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Features
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FinancialCo-op Data Club: Using principle 6 to solve the capital conundrum
A new venture from Oliver Sylvester-Bradley of the Open Co-op and Leo Sammallahti of VME Coop
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TechnologyCoTech: IT collaboration to build new technology
'The mood over the last few years on the back of the 2019 election and the pandemic is one of urgency, to make a change ourselves'
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BusinessSister Midnight: Lewisham arts co-op looks to create a grassroots music venue
'You have to completely change your mindset to how businesses are run and how they should be run'
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Sector‘We need our land back’: Community land trusts and the fight for fair space
As world crises over the environment, housing and migration continue, co-operative models of land ownership are becoming more important
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BusinessCo-ops plug in for a new wave of music venues
A look at current projects – from the Co-op Group's plans for UK's biggest indoor arena to the grassroots efforts of the Music Venue Trust
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DevelopmentThe challenges facing small co-ops – and how to overcome them
Insights from co-op development workers Claire Alexander, Phil Beardmore, Glenn Bowen, Alex Lawrie, Cath Muller, Tiziana O'Hara and Oliver Sylvester-Bradley
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DevelopmentMechanisms for co-op growth: The Hive and Community Shares Booster
An update on the work of the development programmes delivered by Co-operatives UK
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CommunityWhen small means strong: Community power at Cooperation Town
'This is something that needs to be practised on a hyperlocal level ... This is building power with our neighbours, the people who share our circumstances'
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DevelopmentCooperate Islington: Collaborating on a new co-op development agency
Co-op organisations are working with the local council to launch a new co-operative development agency – the first of its kind in 40 years
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EducationFrom the cradle … A co-op start to life
Co-ops are active in maternity, childcare, fostering, education and youth organising, bringing their values and principles to people's formative years
