2. Governance Workshop
• What type of organisation?
– Community Benefit Society
– Co-operative
• What is the type of business?
• Membership
– Investors and their motivations
– Enterprise Investment Scheme – local control
– Share classes
3. Governance Workshop
• Asset locks
– Co-operatives are partly locked
– Community Benefit Society have a lock similar to
those for Community Interest Companies
• Use of profits
– Not primarily an investment vehicle
– Limits on amount that can be paid out