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Community co-operatives are multi-functional businesses run for the benefit of the residents of geographical communities or neighbourhoods, and directly owned and controlled by them.[1] During the 1970s and 1980s, about two dozen of them were established in peripheral communities in the north and west of Scotland, often with public support provided through the Highlands and Islands Development Board (HIDB). [2]
- ^ "A community co-operative is a multi-functional business run for local benefit and directly controlled by the community in which it operates. Some of its activities may be social in character, but it must make a profit overall". Highlands and Islands Development Board (HIDB), internal document, 1979
- ^ Community enterprise in the Highlands and Islands, final report to the Highlands and Islands Development Board (HIDB), by Andrew McArthur and Alan McGregor, Training and Employment Research Unit (TERU), University of Glasgow, February 1988, pp. 25-28.