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£2,000 prize announced for platform co-op start-ups

A £2,000 start-up grant is on offer to budding digital co-operatives, who have been invited to…

End of year review 2016 – Conferences

January: Ways Forward 4 Conference Ways Forward 4: Building an Economy to Serve People Not Profit, held…

Preview of the Ways Forward 5 Conference: January 2017

Next month’s Ways Forward 5 Conference will be the fifth version of the event, exploring issues…

Improving lives through member groups

Over £20 of social value is returned for every £1 spent on Central England Co-operative member…

International Co-operative Alliance for Asia-Pacific elects new board

The regional assembly of the International Co-operative Alliance for Asia and Pacific has elected a new…

Government Green Paper proposes having workers on boards on a voluntary basis

The UK government has published a green paper outlining proposals for corporate governance reform – including a suggestion to…

Community for Renewables acquires the largest community solar project in the UK

Communities for Renewables (CfR) has announced the purchase and financing of the UK’s largest community solar…

Co-ops react to Cadbury’s Fairtrade logo swap

The UK’s most famous chocolate maker Cadbury is changing the way it works with Fairtrade in…

Our view: Caring for the community through collaboration

Co-operatives abide by the principle to care for the community, but how are they actually doing…

How can co-ops explain to members what ‘having a say’ means?

Experts in member engagement told delegates at the Practitioners Forum in Manchester that co-ops should listen to…

Theresa May abandons promise to mandate workers on boards

Theresa May has gone back on her Tory leadership campaign pledge to have worker representation on…

New online community is launched to support co-ops

Co-operatives UK is launching an online community where new and existing co-ops can ask questions, offer…