Co-op Directory

We are a co-operative group of volunteers, producers, artists and makers promoting small businesses and the beautiful North Pennines landscape through the Allendale Forge Studios Art and Craft Centre.…

The Art & Soul Traders is a cooperative of experienced and dedicated artists, promoters and facilitators with backgrounds in murals, community art, film making, event organisation, music,…

Banbury Artists Cooperative works to help guide, support and promote the work of local artists and making art more accessible for those living or visiting Banbury.

Bearpark Artists' Co-operative (est 1993) is an independent group of studio-based professional painters. Much of our work is concerned with the area in which we live. Works in oil, acrylic and…

Local art studio in Elswick's Big Lamp area, houses 6 artists and a gallery space.

To provide a comprehensive childcare service to parents and guardians of children.

We are a non-profit cooperative, dedicated to giving children an excellent environment for learning and play since 1982. At Childsplay we offer an array of original, creative, inspirational and…

An ecological land co-op that collectively manage the land at Berry Farm, Ilketshall St Andrew

Community Counselling Cooperative (C.C.C.) was set up in 2012 to provide a high quality counselling service to meet the emotional and psychological needs of adults and children living in Tyne &…

CraftCo is a shop and gallery, run as a cooperative, by and for makers. It sells handmade contemporary crafts made mainly by crafts people who live and work in East Anglia

Cramlington Kids Club is an integrated childcare unit offering low cost, high quality, flexible childcare. It was the first integrated childcare facility combining an Out of School Club with an Early…

Design for remarkable people working to make a positive difference. Creative Coop is a design studio specialising in Branding, Design and Web Development. Established in 2003, we have worked with a…

Cuckoo Farm Studios was established in 1992 when a small group of artists moved in and began to turn this derelict farm into a suitable establishment for practicing professional artists to work from.…

Culture Matters is for everyone interested in the arts, in culture generally and in politics. We are a collective of writers and activists who have come together to provide webspace and editorial and…

DACC provides high quality local day care so that older people in County Durham can remain in their communities. This approach has advantages for Club Members, Carers and the wider Community: - Our…

Eastbourne Community Cooperative is a multi-stakeholder community co-op.

FILMBEE is an artist-run film co-operative in the North-East UK, set up primarily to work creatively within analogue film culture. As well as creating a context for photo-chemical moving-image art…

Freedom leisure is in the leisure business - encouraging people to enjoy their leisure time. Our centres provide a wide range of ways to do this with a focus on active lifestyles, and creating…

Gildedsplinters is a cooperative of forty two specialists from a wide range of disciplines including advertising, marketing, architecture, film, research, product design, the theatre and law Our job…

A workers co-operative providing child care services.

Local fisherman's co-operative.

Processing and preserving of fish, crustaceans and molluscs

We were created in 1995 by a partnership between Durham County and the NHS. We are still based In Durham, but since 2004, we have worked with partners across the country and in May 2013, we became a…

Learning & Wellbeing Psychology is a team of Educational Psychologists who provide services for children and young people in the community.

The New Weather Institute is a co-op and a think-tank, and exists to design the future – setting out ways of organising our work and community lives that are more humane, more reasonable and more…

Our society aims to help people pick up skills by producing things and then sharing them among the society, as well as providing free spaces for the community to enjoy.

Rainbow Day Nursery has been providing quality day care for pre-school children since August 1990. We are a parent co-operative run day nursery; this structure means that we are democratically owned…

Here at Sevenoaks Leisure Limited (operating as Sencio Community Leisure) we are a society under the Co-operative and Community Benefit and Societies Act 2014, registered with the Inland Revenue for…

A multi-stakeholder co-operative operating in the Film and Media industry. Shedlight Productions make inspiring films with people and about people. We tell stories that lead to social change.

The Children's Allotment is an inclusive, accessible outdoor education space for the local community in East Oxford, with a particular focus on providing affordable, cooperative childcare,…

The Hampshire Artists Co-operative is an artist led exhibiting group. The artists' work is in a mixture of media including watercolour, oils, acrylic, mixed media, collage, charcoal and line…

The Maidstone Leisure Trust was formed in April 2007. It is responsible for the strategic management and development of a wide variety of leisure facilities and activities at Maidstone Leisure Centre.

The Psychology Co-operative is a collective of expert practitioners offering mental health and wellbeing support throughout your parenting journey. Whether you would like a brief chat, therapy, to…

Childcare