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Now we’re clear about what coops are and what the benefits are, what can we do to support their development in our local areas? We look here at what you might be able to do around:

  1. Increasing awareness and understanding
  2. Creating a supportive policy environment
  3. Business support
  4. Access to finance
  5. Direct commissioning and externalisation
  6. Creating a dedicated support programme.

It is likely that you will need to act across more than one of these areas and may need to act across all of them. Creating a dedicated support programme may be seen as bringing together some or all of the other elements into a unified programme.