Oxford to explore impact of community-led housing

The city council has commissioned research to look at housing set up by the community, including…

Welsh community launches turbine share offer on Go Green Day

The community benefit society is backing climate change charity Size of Wales in a bid to…

Plunkett Foundation backs CAMRA call for business rates relief on pubs

Campaigners warn a hike in rates will add to pressure on a pub sector which is…

New co-op partnership launched to support community projects

The pilot scheme from Co-op Foundation and Co-operative & Community Finance will focus on community centres,…

The only community-owned forest in Nova Scotia sets out its stall

Medway Community Forest Co-operative manages 12,000 acres in an effort to create a sustainable timber industry

IndyCube co-op joins forces with Community union to boost self-employment rights

The new venture will offer legal representation, invoice factoring and office space to UK freelancers

Fonterra receives NZ Co-operative Business of the Year award

New Zealand's largest company - a dairy co-op owned by 10,500 farmers - is one of…

Lessons from north America: the power of community-owned food stores in the age of grocery giants

In Canada, 80% of grocery sales go to just five retailers. Author and co-operator Jon Steinman…

Co-op Group backs Kenyan Fairtrade tea farmers with new community resource centre

The retailers will build a new community resource centre in Kenya to support Fairtrade farmers

How community pubs and shops are helping villages thrive

Two reports from Plunkett Foundation, the support organisation for community-owned shops and pubs, show how such…

Co-operative Congress 2017: Reimagining community by turning assets into co-ops

‘We need to persuade people to see social value as an economic outcome’

Employee ownership: The business model of the future?

'We believe that employees should use capital rather than capital using employees'