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Design for a community farm in Haringey

Architects design with co-op inspiration

An architecture co-operative is hoping to prove that when it comes to good design, the views of the people using a building matter just as much, if not more than, those of the architects.
April 19 2011
Category: Wider Co-op Movement

Part of the Huddersfield Local Food Systems group are Selina Paget; Steve Smith; Dan McTiernan, co-founder of The Handmade Bakery; Making Local Food Work’s Tamara Schiopu; Green Valley Grocer’s Graham Mitchell; Jean Margetts; and Making Local Food Work’s Nina Dales

Co-operatives respond to a future for food

Awareness of the Co-operative Movement is increasing at a rapid rate. From high profile media coverage of how community ownership holds the answer to the problem of declining rural services to primetime television adverts publicising the Co-operative Revolution, our Movement is becoming increasingly recognised as a viable answer to some of the problems posed by the current austerity measures facing communities.
April 08 2011
Category: Wider Co-op Movement

Co-op ethos can help re-shape UK’s railway network

“There is a remarkable paradox about the state of Britain’s railways today,” says Christian Wolmar in a new booklet, commissioned and published by Co-operatives UK. “On the one hand, they are fantastically successful, attracting more passengers than at any time in their history and are the subject of a massive investment programme which has for the most survived the worst of the cuts.
April 08 2011
Category: Wider Co-op Movement

High-flyer Shaherazad Umbreen

Midlands Co-op set for a stylish retail makeover

The Co-op may, as the advert says, be “good with food.” But in some parts of the UK, its retail sector is reaching out way beyond the kitchen into other parts of the home.
March 29 2011
Category: Retail Societies

Board members from the Tanzania Federation of Co-operatives meeting Julius Nyrere, former President of Tanzania

College rescues East Africa's rich co-op history

Co-operatives have a long history in East Africa, with some over 75 years old.
March 29 2011
Category: Worldwide Co-operation

Researcher Paul Stolk speaks with youngsters in Scotland to discover the benefits of angling. Picture: Trevor Walker Photography (trevorwalker.co.uk)

Research group provide social Substance

An innovative Manchester-based co-op has just published its social audit report, to celebrate its fifth year of trading.
March 25 2011
Category: Wider Co-op Movement

Ed Mayo is advising the Government on how co-operatives can fit into the coalition’s ‘right to provide’ initiative

Government needs answers to help public servants set up co-ops

One in six of today’s public servants could be engaged in mutual organisations that run their services on contract to government within four years, according to Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude — architect of the ‘right to provide’ initiative.
March 16 2011
Category: Politics

John Bowes speaks at a Fairtrade event in Keswick