Community Structure
Govan Workspace belongs neither to the public or private sectors. It is a community-based enterprise, owned and controlled by local people, whose primary objective is the creation of employment in Govan. All profits are reinvested in the work of the company or put to other appropriate community uses. The Board of Directors is elected by the company’s wider membership which is open to those willing to subscribe to its objectives.

Economic Development Strategy
The company has chosen to concentrate its efforts during the past 22 years on the development of premises that would stimulate employment creation in Govan. The results of that strategy have been encouraging. There are now 500 jobs. At the same time there are impressive assets valued at around £2m.

But away from property, Govan Workspace has ambitious plans for the long- term expansion of its work. As profitability increases, the company will become more able to direct resources to the creation of local employment in different ways. Such as lending support to local people moving into self-employment, or introducing innovative training schemes to assist the long term unemployed. When that time comes, one of the company's greatest strengths is likely to be its independence as a community-owned business working to find real solutions to unemployment at the local level.

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