There have been some dark days for UK coops recently – the crystal Methodist and all that – and I have not been able to talk about it much because of the amount of work that I want to do before the end of the year.
Happily good colleagues have been writing about it and here’s another good article from Kate Whittle that links to Ed Mayo and Ian Snaith who are the other two that I’d suggest. http://www.cooperantics.coop/2013/12/09/co-ops-governance/
I should be back in a few days to summarise the event I attended last week.