Resources – Preston Cooperative Development Network

Useful guides and resources

How to set up a Workers’ Co-op – Radical Routes
How to set up a Grocery Co-operative – Unicorn Grocery
Simply Start-up – A booklet style guide to the process of starting a co-operative or community enterprise.

Simply Legal – All you need to know about legal forms and organisational types for UK co-operatives and community owned enterprises.
Model Governing Documents (Co-operatives UK) – Model documents to legally register a co-operative
The Worker Co-op Code – This code is designed to help people create and defend decent jobs, through well run worker co-ops.
Seeds for Change Resources – a comprehensive suite of anti-copyright guides, templates, model governing docs, including non-English translations. Aimed at co-operators and activists – recommended.
CAN policies – A comprehensive set of working policies with a co-operative focus.
The handbook of handbooks – A list of handbooks and toolkits for groups working without top-down management from social movements to workplaces open source for anyone to read, update, share