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Cllr Steve Reed … ‘We’re facing cuts . . . we could cut services . . . or we could seek to find an alternative — that’s what we’re choosing to do’

Can co-operatives help cut costs for Lambeth Council?

About 25 years ago I attended a meeting of Labour councillors from various local authorities across the country. We started talking about problems with policing and a very serious councillor from the London Borough of Lambeth explained the answer: the solution, she said, was residents’ militias who would take over responsibility for law and order from the police.
June 25 2010

Plunkett Foundation Chief Executive Peter Couchman

Village co-operative a hit on the radio

After months of anticipation, the villagers of Ambridge in BBC Radio 4’s The Archers have celebrated the opening of their community-owned shop.
June 23 2010

Enterprise Hub helps co-ops flourish

The benefits of a £5 million UK-wide investment in the co-operative sector are being felt across the UK as the nationwide roll-out of The Co-operative Enterprise Hub gathers pace.
May 13 2010

Steve Reed, Leader of Lambeth Council, is looking to set up the first Co-op Council

Lambeth aims to be first ‘Co-op Council’

A local authority is making plans to brand itself as the country’s first “Co-operative Council” later this year.
March 30 2010

Sir Thomas Boughey’s headteacher Dave Boston hands over $500 to a representative of workers’ co-operative Tshepanang with Co-operative College Principal Mervyn Wilson looking on

Shared values unite a co-operative school with Africa

Perhaps it is only in the Co-operative Movement that an alliance of shared values could be formed between former members of the armed wing of the African National Congress and school pupils in Staffordshire.
March 29 2010

WORTHY WINNERS

The future looks bright for social enterprises

THE winners of the 2009 Social Enterprise Awards were announced in London earlier this month. 
January 01 2010

Archaeologist Paul Barnett, Clare Mahdiyone of the Stroud Valleys Project, Charles Tongue of Stroud Bookshop, Laurie Lee’s widow Cathy and Neil Buick of the Stroud Pound Co-operative with the new currency designs

Local currency banks on community spirit

While many of us moan about the trend for national and multinational retailers and businesses to take over and clone our high streets or our town and city centres, few actually have the imagination or determination to do much about it.
October 26 2009

TRAIN TIME … Chair Tim Pearce is looking at potential routes in the south west of England for the co-op to operate

Train co-operative aims to connect communities through rail network

Electrification of the London to Swansea rail line is good news for public transport users in the South West and the Government’s approval for Network Rail to meet the £1 billion cost is a demonstration of real commitment not just to the rail system, but also to combating climate change.  
August 10 2009

UK helps African fishers on International Co-ops Day

A new system which will allow fishermen and women in Kenya to access “real time” information on buyers and current selling prices on their mobile phones is one of the projects to benefit from funding from the Department for International Development (DFID). 
August 04 2009

Venezuelan oil fields owned by the nationalised PDVSA oil company that supports community projects across the country

How oil supports Venezuela's co-op movement

As Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez celebrates his tenth year in office, opinion both internationally and within the Latin American country remains divided as to the success of his revolutionary socialist project.  
February 28 2009

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