Practitioners Forum: Vital lessons for key co-operators

Delegates can pick and mix from strands on communications; finance; governance; HR; and membership

Social Business: safeguarding the future of Wales?

'We know we can create jobs. We have immense power within this movement to make a…

Aura Leisure named Welsh Social Enterprise of the Year

Other winners include Community Impact Initiative, Down to Earth, Fern Partnership, Awel Aman Tawe and Innovate…

What can co-ops learn from the golden age of piracy?

Writer Sam Conniff Allende tells us what modern-day challenger businesses can learn from the swashbucklers who…

FairTrade under pressure: What now for the movement after 25 years?

'Almost all Fairtrade is co-operative and the best of it connects co-operatives through the supply chain'

Co-op Group to host 12 live events this autumn

The 'Join In Live' sessions will highlight the work the organisation is doing above and beyond…

‘Be more pirate’: a unique take on business development at September’s Social Business Wales Conference 

Author Sam Conniff-Allende will address this year’s Social Business Wales Conference in September

Ted Howard, architect of the Cleveland Model, on the journey to a new economy

The social justice advocate tells how the lessons he learned from Mondragon to work in a…

Co-op culture as a dangerous idea in Victorian Britain

Manchester University is running an English literature module which looks at 19th century co-operation

Coop Exchange – the future of co-operative growth?

Stephen Gill from VME talks to the News about a mobile app that allows anyone in…

Decent work and a decent income. It’s not much to ask, is it?

Gelkha Buitrago, director of standards & pricing at Fairtrade International, on how co-ops make a difference

International development: the co-op principles in practice

Building partnerships to encourage co-operative growth around the world