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New generation and new services for design co-op

A long-established marketing and design co-operative has taken on a new generation of workers and is developing new services with help from the Co-operative Loan Fund. Alpha Communication, based in Newcastle upon Tyne, has launched two new services – video production and graphic animation – and is already working on projects for several clients involved […]

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Jazz co-op buys pub

The Co-operative Loan Fund worked with other co-operative funds and advisers to help a group of jazz lovers to buy a pub and set up the UK’s first co-operatively owned music venue. On 30 April 2014 Pink Lane Jazz Co-op bought The Globe, a 19th Century pub on the west edge of Newcastle city centre, […]