What is Co-op Fortnight

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Every year, hundreds of co‑ops and organisations across the UK work together to celebrate and promote co‑ops during Co‑op Fortnight.

A campaign to raise awareness of co-ops

Co-op Fortnight is organised by Co-operatives UK and brought to life by co-ops across the country. For two weeks every year – in June/July – we come together to hold events, share stories and spread the word about the power of co‑operation via social, broadcast and print media. Launched in 2010, Co-op Fortnight has gone from strength to strength.

Co-op Fortnight is an opportunity for us to shout about how proud we are to be a co-operative.

– Kellie Bubble, worker owner, Unicorn Grocery

Co-op Fortnight 2021

The theme for 2021 is #JoinACoop – providing an opportunity to celebrate our members, spread the word about the benefits of membership and encourage people across the UK to #JoinACoop.

Recent campaign themes

In 2020, the theme was #KeepCooperating, as we witnessed the emergence of a new culture of co-operation in everyday behaviour due to the Covid-19 pandemic. We used this to raise awareness of co‑ops, their values and their potential to change society for the better as we rebuild. Watch our film below.
In 2019 we encouraged people to join forces for two weeks of mass co-operation. Co-ops worked together to protect community spaces, hold cooking and gardening activities, host celebrations and spread acts of kindness in their communities.
In 2018 we celebrated the difference co-ops make across the UK, published The Co-op Economy Report, which revealed co-ops are twice as likely to survive the difficult first five years compared to other businesses, and produced the short film Co-operate.