Owned by, and operated for the benefit of the community, e.g. community centres, social clubs, nurseries.
Owned, controlled by and run for the benefit of their members. The members might be employees (worker co-operatives), businesses or self-employed people (marketing co-operatives), tenants (housing co-operatives) or shoppers (retail co-operatives like The Cooperative stores).
Community-based financial institutions that provide savings and loan facilities for their members.
CIOs are a new legal structure available to charities or charitable groups that wish to limit liability by incorporation.
Limited companies, with special additional features, created for people who want to use their profits and assets for public good in perpetuity.
A community benefit society is run primarily for the benefit of the community at large, rather than just for its members. Profits are returned to the community.
These are organisations that provide loan finance and/or investment for social enterprises and other types of small businesses.
Social enterprises resulting from the transfer of services from the public sector into independent social enterprises or mutual organisations. The move is usually led by employees delivering the service.
Set up by charities to undertake trading activity in order to raise money. They might include charity shops, catalogues, training and consultancy.
