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Partners Publish Details of FairShares Labs in Five Languages

In the run up to their fourth transnational meeting in Osijek, Croatia, partners in the FairShares Labs project have published brochures that explain their thinking in five different languages.

The brochures are the first of a series of outputs from the project that will be translated. There will also be an overview of the methodology for creating a lab, and learning materials for trainers and lab participants.

Read the brochures in:

 

FairShares V3.0 Released

Make 2018 a Happier New Year with FairShares V3.0

In 2018, FairShares Labs will open in Hungary, Croatia, Germany, Netherlands and the United Kingdom. They will deploy V3.0 of the FairShares Model.

Here’s the story so far…

It all started at a Cooperative and Social Enterprise Summer School…

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. 

To get involved, join our Loomio Group.

 

 

Meet other FairShares members and supporters online

Do you need to talk to other FairShares members or supporters?

https://appear.in/fairshares

FairShares Labs Partners

You can have online meetings of up to eight people at any time by visiting our Appear.in meeting room. Just point your browser to our new online meeting space (or click the URL above the image). Invite the people you want to talk to by sending them an SMS message or email.

No account or login https://valiumsedative.com/where-to-buy-valium-online/ required.  You may need to install the Appear.in app on Android and Apple phones the first time you visit the meeting room.

 

FairShares Survey 2015

Have you heard, read, shared, discussed or used any material related to the FairShares Model?

 

Attached imageIf you have, we would very much like to hear your reflections. The survey above is the first annual survey that we have conducted about the use of FairShares IP. If you want to participate in the survey, ‘click to participate’, accept the consent question and then proceed to answer the survey questions. We estimate that the survey takes between 3 – 10 minutes (depending on whether you write anything about your experiences of using the FairShares Model).