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Canadian co-operatives eligible for Black Entrepreneurship Loan Fund

Two credit unions are also partnering with the government to provide microloans to businesses and entrepreneurs

A new future: What next for the Co-operative College?

We speak with Nina Valvi, new head of business development, about the College’s past and future…

A chequered past: What has happened to the Co-op College?

A look back at the story of the College, leading up to its recent reorganisation

‘The most insightful co-op researcher of our day’: Ed Mayo remembers Johnston Birchall

The former secretary general of Co-operatives UK remembers one of the movement's leading thinkers

Obituary: Johnston Birchall, a scholar and champion for the co-op movement

The Stirling University professor spent 30 years studying the movement, including an important report on co-op…

The London Learning Cooperative: When Karl Marx meets the platform business model

'Our project aims to empower workers, so a workers’ co-operative was the logical choice'

Prince Charles says co-op model can help save small farms

'While there seems to be some deep-seated aversion to farmer co-operatives in this country, they work…

The New Internationalist: five decades of social and environmental journalism

Co-editor Amy Hall talked about the magazine's plans for the future as it approaches its 50th…

OCDC research highlights the co-operative difference in four countries

The report looks at co-ops in Kenya, Peru, Philippines and Poland

Lincolnshire Co-op announces increased trading surplus in half-year results

The society saw a strong performance in food but the pandemic affected its travel, petrol and…

18% of New Zealand GDP is generated by co-operatives

30% of the country's population are members of a co-op

Radstock Co-op returns to profit with operating surplus of £745k

CEO Don Morris paid tribute to the efforts of colleagues during the pandemic