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Building Stronger Co-operative Communities for Good Governance Development

Introduction to a new role aimed at sharing knowledge on good governance, fostering relationships, and improving co-operative development. Session feedback sought on effective collaboration strategies over the next year. Legacy creation from the MLFW project and skills transfer to Co-operatives UK. Objectives include knowledge sharing, relationship building, and process clarification. Explore benefits and potential improvements for community food enterprises. Focus on enhanced resources, networking, and best practice dissemination.

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Building Stronger Co-operative Communities for Good Governance Development

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  1. Making Local Food Work Good Food, Good Governance – Development Officer Introduction to new role Sarah Alldred, Mark Simmonds and Mary Rayner

  2. Purpose of this session • Introduce new role • Run through objectives of role • Get feedback from CDBs on how we can work together most effectively over the next year

  3. Overview of the role • Runs from 1st April 2011 to 31st March 2012 • Creating a legacy from MLFW project • Transferring learning and skills from the governance strand to Co-operatives UK membership, especially in close collaboration with CDBs

  4. Objectives of the role • Establish framework for sharing knowledge on good governance across co-operative sector • Build stronger relationships between Co-operatives UK and members, especially CDBs • Start to pin down process of co-operative development (including Co-operatives UK’s role in this) > more consistent and clearer approach

  5. MLFW: useful outputs to date • Online Select a Structure and Governance Audit • Simply Legal • Simply Governance & Simply Finance (spring 2011) • From Conflict to Co-operation • Referrals to the Co-operative Enterprise Hub • Training events • More and better community food enterprises • …anything else, or any specific examples? Quick exercise: has the co-operative sector derived any other benefits from MLFW?

  6. The next year – group exercise • What could we do in the next year that would make your role in developing community food enterprises easier? • Focus on the following: • Resources e.g. toolkits • Networking – online and face to face • Spreading good practice and learning • …anything else

  7. Thank you for your input

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