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Federations and co-op apexes

Applications open for Co-operatives UK’s Youth Advisory Group

August 8, 2025
Alice Toomer-McAlpine
Consumer co-op

REI co-op reaches deal with workers for a path to union contracts

August 8, 2025
Alice Toomer-McAlpine
The agreement includes a national bargaining structure and wage increases for workers at union stores who had been denied them
Banking and Insurance

Second CCDS offer from Ecology Building Society now open

August 7, 2025
Miles Hadfield
The lender is looking to raise up to £6.5m of additional capital to support the next phase of its ambitious growth plans
Consumer co-op

Chelmsford Star members make final approval of Central merger

August 7, 2025
Miles Hadfield
Community business

Plunkett UK and Wates Developments launch community business plan

August 6, 2025
Miles Hadfield
Retail

Co-op Group launches chain of food-for-now stores

August 6, 2025
Miles Hadfield
Agriculture

Two US dairy co-ops settle milk price-fixing lawsuit

August 6, 2025
Anca Voinea

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UK credit unions trial green lending to power home retrofits

August 8, 2025
Miles Hadfield
Consumer co-op

Midcounties co-hosts roundtable to tackle youth unemployment

August 8, 2025
Miles Hadfield
Energy

US electric co-ops back bill to reform federal disaster response 

August 7, 2025
Anca Voinea
Credit Unions

Credit union acts on financial education and youth homelessness

August 7, 2025
Miles Hadfield
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Lender drops credit union name to rebrand as Northern Community Bank

August 5, 2025
Miles Hadfield
Credit Unions

Four US credit unions finalise mergers

August 4, 2025
Anca Voinea

Spotlight: Co-operation in times of displacement

Development

Britain’s co-op sector is lagging behind – so what can it learn from abroad?

July 30, 2025
Anca Voinea
Federations and co-op apexes

My key takeaways from the Cecop general assembly in Krakow

June 11, 2025
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Co-operatives help to correct the imbalance in trade 

May 13, 2025
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Federations and co-op apexes

The global co-op movement makes plans for 2025 and beyond

July 22, 2025
Anca Voinea
Ariel Guarco, president of the International Cooperative Alliance, looks to the future after the apex’s General Assembly in the UK
Federations and co-op apexes

Co-operators gather in Greater Manchester

July 3, 2025
Rebecca Harvey
The International Cooperative Alliance and the UK’s Co-op Congress celebrate 180 years of co-operation

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