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