13th October 2025

Loan finance secured as family and friends work together to establish sustainable living housing co-op

29th September 2025

Award-winning community music co-operative secures finance for venue renovation

1st September 2025

Viral ‘Gen Z’ TikTok video helps residents secure funding to buy community pub

3rd December 2024

Funds secured for sustainable living housing co-op in rural North Wales

14th October 2024

Our funders – co-operation among co-operatives

17th June 2024

Supporting the next generation of co-ops

20th May 2024

Opportunities to access training and employment support services for community improve as social enterprise obtains loan for new vehicle

25th March 2024

Meet our funders #4 – East of England Co-op

15th March 2024

Meet our funders #3 – The Co-operative Group

12th March 2024

Students and investor-supporters come together to secure sustainable and affordable student housing in Birmingham

26th February 2024

Economic development co-op using democratic ownership to tackle inequality and the climate emergency secures funds for growth

21st December 2023

Meet our funders #2 – Your Co-op (The Midcounties Co-operative)

11th December 2023

Community sports and social club secures investment for refinance and growth

23rd October 2023

Thriving community owned pub boosted by clean energy investment

14th September 2023

Meet our funders #1 – Chelmsford Star Co-operative Society

23rd June 2023

An altogether different route to ethical, accessible loan finance

17th May 2023

Finance secured as “Painters Pub” continues develop and grow as a vital community asset

20th April 2023

Accountancy co-op promotes positive social change through value-driven financial services

17th November 2022

Community benefits as Belfast co-op brewers open Northern Ireland’s first taproom

9th November 2022

Property improvements set to go ahead for Co-operative Housing Association

8th September 2022

Locals access finance for purchase and development of village chapel community centre

20th July 2022

Tech co-op enriches the human potential of workers, clients and audiences

17th June 2022

Boost for Youth Football in North Derbyshire

1st June 2022

Local high street continues to thrive as community bakery grows

16th May 2022

Collective take on college premises to form craft brewery

19th April 2022

Will you put co-operative principles and values into action to tackle climate change and create the next Eco Co-op?

21st February 2022

Will you choose the world you want and create the next Fair Trade co-op?

27th January 2022

Could your community come together to create the next hospitality co-op?

17th November 2021

Could your business be the next creative co-op?

23rd June 2021

Fair work founded on the principles of co-operation

6th May 2021

Sustainable, innovative and empowering; how Platform Co-ops and democratically owned tech can address the challenges and inequalities of the modern world

24th March 2021

Putting our co-operative principles and values into action to tackle climate change

25th November 2020

Brexit Transition: Help for co-op businesses

22nd June 2020

#KeepCooperating

21st May 2020

Covid-19 – support available to business, especially co-ops

12th May 2020

From the Globe to the Globe

7th May 2020

Co-op beer flows again

27th April 2020

£5m lent from co-ops to co-ops

24th April 2020

Co-operative resilience

17th April 2020

Welsh employee-owned packaging firm increases production

23rd March 2020

Radical co-op to open new centre for change

11th March 2020

COVID-19 – our current position

25th February 2020

Wholesome food at a fair price – that’s the co-op mission

27th January 2020

Beer, bikes, savers, survivors, active travel, zero waste

16th January 2020

New year, new kitchen, new supportive finance

2nd December 2019

Meet the funder #4

25th October 2019

From victim to survivor – from tenant to landlord

4th October 2019

Bristol Credit Union celebrates 20th birthday with ambitious growth plan

23rd September 2019

Organic food co-op opens second shop in same high street

22nd August 2019

Bike recycler expands in 10th year

1st August 2019

Meet the funder #3

1st July 2019

Right products in the right place at the right thyme

1st May 2019

Meet the funder #2

11th April 2019

Rise and fall and rise again

14th March 2019

Community library that was ahead of the trend

22nd February 2019

From bright idea to brilliant business

15th February 2019

Meet the funder #1

11th February 2019

Bright future for Belfast brewery

5th February 2019

2018 lending results

15th January 2019

Urban venue co-op to start farming

28th November 2018

New base for radical film-makers

9th October 2018

Innovative agency opens two new kitchens

3rd August 2018

Bouncers are clubbing together

1st August 2018

Foundry flourishing 3 years after employee buyout

11th June 2018

Bradford’s New Pioneers

8th May 2018

Co-op leads UK hemp production

27th April 2018

Centrifuge spins wider

7th February 2018

2017 lending results

5th February 2018

New brand, same unique lending

17th January 2018

Co-operative Web

30th October 2017

Community-owned future for family farm

29th September 2017

Co-op pub buys second building in village

24th May 2017

The Cow that Changed its Spots

29th April 2017

Wholefood co-op celebrates 30 years

18th April 2017

Nurturing the Sacred Earth

17th February 2017

Making Wood Work

26th January 2017

2016 – the year we topped £4m lent

18th January 2017

Scotland the Bread

20th December 2016

Co-op controls the Globe

28th November 2016

Digging deep for local community

30th August 2016

Uniform IT for employee-owned business

13th July 2016

Lending tops £4m with loan to co-op agency

20th April 2016

Pioneering local TV channel set to grow

6th April 2016

Support for smallholders

23rd March 2016

Eco-Co-op set for further growth

16th March 2016

Helping public bodies improve what they do

16th February 2016

2015 – Another good year

16th December 2015

Sustainable sawmill expands

15th December 2015

Awards and growth for care provider

11th December 2015

The Dog Inn

23rd November 2015

Community-owned creative centre opens in Sheffield

7th August 2015

New gym caters for local needs

3rd July 2015

£1.2m Creative co-op in heart of Sheffield

11th June 2015

New arts café opens in Folktown

10th June 2015

Kitchen supplier steeled for growth

11th May 2015

Have a Wild Thyme in Southsea!

24th March 2015

Rame was not built in a day

5th March 2015

Co-op saves pub from demolition

25th February 2015

New year, new start for Welsh pub

3rd February 2015

Free biomass boilers

17th November 2014

Renewed growth for energy co-op

28th October 2014

New generation and new services for design co-op

16th September 2014

Cleaning up student housing

8th August 2014

Behind the scenes at Sutcliffe Play

15th May 2014

Jazz co-op buys pub

30th April 2014

Opening of new community shop

18th February 2014

On target for Easter opening

17th February 2014

2013 – Another good year

20th January 2014

New life for Welsh woodlands

18th September 2013

Closed library saved by local community

9th September 2013

Calon Wen

6th September 2013

Newcastle Home Care

27th June 2013

Co-op funds unite in push to reopen historic hall

17th June 2013

Over £3m lent

17th June 2013

School Trends

3rd June 2013

Valley Organics

1st June 2013

New community shop for Devon village

12th March 2013

Three villages buy one shop

20th February 2013

Shop hides away in a church

18th January 2013

Co-operative bakery reaches Britain’s Best Bakery final!

10th January 2013

Manchester based energy co-op brings revolutionary biomass boilers to UK market

9th January 2013

Leading Scottish home care business set for further growth

5th September 2012

New co‐operative brings African produce to Nottingham

15th August 2012

Co‐operatives co‐operate to support new community counselling service

28th June 2012

Oxfordshire village adds to trend in community ownership

29th May 2012

Maracuja

23rd September 2011

The Butchers Arms

22nd September 2011

Dunbar Community Bakery

8th July 2011

Mica DIY

26th April 2010

Sutcliffle Play

21st December 2009

West Highland Free Press

16th October 2009

The Shop at Strood Green