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Community business

Sussex food co-op faces closure as funding dries up

March 7, 2025
Miles Hadfield

Havens Food Co-op collects and redistributes over-produced, mislabelled and 'wonky' food from supermarkets

Worker co-ops

Textile co-ops paying the price of Milei’s austerity in Argentina

February 10, 2025
Anca Voinea

Informal workers abandoned by the state are organising co-ops with union support

Politics & Legal

Co-operators mobilise to save Birmingham’s community spaces

January 4, 2024
Miles Hadfield

'Our preference would be to help communities create their own groups with us offering a facilitating…

Community

Save Birmingham campaign for community spaces salutes cross-party support

November 14, 2023
Miles Hadfield

'Working with communities and partners, we can help them to protect community places through co-operative solutions…

Politics & Legal

Co-ops West Midlands in fight to save cash-strapped Birmingham’s community assets

September 28, 2023
Miles Hadfield

The Save Birmingham campaign wants to save local spaces from a fire sale after the city…