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On the 27th October, we hosted a Community Shares Practitioner Meet-up in the Scottish Highlands, a hotbed for community-led enterprise and innovative share offers focussed on sustainability, active…

On the 30th June, we hosted a Community Shares Practitioner Meet-up in Hebden Bridge in the Calder Valley, a town known for its crucial place in co-operative history. Nowadays, it continues to be a…

As a successful funding partnership between the Community Shares Unit (CSU) and the Architectural Heritage Fund (AHF) draws to a close, we’re looking back and celebrating what we’ve achieved together…

Anthony Collins Solicitors highlight a potential risk for co-operatives in managing money in the form of deposits – what to be mindful of and the potential legal implications.

On 15 July, we hosted a Community Shares Practitioner Meet-up in Bristol – here's what we learned.

An update on all things Community Shares from John Dawson, Head of Market Development for the Community Shares Unit at Co-operatives UK.

Anthony Collins Solicitors outline what blockchain is, and how and why co-operatives might start to incorporate blockchain into their governance and operations.

Our Head of HR Services, Tim Knowles, takes a look at the pay outlook for the coming months and considers the likely increase to the National Living Wage from April 2022.

A series of technological advancements are converging together, that will dwarf the breakthroughs of all preceding industrial revolutions and impact on the way we live, work and consume, says CEO Rose…

Signalise Co-op is a multi-stakeholder platform co-operative delivering sign language interpreting and translation services.

Ampled is a Brooklyn based ethical web platform that allows musicians to be supported by their community with direct, recurring payments.

Community ownership has been one of the biggest democratising forces in our economy, from farming to football. The UK government’s new Community Ownership Fund could help spread the benefits further,…

Bloc by Block News is a media co-operative and civic engagement organisation.

Open Food Network UK is a co-op of co-ops whose members collectively own and control an innovative software platform they use to trade the food they produce.

The prolific adulteration of foodstuffs was common practice in 19th century Britain and although the arsenic was accidental it was commonplace to find grit in the oatmeal, dirt in the cocoa and chalk…

Anthony Collins Solicitors outline some of the key elements co‑ops should consider the impacts of the Brexit UK‑EU trade and co‑operation agreement which came into place on 31 December 2020.