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‘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

Lincolnshire Co-op helps staff local wildlife trust

‘Funds will also let us pay for flowers and foliage, so we can recreate the county’s…

Obituary: Sean Moran and Dave Brooks, leading lights of Radical Routes

Cath Muller remembers two stalwarts of West Yorkshire’s worker co-op movement

Co-op Bank cuts first-half losses to £38.5m

The Bank, now owned by hedge funds after a financial crisis forced its sale by the…

Obituary: Alistair Asher, a crucial figure in the Co-op Bank rescue

As general counsel to the Co-op Group, Mr Asher recognised the crisis at the Bank posed…

Southern Co-op colleagues raise £2,000 for Totland nursery

The store organised two fundraising events and a mix of other activities for its colleagues and…

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…

Book review: How do we give economic power to the people?

'There’s a role for everyone in nourishing this potential next system'

Woodcraft Folk hosts week-long youth camp in Wye Valley

The camps, held every three years, are organised and run by young adult members of the…

Andy Burnham: Manchester mayor on devolution, climate change and co-ops

In an interview with Co-op News, Mr Burnham says the co-op sector could feed into the…

Central England Co-op and Co-op Party to campaign for food justice at Greenbelt

The three-day festival is devoted to the arts, faith and social justice

Claire McCarthy looks back on her time at the helm of the Co-op Party

'I’ve been inspired by some of the exciting innovations taking place at local government level ...…