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Rob McPherson's picture

Legal update

Posted by Rob McPherson on 07. Sep

We like to keep our members up to date with changes that may affect them. Two such changes legal changes are:

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Co-operatives UK Board Update

Posted by Rob McPherson on 07. Sep

We like to keep you, our members, up to date with all the work that we are doing. To that end we have produced an update with all the key decisions that our Board made at their last meeting.

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Co-operatives UK at the party conferences

Posted by Mary Rayner on 06. Sep

With such interest in the co-operative model as an alternative way of doing business and delivering public services, Co-operatives UK will be having a presence at the three big party conferences.

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Renewable energy - latest Government targets and publications

Posted by petramorris on 03. Aug

Just catching up on latest news in the press and from the Government regarding policies and targets for national energy use and renewable energy Renewable energy

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pledge-tastic - take control

Posted by petramorris on 23. Jul

Thousands have joined Greener Together and pledged to make changes in their everyday lives Now you can take even more control over what you can pledge to.

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Should Co-operatives Deliver Public Services workshop

Posted by johngoodman on 23. Jul

I attended the "Should Co-operatives Deliver Public Services" workshop at Co-operatives 2010, and here are my notes of what happened. They are not a verbatim report of the workshop but are intended to provide an overview of the themes, topics and views that were presented by the speakers...

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American Study Visit

Posted by john.atherton on 20. Jul

On Tuesday 12th June members of the Co-operative Charitable Trust (founded by Bob Giel) visited Co-operatives UK.  John Butler did a fascinating presentation on consumer co-operatives and I was a

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Mondragon system for pensions

Posted by john.atherton on 20. Jul

Does your worker co-operative have a pension scheme? Would you want one and what characteristics would you like it to have? 

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CICOPA Europe: worker co-operatives resilience in financial crisis

Posted by john.atherton on 08. Jul

This is an update to a report in 2009; CICOPA initiated a consultation process amongst its members (Co-operatives UK is one) in order to gain a better idea of the effects of the finanical crisis

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Creating employee-owned organisations in the NHS

Posted by petramorris on 07. Jul

As our first Co-operative Fortnight (19 June to 3 July) draws to a close, it appears our message “there is an alternative” continues to reach all quarters.

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