Employee Ownership Association

The voice of co-owned business

Further help

Employee Ownership Association help and information are available to company owners, business advisers, financial institutions, employees and trade unions, policy makers, academics, journalists and others with an interest in employee ownership.

Information and help about employee ownership is available from these specialist bodies affiliated to the Employee Ownership Association:

Baxi Partnership
helps fund and structure employee buy-outs, helping employees buy the companies in which they work and helping owners sell their companies through all-employee buy-outs.

Equity Incentives
provides a full share plan service to private and quoted companies in the UK and overseas.

Other useful links include:

Links (Click on the organisation name to link to its website)

  • CBI – works with the government, international legislators and policy-makers to help businesses compete effectively.
  • Centre for Management Buy-Out Research – founded by Barclays Private Equity Limited and Deloitte at the Nottingham University Business School in March 1986 to monitor and analyse management buy-outs in a comprehensive and objective way.
  • Cobbetts – a leading law firm providing advice to mutual and co-operative organisations.
  • Co-operative & Community Finance – has been providing loan finance for co-operatives, employee owned businesses and social enterprises for 30 years.
  • Cooperative and Mutual Solutions (CMS) – an employee owned Industrial and Provident Society providing specialist consultancy support to co-operatives and social enterprises.
  • Cooperative Business Consultants – promotes participative and cooperative management methods and techniques.
  • Co-operatives UK – the apex organisation for co-operative enterprise in the UK, Co-ops UK promotes co-operative and mutual solutions, and works in partnership with its members to build a strong and successful co-operative movement.
  • Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform – aims to promote innovation, enterprise, and increased productivity.
  • Economic Partnerships – specialist advisors on social enterprise development.
  • Employee Share Ownership Centre – a subscription based consultancy which advises on employee financial participation.
  • HM Revenue & Customs – site includes detailed information on share schemes.
  • HM Treasury – site includes discussion related to employee share ownership.
  • ifs ProShare – a charitable body whose prime role is education about employee share ownership.
  • Ingram Winter Green – a commercial law firm providing a wide range of high calibre services to domestic and international businesses.
  • Involvement and Participation Association (IPA) – specialises in assisting unionised and non-unionised organisations to develop effective information and consultation processes and workplace partnership. Represented on the Board of the Employee Ownership Association.
  • Lee and Priestley – a Leeds based law firm that provides advice on every aspect of employee ownership to UK companies and has a specialist employee incentives team
  • Mutuo (Communicate Mutuality Limited) – brings together the different wings of the mutual sector to promote a common message of success and to encourage mutual approaches to business and public policy.
  • Postlethwaite & Co. Business Solicitors – advise on employee share plans.
  • Social Enterprise Coalition – brings together all types of social enterprise to promote the sector and share knowledge.
  • Succession London – a specialised consultancy service for owner managers on business succession.
  • The Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development – the professional body for those involved in the management and development of people.
  • The Cooperative Bank Financial Advisors
  • Tomorrow’s Company – a not-for-profit research and agenda-setting organization committed to creating a future for business which makes equal sense to staff, shareholders and society.
  • Trades Union Congress – representing over six and a half million working people, the TUC campaigns for a fair deal at work and for social justice at home and abroad.
  • Wales Co-opertive Centre –The  Co-operative Centre supports the development of co-operatives and social enterprises in Wales.
  • Wright Johnston & Mackenzie – legal specialists in employee share schemes.
  • Wrigleys Solicitors – services include specialist advice on employee ownership.

International Links

  • Australian Employee Ownership Association – The AEOA was founded in 1986 to promote employees' ownership (or co-ownership) of the businesses where they work.
  • The Beyster Institute for Entrepeneurial Employee Ownership – The Beyster Institute specializes in employee ownership, equity compensation and entrepreneurship.
  • European Federation of Employee Shareownership (EFES) – EFES acts as the European umbrella organization of employee owners and all persons, companies, trade unions, experts, researchers, institutions,
  • The Employee Ownership Foundation (USA) – The Employee Ownership Foundation's (EOF) primary purpose is to support programs that will increase the level of awareness and appreciation of the benefits of employee ownership and increase the number of employees who have access to this benefit.
  • National Center for Employee Ownership – The National Center for Employee Ownership (NCEO) is a private, nonprofit membership and research organization that serves as the leading source of accurate, unbiased information on employee stock ownership plans (ESOPs), broadly granted employee stock options and related programs, and ownership culture.
  • Ohio Employee Ownership Center – The Ohio Employee Ownership Center provides outreach, information, and preliminary technical assistance to Ohio employees and business owners interested in exploring employee ownership.
  • Ownership Associates Inc. – Ownership Associates is an international consulting firm providing a range of services to corporations interested in broadening ownership and workplace participation opportunities for employees. Ownership Associates specializes in the design and implementation of education and training programs concerned with ownership, participation, and financial basics for employees, and in organizational development and corporate culture change initiatives.

 

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