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'

Social business sector worth £2.37bn to the Welsh economy

A new study identified 1,698 organisations working in the sector, supporting approximately 40,800 jobs