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How can we improve the accounting framework for UK co-ops?

Researchers share findings from interviews with co-operators, accountants and regulators on reporting standards for co-ops

With the world trailing behind its sustainability goals, can co-ops get things back on track?

CM50, a circle of co-op and mutual leaders, has been created to position the movement at…

How cross-party groups in Parliament are working to support co-ops

We catch up with MPs Patrick Hurley and Andrew Pakes, who lead the APPGs on the…

Co-op Group delivers space for women in logistics

'There are not a lot of female leaders and that the richness and the different thinking…

Co-op living solutions for mental health support

'The co-operative system is a perfect tool to help meet the needs of people affected by…

Co-ops returning ownership and control to the housing system

Millions of people are sufffering from the housing crisis – but for some, co-ops are offering…

Textile co-ops paying the price of Milei’s austerity in Argentina

Informal workers abandoned by the state are organising co-ops with union support

Co-ops in Kabul

Restoring women’s lives in Afghanistan through co-operation

The Invisible Co-op

By Prof Colin Talbot, an emeritus professor at the University of Manchester

Sewa, the union empowering informal women workers through co-ops

Anca Voinea reports from a two-day tour of Sewa, the women's co-op federation which has become…

Patio: a global community of tech co-operatives 

'These folks know their technology, are committed to the co-operative ecosystem and know how to enjoy…

The night the lights were lit: 180 years of UK co-operation

David J. Thompson on the birthplace of the co-op in 1844