Dr. Bridget Carroll:

Yes, certainly.

Anecdotally and through research done in the late 1990s and early 2000s that indicated that the ports of first call for people establishing businesses are solicitors and accountants who would not be familiar with co-operative forms, worker or otherwise. It was similar with banks to a certain extent, although that probably moved on. If you had a strong business case and a feasibility study and so on over time that probably changed somewhat. Certainly the ports of first call have been less familiar with the co-operative model for all types of co-operatives including worker co-operatives.