Areas for Action
Hopefully you can see that as we’ve taken you through understanding cooperatives better, understanding what you can do to promote them, assessing your local context, and collating your local priorities that defining what you need to do is responding to the picture you’ve built up. If you were able to take that journey with a small group of allies, this is the time to sketch out your view of what a programme of work looks like and take this to a broader audience.
You may wish to start by downloading and completing this Action Plan Matrix describing the actions you will take to support coop development in the sector as a whole or in relation to each of the local objectives you’ve identified. In addition to the headings form ‘What can I do?’ there is also a row for programme funding as you may be able to identify funding that corresponds to local objectives (e.g. if community businesses are seen as contributing to tackling loneliness there may be correlated funding that can be mobilised).
Action Plan Matrix
Having done this, use this as a basis for discussions with stakeholders identified in the previous exercise.
