This collection is part of the Social Enterprise Collection Scotland. The collection covers records from Community Business Scotland (1981-1999) becoming Community Business Scotland Network. The records have been arranged into 10 series covering the following activity or format (4 of the series are awaiting cataloguing and this has been noted in brackets at the end of the series title):

• Management and administration of CBS and CBSN, 1981-2010
• Information and guidance provided by CBSN, 1981-2005
• Events and training delivered by CBS, 1985-1997
• Marketing materials and annual reports for CBS and CBSN,1989-2001
• Community Economic Development Ltd (CED) records, 1988-1991
• Scottish Community Enterprise Investment Fund plc (SCEIF) records, 1984-1999
• CBS national projects and collaborations (uncatalogued)
• CBSN international projects and collaborations (uncatalogued)
• Social enterprise and related research and literature (uncatalogued)
• CBS artefacts (uncatalogued)

This series consists of 9 subseries:

• Legal and strategic documents of CBS and CBSN, 1984-2002
• CBS Steering Group minutes, papers and correspondence, 1981
• Annual general meetings of CBS and CBSN, minutes, papers and correspondence, 1987-2000
• Board of Management and Directors' meetings of CBS and CBSN, 1985-2004
• CBS Office Bearers' meetings, 1986
• Financial records of CBSN for year 2009/2010
• Financial records of CBSN Services for year 2009/2010
• CBS Membership correspondence and survey
• CBSN Company Secretary's file

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 file contains 3 reports:

• 'Community Business Scotland 3 years on: 1984 report', CBS, November 1984 (document 1)
• 'Community Business Scotland Ltd corporate plan 1988-1991', CBS, March 1988 (document 2)
• 'Community Business Scotland Ltd strategy document 1988-1993', CBS, May 1988 (document 3)

This file contains 2 reports:

• 'Community Business Scotland: development of strategy and programmes: proposal to the Scottish Development Agency', Centre for Employment Inititatives, November 1988 (document 1)
• 'Community Business Scotland: community business study: interim report - draft', KPMG Management Consulting, 12 May 1992

This file contains 1 folder:

• Form submitted to Companies House registering appointment of a Director, March 1999
• Letter to Stephen Phillips regarding advice on completing documentation for Companies House, 2 April 1999
• Letters and documents sent to Companies House regarding change of name, June 1999 - August 1999
• Certificate of incorporation on change of name, 30 July 1999
• Revised memorandum of association for Community Business Scotland Network Ltd, December 2002

This file contains 4 documents:

• Copy of lease for West Calder Workshop units 33/34 from West Lothian District Council, 14 May 1993
• Letter from West Lothian Council notifying CBS of continuation of lease for unit 33 /34 Society Place, West Calder on a month to month basis, 22 August 2000
• Copy of sub-lease between Children in Scotland and CBSN for second floor, room 12, Princes House, Shandwick Place, Edinburgh, c April 2002
• Copy of lease for basement office at 47 Albany Street, Edinburgh, from Burness, lawyers on behalf of Link Group Ltd, 14 April 2005

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