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UN declares International Year of Co-operatives every 10 years

General Assembly adopts resolution to recognise the global importance of co-ops - and makes plans to…

US credit unions welcome restored federal funding for CDFIs

The CDFI Fund, along with a rolling loan fund for credit unions, had been axed during…

Labour policies threaten rural co-ops, warns Plunkett UK

Responding to a call for evidence from rural MPs, the charity makes a set of recommendations…

MP tables bill to require big banks to work to credit unions and CDFis

Labour/Co-op MP Gareth Thomas's bill is aimed at increasing lending to small businesses and co-operatives and…

Molly Scott Cato: Green Party is a good match for co-op movement

James Hawksworth talks to the co-operator and former MEP about the shifting UK political landscape

Can co-ops help end capital extraction in the UK care system?

A report from the Centre for Local Economic Strategies calls on councils to redirect their care…

2025: In memoriam

Tributes to some of the co-operators, and high profile supporters of the movement, who we lost…

2025 in review: Co-op stories from the year

A selection of some of the news we've carried over the past 12 months

New year’s honours list includes co-operators Peter Hunt and Ed Mayo

Mutuo CEO Peter Hunt and former Co-operatives UK secretary general Ed Mayo receive MBEs, while the…

2025 in review: Joe Fortune

Secretary general, Co-operative Party

2025 in review: Jim Robbins

Chair of the Co-operative Councils’ Innovation Network (CCIN)

Kuwait’s co-ops rack up $3bn in sales amid privatisation rumours

Kuwait’s Union of Consumer Co-operative Societies has highlighted the importance of co-ops to the national economy