Features

Obituary: Lifelong co-operator Winifred Knowles

Elaine Dean remembers loyal and creative Central England colleague

Meet … Kay Johnson MBE, founder of the Larder in Preston

'I’m not a boss, I don’t want to manage people, I want to work with them.…

Q&A: Jane Avery, president of Central England Co-operative

'As president I stand on the shoulders of people who have worked hard for the society…

Obituary: Madge Eccles

A stalwart of the Co-op Women's Guild, the retail movement and the Labour Party

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

Would co-operatives make tea taste better?

Pay and conditions in the industry are in a race to the bottom says Stirling Smith…

Martha and Richard Anker: five decades of campaigning for decent incomes

A new benchmark which will make it easier to estimate a living wage for small farmers…

Principle 5 plots the revival of the Sheffield Co-operator

The Yorkshire Co-operative Resource Centre is planning a new edition of the historic title for next…

Co-op News: informing and educating about co-operation

'The frequency, design and layout of the News may have changed over the years, but the…

Meet … Sharmila Thakuri from the Nepal Society of Co-operative Journalists

'We, as journalists, are like a bridge between government, the movement and the people'

Can co-ops calm the social media storm?

Amid concern over fake news and polarised debate can co-op ways of working lead to a…