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Illinois credit union merger will create $1.65bn, 113,000-member lender

Members of the 98-year-old Chicago Municipal Employees CU voted in favour of a merger with Great…

Co-op Heritage Trust bags £130k Lottery grant for Co-op College archive

'The Co-operative College archives are a unique and valuable part of the co-operative movement’s history'

Thousands of gifts donated via Lincolnshire Co-op’s Secret Santa

The retail society gathered donations via drop-off points in its food stores, pharmacies and travel branches

$4.4bn awarded to rural electric co-ops for clean energy

The $9.7bn New Era fund is part of Joe Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act

Co-op names feature in new year’s gongs for 2024

Former Labour / Co-op MP and PCC Alun Michael was given the OBE, and MBEs went…

Coventry Building Society completes takeover of the Co-op Bank

The deal returns the 152-year-old bank to mutual ownership after it was sold to private investors…

International Year of Cooperatives website goes live

'We call on co-operators worldwide to share their pride for what co-operatives are doing to build…

2024 in review: Headlines from the co-op world

A look back over some of the stories affecting the co-op sector during another turbulent year

Fund for International Co-operative Development launched by UK co-ops

Image: Paul Gerrard, Rose Marley, Debbie Robinson, Sarah Alldred and Peter Westall at the lunch of…

Runninghour Co-op marks 10th anniversary of inclusivity run

Sng Ler Jun reports on the Co-operative Runninghour

Global agri co-op CHS shares progress on sustainability goals

2024 saw CHS complete its first Scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas inventory

Canadian co-operatives respond to government’s Fall statement

The economic statement includes a $36099m injection into the Federal Community Housing Initiative, news welcomed by…