Case studies
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LATCH: Solving acute housing needs in Leeds
Content by Booster Fund
From derelict properties to homes for those with acute housing needs - the story of LATCH and how community shares is helping to solving a cash conundrum.
1 year 11 months
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Building the foundations for a community share offer: Regather Co-operative
Discover how we’ve enabled an ambitious co-op to begin building the foundations for a strong community share offer that aims to boost Sheffield’s co-operative economy.
2 years 2 months
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Climate change driven by members of one of the UK's largest co-operatives
From eco-bricks to plastic reduction to community energy, the members of The Midcounties Co-operative are driving transformational change to support climate action.
2 years 9 months
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Central England Co-operative – putting co-op values into action
Content by Co‑op of the Year
A community-based consumer co-op, Central England Co-operative employs 7,800 people across some 430 outlets – and has more than 165,000 active members.
2 years 9 months
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Loaf – real bread, real co-operation
Content by Co‑op of the Year
Bakery and cookery school Loaf is a worker co-op that aims to promote real bread and cookery skills – and build community through food.
2 years 9 months
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The UK's first community owned shopping centre: Dewsbury Arcade
Content by Booster Fund
Residents in Dewsbury, Yorkshire, are taking action into their own hands to reinvigorate their declining town centre by creating the UK’s first community-owned shopping centre.
2 years 10 months
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Lupine Adventure co-op: A real say in your work
Content by Co-op Fortnight
Lupine Adventure is a not-for-profit workers’ co-op offering fell and mountain based outdoor recreation, education and training.
2 years 10 months
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LEDA co-op: A community that cares
Content by Co-op Fortnight
Building services co-op LEDA provides sustainable construction solutions – from new builds and refurbishments to plumbing, heating design, green energy installations and more.
2 years 10 months
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Enabled Works: empowering people with disabilities to become business owners
Content by Co-op Fortnight
Fully owned and run by its disabled workforce, Enabled Works is a social enterprise co-op specialising in contract packing, distribution and storage.
2 years 10 months
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Navigating HR issues through Covid-19: Bradford Co‑operative Association
Content by Training
HR can be tough but should be done in a way that's fair - with co-operative principles at its heart - and Co-operatives UK is here to help.
2 years 11 months
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Equal Care Co-op: A social care platform
Content by Unfound
Equal Care Co-op are building a new, co-owned social care platform that puts care givers and receivers in charge.
3 years 5 months
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Serving up help, hope and hearty meals: Warehouse Café
Content by Business support for co-ops
Creating delicious vegan dishes, the Warehouse Café is a worker co-op situated in the Friends of the Earth Building in Birmingham. The café has been in existence for 35 years. And in early 2019, the…
3 years 5 months
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Rehabilitation the co‑operative way: New Leaf Co‑op
Content by Business support for co-ops
The New Leaf Initiative is a Birmingham-based mentoring organisation that supports people with criminal convictions to find work.
3 years 6 months
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A lifeline for local people: Marsden Grocery
Content by Booster Fund
Villagers in Marsden, West Yorkshire wanted to create a shop to benefit the whole community, including residents on lower incomes, vegetarians, vegans and people on special diets who find it hard to…
3 years 7 months
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Empowering Bradford women to work together
Content by Empowering Places
Manningham in Bradford is in the bottom 10% of deprived UK neighbourhoods. It has a significantly younger population too, with 31% of people aged below 18 – and with it comes a high rate of youth…
4 years 2 months
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Ethical employment agency helps people into work
Content by Empowering Places
“Here, health is an issue. Isolation is an issue. People feeling left out can be an issue,” says Paul Gutherson, Programme Co-ordinator at Centre 4 in Grimsby...
4 years 3 months