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Government need to consider mutual housing

A fringe meeting hosted by the Commission on Co-operative and Mutual Housing briefed delegates on its report on the co-operative and mutual housing sector across England.
July 30 2010
Category: Wider Co-op Movement

Blow to Co-op Trust schools

The Government’s scaling-back of the Building Schools for the Future (BSF) programme is to affect a number of co-operative schools.
July 22 2010
Category: Wider Co-op Movement

Worker co-operatives look for brand

An initiative to transform co-operatives into a strong social brand for good will help with increased public recognition, according to a Congress speaker.
July 20 2010
Category: Wider Co-op Movement

How the modernised Toad Lane museum is set to look and, inset, the building today

Rochdale's Toad Lane museum receives £2.3m makeover

Rochdale’s Pioneers Museum — the birthplace of the Co-operative Movement — is set to be redeveloped following £1.5 million of funding from the Heritage Lottery Fund.
July 20 2010
Category: Wider Co-op Movement

Government's Big Society looks for mutual ideas

The Minister for the Cabinet Office Francis Maude has called for co-operative and mutual ideas to help sustain public services in the Government's Big Society proposals.
July 19 2010
Category: Wider Co-op Movement

DIVERSE CHANGE … Will Hutton says co-ops can help make the UK much stronger

Co-operatives can be the model to run the UK

Government adviser Will Hutton has told the Co-operative Movement to seize the moment to promote co-operation throughout the country.
July 19 2010
Category: Wider Co-op Movement

In pictures: Durham Gala 2010

Tens of thousands of marchers and spectators turned out in the summer sunshine for the Co-op Group-sponsored Durham Miners Gala and, even though were a couple of showers later in the day, this failed to dampen enthusiasm for this 139 year-old event which is going from strength to strength despite the demise of the Durham coalfield.
July 14 2010
Category: Wider Co-op Movement