Preston Cooperative Education Centre

The Preston Cooperative Education Centre (PCEC) was founded in 2021 as a union-coop. We are passionate about education, democracy and co-operation. As a union-coop, we will be governed by our members: worker owners, staff and students. We will provide education and training in co-operatives and co-operation. In the PCEC everyone is a teacher and a learner. Our courses will meet the needs of our students, and will lead to a regeneration of democratic and co-operative ways of working for Preston and beyond. Our work in common will support people to create new co-operative businesses within a co-operative framework of community wealth building. We offer an alternative to standard business approaches. We believe in making the profits of our work benefit other co-operatives and local communities for the common good.