USDA announces $1bn in loan guarantees for rural businesses

Co-ops are among businesses that could benefit from this measure

Cooperatives Europe welcomes European Commission’s Covid-19 recovery plan

The package will direct €750bn in grants and loans to help businesses recover and drive digitisation…

Co-operatives UK and partner organisations launch community activist platform

Co-operatives UK is one of the organisations backing the project

Amsterdam city council allocates funding for housing co-op projects

The council thinks co-ops can help to address the lack of affordable housing

Worker co-op training programmes: key lessons from the US and Canada

UK co-operators heard about worker co-ops' training programmes and their approaches to inclusion and diversity

Central England Co-op launches call and collect service

The service aims to support vulnerable members during the Covid-19 crisis

CREW Energy wins Power to Change grant

The funding will be used to deliver renewable heat to Londoners in Wandsworth and Merton

Southern Co-op raises cash to thank medics who saved a colleague

The co-op raised money for the Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust who saved the…

US House of Representatives adopts HEROES stimulus act: Co-op movement responds

Put forward by the Democratic Party, the bill introduces reforms that will impact the co-operative and…

Korean federation helps to grow the credit union movement in Uganda

The South Korean credit union movement is helping to set up credit co-ops in Uganda

CFCFE releases research on credit unions and Covid-19

The paper is based of responses from 24 British credit unions and support organisations

Fairtrade International launches producer relief and resilience funds

The funds will address short-term Covid-19 immediate needs as well as long-term recovery efforts