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Edinburgh Bicycle Co-op
This week’s Autumn Statement comes against a backdrop of rising business closures. Will government announce improvements to the employee buyout tax reliefs that could help save thousands more jobs and…
4 months 1 week
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Community shares practitioners meet-up
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On the 27th October, we hosted a Community Shares Practitioner Meet-up in the Scottish Highlands, a hotbed for community-led enterprise and innovative share offers focussed on sustainability, active…
4 months 2 weeks
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A landscape shot of a town
Content by Community Shares
Co-operatives UK is a Community Ownership Fund (COF) delivery partner and John Dawson, Head of Market Development in our Community Shares Unit, spoke to a community benefit society (CBS) about their…
10 months 3 weeks
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A pile of coins
Anthony Collins Solicitors highlight a potential risk for co-operatives in managing money in the form of deposits – what to be mindful of and the potential legal implications.
1 year 4 months
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International Co-operative Working Group at Co-op Congress 2022
Today is July 2. It is the International Day of Co-operatives – the 100th one in fact. It is a day of celebration – to show people in the UK and across the world about the unique contribution of…
1 year 9 months
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More than £200m has been raised through community shares
Content by Community Shares
An update on all things Community Shares from John Dawson, Head of Market Development for the Community Shares Unit at Co-operatives UK.
1 year 10 months
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Policy Blog 26
A growing number of businesses in the UK are going bust. Two years of lost income, uncertainty, stress, ballooning debt and now rising costs, may be taking their toll.  
2 years 1 month
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Policy Blog 25
When Michael Gove stood at the dispatch box and said government’s flagship Levelling Up White Paper was a strategy “to shift wealth and power decisively towards working people” I had to stop and…
2 years 1 month
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Co-op Policy Blog #23: A breakthrough in Scotland
Scottish government is now committed to supporting co-ops in its policy programme. This provides a massive opportunity to unlock the huge potential for co-ops in Scotland and follows a successful…
2 years 7 months