Members of London worker coops including Blake House Filmmakers, Outlandish, Calverts, The Small Axe and Animorph went to Wortley Hall in Yorkshire this week for the second, highly successful, Cooperative Technologists (CoTech) retreat. CoTech is a growing network of 28 worker coops in the digital and creative technology sector, with over 160 individual members. Its mission … [Read more...]
Reimagine the economy – the UK cooperative economy 2017
There’s a point at which we need to say that enough is enough. People’s working lives are more precarious than ever. Local communities feel out of control. Home ownership is at 1980s levels. A growing split between the have and have nots is dividing Britain. This report and open data set shows that there are nearly 7,000 organisations across the UK that are trying to … [Read more...]
Leeds Bread Co-op: community at work
Watch 'Reimagine work', an inspiring story about an artisan bakery and workers co-op from Leeds. Leeds Bread Co-op has been working with The Hive to put its expansion plans in place so it can extend the number of customers and grow the number of employees. Do you want to start or grow a co-op? Support is here: https://www.thehive.coop/reimagine … [Read more...]
Young people for a co-operative future
Have a look at this inspiring film, self-made by 9 groups of young worker and social co-operators from around the world, telling their stories. And please, please share! … [Read more...]
SolidFund moving forward
The Worker Co-operative Solidarity Fund (SolidFund for short) held a development forum at Arcola Theatre in Hackney on October 14th 2015. The day was facilitated by Agile Collective and Co-operatives UK's Worker Coop Council. The main part of the Forum was a hackathon to write, design and build a website for the Fund, bringing together the skills and passion of worker … [Read more...]
Gaining contracts through good contacts-breakfast coops networking
Co-operatives London would like to you invite you to a high-energy ‘Principle Six’ business breakfast networking on April 29th 2015. If you did not get to attend our highly succesful "Gaining Contracts Through Good Contacts”in January here is another oppurtunity to experience the high energy, principle six networking event. This event will be a breakfast, business generating … [Read more...]