Co-operative Assistance Network Limited

Over the years, CAN has delivered services to a huge variety of co-operatives and social enterprises in addition to those in the trade sectors listed here, including:

• Archaeology
• Artists' studios
• Bookshops
• Career guidance professionals
• Charities moving into social enterprise
• Civil engineering
• Co-operative Retail Societies
• Community-owned cafés
• Community-owned farms
• Community radio
• Community shops
• Counselors
• Craft workers
• Cultural community enterprises
• Driving instructors
• Engineering
• Enterprising projects for people with learning difficulties
• Ethical pants
• Film makers
• Fishermen’s co-ops
• Furniture restoration
• Hip-hop dance event organisers
• Home workers
• Housing development
• ICT co-ops
• Leisure services
• Local food distributors
• Manufacturing
• Market traders
• Media, marketing and creative co-ops
• Online communities
• Photographic film processors
• Play groups
• Printers
• Recycling
• Regional Co-operative Councils
• Rehabilitation to work service provides
• Rural community enterprises
• Sheltered accommodation providers
• Taxi Drivers
• Tourist information
• Trans-European co-operative
• Transition projects
• Urban community enterprises
• Voluntary sector infrastructure organisations
• Youth employment schemes
• Zero carbon projects

These cover a wide variety of co-operative structures, including:

• Co-operative LLPs
• Community Benefit Societies
• Community Finance Co-ops
• Community Interest Companies (CICs)
• Consortia
• Consumer co-ops
• Hybrids
• Marketing co-ops
• Multi-stake holder co-ops
• Secondary co-ops
• Service co-ops
• Special purpose vehicles
• Unincorporated associations
• Worker co-ops

The fact is that co-operative values and principles can be applied whenever an enterprising group of people come together. If you have an idea for a co-operative enterprise, don't be put off because it hasn't been done before – we'd love to hear from you and help you if we can.