This file contains 1 folder:

• 'Co-operative in the Irish Gaeltacht', copy of report by R J Storey, 8 March 1977
• 'Inishmaan Co-operative', HIDB, copy of report, March 1977
• 'Cinema S Eire and Board staff visit to Eire S on17 May 1978', copy of report by Coinneach Maclean and Robert Storey, 22 May 1978
• Some salient features of Icelandic Co-op Scene, copy of report by R J Storey, August 1978
• ‘Community Co-operatives – A Highlands and Islands Experiment’, copy of paper by R J Storey, HIDB, for the 5th International Seminar on Marginal Regions, Trinity College, Dublin, 30 July - 4 August 1979
• ‘State, co-operatives and language in the Gaeltacht’, copy of paper by P Commins, Economics and Rural Welfare Research Centre, An Foras Taluntais, for Comhdhail na Gaeltacht, Spiddal, Galway, June 1982
• Photocopy of articles in “Co-op Ireland”, August 1982 – ‘The Gaeltacht Co-operatives’, p35, and ’The Gaeltacht in Co. Meath’, p37

This file contains 1 folder:

• Community co-ops guidelines for field officers, HIDB, c March 1978
• Community co-op, handwritten personal briefing note by Chas Ball, September 1979
• Ideas for Chairman’s speech for Co Chomuinn Nan Eilean Assembly, Lochdar on 19 March 1980, by R N Pedersen, 7 March 1980
• ‘The role of the state in regional development, HIDB’, copy of paper by Mike Geddes, Dept of Town Planning, Polytechnic of the South Bank, London, for Development Studies Association 1980 Annual Conference, September 1980
• Circular from The Planning Exchange Glasgow regarding Stornoway Conference on 23-25 September 1980, with delegate list, programme and handwritten notes on the conference
• ‘Some thoughts on the HIDB experience as seen by participants in the Plockton seminar on rural development', paper by J Watt for Rural Development Symposium, London, on 21 May 1983, with attached HIDB compliments slip from John Watt, 19 May 1983
• Photocopy of transcript of article from Danish publication, 1982, regarding the Papay community co-operative

This file contains 14 items:

• ‘Co-ops on the move’, "West Highland free press", 5 October 1979
• ‘Harris – reversing the decline’, photocopy of reprint from “North 7”, no. 44, March/April 1981
• ‘Co-operatives strengthen the distant chain’, photocopy from “The Guardian”, 24 April 1981
• ‘Uncovering the roots of co-operation’, photocopy of article reprinted from “North 7”, no. 44, March/April 1981
• ‘EEC cash – the decision must be local’, photocopy from “West Highland free press”, 22 May 1981
• ‘Foothold for island co-operatives’, photocopy from “SCAN”, October 1981
• ‘Brian Wilson writes’ comments on HIDB advertisement in the Sunday papers, “West Highland free press”, 2 April 1982
• ‘Brian Wilson writes’ comments on article on the Co-Chomuinn assembly in Barra, “West Highland free press”, 1 October 1982
• ‘HIDB and MSC give blessing and chance of 7 jobs to Balnakeil Co-operative’, photocopy from “Northern times”, 22 April 1983
• ‘Mutual cooperation on Papay’, photocopy from “Initiatives”, May 1984
• ‘The ups and downs of a crofters’ co-op’, photocopy from “Voluntary action”, July 1984
• ‘Spirit of co-operation helps save village life’, “The Independent”, 4 January 1988
• Copy of “The Executive magazine”, 46, June 1988, with article on ACE-HI, p26-29
• ‘Developing business in remote communities’, photocopy from “The Executive magazine”, 46, June 1988, p28-29

This file contains 4 items:

• Report, 'Orkney co-ops – the future relationship with HIDB', c1980s
• ‘A helping hand for workers’ co-operatives’, photocopy from “North 7”, p19-20, c1980
• HIDB draft memo on workers co-operatives, 15 June 1982, with attached photocopy of handwritten notes and typed copy of ‘Note on a co-operative and community development project’, 22 September 1982
• HIDB discussion paper, ‘Proposed development organisation for community co-operatives (DOCC) and attached handwritten notes on meeting with RJS, 20 January 1983

This file contains 2 reports:

• 'The Board’s Strategy 1982/83', HIDB report, 1982
• 'Community co-operatives - progress report to November 1984', report by R Pedersen, 15 January 1985

This collection is part of the Social Enterprise Collection Scotland. The collection includes John Pearce's papers dating from 1976, when he moved to Scotland, until his retirement in 2010. They include correspondence, hand annotated agendas and minutes from a variety of meetings, newspaper cuttings that Pearce found of interest, training guides (some of which he created himself), and material relating to legal structures of community and social enterprises. The papers reflect Pearce’s areas of interest and expertise (such as Social Accounting and Audit), and the work of organisations that he founded and/or was a member of: Industrial Common Ownership Movement (ICOM), Industrial Common Ownership Finance (ICOF), Scottish Co-operative Development Committee (SCDC), Commonwealth Association for Local Action in Development (COMMACT), Community Business Scotland, Scottish Community Enterprise Investment Fund. The records have been arranged into 2 series reflecting these areas of John Pearce's work:

• Social enterprise papers, 1973-2010
• Social accounting and audit (SAA) papers, 1977-2008

This file contains 2 folders of a range of documents including the following examples:

• Correspondence, meeting agendas and minutes relating to the operations of ICOM and ICOF
• Copies of loan applications to ICOF by workers' co-ops
• Drafts of an ICOM pamphlet on 'A Scottish Mondragon'
• Reports and correspondence with regional councils on co-operative solutions to unemployment
• Correspondence relating to the Industrial Common Ownership Act (1976) and the establishing of the SCDC

This file contains 3 folders of a range of documents including the following examples:

• Correspondence, meeting agendas and minutes relating to the operations of ICOM, ICOF and SCDC
• ICOF Annual Report and Accounts, December 1977
• World Conference: development and industrial cooperatives, preliminary programme 2, June 1978
• Appeal from Beechwood College for funding from ICOM Companies and individual members, September 1978
• ‘First of May’ Edinburgh Books Collective Newsletter No.7, 12 August 1978
• Article by Rita Rhodes 'Worker co-operatives and the unions', September 1978

This file contains 2 folders of a range of documents including the following examples:

• Correspondence, meeting agendas and notes, financial statements and newsletters relating to the operations of ICOM, ICOF and the SCDC
• Conference programmes & reports
• Discussion papers on the state of the co-operative movement
• Printed pamphlet ICOF information for loan applicants
• Printed pamphlet featuring three workers co-ops that were founded in nineteenth century: Equity Shoes (Leicester); Walsall Locks; Leicester Printers
• Open University, Co-operatives Research Unit: correspondence, agendas and joining forms for 'Commonwork Seminars – The role of advisor to Co-operatives' September 1979
• SCDC Clydeside Co-operatives Development Project: description of project and job description for two development officer posts; press release for launch of project, August 1979

This sub-series consists of 5 files:

• Constitution, general assembly and miscellaneous papers of COMMACT, 1988-1999
• Third Working for Common Wealth Conference presentations, Malaysia, April 1992
• European COMMACT conferences and symposium, 1992-1993
• Fourth Working for Common Wealth Conference presentations, Northern Ireland, September 1996
• Conference, general assembly and work programme papers of COMMACT, 1996-2005

COMMACT (Commonwealth Association for Local Action and Economic Development) was established in 1990 by practitioners of local development organisations, alternative trading organisations and related institutions as a forum for exchange of experience and promote activity in the area of social and economic development at local level. The registered business address was Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and membership was open to individuals and organisations in the field of people-centred development.

This sub-series consists of 9 files:

• ICOM, ICOF and SCDC operational papers, November 1976 to March 1977
• ICOM, ICOF and SCDC operational papers, March 1977 to October 1977
• ICOM, ICOF and SCDC operational papers, October 1977 to June 1978
• ICOM, ICOF and SCDC operational papers, May 1978 to September 1978
• ICOM, ICOF and SCDC operational papers, October 1978 to March 1979
• ICOM, ICOF and SCDC operational papers, April 1979 to October 1979
• ICOM, ICOF and SCDC operational papers, November 1979- November 1980
• ICOM, ICOF and SCDC operational papers, November 1980- December 1981
• ICOM, ICOF and SCDC operational papers, January 1982- May 1988

These papers include agendas and minutes, reports and correspondence relating to the operations of the Industrial Common Ownership Movement (ICOM), Industrial Common Ownership Finance (ICOF), and Scottish Co-operative Development Committee (SCDC).

Industrial Common Ownership Movement (ICOM)
Established in 1971, ICOM promoted co-operative working during a ‘new wave’ of producer co-ops in the 1970s. In 1976 ICOM published a set of Model Rules to enable enterprises to adopt a common ownership legal structure, quickly and inexpensively. There was an amendment of these rules in February 1977 when ICOM was given official recognition as a relevant body within the meaning of Section 1(5) of the ICO Act 1976, providing them with a grant of £20,000 per year for 5 years, to assist in providing advice about all aspects of the setting up of common ownership and co-operative enterprises. The ICOM model rules were simple enough for enterprises to follow without having to employ a lawyer to write a constitution or interpret legal jargon. It merged with the Co-operative Union in 2001 to form Co-operatives UK.

Industrial Common Ownership Finance (ICOF)
ICOF was established by ICOM in 1973 to be a revolving loan fund. It was formed as a company limited by guarantee and without shares; it was administered by Trustees who were appointed by the Members. Members were people who expressed an interest in the financing of common ownership enterprise and had been accepted by the Council of ICOM and by the ICOF Trustees. From 1976 people from the Co-operative movement and the Trade Union movement were invited to join the Trustees. In January 1977 ICOF was formally recognised by the Secretary of State for Industry as a ‘relevant body’ with access to the loan fund of £250,000 provided under section 1(2) of the Industrial Common Ownership Act 1976 to encourage the creation and development of common ownership enterprise and industrial co-operatives. This source of funding lasted until 1981; no further funds were made available from national Government. Successful common ownership enterprises and sympathetic individuals also provided funds to ICOF. From 1981 the bank of England informed ICOF that it was illegal for them to receive deposits for on-lending as they were not licenced as a deposit-taking institution. Seeking alternative means of generating funds they began to work with local authorities (West Midlands County Council, Grater London Council). Since 2005 ICOF has traded as Co-operative and Community Finance.

Scottish Co-operative Development Committee (SCDC)
SCDC was formed in February 1977. In June 1977 it was recognised by Government as an official advisory agency for co-operatives under the Industrial Common Ownership Act 1976. It received funds from Industrial Common Ownership Finance, the ‘designated body’ under the Act. The SCDC was set up to encourage the growth of workers’ co-operatives in Scotland and to promote the growth of a co-operative sector in the economy. Its objectives were to foster the growth of workers’ co-operative enterprises in Scotland in the belief that for workers to own, to control and to shape the organisations in which they work is:
a) a means by which they can more certainly exert an influence over their economic situation, replacing exploitation and conflict by co-operation
b) an extension of the democratic process, by making industry accountable to its workers and sensitive to the wider community
c) a means by which workers can grow as persons, developing their own abilities for the common good.
The organisation now operates as the Co-operative Development Agency

This file contains 4 folders of a range of documents including the following examples:

• Correspondence, meeting agendas and minutes relating to the operations of ICOM and ICOF
• Correspondence relating to and a draft of an article by John Pearce for 'Co-operative News'
• Letter to James Callaghan PM with a proposal for British Leyland to be run as a co-operative from MPs and representatives of the co-operative movement

This file contains 2 folders of a range of documents including the following examples:

• Correspondence, meeting agendas and minutes relating to the operations of ICOM, ICOF, and SCDC
• Sample chapter ‘How employees can take over ownership without paying a cent’ authorship unclear, not dated
• Article by Rita Rhodes ‘Worker’ co-operatives and the unions’, September 1978
• Copy of Industrial Common Ownership Act 1976, chapter 78, November 1978
• 'SCDC News', January 1979
• ICOM newsletter, February 1979

This file contains 1 folder:

• Meeting paper, 'A proposal for a pilot Commonwealth Exchange Programme “an Investment in People” (Zimbabwe, Scotland, Australia)'
• Constitution of the Commonwealth Association for Local Action and Economic Development (COMMACT), one copy not dated and one version revised 1999
• Proposal for Local Development Practitioners Association
• Typescript and handwritten notes on programme for workshop on development of small and medium scale enterprise & projects
• Leaflets on COMMACT vision and actions
• Proposed Constitution of the International Association of Local Development Practitioners
• Paper presented at the International commonwealth conference on Local Economic Development, Goa, 21-28 September 1988, 'Local Employment Initiatives, Grameen Bank’s Experience', by Mohammed Emdadul Haque
• Introduction to COMMACT with photocopies of extracts from 'CB News': 'Think Global – Act Local' by Ingrid Salomonsen; 'Working for Common Wealth' by John Pearce

This file contains 1 folder:

• One paper presented by Dr Karl Birkhölzer, Technical University of Berlin, at the meeting on 'Regional labour markets and labour market policies in the New Länder' held in Dresden
• Two papers presented at the International symposium 'Local Economy' in Technical University of Berlin on 18 November 1992
• Three papers presented at the COMMACT Europe Conference 1993 in Durham from 17-19 September 1993

This file contains 1 folder:

• ACE-HI application to the European Social Fund, ‘Proposals for a community enterprise training and development project’, 1987
• Flyer for ACE-HI Annual Conference and AGM on 20-21 November 1987 at Inverness, with enclosed list of participants; notes for workshop, 'Managers and staff of community enterprises'; workshop papers and handwritten presenter's notes
• Circular from APT (Advice, publishing and training) regarding ACE-HI training project, with attached discussion document, ‘The distinctive principles and values of community enterprises in the Highlands and Islands', 23 June 1988
• Copy of letter from John Cope, Department of Employment, to Charles Kennedy MP, regarding community business and Manpower Services Commission (MSC) schemes, 19 May 1988
• ‘Review of “Supporting community employment schemes – roles and skills of workers” by Paul Henderson’ by Tor Justad, ACE-HI
• Draft document, ‘Options for membership categories for ACE-HI Ltd’
• Photocopy of handwritten draft division model for management and administration of ACE-HI by Chas Ball, 18 July 1988
• ACE-HI organisational model by Chas Ball, July 1988
• ‘Shetland co-operatives, a survey’, ACE-HI report for Shetland Islands Council, 1988, with enclosed copy of confidential additional notes, July 1988 (part removed for data protection); and ACE-HI Shetland community enterprise development project pamphlet, ‘Application for financial assistance’, July 1988

This file contains 3 items:

• Outline of workshop, ‘The viability of community enterprises’ delivered at the Regional Employment Initiative, Beechwood Conference Centre on 9 December 1987, with notes on workshop
• Photocopy of document, ‘Rethinking the third sector economy’ by Jim Brown, 1987
• Photocopy of report, ‘The Nordic telecottages: information and community service centres for rural communities’ by Lars Qvortrup, Telematics Project, Odense University, May 1988

This series consists of 8 sub-series:

• Industrial Common Ownership initiatives (ICOM and ICOF) and Scottish Co-operative Development Committee (SCDC) operational papers, 1975-1988
• Commonwealth Association for Local Action and Economic Development (COMMACT) papers, 1988-2005
• Industrial co-operatives related articles, reports and publications, 1973-1997
• Community and social enterprise related articles, reports and publications, 1982-2010
• Legal Structures Working Party meetings, correspondence and presentations, 1990-1999
• Social capital related articles, reports and publications, 2000-2002
• Training and guidance packs and presentations relating to social enterprise, 1989-2004
• Newspaper cuttings, 1974-1997

Social Enterprise (SE) describes an organisation that trades for a social purpose, with profits being reinvested for social good.

This file contains 3 folders of a range of documents including the following examples:

• Correspondence, meeting agendas and minutes relating to the operations of ICOM, ICOF and SCDC
• Pamphlet on the Industrial Common Ownership Act (1976) by Manuela Sykes
• Copy of the revised ICOM constitution
• Notes on the history of ICOF

This file contains 3 folders of a range of documents including the following examples:

• Correspondence, meeting agendas and minutes, financial statements, newsletters, relating to the operations of ICOM, ICOF, and SCDC
• Conference programmes and reports
• Employ Limited: A case study discussing experience of a workers’ co-operative started in 1975 out of a redundancy situation, November 1979
• Prospectus, correspondence and report for British Trimark, January 1980
• Caversham Closures Co-operative Ltd Statement of affairs and report to creditors, November 1980
• Paper, 'The Clydeside Project: Entrepreneurial initiatives in establishing workers’ co-operatives', July 1980

This file contains 2 folders:

• Keynote speech, 'Global Issues and Local Action – A Perspective' , 20 April 1992, by Ezra Mbogori, Director, Undugu Society, Nairobi, Kenya (folder 1)
• Papers delivered at conference talks and workshops by speakers from Malaysia, Southern Africa, India, Australia, New Zealand and United Kingdom, Netherlands and USA (folders 1 and 2)
• Colour photograph of delegates attending the conference (folder 2)
• Leaflet for the Malaysian Association for the Blind (folder 2)

The third COMMACT conference was held at Kuala Terengganu, Malaysia from 19 to 25 April 1992.

This file contains 3 folders of a range of documents including the following examples:

• Correspondence, meeting agendas and minutes, financial statements, newsletters and reports relating to the operations of ICOM and ICOF
• ICOF Annual Report and Accounts, December 1977, 1980 and 1981
• Correspondence regarding the future funding of ICOF
• Correspondence and related accounts on the failure of Caversham Closures, December 1980
• Prospectus supporting application to ICOF for development loan for Craigton Bakery, Glasgow, October 1981

This file contains 3 folders of a range of documents including the following examples:

• Correspondence, meeting notes, newsletters and reports relating to the operations of ICOM, ICOF and SCDC
• Changing form of ICOF
• Discussion paper by ICOF on ‘The establishment and operation of local loan funds for worker co-operatives’ and another on ‘Notes on the operation of local ICOF funds’, January 1982
• Paper on EEC finance for Co-op development and worker co-ops
• Draft by John Pearce of proposals for the development of ICOF, March 1982
• Draft of proposed policy for ICOF consultancy work, September 1982
• Memorandum and Articles of Association of ICOF, April 1973
• Paper on EEC finance for Co-op development and worker co-ops
• Printed pamphlet ‘Financing of worker Co-operatives: Some practical proposals’, ICOF
• ‘The future of ICOF Ltd: Company Structure, Sources and Applications of Funds’, John Berry, October 1985
• Paper, ‘One Million Pounds for Common Ownership’, John Pearce
• ICOF: The Next Steps, Corporate Plan 1987-1997, John Berry, January 1988
• First draft ‘Methods of financing worker co-operatives in the UK: A study for the SME task force of the European Commission’ by Nigel Mason, May 1988

This file contains 1 folder:

• "Land - wildlife - community a highland forum", newsletter, 30 Nov 1987
• Photocopies of newspaper cuttings, December 1987 to June 1988
• "FRAS" newsletter of the Highlander Educational Trust, no.1, May 1988
• Photocopy of flyer for ‘Land wildlife community a highland forum report’ published on 10 June with attached photocopy of article, ‘Co-operation the natural partner of diversification’ from "West Highland Free Press", 8 July 1988
• Photocopies of news cuttings from the 'Crofting, fishing and aquaculture' section of “West Highland Free Press”, 29 April 1988 - 8 July 1988

This sub-series consists of 2 files:

• Industrial co-operatives related articles, reports and publications, 1973-1979
• Scottish Co-operative Development Committee (SCDC) course articles, c1994

An industrial co-operative is an enterprise owned and controlled by the people who work in it. The members of the co-operative decide between themselves in a democratic way what to do and how to organise the work.

This file contains 2 folders of documents on a range of topics including the following examples:

• Worker co-operation
• Co-operatives in UK, Ireland, France
• Government assistance
• Sunderlandia (Builders) Ltd
• Mondragon co-operatives
• Tax
• Local enterprise trust for Swindon
• Liverpool University Settlement industrial development project
• Industrial common ownership movement (ICOM)
• 'Industrial relations review and report', no. 101, April 1975
• Co-operative economy
• Ferguslie Community Workshop
• Unit 58 Print Services Ltd
• Financial management
• Co-operative Development Agency bill
• 'Public Enterprise', no. 16, April 1979

This file contains 1 folder of documents on a range of topics including the following examples:

• Community development case studies
• Social economy
• Community business and social enterprise activities in UK, France, Sweden and Italy

This file contains 1 folder:

• Global Network of Development Practitioners (GNDP) reports: Concept note; and GNDPE for Excellence
• COMMACT draft by-laws
• Minutes of the third general assembly of COMMACT, September 1996
• Minutes of the fourth general assembly of COMMACT, April 1998
• Draft recommendations of the working group on the proposed changes to COMMACT constitution, structure, membership and chapter development
• COMMACT Work Programme 1999-2002, c1999
• Copy of email newsletter from GNDP (Global Network of Development Practitioners), March 2006
• Papers from the sixth Working for Common Wealth Conference (6WCW) held in Mumbai, India, from 16-19 October 2005 with the theme Re-engineering COMMACT: conference programme; amended resolutions; report to the conference; discussion paper on the conference, October 2005

This file was originally titled 'Sheila's GOA file W132(i)'.

This file contains 1 folder:

• Photocopies of articles and reports, spanning 1981-1994, for a course by the Scottish Co-operatives Development Committee with indexed sections: background information on community enterprise; case studies of co-operative and community initiatives; community futures workshops; legal structures; setting up a community business; social audit; bibliography

This file contains 1 folder of documents on a range of topics including the following examples:

• Community development and social economy
• Introduction to the International symposium 'Local Economy', Technical University of Berlin, 18 November 1992
• Quality assurance and improvement
• Housing Trust
• Basic Income Research Group (BIRG) briefing notes
• Community business
• Draft chapter of publication 'reflections on community enterprise and community business in Britain'
• Review by John Pearce, 'Community co-operative activity in the UK'
• CBS Network discussion papers
• Illustrations representing the community enterprise continuum
• Comic illustrating 'The five stages in setting up a successful community business'
• Workers co-operatives and community enterprise
• Mondragon co-operative group

This file contains 2 folders of documents on a range of topics including the following examples:

• Co-operatives in Sweden and Italy
• Community and local economic development
• Social capital
• Speech by the Rt Hon John Smith QC MP to the ICOM-SCDC conference, Glasgow 20 November 1993
• Community workshops and worksheets
• Local ideas in action series notes
• Shetland Community Enterprises
• Papers by John Pearce, 'Community co-operatives: an alternative approach to "profit"'; 'Community enterprises in Scotland: acting locally'
• Working group synopsis and handwritten notes from the working group on 'Key values and concepts of a new economy'
• Work reintegration of the mentally disabled
• Social auditing
• Rural regeneration in Northern Ireland
• Papers from the European congress, Dessau, 31 August - 4 September 1994

This file contains 1 folder of documents on a range of topics including the following examples:

• Structure of community enterprise organisations
• Social co-operatives in Italy
• Community development financial institutions: options for Wester Hailes, Edinburgh
• Social economy
• Project Main Street, Western Austrailia
• Local economy in India
• Community regeneration
• Speech given to COMMACT conference, 21 August 1997, Wellington, New Zealand
• Ethical investment
• Scottish community business
• Newspaper clippings regarding community-run security firm in Paisley
• Partnering communities and heritage for tourism
• Local initiatives in property repair and maintenance
• Ed Mayo paper, 'Social enterprise and the third way',
• Dr Karl Birkhölzer paper, 'consequences of globalization in the North and civil society (NGOs/Pos) responses and alternatives'

This file contains 1 folder of documents on a range of topics including the following examples:

• Community trusts
• Social enterprise
• Social economy
• "The Observer", special report on social enterprise, 20 November 2005
• Bryson Charitable Group
• Demonstrating value framework
• History of the Community Development Journal, 2006
• Nidos, social capital profile 2007
• Social accounts in the secondary education, December 2008
• Newspaper cuttings from "The Guardian": 'Special report on the social enterprise revolution', 18 February 2009; 'Vox pop, what next for social enterprise', 24 February 2010

This file contains 1 folder:

• Address by the commonwealth Secretary-General, Chief Emeka, Anyaoku - 'Space in which hope can grow'
• Papers delivered at conference talks and workshops by speakers from Northern Ireland, Great Britain, Sri Lanka, India, New Zealand, Australia and South Africa

The Fourth Working for Common Wealth Conference was held in the University of Ulster, Derry, Northern Ireland from 23-27 September 1996

This file contains 1 folder of documents on a range of topics including the following examples:

• Proposal for a Co-operatives Act for the UK
• Social enterprise and local development in UK, Italy and Sweden
• Third sector development
• Newspaper cuttings regarding community-run security firm in Paisley
• Social co-operation
• Community development
• Legal structures
• Project proposal and interim report for project 'Key values, concepts and structures of social enterprises in Western Europe'
• United Kingdom Co-operative Council (UKCC) paper, 'Mutuality'
• Local Exchange Trading Systems (LETS)

This file contains 1 folder of documents on a range of topics including the following examples:

• Social enterprise and entrepreneurship
• Local regeneration
• Social economy with case study of Easterhouse, Glasgow and Liverpool
• Community development trusts
• Co-operatives
• National neighbourhood managment
• Proposal for merger of the Co-operative Union and ICOM
• Local exchange and trading systems (LETS)
• Governance of social enterprises

This sub-series consists of 3 files:

• Minutes of the Legal Structures Working Party meetings, May 1991 - January 1999
• Legal Structures Working Party correspondence and general legal structures information, 1991-1997
• Presentations and self help kit on legal structures, c1990-1994

This file contains 1 folder:

• Minutes of meetings held on 7 May 1991; 4 September 1991; 4 December [1991]; 25 February 1992; 16 April 1992; 22 June [1992]; 1 October 1992; 4 November 1993; 14 January 1994; 10 March [1994]; 19 April [1994]; 3 May 1995; 29 January 1999
• Note for the CBS Board meeting on 15 May 1991

This sub-series consists of 8 files:

• Community and social enterprise related articles, reports and publications, 1980s and undated
• Community and social enterprise related articles, reports and publications, 1991 to 1992
• Community and social enterprise related articles, reports and publications, 1993 to 1994
• Community and social enterprise related articles, reports and publications, 1995 to 1996
• Community and social enterprise related articles, reports and publications, 1997 to 1999
• Community and social enterprise related articles, reports and publications, 2000 to 2001
• Community and social enterprise related articles, reports and publications, 2002 to 2004
• Community and social enterprise related articles, reports and publications, 2005 to 2010

This file contains 1 folder of documents on a range of topics including the following examples:

• Social economy
• Social enterprise
• Newspaper clippings on hybrid enterprises
• 'Shared Interest quarterly return', newsletter of the Shared Interest Society, issue 43, spring 2002
• 'New Statesman', special supplement on social enterprise
• Social enterprise strategy for London
• Cabinet Office circular on proposed shake-up of charity law, September 2002
• Local economy segmentation
• Liverpool Plus, draft prospectus for development
• Seminars on support for social entrepreneurs and on investing in social enterprises
• Dr Karl Birkhölzer paper, 'Development and perspectives of the social economy or third sector in Germany', December 2004
• 'The Observer', special report on social enterprise, 24 October 2004

This file contains 1 folder of a range of documents including the following examples:

• Articles and reports on legal aspects of community enterprise
• Community business structures
• East Middlesbrough community venture
• Niddrie community shop
• Dundee community business
• Law reform (Scotland) act 1990
• Correspondence regarding the Legal Structures Working Party of Community Business Scotland Ltd
• ICOM (Industrial Common Ownership Movement Limited) factsheets and leafletsregarding legal structures, 1990-1991
• ICOM guide, 'In good company: incorporating a voluntary organisation - the options'
• ICOM survey, 'Model rules of co-operatives', 1993
• Community Business Scotland draft model memorandum and articles of association, December 1999

This file contains 3 bundles of newspaper cuttings regarding:

• Business development
• Housing
• Social conditions, poverty and crime

This file contains 1 folder of newspaper cuttings on a range of environmental topics including the following examples:

• Agriculture, horticulture and forestry
• Global warming and ozone layer
• Environmental activism
• Corporate policies
• Environmental economics
• Alternative energies
• Waste recycling
• Pollution

This series consists of 2 sub-series:

• Social accounting and audit evaluation and training, 1977-2001
• Articles, reports and publications relating to social accounting and audit, 1987-2008

Social Accounting and Audit (SAA) provides a means of recording and assessing the social value generated by an organisation.

This file contains 1 folder:

• Acetate and paper copies of overhead projector slides for three presentations on legal structures and activities, one dated 4 April 1994
• 'Community owned enterprises: a self help kit on legal structures', prepared by Joynt Andrews Barristers and Solicitors, Christchurch, New Zealand, and CEDU, 1990

This sub-series consists of 2 files:

• Presentations and training on social enterprise delivered by John Pearce, c1989-1994
• Training and guidance packs relating to social enterprise, c1991-2004

This file contains 2 folders:

• Acetate and paper copies of overhead projector slides for the Community Business Scotland Convention 1989, Livingston, including diagrams, cartoons, quotations and text describing community enterprise, 1989 (folder 1)
• Acetate and paper copies of overhead projector slides relating to social economy, 1994; Handwritten and printed acetate overhead projector slides relating to community enterprise (folder 2)
• Paper notes and training materials for a two day training session on running and participating in committee meetings (folder 2)

This file contains 6 folders:

• 'Comment NVQ workbook: supporting Comment NVQ level 3 community enterprise training', Community Enterprise Unit Ltd, Exeter (folder 1)
• 'Economic renewal guide: How to develop a sustainable economy through community collaboration', Rocky Mountain Institute, Colorado, c1991 (folder 2)
• 'Community economic development training pack', Strathclyde Regional Council, Glasgow, 1994 (folder 3)
• Co-operative learning: the collection', Co-operative Union Ltd, Loughborough, 1995 (folder 4)
• Photocopy of 'The guide to development trusts and partnerships', Development Trusts Association, London, c1996 (folder 5)
• National Network of Community Business, training programme, c 2004 (folder 6)

This sub-series consists of 6 files:

• Newspaper cuttings regarding unemployment, economic theory, community enterprise and co-operatives, 1987-1994
• Newspaper cuttings regarding business development, housing and social issues, 1991-1994
• Newspaper cuttings regarding the environment, 1986-1994
• Newspaper cuttings regarding the Third World, Russia, Europe and Tibet, 1985-1994
• Newspaper cuttings regarding public administration, social investment and financing, urban renewal and rural development, 1989-1994
• Newspaper cuttings on miscellaneous topics, 1974-1997

This sub-series consists of 2 files:

• Training packs for social auditing and quality assurance, 1977-1995
• Blank evaluation forms and questionnaires for social audits, c1994-2001