Thriving Co-ops

Thursday 13th February 2014

Greenwich Digital Enterprise Centre, 11th Floor, 6 Mitre Passage, Greenwich, London, SE10 0ER

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Thriving Co-opsAgenda 10.00 Registrations & Information Stands10.30 Introduction to the day John Fahy Chair GCDA10.40 Welcome Cllr Denise Hyland

Cabinet lead for Regeneration, Enterprise & Skills Royal Borough of Greenwich

11.00 Louis Slater, TECH11.20 Stan Stearman - U-SHED 11.40 Sara Willett Lewisham Art House12.00 Ben Lucas, Co-op Council12.20 Questions and comments from the floor12.40 Claire Pritchard GCDA

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Thriving Co-opsLunch & Networking2.00pm – 3.30 Workshops;Getting started Sergio Olivares, GCDAEverything Food Claire Pritchard, GCDAGrowing your Co-op Jane Stables, Cycle Training UKCommunity Energy Alex Germanis, Pure Leap FrogOverview of Co-op Devt London Clive Frazer, Co-ops London3.30pm Claire Pritchard, Next steps3.45pm GCDA Board Closing address4.00pm GCDA AGM

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John FahyChair GCDA

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Cllr Denise Hyland Cabinet lead for

Regeneration, Enterprise & Skills Royal Borough of

Greenwich

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TECHAlfred Purslow, Mark Medvedev, Tamika

Knight, Tomi Bakare, Deniz Ronayne, Louis Slater

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Stan Stearman - U-SHED

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Sara WillettLewisham Art House

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Ben Lucas Co-op Council

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Cooperative councils: at the cutting

edge of place-based transformation

By Ben Lucas, Chair of Public Services at the RSA and CCIN Development Lead

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

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

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