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What Web 2.0 can learn from medieval co-ops

There seems to be an ongoing proliferation of e-commerce sites offering bulk-purchasing services (and savings)...
Adrian Ashton 5 September 2011
Credit Unions
When is the Big Society NOT the Big Society? (when it’s the co-op movement…)

The Big Society rumbles ever onwards, and there still seems to be widespread confusion about...
Adrian Ashton 21 July 2011
Credit Unions
It’s good to talk (and drink, and argue…)

So – this week saw the inaugural co-operative enterprise hub conference.
Adrian Ashton 13 May 2011
Credit Unions
When is a co-op not a co-op?

There’s a famous surrealists’ riddle that asks “what’s the difference between a duck?” To which,...
Adrian Ashton 7 February 2011
Credit Unions
If we’re to be a movement, we need to stop listening to our leaders…

Time and again, there's a rallying call that talks of social enterprise as a 'movement'....
Adrian Ashton 28 September 2010
Credit Unions
Co-ops are ‘punching below their weight’…

So said Dame Pauline Green, chair of the International Co-operative Alliance, at the excellent Futures...
Adrian Ashton 14 September 2010
Credit Unions
do we need a new co-op model for Transition?

The Transition Towns movement is well recognised, credible and attracting increasing amounts of interest. It...
Adrian Ashton 14 July 2010
Business
Could social enterprise benefit from using a co-operative identity?

Co-operative enterprises are extremely varied in their basis for membership, forms and structures, but all...
Adrian Ashton 14 June 2010
Credit Unions
the Conservative Co-operative Movement – hoisted by its own petard?

A few years back, there was something akin to outcry when the conservative party announced...
Adrian Ashton 23 February 2010
Credit Unions
does your legal form make you a social enterprise?

The current launch of the national social enterprise mark has brought to the fore once...
Adrian Ashton 15 February 2010

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There seems to be an ongoing proliferation of e-commerce sites offering bulk-purchasing services (and savings)...

The Big Society rumbles ever onwards, and there still seems to be widespread confusion about...

So – this week saw the inaugural co-operative enterprise hub conference.

There’s a famous surrealists’ riddle that asks “what’s the difference between a duck?” To which,...

Time and again, there's a rallying call that talks of social enterprise as a 'movement'....

So said Dame Pauline Green, chair of the International Co-operative Alliance, at the excellent Futures...

The Transition Towns movement is well recognised, credible and attracting increasing amounts of interest. It...

Co-operative enterprises are extremely varied in their basis for membership, forms and structures, but all...

A few years back, there was something akin to outcry when the conservative party announced...

The current launch of the national social enterprise mark has brought to the fore once...