Dave Boyle

Dave Boyle advises community businesses and worked with The Bristol Cable and helped Positive News raise over £260,000 through a community share issue which saw it become owned by over 1,500 readers instead of a charitable trust.

Here’s how we mutualise the BBC

Two MPs proposed this week that the BBC become a mutual organization. Dave Boyle sets out how this could be done in practice.

By Dave Boyle

/ 31 Mar 2016

Responding to Myners: Notes on Co-operative Governance

Paul Myners is conducting a review of Governance of the Co-operative Group in the wake of the near-insolvency caused by the problems at the Bank formerly owned by the Group. In his reply to the Group’s consultation exercise, Dave Boyle makes some suggestions for constructive reform.

By Dave Boyle

/ 28 Mar 2014

Taking back the BBC: invert the pyramid and give power to the public

While we like to talk about the BBC as a public broadcaster, the public’s only real role is to pay for it. Where does the power lie in the Beeb – and how do we take it back into public hands?

By Dave Boyle

/ 17 May 2012

Mutualising the media: the answer to UK press ownership?

What would employee-owned or co-operative media models look like? Could they allow for genuine public interest journalism?

By Dave Boyle

/ 28 Nov 2011