Lynx Training Ltd

Material relating to Lynx Training Ltd, a workers' co-operative.

Lynx Training Limited was a small workers' co-operative run by women which offered training in the community for long-term unemployed people, particularly focusing on women. Set up in 1987 many of its early projects were European funded projects. The co-operative stopped trading in 1998, however was not formally wound up until 2001.

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In October 2017, the National Co-operative Archive published a call-out for historic materials within the wider worker co-op community for Working Together , an Heritage Lottery Funded project seeking to record and preserve the heritage of the worker co-operative moment. This material was deposited in response to this call out.

Interview with Jane Watts (member of Lynx training), available to access at the National Co-operative Archive.