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Meet … Sarah Batterbee, Grindleford Community Shop

How one of the UK's community businesses has led local efforts to help people through the…

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…

Europe-wide project to teach co-operation to the next generation

The Co-operative College will join partners in the UK and on the continent to teach young…

Co-operatives UK and partner organisations launch community activist platform

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

A fond farewell: Ed Mayo looks back on his time at Co-operatives UK

Co-op News speaks to Mr Mayo as he moves on from his role at the helm…

Plunkett Foundation secures support from the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation

The funding will be used to help grow and support the UK rural community business sector

Wales Co-op Centre highlights sector’s resilience in the face of pandemic

'The focus for the majority of established social enterprises in Wales during this pandemic, if not…

Amsterdam city council allocates funding for housing co-op projects

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

Ecology Building Society appoints two non-executive directors to its board

Engineer Merry Mashford and climate change actuary Louise Pryor bring 'a diverse range of expertise, experience…

Where next after Covid-19?A co-operative outlook in the USA

'If we are gearing up toward a surge in worker ownership in the US, we’ve got…

Denis Goldberg: A man of hope

The veteran of the struggle against apartheid in South Africa would go on to serve as…

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