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Case Studies

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1	Ethical Consumer Research Association	Demonstrates how an organisation can combine collective decision-making structures with strategic governance arrangements to enable the organisation to grow and develop.
2	Greenwich Playcare Limited	Established as a co‑operative, the organisation has worked hard to involve all members in the decision-making process of the organisation by the collective approach taken by Directors of Greenwich Playcare Limited.
3	Bro Dyfi Community Renewables Limited	A community co‑operative enterprise, which is largely owned by its local community.
4	Lincolnshire Co‑operative Society	As a retail consumer society, it is owned and controlled by it membership. Like many retail societies, it has successfully managed to develop a multi-million pound business whilst maintaining its democratic structures and participatory governance practices
5	Oxford, Swindon and Gloucester Co‑operative Society	The Society is a retail consumer co‑operative (community retailer) operating a number of retail outlets, in both urban and rural areas of the south midlands.
6	Suma Wholefoods	As a worker co‑operative, it has developed a number of innovative participatory approaches to governance, including an organisational structure, which enables decisions to be shared and owned by the workers.
7	Waterbridge Food Co‑operative	It is a small unincorporated association, and encourages participatory governance of its members through regular members meetings where governance decisions are made.
8	Homes for Change	Homes for Change Housing Co‑operative demonstrates how local people are able to collectively come together to improve local housing an employment opportunities with a shared sense of vision.
9	Co‑operative Communications Limited	A consortium of individual marketing businesses, which combine their expertise and marketing skills in a co‑operative.
10	Money Spinner Credit Union	As a fully mutual co‑operative, it has established a number of practices, which ensure the ownership, and control of the co‑operative remains within the membership.
11	Derbyshire Coalition For Inclusive Living	A strong sense of ownership based on a common set of experiences and beliefs, where members are directly connected to the issues the coalition seeks to address and are not simply users of the services that it provides
12	Camelford and Delabole Development Trust	An organisation that demonstrates how participatory governance techniques can enable a consensus-based decision-making process, and accountability to the local communities.
13	Moretonhampstead Development Trust	Based in a small Parish in Devon, the trust provides a range of projects and activities with a focus on social and economic regeneration of the local area.
14	Riverside Garden Centre	It has developed a company structure, which enables non-members to invest in the business, without compromising the collective decision-making and employee ownership ethos of the co‑operative
15	Scott Bader	As an employee-owned company, Scott Bader Company demonstrates how democratic structures and participatory governance practices  can be successfully incorporated within a international multi-million pound successful business.
16	Tees Valley Leisure Trust	It is a multi-stake holding Trust, which has successfully taken on the control and management of local leisure services whilst retaining the involvement of staff, users and the Local Authority.
17	Millrace Furniture Restoration Co‑operative	Demonstrates how an organisation can provide meaningful and real working opportunities for people with mental health problems, and enable employees to have a full say in the governance of the organisation in a democratic co‑operative structure
18	North West E.Net	Demonstrates how a body established to provide support, advice and training to member organisations working with people with disabilities is able to combine member participation with empowering people with disabilities to participate in the decision-making process.
19	Twin Crescents Tenant Management Organisation	The co‑operative has established means to reduce conflict and tensions, outside of formal business meetings, thereby strengthening the governance of the organisation, without compromising active participation of members.

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