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Midcounties Co-operative nominated for Environmental Sustainability Award

The judging panel praised Co-op Energy, owned by Midcounties, for being the UK’s leading supporter of…

The ILO: from 1919 to current day

Stirling Smith celebrates the centenary of the United Nations agency with a mandate to promote co-operatives

Southend taxi co-op launches operations in neighbouring Rochford

The team also supported Cardiff Taxis Co-operative through its launch in March

Regulatory failures and the fall of the Co-op Bank

Paul Gosling looks at the Mark Zelmer report on the actions of the FSA

Ed Sheeran makes the Co-op’s funeral music top ten

Frank Sinatra’s ‘My Way’ remains the top choice for funeral songs but there are no hymns…

Annual profits at Ecology Building Society pass the £1m mark

'Our continued growth and record results show that finance that benefits people and planet can be…

Q&A: Deb Oxley, the Employee Ownership Association

'An increase in the number of businesses that give employees a voice and a stake will…

How are employee-owned businesses different from other enterprises?

Insight from Co-operatives UK, Calverts and the Worker Co-op Council

Q&A: Lucy Humphrey and Tony Carr, social care worker co-op Leading Lives

The model gives employees the chance to take greater responsibility for the running and development of…

Co-ops and mutuals earn more than £130bn a year, says report

The All-Party Parliamentary Group for Mutuals wants legal reforms to help build a more diverse and…

Countdown begins to 150th Co-op Congress

The 2019 event takes place on 21-22 June in Manchester

Welsh community groups can bag share of new £1m Co-op Foundation fund

Money is available for projects which make community spaces more environmentally sustainable