starting a community interest company

[southeastastra]

anyone know? am getting nowhere fast in rl!

What stage are you at - thinking about the alternatives, working through the details or filling in the forms?

[http://www.businesslink.gov.uk/bdotg/action/detail?itemId=1077476109&type=RESOURCES Business Link]] is a good starting point.

That's Business Link of course

Try the Co-op society - they helped me a lot

Do you mean Cooperatives UK? AFAIK they promote coopertaives formed as Industrial and Provident Societies which compared to a Community Interest Company is an outdated and and generally unsuitable structure for a social enterprise IMHO - the link I gave to Business Link has a link to a comparison between the various structures.

We set up a workers co-op a few years as a CIC & it worked really well (apart from the not actually operating as a business thing )