This sub-series consists of 2 files:

• CBS Convention 85 organisers' correspondence, minutes and reports, March 1985 - December 1985
• CBS annual convention and National Convention of Community Businesses (NNCB) programmes, packs and reports, 1986-1997

This sub-series consists of 6 files:

• Community business directories, 1986-1995
• "Community business news" (formerly "CBS news" and "CB news"), December 1981 - March 1992
• "New Sector" magazine, November 2004
• Case studies and guidance booklets, 1987-2000
• Reports on social enterprise, 1988-2001
• CBS lobbying and responses to government papers and reviews, 1981-1991

This sub-series consists of 4 files:

• CBS review, corporate plan and strategy documents, 1984-1988
• External reports on CBS strategy, 1988-1992
• Companies House returns for CBSN, 1999-2002
• Office leases for CBS and CBSN, 1993-2005

This sub-series consists of 4 files:

• Statutory documents, minutes, papers and correspondence of CED Board of Directors' meetings 1988
• Minutes and papers of CED Board of Directors' meetings 1989
• Minutes and papers of CED Board of Directors' meetings 1990
• Minutes and papers of CED Board of Directors' meetings 1991

This sub-series consists of 5 files:

• Memorandum and articles of association and certificates of SCEIF, August 1989 - September 1989
• Registers of Directors and Secretaries of SCEIF and CBSN application for shares, July 1989 - March 1991
• Proposal report, strategy, SCEIF launch speech and business plan, September 1988 - March 1990
• SCEIF prospectus, July 1989 - September 1989
• Companies House returns for SCEIF, August 1989 - January 1998 (closed)

This sub-series consists of 4 files:

• Information sheets about CBS services, c1990s
• Information sheets and discussion papers relating to social enterprise, 1990s - 2002
• National Network of Community Business bulletins, 1994-1999
• Legal structures guidance and models, c1991-2002

This sub-series consists of 1 file:

• Application forms for membership 1991/92

This sub-series consists of 2 files:

• Directors' reports and financial statements from SCEIF AGMs, September 1990 - September 1998
• Minutes, agendas and election papers of SCEIF AGMs, October 1991 - September 1993

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 sub-series consists of 2 files:

• Empowering communities conference, 1991
• Social audit conference, 1995