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Community & Development

Research looks at potential for community wealth building in Australia

July 9, 2026
Miles Hadfield
Retail

Union sounds alarm as John Lewis announces plan to cut 200 jobs

July 9, 2026
Miles Hadfield
The employee-owned department store chain is considering axing gift-wrapping and currency-exchange services
Banking and Insurance

Indian government announces plan for life insurance co-op

July 9, 2026
Miles Hadfield
Minister Amit Shah said the venture will use the country’s huge co-operative network to offer financial services, with scale lowering costs
Consumer co-op

Co-op Group publishes gender pay gap analysis across supply chain

July 8, 2026
Miles Hadfield
Community business

OurCoop celebrates launch of 36 new co-ops since 2022

July 7, 2026
Miles Hadfield
Education

Inside the final years at Co-operative College

July 6, 2026
Co-operative News
Business

Post mortem study of co-op failure

July 6, 2026
Rebecca Harvey

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Retail

Scotmid Co-op recognised for work to support colleagues

July 9, 2026
Miles Hadfield
Energy

US co-ops apex NCBA joins Congressional forum on energy

July 9, 2026
Miles Hadfield
Credit Unions

Woccu co-pilots digital remittance between US and Guatemalan credit unions

July 8, 2026
Miles Hadfield
Education

Co-op College looks back over its final year at valedictory AGM

July 6, 2026
Miles Hadfield
Banking and Insurance

Co-operators ranked top insurer among Canada’s sustainability leaders

June 26, 2026
Miles Hadfield
Community

£4.5m Lottery funding boost for Middleton Co-operating

June 26, 2026
Miles Hadfield

Spotlight: Co-op learning around the world

Business

A century of ULCCS: A worker co-op success story from Kerala

July 3, 2026
Rebecca Harvey
Education

What next for co-op education? Lessons from Icbec

May 13, 2026
Co-operative News
Education

Lessons in education from the Cooperative University of Kenya

May 12, 2026
Rebecca Harvey

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Federations and co-op apexes

Celebrating #CoopsDay2026: How the world’s co-ops are building peace together

July 3, 2026
Rebecca Harvey
‘Let us continue building together the future we want and deserve, for ourselves and for the generations that come after us’
Community

Exiled for Existing: Co-op film shares LGBTQ+ stories from refugees

June 29, 2026
Susan Press
The premiere was held at Refugee Festival Scotland during Pride Month 2026

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