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The fight to get co-operation on the curriculum

With education vital for a more co-operative future, Co-op College CEO Jacqui Thomasen talks about the…

Platform co-op launched to encourage collective saving

Kin.coop is attempting to take the traditional savings club model into the digital world

Woodcraft Folk: A century of co-op education for social change

A youth group looking to give young people the tools to shape society, not just slot…

Life lessons for a living world in the Forest of Dean

Community benefit society Wylderne has taken ownership of a wilderness education centre and is putting co-op…

Securing livelihoods while preserving Palestine’s art of embroidery 

The practice is being kept alive in a refugee camp by a women's co-op which has…

As the tech revolution accelerates, Project Liberty calls for mutualised data

The co-op model can empower people in a world dominated by tech giants, because it fits…

Songs, women and collective struggle: Sewa’s journey over 50 years 

Semanti Chakladar and Rachna Chandira take a look at how songwriting has been used to strengthen…

Not just a shop: A day with East of England Co-op

Chief executive Andy Rigby gives Co-op News a tour of the retail society

Nurturing the next generation of co-operation in Europe

How the Young European Cooperators Network is looking to build a youth presence in the social…

Credit unions as key international development actors

Woccu's approach mixes business discipline with making people's money work for them, says its VP Angelina…

With global development at a crossroads, can co-ops step up?

Trump has axed US aid spending, and other countries have made cuts, leaving a hole in…

Co-op and mutuals movements adjust to life on the cybercrime frontline

After the ransomware attack on the Co-op Group, we look at the threat to co-ops in…