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.
Building Stronger Co-operative Communities for Good Governance Development
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Presentation Transcript
Making Local Food Work Good Food, Good Governance – Development Officer Introduction to new role Sarah Alldred, Mark Simmonds and Mary Rayner
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
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
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
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?
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