| The school was run by staff from Sheffield Hallam University, Social Enterprise Europe and Co-operative Business Consultants at Sheffield Business School. In 2012, school participants suggested that what they were learning should have a name. So, two of the course tutors (Dr Rory Ridley-Duff and Cliff Southcombe) worked with one participant (Nicci Dickins) to publish a discussion document.
The FairShares Model was born.
In early 2013, six people formed the FairShares Association to work on applying the FairShares Model to practice. In 2014, the association was awarded the Co-operative Marque. During 2015, V2.0 of the FairShares Model was published, and the association incorporated as a non-profit company.
In late 2016, we started supporting the development of FairShares Labs
FairShares Labs are social enterprise incubators that promote multi-stakeholder design principles. They will spread wealth and power, create ethical products and services, ensure sustainable production and consumption practices which are accountable to stakeholder through social auditing.
The EU-funded project to create FairShares Labs has catalysed UK university support. A Higher Education Innovation Fund (HEIF) grant was awarded to Dr Rory Ridley-Duff to form the FairShares Institute for Cooperative Social Entrepreneurship in Sheffield Business School (http://fsi.coop). This provides a home for further research, knowledge transfer and education projects.
FairShares Labs Will Build on the Work Early Adopters
Working with early adopters in the USA (AnyShare), UK (EvoluteSix), Ireland (Resonate) and Kenya (Human Needs Project) has been key to developing the robustness of the FairShares Model.
In 2018, more early adopters in Canada, New Zealand, Nigeria and Zambia will incorporate their enterprises, and we will undertake work on a constitution for the UK’s first Co-operative University…
We are Publishing FairShares V3.0
Our members are contributing to UN 2030 Sustainable Development Goals through the development of a robust model for co-operative social entrepreneurship.
FairShares enterprises pioneer new ways to spread wealth and power amongst founders, workers, customers and investors.
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