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DREAM BIKES … Sir Alan Sugar’s hand-drawn design (top) has been handcrafted by apprentices at the Oxford Cycle Workshop co-operative along with the design by world champion track cyclist Victoria Pendleton (bottom) with proceeds going to the co-op’s youth scheme during Bike Week

Oxford bicycle co-op helps build up dreams

Being asked to custom-build a pair of dream bikes based on drawings supplied by two clients sounds like a tough task for a group of young apprentices. When the clients in question are apprentice-firing Sir Alan Sugar and Olympic and world champion track cyclist Victoria Pendleton, the task seems daunting beyond belief.
June 23 2010

The People’s Supermarket is based on Park Slope Food Co-op in the United States. Pic: Paul Lowry

New York’s co-op chic takes shape in London

The Co-operative Movement is arguably enjoying its highest profile for many years, due in part to the re-branding of much of the consumer movement together with the manifesto pledges by the major political parties.
June 01 2010

Film co-ops offer a welcome alternative to the multiplex

Whether they meet in cinemas, member relations’ centres or down the pub, film co-operatives are flourishing. All specialise in showing films that are unlikely to make it to mainstream cinemas.
June 01 2010

Enterprise Hub helps co-ops flourish

The benefits of a £5 million UK-wide investment in the co-operative sector are being felt across the UK as the nationwide roll-out of The Co-operative Enterprise Hub gathers pace.
May 13 2010

Steve Reed, Leader of Lambeth Council, is looking to set up the first Co-op Council

Lambeth aims to be first ‘Co-op Council’

A local authority is making plans to brand itself as the country’s first “Co-operative Council” later this year.
March 30 2010

HELPING HAND ... Brad Hill with children in Malawi who directly benefit from the Fairtrade scheme

Fairtrade goes mainstream — with a little help from the Co-operative Group

The annual Fairtrade Fortnight, (until March 7th) is set to be the biggest yet with major national brands now carrying the Fairtrade Mark. Here, Michelle Henderson,  Public Relations Manager (Food) at The Co-operative Group, asks Brad Hill, the Group’s Fairtrade Development Manager, how the market is shaping up since The Co-operative launched its own strategy to bring Fairtrade into the mainstream over a decade ago . . . 
February 23 2010

Movement’s white poppies promote peace

As Remembrance Day approaches it is worth noting that there is an alternative to the ‘traditional’ red poppy.  
November 05 2009

Archaeologist Paul Barnett, Clare Mahdiyone of the Stroud Valleys Project, Charles Tongue of Stroud Bookshop, Laurie Lee’s widow Cathy and Neil Buick of the Stroud Pound Co-operative with the new currency designs

Local currency banks on community spirit

While many of us moan about the trend for national and multinational retailers and businesses to take over and clone our high streets or our town and city centres, few actually have the imagination or determination to do much about it.
October 26 2009

ZACK HOCKING … ‘Typical funds do well when the stock market does well. When it falls it can go the other way. Ethical funds are not terribly exposed to banks, so they avoided all this carnage’

Ethics are good (for your wallet)

A sustainable investment fund launched by Co-operative Investments — part of Co-operative Financial Services — illustrates the ‘co-operative difference’ when it comes to making money for investors.
August 20 2009

SAFETY FIRST … Children wear the Brightkidz fluorescent clothing while in the walking bus to school

Bright times for safety co-op

Despite the economic climate one co-operative is not just surviving, but thriving. The eco-friendly Brightkidz is proving a success in many areas through supporting local manufacturing to promoting walking and cycling as well as helping children stay safe on the roads. 
August 13 2009

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