Setting Up

"Establishing a Local Development Committee"

Local development committees take responsibility for the local development of the delivery of credit unions services in their particular local area.

Local committees must comprise at least 6 people from the community and the committee needs to establish the need for credit union services locally. This can be achieved by:

• Identifying how many residents are in the area
  
• Identifying community groups and services in the area
  
• Identifying employers in the area
  
• Consultation meetings with residents, groups and employers
  
• Getting people to pledge to join the credit union
  
• Identify local resources that the credit union could access and utilise