Exploring co-op models for financial sustainability & thriving communities-slides for GCDA's sustainable business event on co-operatives in Greenwich, London, UK Feb 2014

1. Thriving Co-ops
Thursday 13th February 2014
Greenwich Digital Enterprise Centre, 11th Floor, 6 Mitre
Passage, Greenwich, London, SE10 0ER
Twitter: @GCDA_UK
Facebook: /GCDAUK
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2. Thriving Co-ops
Agenda
10.00 Registrations & Information Stands
10.30 Introduction to the day John Fahy Chair GCDA
10.40 Welcome Cllr Denise Hyland
Cabinet lead for Regeneration, Enterprise & Skills
Royal Borough of Greenwich
11.00 Louis Slater, TECH
11.20 Stan Stearman - U-SHED
11.40 Sara Willett Lewisham Art House
12.00 Ben Lucas, Co-op Council
12.20 Questions and comments from the floor
12.40 Claire Pritchard GCDA
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3. Thriving Co-ops
Lunch & Networking
2.00pm – 3.30
Workshops;
Getting started
Sergio Olivares, GCDA
Everything Food
Claire Pritchard, GCDA
Growing your Co-op
Jane Stables, Cycle Training UK
Community Energy
Alex Germanis, Pure Leap Frog
Overview of Co-op Devt London
Clive Frazer, Co-ops
London
3.30pm
Claire Pritchard, Next steps
3.45pm
GCDA Board Closing address
4.00pm
GCDA AGM
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4. John Fahy
Chair GCDA
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5. Cllr Denise Hyland
Cabinet lead for
Regeneration, Enterprise &
Skills Royal Borough of
Greenwich
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6. TECH
Alfred Purslow, Mark Medvedev, Tamika
Knight, Tomi Bakare, Deniz Ronayne,
Louis Slater
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16. Stan Stearman - U-SHED
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17. Sara Willett
Lewisham Art House
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18. Ben Lucas
Co-op Council
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19. Cooperative councils: at the cutting
edge of place-based transformation
By Ben Lucas, Chair of Public Services
at the RSA and CCIN Development Lead

20. What is a cooperative model of local
government?
Cooperative councils draw on a diverse set
of approaches, shaped by common
cooperative principles, and work in
partnership with communities to:
• Transform relationship with communities
• Build community resilience
• Drive economic development, create
social value & revitalise places

21. Examples of cooperative practice
Oldham -> Building a cooperative borough
through whole place transformation and
local leadership
Lambeth -> Cooperative commissioning in
partnership with communities
Sunderland -> Community leadership

22. The Cooperative Councils Innovation
Network
The CCIN is a non-party political hub for
cooperative policy development, innovation and
advocacy. It is a membership network for local
authorities that are committed to transforming
the way they work through building an equal
partnership with communities.
CCIN activity is focused around three key
objectives:
• Inform
• Influence
• Collaborate