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Features >> Wider Co-op Movement
Co-ops find a home at Hay Festival
It's true that Hay-on-Wye may be more famous for its bookstores than co-operatives — but the Movement does play its part in making the Hay Festival a success.
May 13 2011
Category: Wider Co-op Movement
Fans are top of the league at AFC Wimbledon
Plough Lane is a dense, ugly and lifeless property development in South London. The sign on one of the walls as you enter blandly reads ‘no ball games’, which is perhaps one clue as to its origins, as the site used to be a football club — the heady high-flying, long-ball days of Wimbledon FC.
May 12 2011
Category: Wider Co-op Movement
Raise a glass for co-op pubs
It is perhaps not too surprising, but it appears there are few businesses that matter more to communities than their local pubs. Further evidence has come in the last month in Cumbria with one village pub reopening under co-operative ownership and another pressing ahead with plans to do the same later in the year.
May 03 2011
Category: Wider Co-op Movement
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
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
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
Cut-backs lead to co-op scrap store
Moving from local authority employee to small worker co-operative member must be one of the biggest switches it’s possible to make, but it’s one a small team of workers made last spring — and nearly one year on, there are few regrets.
February 09 2011
Category: Wider Co-op Movement
Union helps to craft a future for disabled workers
A commitment by trade unionists not to turn their back on a factory closed as part of a national modernisation plan was rewarded last month when a new workers’ co-operative was officially launched.
November 24 2010
Category: Wider Co-op Movement
Holiday co-op hopes for a helping hand from sector
Brian Smith has spent most of his professional life as a top executive in the motoring industry. Now he is the driving force behind a co-operative holiday organisation, which is soon to celebrate its centenary.
November 21 2010
Category: Wider Co-op Movement
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