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Why Employee Share Ownership Matters - 2025 Update

Second edition of the report reaffirms the significance of employee share ownership plans, providing a comprehensive update on the economic, social, and policy case for employee share ownership.

Direct Employee Share Ownership: A Catalyst For Social Mobility & Levelling-Up

An article in which David Craddock links social mobility to direct employee share ownership and explores the connection of social mobility to levelling-up.

Why Company Share Option Plans Are Worth A Fresh Look

In this article David Pett and Suzannah Crookes look at how CSOPs have been used until now; what changes could usefully have been made; and to what extent the legislative changes will make CSOP options more attractive to companies.

Enhancing Productivity And Reducing Inflation Through Employee Share Schemes

David Craddock offers a prescription for UK companies and the British Government on how to address the challenge to improve the nation’s industrial productivity through the application of employee share ownership economics.

Data Protection Regulation: Emerging Threats And Opportunities

Keynote speech to the Esop Centre’s Employee Share Plans & Trustees Conference 2022, Friday, 13 May 2022, at the Pomme d’Or Hotel, St Helier, Jersey.

Why Employee Share Ownership Matters

Esop Centre booklet that explains the benefits of employee share ownership and their attachment to a number of levels, from the micro to the macro.

Employee Share Ownership Reporting and Voting Template

Esop Centre promotes the disclosure of employee share ownership and voting in financial reports.

Role of employee financial participation

Report on the role of employee financial participation in creating jobs and reactivating the unemployed by Renate Weber for the European Parliament

Employee communications in troubled times

Presentation by David Craddock for The ESOP Institute and STEP Jersey Share Schemes and Trustees’ Seminar May 17 2019.

An economic and social audit of the 'City'

A report by Mick McAteer of the Financial Inclusion Centre for the TUC.

General economic environment and ESO

Presentation focusing on the Channel  Islands by David Craddock for the Esop Institute/STEP Guernsey seminar November 30 2018

Nuttall review of employee ownership

Independent review for BIS, by Graeme Nuttall, on employee ownership. Explains the obstacles to promoting employee owned companies, and sets out a framework for knocking them down. Makes recommendations to government on how to promote employee ownership.

A Plan for Trades Unions

Esop Centre chairman Malcolm Hurlston offers a five-point plan for trades unions. He encourages them to engage with employee share ownership and become an invaluable resource for workers to help them understand how they could benefit from share schemes. The speech was originally delivered at the ProEFP conference in October 2011 in Brussels.

Esop Centre HMRC statistics analysis 2012

The Esop Centre's review of the annual statistics on employee share ownership by HM Revenue & Customs. Despite government advocacy for employee share ownership, the number of companies offering an approved share scheme and the number of participants continues to fall.

HMRC Statistics Analysis - July 2011

The Esop Centre's review of the annual statistics on employee share ownership by HM Revenue & Customs. According to the Centre's analysis, a record number of companies in the UK operated a government approved share scheme last year. However, the headline upward movement belies a number of concerning trends.

Promoting Financial Participation in the EU 27 - May 2011

Conference report: London workshop organised to discuss the promotion of the financial participation in the EU27 (May 2011). The Esop Centre is the UK partner of the ProEFP programme of the European Economic and Social Committee.

Royal Mail Employee Shareholding: Lessons from the Past and Thoughts for the Future - January 2011

Two expert round-tables were organised to discuss the possible shape for the employee shareholding which will form part of the Royal Mail privatisation. In this paper you will find a review of various models used in the past when privatising state companies, and ideas for the future that would benefit the company and its workers.

Towards a Rational Common Framework - October 2010

Esop Centre lobbying report: Employee Share Ownership - Towards a Rational Common Framework. A silver bullet for the coalition government (December 2010). The paper led to a review of share scheme legislation in the UK by the Office of Tax Simplification.