Case studies

George Street Community Bookshop in Glossop, Derbyshire, was established by a small group of friends in 2018 to help save the local second-hand bookshop. It’s now run as a co-operative, staffed by one…

Braunstone is an edge-of-town council estate in Leicester with 16,500 inhabitants. Some parts of the area fall within the bottom 1% of the 2019 indices of deprivation. Almost entirely residential, for…

For 400 years the Casswell family has farmed land in Sleaford, Lincolnshire.  But without farmer-owned co-operatives the prospect of future generations continuing those farming traditions would be…