Resources

Finance & Governance

Co-operatives UK Simply series is a suite of guides covering co-operative governance, legals, finance, membership and more,

• Simply Governance: a guide on internal systems and processes when running community enterprises
• Simply Legal: a guide on legal structures
• Simply Finance: a guide to financing community enterprise
• Simply Performance: a guide on creating ‘member value’ in co-operatives
• Simply Buyout: a guide on employee buyouts and employee owned businesses

Guides

• Sustain’s Food-Co-op Kit
  All the important things you need to think about when setting up and running a food co-op, buying group, or other community food enterprise.
• ‘Grow a Grocery’ the Manchester-based Unicorn grocery’s guide to starting and growing a wholefood workers’ co-operative.

‘Power Up the Flavour’: a guide to low cost and healthy cooking using less energy from The Greater Manchester's Cracking Good Food.

The Food Security Challenge Prize

• Apply for funding through the Food Security Challenge Prize, start-up and scale-up grants and mentoring for new or scaling food enterprises that are developing the most effective responses to local food insecurity and focus on long-term change, social impact, and increasing employment in the local food sector.

Events

• Building Better Food Systems Conference (in-person and online), 28-29 September 2022, Stretford Public Hall, Greater Manchester. Bringing together food and farming businesses, policy makers, researchers, and social justice movements to ask the question of how we can realise the full potential of local and resilient food systems.
• Webinar by Feeding Britain, 29th September 2022, 4pm: Transitioning from a food bank to an Affordable Food Club.
• Webinar by Feeding Britain, 27th October, 4pm: Growing activities alongside affordable food provision – including community growing and accessing locally grown produce. Sign up here: