Scotland’s Credit Union Conference “Growing to meet the challenge”
Book Now! Scotland’s Credit Union Conference “Growing to meet the challenge” Scotland’s Credit Union Conference
Friday 14th September 2012, The Grand Central Hotel, Glasgow
Communitybuilders Fund
The Communitybuilders Fund, previously owned by the Department of Community and Local Government is now an endowed fund, owned and administered by the Adventure Capital Fund.
Community Rights Grants Programme
Over £10m available to community groups looking to take over local services using the new rights.
Setting up a Welsh Co-operative and Mutuals Commission
By Edwina Hart MBE, OStJ AM, Minister for Business, Enterprise, Technology and Science.
Social innovation and public service reform
In the age of the internet, the principles of co-operation and mutuality are once again becoming a major source of social innovation. A reaction to a corporate economy driven by a short term profit imperative at the expense of their social and environmental impact; in the face of the recent financial crisis social movements have sprung up that sought forms of enterprise that internalise these issues rather than treating them as mere externalities. They have sparked an emerging civil economy.
CCM launches its global publication with the cream of the Co-ops
The conservative Co-operative movement this week launched their second publication in celebration of co-operatives worldwide as a contribution to the United Nation’s international year of Co-operatives 2012.
Public Services - Open Networks
What it means:
TUPE and the Big Society
Transfer of Undertaking (Protection of Employment)
By Christopher Head
Director at Eurenicon Ltd (A specialist employment law consultancy)
