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Co-operative & Community Finance collaborates with other funds to develop community food and farming businesses
In March, at the Responsible Finance conference, Co-operative & Community Finance won the Citi Microentrepreneurship Award for Effective Partnership for its work with the Just Growth Fund, which supports businesses in community food and farming. Tim Coomer, CCF’s Business Development Manager referred to … Continue reading
‘How can West Midlands councils build community wealth?’
In celebration of the Co-op Party centenary this event is an absolute must for all those interested in transforming the West Midlands region by reorganising local economies and supporting communities to help themselves. First outing at the 2017 Durham Miners’ Gala Lucy Seymour-Smith writes: In times … Continue reading
Shadow Chancellor: Co-operative Ways Forward conference
“Co-operatives should, I believe, play an essential part in the economy of the future” Edited extracts, added information and links (full text here). John McDonnell pointed out that wealth is more concentrated now than it has been for a century … Continue reading
News received about East of England and Midcounties co-operatives
In a recent post we quoted MEP Molly Scott Cato: “The Co-operative shops have not been as successful in(sourcing locally) as I would like because of their centralised distribution system, but my own Midcounties Co-op has been building up its … Continue reading
Co-operative Web – a success story
The Co-operative Web, an IT company, now based in Longbridge Technology Park Birmingham, is a 28 person worker co-operative owned and run by the people who work there. It relocated from Walsall to the Innovation Centre because the location is … Continue reading
A new Welsh wind co-operative – June investment deadline
You are invited to invest in Awel and own shares in a new Welsh wind Co-op. You can subscribe to this share offer for as little as £50. Awel is a Community Benefit Society which will own and run two … Continue reading
Cooperative Councils Innovation Network: a response to austerity
. With a very different approach to WMCA, the Cooperative Councils Innovation Network is a collaboration between local authorities who are committed to finding better ways of working for, and with, local people for the benefit of their local community. … Continue reading
