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We make six recommendations designed to make Scotland the best place in the world to establish new co-ops and develop existing ones.

Read our policy brief as we state the case for the Co-operatives, Mutuals and Friendly Societies Bill.

Joint declaration on climate action by the UK’s co-operatives in the run up to COP26. 

Co-operatives UK fully supports new efforts, spearheaded by the Co-operative Party, to bring forward Marcora-like legislation in the Senedd and Scottish Parliament.

Join our campaign and pledge your support to create one million employee and worker owners in the UK by 2030.

Violence and abuse against shop workers has increase during the pandemic. Write to your MP before 5 July to ask them to vote for the amendment to protect Shopworkers which will be…

We are excited that government has confirmed its intentions to launch the Community Ownership Fund  in June 2021. Since December 2019 we have been working with members, partners…

Following concerted lobbying by Co-operatives UK and the Cross Party Group on Co-ops, Scottish Government has included housing co-operatives in its ‘Housing to 2040 strategy.

A four-point plan to harness the spirit of co-operative working seen during the pandemic is crucial to rebuilding Scotland’s economy after Covid-19.

We summarise how important elements of the existing competition exemptions for agricultural co-operation are to be retained in UK law after Brexit - and how interventions by…

A new multi-million pound fund to support co‑operation between farmers will be created following extensive lobbying from Co‑operatives UK and its farmer members – it has been…

New insolvency legislation to give businesses in distress more opportunities to turn things around has been applied to co-ops following our successful lobbying efforts.

Co-operative and community benefit societies, in Great Britain and Northern Ireland, are covered by legislation that provides businesses with greater flexibility in how and when…

Co-ops are pivotal to helping our communities and country build back better from Covid-19. In this short paper we make four co-op ‘offers’ to everyone working for a more…

Our short paper sets out why city regions should support the creation of employee and worker owned businesses, via both start-up and conversions, in their Covid-19 recovery…