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John Bowes during a Fairtrade event in Keswick earlier this year.

Fairtrade hero John Bowes dies at 59

One of the Co-operative Movement’s top marketers died unexpectedly last week whilst undergoing treatment for a heart condition.
August 04 2011
Category: Fairtrade

Co-op banks can weather banking crisis

Co-operative and mutual banks and not-for-profit savings banks have played an important role in the European financial system over the last century. Indeed, there remain several European co-operative banks that have a very strong presence in their domestic markets.
August 04 2011
Category: Worldwide Co-operation

Mark Lyonette, Chief Executive of ABCUL (the Association of British Credit Unions)

Mergers can strengthen credit union sector

Where to now for credit unions? The global financial crash has been both a plus and a minus for the organisations often referred to as finance co-operatives.
May 24 2011
Category: Credit unions

The home town of the prestigious literary festival has more than its share of co-operatives

Co-ops find a home at Hay Festival

It's true that Hay-on-Wye may be more famous for its bookstores than co-operatives — but the Movement does play its part in making the Hay Festival a success.
May 13 2011
Category: Wider Co-op Movement

AFC fans fill the club’s North stan

Fans are top of the league at AFC Wimbledon

Plough Lane is a dense, ugly and lifeless property development in South London. The sign on one of the walls as you enter blandly reads ‘no ball games’, which is perhaps one clue as to its origins, as the site used to be a football club — the heady high-flying, long-ball days of Wimbledon FC.
May 12 2011
Category: Wider Co-op Movement

Mad River Co-op shareholders celebrate at their resort

The ski co-op that bought a mountain

Want to buy a mountain? Well 1,800 skiers have: the Mad River Glen Co-operative (MRGC) in Vermont is the owner of the General Stark Mountain.
May 04 2011
Category: Worldwide Co-operation

Villagers purchase, renovate and open the Fox and Hounds pub in six weeks

Raise a glass for co-op pubs

It is perhaps not too surprising, but it appears there are few businesses that matter more to communities than their local pubs. Further evidence has come in the last month in Cumbria with one village pub reopening under co-operative ownership and another pressing ahead with plans to do the same later in the year.
May 03 2011
Category: Wider Co-op Movement

Say 'Yes' to AV — Alun Michael

Events in Egypt this year have demonstrated the power of human belief in democracy and in the right to vote. So did the endless queues outside polling stations when the people of South African voted in their first democratic elections in 1994.
April 26 2011
Category: Politics

Say 'No' to AV — Adrian Bailey

I’m voting no for the same reason as millions of others. It adds nothing of value to the electoral system we have and potentially complicates and confuses our existing system.
April 26 2011
Category: Politics

Bill Butler wonders where co-operatives are in the Tories’ Scottish manifesto

Tories ignore co-ops and PM’s 'Big Society'

You can say what you like about the Tories, but they can always surprise you. You would think a party that speaks so much about the so-called Big Society would have something to say about the Co-operative Movement too.
April 21 2011
Category: Politics

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