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…

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…

Community right to buy announced as part of English Devolution Bill

Measures include right of first refusal to community groups on registered asset and a new category…

National decline, community pride: Co-op Party report looks at Britain

The report, compiled in partnership with Hope Not Hate, calls for more community-focused policy and devolution…