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.…

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.

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 &…

Consett Market, Middle Street, Consett. Thursday, Friday and Saturday

Local markets

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…

SCHA is the largest Co-operative employing 410 people from various areas of Sunderland; deliver 10,000 hours of care pw; GBP 5.3m turnover. SCHA was formed in 1994 and is now recognised nationally as…