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How can credit unions build a successful brand?

'[Credit Unions] have all these dynamics in your DNA: be a mission with a company, not…

Re-imagining housing – how are co-op models helping to tackle the housing crisis?

Co-operative Congress held a session on housing, which looked at schemes such as new student housing…

How the union movement has joined modern calls for change

The world has seen resistance to neoliberalism and austerity - and organised labour has played an…

Remploy helps young people with a learning disability onto the jobs ladder

The social business is in the second year of a partnership with Gloucester College offering a…

Youth charities can apply for cash from the Co-op Foundation and #iwill fund

The partnership is offering £2m for charities working in deprived areas, to inspire young people to…

UK’s newest student housing co-op calls for members and begins property hunt

The venture is the latest addition to a movement that has seen viable co-ops established in…

French ethical search engine is investing profits in social projects and co-ops

Since its launch the search engine has grown to 700,000 users per month and a total…

We want a new Europe that cares for the real economy, sustainable development and social justice

As the European Union celebrates 60 years since the Treaty of Rome, co-operatives in industry and…

Review: Young money blogger Iona Bain looks at how to build better finances

Spare Change, Iona Bain (Hardie Grant Books, 2016) Author of the YoungMoneyBlog, financial blogger Iona Bain has…

CICOPA calls on young co-op entrepreneurs of the world for survey

The International Organisation of Industrial and Service Cooperatives (CICOPA) has launched on online survey on youth…

Book review: Ours To Hack and Own maps out the platform co-op model

Ours to Hack and to Own, edited by Trebor Scholz and Nathan Schneider (OR Books, 2016)…

We Own It campaign calls on next generation to create worker co-ops

A campaign to encourage young people to set up co-ops as alternative workplaces has reached half…