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Read a guest blog from Co-operatives UK partner member OneFamily on the importance - for members and colleagues - of diversity, equity and inclusion are so important.

On the 4 July, we hosted a Community Shares Practitioner Meet-up in the city of Oxford, to get a taste of an amazing range of community led endeavours that have used share offers, from energy to…

Read a blog from Rose Marley, CEO of Co-operatives UK, reflecting on her experience speaking at the United Nations' International Year of Co-operatives 2025 launch in New York, emphasising the need…

Join Co-operatives UK's Dom Mills on a #CoopsDay journey that celebrates the power of co-operation wrapped up in quantum theory, world peace and glacier preservation!

Ahead of the local elections, in this blog from our Policy and Development Lead, James Wright, we look at how co‑operatives help communities everywhere to thrive, from inner cities to remote…

Hear from CEO Jim Islam on how Co-operatives UK partner member One Family is embracing the positive potential of artificial intelligence (AI) to benefit its members. 

Read a guest blog from Suma Wholefoods about its ambitious Sustainability Strategy.

Scottish government is currently conducting a review of how to increase the number of co-operatives, social enterprises and employee-owned businesses. In this blog, our Policy Officer outlines the…

The latest blog from our Policy and Development Lead makes the case for unlocking rapid co-operative growth and creating 70,000 good green jobs.  

Business as usual is broken. In fact, reflecting on 2023, it seems everything is broken. Social care, energy, housing, our infrastructure, our mental health...  Even our resilience as a nation.…

We are pleased to share news of a partnership and piece of research with The Ubele Initiative exploring the barriers and opportunities for black and racially minoritised communities leading community…

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…

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…

Discover the financially inclusive provisions Co-operatives UK member OneFamily has introduced in response to the cost of living crisis in this blog from their CEO, Teddy Nyahasha. 

On the 30th June, we hosted a Community Shares Practitioner Meet-up in Hebden Bridge in the Calder Valley, a town known for its crucial place in co-operative history. Nowadays, it continues to be a…

It's the International Day of Co-operatives so I wanted to take the opportunity to highlight some fantastic work that has been going on across our Movement in the past 12 months.