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Five US co-ops to share $170,000 in grants for development projects

The funding, from Capital Impact Partners and the National Cooperative Bank, will benefit low income areas…

Co-op Foundation’s new strategy puts young people at the centre

The Foundation’s 2022-27 strategy focuses on ‘Building communities of the future together’

Community-owned October Books makes a call for more member investors

'The aim is to secure the long-term financial future of October Books while providing a future…

The Bevy: Co-op pub prepares to help its community weather economic storm

The Brighton local has long been involved in community support work – and now it is…

Residents buy local chapel to turn it into a community centre

Kingsley Holt Chapel, in Staffordshire, was registered as an asset of community value and bought with…

Cooperation Jackson fights for a solution to the US city’s water crisis

'We must be clear about building and fighting for the practical community-based solutions to the water…

Yorkshire social club gets new lease of life as a community asset

High Harrogate Working Men's Club is being refurbished as a community benefit society with funding from…

Unicorn co-op relaunches ‘Grow a Grocery’ guide

'We’ve always had a mission to create social and environmental change ... There is room for…

Samaritans ‘stunned’ by record donation from Tamworth Co-op

The retail society has given the biggest ever single payment from its Community Dividend Fund to…

Australian co-op apex launches country’s first development fund for the sector

BCCM says the Bunya Fund will support five early-stage or prospective co-ops as they build capacity…

What’s next for the Global Innovation Coop Summit?

Next month's event brings together leading co-operators and experts from outside the movement to discuss issues…

Campaign to bring the union co-op model to the UK

'There is a long history of shared activism and solidarity between co-operatives and unions that people…