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A much-lauded community of Manchester-based social entrepreneurs have moved from The Federation building to Holyoake House, a Grade II listed building opposite Manchester Victoria station managed by…

Wythenshawe AFC played a Manchester United team featuring Bobby Charlton in the Altrincham Cup in 1956. The two Manchester clubs are just a few miles apart – but have followed very different paths…

Voting opens today (21 April 2021) for the Co-op of the Year Awards with 23 co-ops and five co-op councils shortlisted for a prestigious national award.

The UnFound Accelerator has opened for applications, aiming to launch a new wave of fairer, ethical and co-operatively owned tech platforms before the end of the year. 

As millions of people celebrate International Women’s Day across the world (8 March), Rose Marley, CEO of Manchester-based trade body Co-operatives UK has been honoured in an international list of…

The trade body representing thousands of co-operative businesses welcomes the proposed £150m Community Ownership Fund, announced in yesterday’s Budget and the extension of Social Investment Tax…

As the Chancellor has announced a record breaking Budget today (3 March 2021), we outline what this means for co-ops.

Community energy groups across England can benefit from a new peer support programme to help develop new innovative business models. The Next Generation Community Energy Peer Mentoring programme is…

A new project has been launched in Preston to help residents work together to reduce their expenditure and tackle food poverty.

The leaders of Scotland’s main political parties have been asked to implement a new co-operative approach in the next Scottish Parliament session to protect and create jobs threatened by the pandemic,…

Co-operatives UK is jointly and publicly committing to advocating for and actively effecting a more diverse, equitable and inclusive co-operative and community business sector, alongside our partners,…

Who will be the co-operators and co-ops of the year 2021? 

The Co-op Economy survey has launched – and we’re asking the UK's co-ops to complete it so we can campaign on behalf of the sector.

From 1 January 2021 central government will be required to take the social value of suppliers into account when awarding contracts.

£150,000 of funding is available for community businesses in London, as part of a scheme to boost the capital's high streets and civic centres.