Contents of the SCB Ltd annual report 1987/88: -Chairman's statement -SCB: the way ahead -SCB news -Darnley dilemmas and developments -Ardeer is ACE! -Community business and community enterprise: the evolving model -Community business snakes and ladders (board game) -Directory of community businesses in Strathclyde -Enterprising Easterhouse -Housing and business: wealth and empowerment -The community business development process -Tenants become owners!: Port Glasgow Axxociation of Tentants' Groups -Think Bigger: community enterprise in Strathclyde -Finance summary 1987/88 -Development funding -List of Directors and staff 1987/88 -Publications available from SCB
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
Levi-Strauss back Forgewood Enterprises Ltd survey in Motherwell on feasibitility study into setting up a community employment agency.
Publications
The Fisherfolk, Community of Celebration, an ecumenical, community in the Scottish Episcopal Church, Millport, Isle of Cumbrae
Bombay Mix, origins of spicy snack packaged by Govan Enterprises
Palliatives of real job creation? On community business in a wider context for economic and social development
Around the regions: Strathclyde; Lothian; Wigtown; Grampian; Scottish Development Agency (SDA)
HIVE Ltd, Help for Industry from Voluntary Enterprise initiative by Fife Regional Council Social Work staff
EEC consultation in Glasgow with community business groups, public authorities and the private sector on job creation
More about SARC, Scottish Action Resource Centre providing accountancy, architectural, general commercial, marketing, personnel and publicity advice for community businesses
Profit, definitions of different types of profit
What's happening at Poldrait, Glasgow, including Poldrait Service and Industry Ltd Cleaning Services Ltd
Which purse for community business? Scottish Development Agency, Scottish Office and EEC alternatives
Co-operative origins, EEC consultation organised by CBS for the Centre for Employment Inititatives
LEAP training/education programme 1983
Your news, on CBS news funding
Community business exhibition commissioned by LEAP and CBS
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
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.
Money is the message, study of the needs of community business in Strathclyde by the Planning Exchange for CBS
Publications
Community business training, in Strathclyde and Lothian
Levi Strauss and Co support for community based economic development in Scotland
Link up to Europe, series of seminars on local employment initiatives
Development in Central Region, first meeting of Management Committee of Community Business Central
Denny Bonnybridge Project, community business, courses, seminars and publicity
LEAP case study series
CIRT community business monitoring project
The Roughcast kids: Forgewood could be miles better, on Forgewood Enterprises gardening project and enterprise block with micro workspaces, LEAP survey on unemployment, Community Organised Jobs Action Counselling Service (COJAC)
Off the peg solutions, on Bathgate's growth and decline
Federation of Ayrshire Community Enterprises (FACE) formed
VPP knitting project, Voluntary Project Programme organised by the Manpower Services Commission for unemployed people to develop skills through a constructive activity
A government regional policy for community business? on research into the low impact of regional policy in Scotland
Can the rules change?, seminar on the Enterprise Allowance Scheme
Mohair and pure wool handknits from HAZE, Home Production Sales Organisation, Glasgow
HPSO grant approved, urban aid grant for the 'second tier' community business
Jobs Action Group (JAG) and Provanhall Holdings Ltd, Easterhouse feature on Radio 4 series
Local CB federations, formed in 1983: Federation of Ayrshire Community Enterprises (FACE); Federation of Strathclyde Community Businesses proposed; Community Business Lothian committee
Convention programme
Convenor's report
Enterprise Allowance, scheme, being extended
CBS Board of Management vacancies
What is Strathclyde up to?, agency to replace LEAP not yet constituted and set up
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
