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Credit unions look to new products and regulation at Abcul conference

The event brought insights on community lending from the US, input from regulators and updates on…

Fairtrade and retail: How farmers benefit from your purchases

As producers struggle with input cost inflation and climate change, Fairtrade is more vital than ever

Worker co-op buyout secures future of Yorkshire skate park

Co-director Cath Muller says the team was able to meet a tight deadline for the sale…

Book review: Visions of a co-operative democracy to reshape society

Cooperation: A political, economic and social theory, Bernard E Harcourt, Columbia £28

Co-op sector nominations in the Retail Week Awards

Central Co-op is in the running for responsible retailer while the Co-op Group has a store…

Employee-owned John Lewis is considering sale of minority stake to raise cash

The reports have sparked concern from the co-op sector – and led to renewed calls for reforms…

Southern Co-op gets ready to celebrate its 150th anniversary

The retailer was formed in 1873 as Portsea Island Mutual Co-operative Society, by dockyard workers fighting…

Sceptical response from co-op movement to Jeremy Hunt’s spring budget

A welcome for the £100m support fund for community business came alongside a call for more…

Welsh co-op development agency Cwmpas appoints new CEO

Bethan Webber, who joins from Home-Start Cymru, is 'a passionate advocate for social justice, equality and…

Co-op Group partners with Barnardo’s to help youth struggling through economic crisis

'Our work within communities has shown us the impact that the pandemic and the cost-of-living crisis…

John Lewis posts £234m loss as inflation bites the retail sector

The employee-owned retailer has also announced its new CEO, Nish Kankiwala, who has served on the…

Co-op Group brings its robot delivery service to Greater Manchester

The service will initially be available to 24,000 residents across 10,500 households in Sale