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.
Building Community Food Resilience by the Food Ethics Council
A guide to unpick and understand what a path to building community resilience in the UK could look like, focusing on the role of community food organisations.

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

• Oxford Real Farming Conference 4-6 January 2023
  Every January the Oxford Real Farming Conference connects people in the UK and around the globe who want to transform our food and farming system. You can join online talks or catch up with them in your own time by using the above link.