; Season of mists and AGMs, Community Enterprise Support Unit (Central Region), Strathclyde Community Business, and Solway Community Business; Support unit up and running, Community Enterprise Support Unit (CESU); Cardenden opens its own store; Community business moves up market, Goodwill Enterprises changes it name to Premier Commercial Interiors
The party's over, report on the 1990 CBS Convention
Think global - act local, Ingrid Salomonsen talks about COMMACT
Working for common wealth, report on the Commonwealth conference in New Zealand
Community enterprise in the Commonwealth: in New Zealand; in Kenya
The Right Livelihood Award, 1990 recipients
When the human beats the machine, WeatherWatchers
The future for community business
Ten points to ponder, for consideration by the community business movement
CB News: Changes in Strathclyde, to transform Strathclyde Community Business; Developing Glasgow, role of the Glasgow Development Agency (SDA); SCEIF makes first loans; New study into community enterprise, on macro policies; Working out, new magazine; Development worker network set up, in Fife; New doors open for secondment, with Action Resource Centre (ARC); Visit a Commonwealth country of your choice, with a Commonwealth Relations Trust travelling bursary; The building bricks of success, Jagzandben Community Enterprises Development Organisation, Ghana
Turning the tide of Tower Hill, workspace creation in Liverpool
Helping the places others forgot, work of the Civic Trust Regeneration Unit (CTRU) in the UK
Re-industrialization from below, using the legal procedure of the 'power of eminent domain' to take over abandoned workspaces
Penguins, yachts and failures, review of Scottish Business in the Community AGM
The French connection, report on study tour to Lyon, France, looking at combating unemployment
Community business developments in Lothian: Craigshill Initiative Community Enterprises Ltd; Business Development Network; Craigsfarm launderette
Turkana Fisherman's Co-operative, Kenya, a case study from a Commonwealth Relations Trust travelling bursary recipient
Marketing - does it have a role within community business?
Social auditing in a global context
Horrorscope 1991, what it holds for community enterprise in Scotland
CB News: Community puts property on market, Charing Cross flats, Glasgow; Workspace for small businesses, Maryhill Housing Association; Green light for re-cycling competition, sponsored by Great Recovery; Glasgow could soon be miles greener, Glasgow District Council encouraging paper recycling; Food for discussion in Edinburgh, Community Enterprise Lothian seminars in Edinburgh; Shop window for re-cycled products, Papersave Trading; Community business to give city new theatre, Cottier Theatre; Major conference on community empowerment; Community business archives; files of the Local Enterprise Advisory Project (LEAP) deposited at the regional archive, Glasgow
Disharmony at Harmony Row, major restructuring of Stathclyde Community Business (SCB)
The pendulum swings, the changing nature of support for community business
Re-defining community business, local authorities should be customers not benefactors
Getting better results, what's needed to build a successful community business
World market for small co-op, Kisii Soap Stone Carvers Co-operative Society Ltd, Kenya, case study from Commonwealth Relations Trust travelling bursary recipient
Share care, provision of care services within the community by the community in Edinburgh
Care of the elderly: a community concern, Limefield House Development Group initiative in Lothian
The French connection, role for community business in training initiatives in France
Profile of John Pearce
Co-operation in Eastern Europe, potential of the community business model in Eastern Europe
CB News: New business in Alloa, CFC recycling by Alloa Community Enterprises; New co-ordinator or Community Enterprise Lothian (CEL); Community business wins export, West Calder Community Enterprises refurbish redundant BT telephone boxes; Community store wins award, Cardenden Community Store, Fife; New manager for CBS; Decorating Drumchapel, Dalset Decorators; Roots and routes, the CBS Convention; Blueprint for European collaboration, new ICOM project launched; Community enterprise in schools; Can collect will collect, awards for aluminium can recycling; Recycling reports published
Issues of empowerment, preview of the CBS Empowering Communities conference
Yes! you too can change the world, report on the Mondragon Co-operatives in Spain
How to run a community business, new guide published
Community Enterprise Support Unit (CESU), Central region round-up: consultancy work; Bowmar Community Enterprises; seminar on links between the community education service and community enterprise; Raploch Savings Club; Tullibody Community Enterprises open for business
Towards a social economy, argument for greater co-operation between social enterprises and a one-door support agency
Steps to success, Greater Ruchill Community Business expansion
Co-operation is better than conflict, features common to successful community economic development
Rethink on Urban Aid, thoughts on the Scottish Office review of the Urban programme
CB News: Government support for community enterprise; Success for UK's largest co-op, Tayside Holdings; and disappointment for others, Fife Scottish Bus Company workers; Sud'n'comfort, laundrette opened by Hots Village Community Enterprise, Oldham; Dispensing with AGMs, changes to the Companies Act; Childcare and community enterprise, report; Conference on global issues, from COMMACT; New storey at West Calder Workspace; Travel bursaries available, from the Ken Lucas Memorial Fund; The Jolly Green Giant, Great Recovery recycling raising funds; Two travel to Zimbabwe, with Commonwealth Relations Trust bursaries; From Middlesborough to Masvingo; Westminster conference on involvement of local communities in regeneration; CB model legal structure revised; Fitting tribute to John Pearce; Happy Birthday Kidcare; Lone parents getting together, information pack; Co-op Link-up with Africa
Community enterprise in the UK (CE-UK), the case for a national organisation
Prince Charles makes twenty year award, for a community enterprise which has sustained itself for at least 20 years, to the North Kensington Amenity Trust
Report to the Commonwealth Relations Trust on study visits to India and Bangladesh
Putting people first, Middlesborough Borough Council's policy to stimulate community economic development
Stepping Together, a new publication promoting education for local development
Routes to success, Up Routes Removals and Storage Co-operative
Investigating in justice, first conference of the UK Social Investment Forum (UKSIF)
Investing wisely, report on three community businesses in receipt of SCEIF loans: Barra Community Co-operative (Co-chomunn Bharraidh); Cottier Theatre; Linn Park Community Business catering facility in Castlemilk
Philosophers, Heretics and Fish, a fresh look at the future from the newly appointed Chief Executive of Community Business Scotland
Taking power for the people, overview of Empowerment for Local Communities conference
Advert for Scottish Community Enterprise Investment Fund (SCEIF)
CB News: Boost for Whitfield economy, Community Business Whitfield, Dundee, new premises; A first for Alloa, Alloa Community Enterprises buy first recycling vehicle in Scotland; Trusting in regeneration, Tower Hill Community Trust, Kirkby, launched; Workers take over bus company, Clydesdale 2000; First European COMMACT conference identifies global challenges;
What we do in Scotland, photographs and list of range of community business activities
Report from the front line, by recipient of Commonwealth Relations Trust bursary to visit Zimbabwe
AGM of SCEIF, four page feature on the year's activities: Needleworks; Cumbrae Holiday Apartments; Linn Park; Maryhill Workshops Ltd; Four Acres Trust; Barra
Mixing oil and water - is emulsion the solution?, on the dawning era of the social economy
It's you we answer to! WesterHailes housing development selected as testbed for pioneering home security system provided by BT
Special needs co-ops build confidence, Durham Co-operative Development Association
Co-op focus: New co-operative theatre company, Hull Freetown Theatre; Co-operative braille service, Tactile Audio Braille Services Ltd, Humberside; European Co-ops meet in Glasgow, hosted by the Scottish Co-operatives Development Committee; New fair trade coffee, Cafedirect; Scottish green show in March 1992; New UK Co-operative Council; Linking conference in Telford; New supplier of recycled paper, Green Paper Company, Edinburgh; New green fund, the Environmental Development Fund
Hendon 2000, community development in the 1990s part one, an attempt in Sunderland to halt the spiral decline in an inner area of the town
City challenge, review of the Department of the Environment's scheme
CB News: New shape for community enterprise in Strathclyde, Community Investment in Strathclyde and Community Enterprise in Strathclyde launched; CBS meets Local Enterprise Companies (LECS); Training report underway; Host project moves forward; EEC Commissioner at community business celebrations; Conference launches Community Business Clydebank; Womanwise, a conference for the community; Skill survey shock, survey with the Tower Hill Development Trust; £3m FutureStart begins, BT;s new community venture fund
A kind of common currency, Local Exchange Trading System (LETS) systems in Britain
A new direction for Tayside, Tayside Community Business Ltd (TCB)
Security is their business, pioneering home security system set up by BT in Wester Hailes
Developing Trusts, report on conference on community development trusts
New Sector, four page advertising feature on the new magazine from CBS, Community Enterprise UK (CE-UK) and the Industrial Common Ownership Movement (ICOM)
Putting the community into business...a Business in the Community (BITC) initiative -Where to get the best advice, new consultancy service on community owned security businesses, Community Security Ltd
Not an option...a way of surviving, concluding report from recipient of a Commonwealth Relations Trust bursary on his visit to Zimbabwe
CB news the first 10 years, looking at the content of CB news from 1981-1992
Book reviews
Introducing CE-UK, the representatives of Community Enterprise UK
