Community-owned Hastings Pier enters administration

The award-winning project, which restored the fire-damaged site and reopened it last year, hit financial difficulties…

Illinois food co-op is named ‘Best Small Business in America’

The community grocery won the $10,000 from Rubicon Global, which works with small firms to develop…

Goat dung to power local community energy project

Totnes Renewable Energy Society has been given an £18k grant to study the feasibility of the…

Community Impact Index: Q&A with our expert panel

What are the latest trends for community investment and how can businesses increase their impact? We…

Co-ops and community impact: Getting to grips with narrative reporting

This is an area where co-operatives should be leading the field, according to a narrative reporting…

£8m community development programme launched to grow co-ops

The five-year programme from Co-operatives UK and Power to Change will look at ways to build…

Midcounties funeral business offers ‘envionmentally friendly’ coffin

The coffins, made in Gloucester by LifeArt, use waste and offcut forestry wood and produce lower…

Another threatened local pub transfers to community ownership

The Gardeners Rest in Neepsend, Sheffield, has been bought by its regulars after a community share…

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,…