Funding and Incentives for New Cooperativism - a series by UKSCS - Seminar 4 of 9
Channel: UK Society for Co-operative Studies
Date: 2022-11-07

This seminar, organised by the UK Society of Co-operative Studies (UKSCS) with the EMES International Research Network (EMES) and European Research Institute for Co-operative and Social Enterprise (EURICSE), took place on 14th July 2021. It was hosted and recorded by the FairShares Institute for Co-operative Social Entrepreneurship at Sheffield Hallam University. 

The theme of the seminar was Funding and Incentives in New Cooperativism. How should co-operatives use, and respond to, the rise of crowd-funding, crowd-lending and crowd-investing?  As investment platforms create wider reach and open up the potential for global membership, will this undermine the community focus of funding mechanisms? What can be learnt from platforms like Kiva, Kickstarter and Indiegogo? What co-operative platforms exist (or are developing) for new co-operatives to re-invent ‘co-operative shares’ that raise cooperative capital and regulate the distribution of surpluses?

Facilitator – Elizavet Mantzari
Panel Speakers – Dave Boyle, Steve Gill
Technical Support: Rory Ridley-Duff