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Community trusts plan a sustainable future

Two Yorkshire community-led trusts are pioneering a novel way of ensuring high standards of sustainability in building design and management by committing to the become Sustainable Transport Buildings.
August 26 2010

New Plunkett Chair elected

The Plunkett Foundation has announced that its former Vice-Chair, Peter Cleasby (pictured) has been elected as the organisation’s new Chair to succeed Susan Knox.
August 19 2010

Joining children from Fosse Way Primary School are Lincolnshire staff Sorren Ashmore from Food; Emma Carrott and Sharon Stimpson from People and Performance; Cheryl Keeley from Food, Dave Nelson from Works; and Sandy Lowe from Foo

Lincolnshire give a day to the community

Staff from Lincolnshire Co-operative ditched their day jobs to help tidy up outdoor areas enjoyed by hundreds of pupils at two local schools.
August 10 2010

Phone Co-op customers admire its ethics

Almost 70 per cent of Phone Co-op customers have chosen to do business with the organisation because of its affiliation with the Co-operative Movement.
August 09 2010

Co-operators Roberto Framarini, Matt Holland, Andrea Hirsch, Hilda Sheehan and Claire Parnell at Lower Shaw Farm

Community land project adopts co-op model

A rural oasis in the middle of one of Europe’s biggest housing estates is becoming a co-operative as it strives to secure its long-term future.
August 06 2010

It’s just a ‘Big Con’, says Co-op Party chief

Michael Stephenson, General Secretary of the Co-operative Party, said the coalition’s Big Society announcement was a betrayal of co-operative values.
August 04 2010

Mark Lyonette believes credit unions can distribute funding

Social bank will fund Big Society

A Big Society Bank will fund a range of community and co-operative initiatives as part of the coalition’s plans to decentralise government.
August 04 2010

Pledge a green living idea

Co-operators are being asked for their ideas to help save the planet for Co-operatives UK's Greener Together project.
August 04 2010

Chief Executive Peter Marks launches the Co-op Group’s youth pledge in London

Group pledges £21m for youth schemes

In support of young people, the Co-operative Group has pledged £21 million for various projects including an Apprenticeship Academy that will create 2,000 jobs.
August 03 2010

Big Society is not a 'public service cuts' smokescreen

A failure of the traditional left and of free markets calls for the Co-operative Movement to step up and change the economy for the 21st century, according to Phillip Blond of think-tank ResPublica.
July 30 2010

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