Co-op Culture on Facebook
I now have a Facebook page, where I will be posting useful resources for co-operative and community enterprise. Please visit https://www.facebook.com/mark.culture.coop and Like the Co-op Culture page.
Supporting Sustainable Co-operative and Community Enterprise
I now have a Facebook page, where I will be posting useful resources for co-operative and community enterprise. Please visit https://www.facebook.com/mark.culture.coop and Like the Co-op Culture page.
Fuelling North Community Energy social 6-9pm Thursday 17th April FREE, Fox and Goose Pub, Hebden Bridge After four years of Fuelling Manchester we’re branching out, collaborating with friends in Calderdale to run a Fuelling North social for community energy organisations inGreater Manchester, Leeds, Calderdale and beyond! RSVP here: http://www.meetup.com/Fuelling-Manchester-meetup/events/173952702/ As always, the evening is without structure or agenda, simply a chance toContinue reading Community Energy Social in Hebden Bridge
I’ve just returned from the Oxford Real Farming Conference, organised in opposition to the Oxford Farming Conference. The two days in the company of passionate people actively working to produce a practical sustainable food system was as ever inspiring and heartening. For a full overview of the day: http://www.oxfordrealfarmingconference.org/orfc-2014.html; and the ORFC Facebook page is here: https://www.facebook.com/OxfordRealFarmingConferenceContinue reading Oxford Real Farming Conference 2014
After consultation the government announced a new tax relief just before Xmas, aimed at prospective investors in Social Enterprise – Social Investment Tax Relief (SITR). The relief looks to work in a very similar way to EIS and SEIS, by giving tax relief to individuals for investing in qualifying enterprises, but there are interesting differences:Continue reading Social Investment Tax Relief
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First example of Woodland being listed as an asset of community value.
This blog post is a brain dump of my thoughts whilst trying to bottom the position with regard to the various reliefs and subsidies available to community energy projects. In particular, I am unclear of the whole picture of how Feed in Tariffs (FITs) fit with Enterprise Investment Tax relief – EIS and SEIS; reliefsContinue reading Community Energy and State Aid
Following many years of support from the Soil Association, the growing UK community supported agriculture sector is taking the next step and forming a national networking body to represent its members, provide a voice for and promote CSAs. I’ve been helping them with the structure for the network and am pleased to say that itContinue reading Community Supported Agriculture conference
I’m pleased to be working with Beacon Lane Starter Farm, an exciting new community farm project near Bristol, who are looking to adapt the Farm Start model popular in the US and also being trialled in Manchester by the Kindling Trust..
I am currently involved in some research for the Forestry Commission. This work is in partnership with Kate Swade and Mark Walton of Shared Assets and is looking to baseline the current extent of woodland social enterprise in England, Scotland and Wales. We want to hear from you if you are involved in social activitiesContinue reading Woodland Social Enterprise Survey