Jim Brown
Co-operative advisor
            Freelance
      
                                      
                                      Specialism
      Business planning
              Engagement and consultation, including volunteering
              Business planning
              Business turnaround (organisations in crisis)
              Community shares
              Financial management and planning
              Fundraising (social investment)
              Governance (legal options)
              Governance (set up)
              Organisational development (start-up)
              Organisational development (maturity)
              Organisational development (growth)
              Organisational development (diversification)
          Region
      South West
              London
              Wales
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              I am the strategic adviser to the Community Shares Unit, now partly retired, but still working in a freelance capacity a couple of days a month.
I work on matters relating to community shares, business appraisals, community investment and the development of innovative approaches to inclusive enterprise. I have worked for the Community Shares Unit since its inception, and before that, I have worked with and for the co-operative movement since the late 1970s.