Lincolnshire Co-op youth scheme praised by Business in the Community

Around 130 young people have completed the scheme over the past five years

Grants of up to £100,000 are available for community energy businesses

The programme was designed to help the sector innovate and deliver more holistic and integrated local…

Croydon Plus credit union rebrands as Your Community Bank

'It’s a name that better reflects our members, our values, and the role we play in…

Future Co-ops to explore community building to defeat the far right

The next Co-operative Futures event is to take place in Birmingham in spring 2026

Co-op Party calls to strengthen Scottish Community Wealth Building bill

Party wants a greater role for co-operatives, social enterprises, and employee-owned businesses

Can community wealth-building help address Reform’s rise?

Report from the recent Co-operative Party conference, with speakers from the Co-op Group, BSA and Usdaw

Co-op Group to stock pasties from prison-leavers’ social business

HMPasties, which offers jobs and training to prison leavers, is launching into almost 80 of the…

Rural co-op network works to drive community ownership

Updates on the Co-operative Retail Society Network, a development partnership between retail societies and Plunkett UK

Labour’s £5bn community renewal plan includes co-op development unit

Starmer's government, which is looking to revive its fortunes in the polls, hopes the plan will…

Midcounties community fund gives more than £200k to 680 causes

The co-op's Doing Good Together Fund has been running for a year, with local groups chosen…

Oxfordshire co-op turns office space into community hub

Wolvercote Mill, one of 31 new ventures supported by Midcounties Co-op, will adhere to 'ethical, humane…

Villagers add their local to UK family of community pubs

The Lion at Ickleton, Cambs, has been bought by locals with after a share offer, a…