A key element in CCMH's approach is gathering evidence about the future role of housing co-operatives and mutual housing organisations and encouraging interested parties to contribute views and ideas.

We positively welcome all comments about our work and any views, ideas or questions you might have for us.

Call for Evidence Paper

Call for Evidence Response Template

Overview of the Call for Evidence

The Commission's approach to gathering evidence is based upon that developed by the Monks Commission in 2001 on the ‘Co-operative Advantage', that used by Parliamentary Select Committees and a methodology developed by the Human City Institute (HCI) in its ‘futures hearings' events of the late 1990s.

The approach includes the following major elements:

• face-to-face hearings between groups of Commissioners and key sectors;
• face-to-face debates with various audiences including political and policy-making audiences;
• feedback sheets from those attending hearings and other events;
• a general call for written evidence from any interested parties based around a series of key questions;
• a targeted call for written evidence from specific organisations from which the Commission wants to hear;
• an interactive approach based around the Commission website and dedicated blog to encourage debate.

Holding Hearings

These are underway with others being planned and focus on the following:

• regional hearings with housing co-operatives in the main geographical areas of concentration;
• hearings with key related sectors - social housing sector, other mutuals, academics, HACT Ambassadors;
• hearings with Labour, Conservatives, Co-operative Party, Liberal Democrats, Co-operative Party, Green Party;
• a roundtable event with the New Statesman will take the form of a recorded roundtable discussion between 6-7 Commissioners and 6-7 others invited by the magazine.