Radical Routes

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How to Set Up a Social Centre - now available to buy!
92 A4 pages of legal structures, business planning, property maintenance, licencing, policies, housing legislation, running a bar, etc, etc, etc.

Available by post for £3.50.

Or choose to have one to read on the screen or one that is laid out for printing onto A4 paper and folded up into a booklet.

How to set up a Workers Co-op. (52pp A5) Please note that this booklet is out of date due to recent changes in the law. Please feel free to download it but bear in mind that some things have changed. An updated version will arrive in due course.This booklet tells you exactly what you have to do to set up a co-operative business (which is suprising little so I don't know how it ended up being 52 pages long). It covers registration with companies house, market research, business plans, democratic decision making, and a few bits on running the thing once you've set it up

If you don't want to buy this lovely booklet but want the information then please feel free to download one of the following low resolution (but still 500kb) PDFs of the insides.
Copy one is laid out one page to A4 sheet
Whereas this copy is imposed so you can print them off and staple them together and read it like a book.

£3.00

How to set up a Housing Co-op. (40 pages, A5)"We believe that everyone should be in control of their own housing, not at the whim of their landlord. Co-ops also provide secure homes, so that your housing is not dependent on your financial security."

If you don't want to buy this booklet but want the information then please feel free to download this low resolution (but still 750kb) PDF of the insides.

Alternatively scoll down to the bottom of the page to a simple step by step guide

£3.00

Directory of Member Co-ops. "The co-operatives which make up Radical Routes are working towards a better world: concentrating their efforts on housing, education and work. We are an ambitious organisation and don't just talk about our ideals; we are getting on with the practical development of the network and want more co-operatives to join."

Download an imposed copy of the 2009 version to print out and staple together.

£1.50

Rootstock - supporting co-operatives working for social change.
"Rootstock is a new social investment society set up as an initiative of the Radical Routes network of co-operatives. Rootstock builds on the success of Radical Routes in raising investment and making loans to co-operatives working for a socially just and ecologically sustainable society."

Download a read-on-screen copy

Download a Rootstock share application

Download the Anti-money-laundering regulations as they apply to rootstock investors

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How to work out your Ecological Footprint. Eco-footprinting is an accounting system to measure and compare our resource use. An essential tool for an environmental audit.

Download an imposed copy for printing on A4 and stapling together. And here's the cover !

£1

To order any of the publications listed above - please print the order form and post to us with a cheque or postal order made payable to "Radical Routes Ltd".

Resources

Double sided A4 sheet giving a basic step by step guide to setting up a housing co-op

Sample Workers co-op Articles of Association

Sample Workers co-op Memorandum of Association