Why is GAWDS a Private Limited Company?
Again a trawl through the early emails related to the development of GAWDS will reveal that I spent a lot of time thinking about and talking to members and informed advisors – to find the best way to constitute this new organisation. For a period of time I was in favour of making it a cooperative – but I also looked at other types of organisation. (At this point the website had already been set up – originally gawds.co.uk and then moved to www.gawds.org.) I’m not an expert in the area of setting up organisation, so I took advice – from members, but also from local enterprise advisors, e.g. Scottish Enterprise. The advice I got combined with my own experience – both being part of a previous organisation with similar aims – and from working in the Voluntary Sector and seeing first hand the difficulties encountered by Director led organisations – brought me to the conclusion that the most effective way was as a Private Limited Company. All of the other ways of constituting GAWDS entailed
