Building Co-operation in the Capital
The second Open Co-op conference, Open 2018, took place in London, 26-27 July. Here we round-up some of the coverage and documentation of the event. The Open 2018 review by Open Co-op co-founder Oliver Sylvester-Bradley gives a good overview of what happened at Open 2018You can also watch lots of videos of the Main Hall, Workshop Space, and Open Space sessions.Plus there … [Read more...]
A new design and development co-op agency will soon join the co-operative tech community in London.The venture, InFact Digital, aims to work with charities, non-profits and businesses to provide digital answers to their organisational problems. It is a spin-off from Founders and Coders, a community of developers and a coding academy, also based in London. Read the full … [Read more...]
Last year the first two day conference on Platform Co-ops in the UK, Open 2017, held in London, was a huge success. Over 400 people attended and it trended on Twitter nationally both days. Now the event is back again - check out https://2018.open.coop for full details and to book your tickets now! To get a flavour of the event you can watch videos from Open 2017 here. … [Read more...]
The New Economics Foundation (NEF) have published a new report commissioned by the Co‑operative Party, Co-operatives unleashed, on how to double the size of the UK's co-operative sector. NEF was asked to take undertake an independent examination of the policy framework required to meet the challenge of doubling the size in terms of turnover of the UK co‑operative sector. … [Read more...]
London-based filmmakers co-op Blake House have made this great short video for Co-operatives UK to celebrate #coopdifference during Co-operative Fortnight. Watch and share! Co-ops featured in the film: OrganicLea, Calverts, Bristol Co-operative Gym, The Bristol Bike Project, Outlandish, Centrespace, DIY Space for London, The Cube Cinema, Ceramics Studio Co-op, The Bristol … [Read more...]
At the Co-operative Party Local conference in June, they published a great publication, titled: Six Steps to Community Wealth Building. The new publication is designed to be a practical guide for Party members, councillors and anyone else who wants to bring about change in their local area. Not read it yet? Here’s the Co-op Party's Policy Officer and author of … [Read more...]