Editing Radical Routes (section)

==History==
Radical Routes emerged in 1986 from a network of people in London and Hull who wanted to develop workers' co-operatives.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Gosling |first1=Paul |title=Fund sells a stake in radical ventures: Paul Gosling reports on schemes to provide low-interest loans for alternative businesses at home and abroad |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/fund-sells-a-stake-in-radical-ventures-paul-gosling-reports-on-schemes-to-provide-low-interest-loans-1485656.html |access-date=21 September 2019 |work=The Independent |date=18 July 1993 |language=en |archive-date=21 September 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190921174226/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/fund-sells-a-stake-in-radical-ventures-paul-gosling-reports-on-schemes-to-provide-low-interest-loans-1485656.html |url-status=live }}</ref> The network agreed its common aims and adopted the name Radical Routes in 1988, and became incorporated as Radical Routes Limited in 1992.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.socialauditnetwork.org.uk/files/6613/7716/9465/Radical_Routes_social_accounts_2013_-_full_and_final.pdf|title=Radical Routes Social Accounts 2013|date=2013|website=Social Audit Network|page=3|access-date=28 October 2019|archive-date=28 October 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191028221714/http://www.socialauditnetwork.org.uk/files/6613/7716/9465/Radical_Routes_social_accounts_2013_-_full_and_final.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref> In 1998 Rootstock Limited was incorporated as an investment scheme supporting Radical Routes co-operatives.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.rootstock.org.uk/radical-routes.html|title=Radical Routes|website=www.rootstock.org.uk|access-date=27 October 2019|archive-date=28 October 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191028221717/https://www.rootstock.org.uk/radical-routes.html|url-status=live}}</ref> The original house in [[Hockley, West Midlands|Hockley]] was set up as the 'New Education Housing Co-op'.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Albery |first1=Nicholas |author-link1=Nicholas Albery |title=The Book of Visions: An Encyclopaedia of Social Innovations |date=1992 |publisher=Virgin |isbn=9780863696015 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HN_wAAAAMAAJ |access-date=25 March 2019 |language=en |archive-date=9 October 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221009210254/https://books.google.com/books?id=HN_wAAAAMAAJ |url-status=live }}</ref>

According to Rootstock, between 1991 and 2012 Radical Routes made over sixty loans to member co-ops – totaling over £1m – with no co-operatives defaulting on loan payments.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.rootstock.org.uk/radical-routes-loans.html|title=Radical Routes Loans|website=www.rootstock.org.uk|access-date=28 October 2019|archive-date=28 October 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191028221728/https://www.rootstock.org.uk/radical-routes-loans.html|url-status=live}}</ref> These loans have typically been used by member housing co-ops, in addition to finance from traditional lenders, to buy property.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://thebristolcable.org/2019/08/housing-coops-a-landlord-you-can-trust/|title=Housing coops: a landlord you can trust|date=27 August 2019|website=The Bristol Cable|language=en-GB|access-date=13 January 2020|archive-date=13 January 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200113041642/https://thebristolcable.org/2019/08/housing-coops-a-landlord-you-can-trust/|url-status=live}}</ref>