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The growth of the employee ownership model

What lessons can the wider movement – including worker co-ops – draw from the rapid growth…

Community investment in co-ops: Not such a new idea!

Andrew Bibby looks at some of the historical precedents of the community shares model

New international working group for UK co-ops

A sub-group of Co-operatives UK, the body will support the planning of international activity by the…

Raising awareness through co-operative education

Two new initiatives aim to raise awareness about co-operatives, particularly among young people

Secondary co-ops: The key to building new co-op hotspots?

'If you have a strong community of co-ops it creates a culture. There’s a sense of…

How co-operative law helps co-ops grow

'Law is one of the means to ascertain which of those entities, which claim to be…

Who counts the co-ops?

We kick off the new year with a series of articles on issues around co-op growth…

New report explores barriers to growing the UK’s purpose-driven finance sector

We talked to Marloes Nicholls and Dr Gemma Bone Dodds of the Finance Innovation Lab to…

Q&A: Robert Kelly

Chief executive, the Association of British Credit Unions

2020 Q&A: Glenn Bowen

Director of enterprise at the Wales Co-operative Centre

In memoriam: Some of the friends the co-op movement lost in 2020

Remembering some of the friends the movement lost this year

Looking back on 2020: A year in co-operation

The global movement responded to the unprecedented challenges of Covid-19 - but continued to innovate and…