Is the co-op still actually a co-operative?
What would the Co-operative Group need to do, as an absolute minimum, to be recognisable as a co-operative business, as defined by the International Co-operative Alliance? [...]
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Young Co-operatives: promoting co-operative enterprise education in schools
A Co-operative Crew meeting at Golborne High School There can be an alternative to the conventional, profit-driven model of business, as young people across the county are discovering by setting up student-led co-operative enterprises in schools. There are now more than 200 registered members of [...]
International Year of Co-operatives 2012
The United Nations has designated 2012 the International Year of Co-operatives. From Argentina to Zambia, the 1.4 million co-operatives across the globe will be celebrating and showing how they build a better world. Global female co-operative leader, Dame Pauline Green, President of the [...]
Karen Wilkie – Co-operative Party Women’s Network
Women co-operators have always engaged in political action, campaigning early in the 19th & 20th centuries for the vote, for maternity benefits, milk for school-children, divorce law reform, a minimum wage; and initiating the white poppies peace campaign. This year we celebrated the 100th [...]
What is a co-operative?
A co-operative is a proper business. It is worth stating again. A co-operative is a proper business established to make profits, like any other business. In launching the3rdi magazine as a co-operative I have been surprised at the ignorance and misunderstanding that surrounds the co-operative [...]
Yellow Brick House Media Consortium
Leading players in Scotland’s digital media and television industries have collaborated with help from Co+operative Development Scotland (CDS) to form a new consortium agency producing cutting-edge broadcast and internet content. Yellow Brick House Media is a consortium co-operative of four [...]