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Co-op Group partners with Steel Warriors charity to build gym from recycled knives

'Creating and protecting community spaces where people meet, exercise, play, learn and laugh together is so…

Australian credit union wins case over words ‘community bank’

'Mutuals are the original community lending model, they are owned by their members and have always…

Social Business: safeguarding the future of Wales?

'We know we can create jobs. We have immense power within this movement to make a…

Sri Lanka approves first ever national policy on co-operatives

Consultation work on the policy started in 2012, when policymakers spoke with co-ops in the war-torn…

Organic peanut co-op formed to boost business for farmers

‘We believe that this is a historical moment for Georgia agriculture’

NZ dairy co-op Fonterra posts net loss of $605m

'We need to be continuously reviewing our assets and making sure they are meeting the changing…

How do we build co-operative places? CCIN prepares for national conference

'As people get more wary and sceptical of mainline politics, they do understand that if you…

Scotmid reports 8% rise in trading profit for half-year results

Chief executive John Brodie said the result was 'in the face of challenging cost pressures and…

Ecology Building Society signs UN responsible banking pledge

'When the financial system shifts its capital away from resource-hungry, brown investments to those that back…

Aura Leisure named Welsh Social Enterprise of the Year

Other winners include Community Impact Initiative, Down to Earth, Fern Partnership, Awel Aman Tawe and Innovate…

Row continues over milk prices paid by Irish co-ops

'Co-ops must send a clear signal to farmers that they will hold the milk price to…

USA gets ready to celebrate National Co-op Month

This year, the theme for the campaign focuses on co-ops being run by and for communities