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EMERGE: A pioneering recycling business planning for the future
Content by Booster Fund
Discover how a group of campaigners turned their concerns for the environment into a thriving enterprise, with help from the Community Shares Booster Fund.
2 months 3 weeks
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Bradford Community Energy: Providing affordable solar power and tackling fuel poverty
Content by Booster Fund
Meet the team that’s pioneering renewable energy for the local community in a West Yorkshire city.
3 months 2 weeks
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Cotherstone Old Chapel Project: Reinvigorating village life with a community‑owned business
Content by Booster Fund
By coming together to save a local shop, villagers in County Durham are breathing new life into their community.
3 months 2 weeks
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Lancaster Music Co‑op: The fight to save a much-loved creative space
Content by Business Support for Co-ops
With help from our Business Support for Co‑ops, a music co‑operative is turning its fortunes around and looking forward to a great future at the heart of a community.
5 months 3 weeks
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Dance Co‑operative Birmingham: Performing arts professionals finding strength in numbers
Content by Business Support for Co-ops
Find out why a group of freelance dancers decided to form a co‑operative – and the help they received from our Business Support for Co‑ops to do so.
6 months 3 weeks
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Three Seas Cornwall: Making coastal homes affordable for Cornish people
Content by Booster Fund
Discover the great work a group of passionate community organisers are doing to help natives of Cornish coastal towns sidestep the overpriced holiday market and live in low-cost homes.
6 months 3 weeks
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Energy Local: Championing co‑operation and community energy
Meet the team growing green energy co‑ops across the UK while empowering people to tackle climate change and save money!
6 months 3 weeks
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BATCOM: A community composting scheme solving a local problem and saving the planet
Content by Business Support for Co-ops
With help from our Business Support for Co‑ops, a Gloucestershire trio are realising their vision of creating a valuable community resource that lowers the local carbon footprint and brings people…
6 months 4 weeks
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Proxi Education – a co‑op created to make life fairer for supply teachers
Content by Business Support for Co-ops
When unions and government didn’t act on their calls for improved working practices, a group of supply teachers formed a co‑operative supply service to get better pay and conditions for members of…
7 months 1 week
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Congleton Hydro: Where there’s a will – and a weir – there’s a way to form a community energy society
Content by Booster Fund
When a group of retired engineers in Cheshire met down the pub for a pint, they hatched a cunning plan – to create a renewable energy installation with a community benefit for local people…
7 months 2 weeks
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The Chichester Bike Project: Tackling transport poverty with pedal and people power
Content by Booster Fund
Meet the West Sussex two‑wheeled wonders on a mission to make cycling affordable and accessible, with help from the Community Shares Booster Fund…
7 months 3 weeks
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Bikespace: The pedal powered co‑op bettering people and planet
Content by Business Support for Co-ops
Meet the team who’ve combined their passion for bicycles with improving lives and making a positive difference in the world…
7 months 3 weeks
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Leeds Community Homes: Putting power in residents’ hands
Content by Booster Fund
With help from the Community Shares Booster Fund, an ethical housing provider has acquired affordable, environmentally friendly homes that empower people, foster community and improve lives.
8 months
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Artefact: Creatives and community coming together co‑operatively
Content by Ownership Hub
In the heart of Stirchley in South Birmingham, a co-op of artists is making a huge difference – to their own careers, to other artists and to the local community too.
8 months
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SIPS Education: Enriching young lives with the power of music
Content by Ownership Hub
Discover the West Midlands service provider whose co‑operative values, principles and structure are instrumental to its mission of making life better for young people.
9 months
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The Developer Society: “It really is amazing working here.”
Content by Ownership Hub
Meet the creative agency that not only develops software – it develops its workers too. A place where creativity is nurtured and empowered thanks to its co‑operative principles.
9 months 1 week