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Village creates community store in response to closures and pandemic

Locals in Whitley and Shaw banded together after the local store and cafe closed at the…

Co-ops launch community share offer to give homes low-carbon retrofits

Carbon Co-op and Urbed want to raise £550,000 to eco-refurbish 1,150 homes and train 3,500 contractors…

Meet … Om Devi Malla, vice chair of Nepal’s co-op federation

'The lesson we have learnt for fostering an enabling environment for co-ops is to continuously lobby…

Lord Adebowale: Co-ops should work more closely with social enterprise

'The form that we choose is largely a matter of choice. We need to spend less…

New bid to scale up the community pub model

The People's Pub Partnership would operate a chain of pubs as a social enterprise, using a…

How a co-op past helped a journey to Olympic gold

'There’s an African proverb that says it takes a village to raise a child, and in…

US co-ops apex NCBA CLUSA makes a push for Principle 6

'Co-ops and credit unions should work together to press the advantages of their reputation as “honesty…

Midcounties Co-op works with local councils to fight school holiday hunger

The society is working with Dudley, Walsall and Shropshire councils to help feed more than 7,000…

Market reforms in Cuba could spark co-op conversions

President Miguel Diaz-Canel argues the economic reforms will stimulate development and growth

Funding boost for Malaysian co-op sector

The initiative forms part of the federal government’s RM 150 billion People’s Wellbeing and Economic Recovery…

Scotmid launches intervention scheme to get people out of crime

The pilot for Project RISE will encourage people in Leith to make positive life changes

National strategy for co-ops in Jordan

The strategy was developed with the technical and financial support from the ILO in Jordan