Patrick Conaty

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Pat Conaty is a founder and former Executive Director of the UK Social Investment Forum – the national association of socially responsible investment organisations. He is also an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Birmingham, a Research Associate at the University of Salford and since 2007 – a Fellow at New Economic Foundation.

Pat Conaty was educated at the University of California studying Political Economy. In the 90s he was Development Director of the Birmingham Settlement, an inner city community regeneration organisation. He led the setting up of inner city social enterprises: credit unions, Business Debtline, the Aston Reinvestment Trust, local Community Development Finance Institution – and ART Homes for home improvement finance.

One publication

• The Resilience Imperative. Co-operative Transitions to a Steady-State Economy

  Michael Lewis, Patrick Conaty, New Society Publishers, BC, Canada, June 2012

One proposal

• The Great Transition: Navigating Social, Economic, Ecological Change in Turbulent Times

  Michael Lewis, Patrick Conaty, October 2009

  CCCR, NEF, BALTA

  Español - français

12 Analyses/working papers/articles

• Trade union and co-operative innovations for precarious workers

  Patrick Conaty, Alex Bird, Cilla Ross, March 2018

• Organising precarious workers : Trade union and cooperative strategies

  A report for the TUC from Co-operatives UK and the Co-operative College

  Patrick Conaty, Alex Bird, Cilla Ross, January 2018

• Not Alone. Trade union and co-operative solutions for self-employed workers.

  Patrick Conaty, Alex Bird, Philip Ross, March 2016

• Democratic Money and Capital for the Commons. Strategies for Transforming Neoliberal Finance Through Commons-Based Alternatives.

  David Bollier, Patrick Conaty, January 2016

• A Collaborative Economy for the Common Good

  Patrick Conaty, 2015

• TOWARD AN OPEN CO-OPERATIVISM. A New Social Economy Based on Open Platforms, Co-operative Models and the Commons.

  A Report on a Commons Strategies Group Workshop Berlin, Germany August 27-28, 2014

  Patrick Conaty, David Bollier, August 2014

• Social Co-operatives a Democratic Co-production Agenda for Care Services in the UK

  Patrick Conaty, June 2014

• In trust

  Fabian Society review, Volume 126—No. 2

  Steve Bendle, Patrick Conaty, 2014

• Sweden’s JAK Bank Liberating community finance from the ball & chain of compound interest

  From book The Resilience Imperative – Co-operative Transitions to a Steady-state Economy, by Mike Lewis and Pat Conaty

  Michael Lewis, Patrick Conaty, 2012

• The Best of Three Worlds. Home Ownership combines housing affordability with equity and fairness.

  From book The Resilience Imperative – Co-operative Transitions to a Steady-state Economy, by Mike Lewis and Pat Conaty

  Michael Lewis, Patrick Conaty, 2012

• Affordability Locked In. Community land trusts – good news for households, communities, & taxpayers

  From book The Resilience Imperative – Co-operative Transitions to a Steady-state Economy, by Mike Lewis and Pat Conaty

  Michael Lewis, Patrick Conaty, 2012

• Common Ground - for Mutual Home Ownership

  Community land trusts and shared-equity co-operatives to secure permanently affordable homes for key workers

  Patrick Conaty, Johnston Birchall, Steve Bendle, Rosemary Foggitt, 2005