Participants are paid a training allowance while availing of the development and training in the Workshop. This training may include catering, pottery, woodwork, metalwork and computer studies. Given the strong association between low literacy and numeracy levels and unemployment, specific support for overcoming these problems is also provided. The Community Enterprise Programme in the Dublin North Region develops and assists community groups to become involved in Enterprise and Job Creation. A Worker Co-op is a business which is owned and controlled by the people who work on it.
Every employee has the right to become a member and every member has one vote.
Any type of business can be set up as a Worker Co-op. Membership can be as small as three or as large as 500.