This file contains 1 folder:

• Letters from Willie Roe, Secretary CBS, to Secretaries of State regarding finance available to CBS and community businesses in Scotland, 30 April 1981
• Note by John Pearce, LEAP, regarding meeting of the CBV Advisory Group on 25 April, 5 May 1981
• Letter to Scottish Members of Parliament regarding finance for community businesses in Scotland, 6 May 1981 and list of acknowledgements and replies
• List of CBS Steering Committee members and press release about CBS, 5 May 1981
• Letter to all organisations on the Scottish Community Enterprise Forum (SCEF) regarding the setting up of CBS and it's lobbying activity, 18 May 1981
• Letter to Department of Employment regarding financial support for community businesses and invitation for Secretary of State for Employment to speak at the next CBS meeting, 29 May 1981
• List of classes of membership and costs, 1 July 1981
• Letter from Willie Roe, Secretary to Dr Jeremy Bray, MP, regarding delegation from CBS to meet Scottish Labour MPs in the House of Commons, 22 June 1981
• Letter from Willie Roe, Secretary, to Scottish MPs regarding CBS and debate about unemployment, 23 June 1981

This sub-series consists of 2 files:

• Minutes and papers of the CBS Steering Group, April 1981 - October 1981
• Correspondence and press releases regarding CBS, April 1981 - June 1981

When CBS was first set up the work was overseen by the Steering Group. This was later replaced by a Board of Management.

This file contains 1 folder:

• Letter from Willie Roe, Assistant Director, to R Storey, Highlands and Islands Development Board, regarding the appointment of a steering committee, 2 April 1981
• Contact list of members of the Scottish Community Enterprise Steering Committee, 2 April 1981 (part removed for data protection)
• Letters, agendas and minutes of CBS Steering Committee meetings, including draft constitution and submission to the Scottish Office for meeting of 17 September 1981, 9 April 1981 - 15 October 1981

Issue 1 content:

• Welcome to CBS
• Community business directory
• Application for membership of CBS
• Publications and video tapes
• Community business US style

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

Issue 3 content:

• SDA seeks CBS help
• Community business directory
• Publications
• Elf help
• New help of community businesses in Wigton
• Scottish Development Agency
• Enterprise allowance scheme extended to North Ayrshire
• TASS Community Enterprises Ltd
• Around the regions: Strathclyde; Central; Lothian
• Plans afoot for community business unit in Lothian
• Norweg, Northwest Employment Group, Kilmarnock
• Community business - a local development agency
• CBS Secretary visits community co-ops in Lewis
• CBS membership 1982/83

Issue 4 content:

• Progress in Brussels, CBS meeting with EEC officials
• 2nd annual convention
• Community business directory
• Publications
• Govan workspace
• Community business course, run by LEAP
• Credit unions
• Great news, Foregewood Enterprises urban aid application approved
• Shell aids Govan Workspce
• Hawick, Hawick Community Employment Group and Slitrig Enterprises Ltd public inauguration
• Community businesses in Scotland
• Never heard of them...? Garnock Valley Community Project
• Study completed, SDA commissioned report on programme of action to help community businesses in the Denny / Bonnybridge area
• Poldrait Service and Industry Ltd, launch in Glasgow
• Home production, in Strathclyde
• Clyde Action feature community business on Radio Clyde
• Sales organisation, for home production
• Local Initiatives Support Corporation, discussion with Director of LISC, New York
• CBS membership 1982/83

Second annual convention issue content:

• EEC money talks
• Convenor's message
• Convention programme
• CBS Board of Management elections
• Community business information kit
• Review of the Year: EEC proposal; SDA; Local Authorities; other bodies; training from LEAP and CBS; the future
• CBS membership 1982/83

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