A Youth Football League founded to provide opportunity for young people to participate in organisation football matches in North Derbyshire has secured funds to buy land and buildings to develop facilities for members and benefit the local community. Currently based across three mini venues in Matlock, Chesterfield and Clowne, North Derbyshire Youth Football League (NDYFL) […]
A unique music co-operative is developing new ways to bring musicians and audiences together while the venue it owns remains closed. The Globe in Newcastle upon Tyne was bought by Jazz.Coop in 2014 with investment from a community share issue and loans from Co-op Loan Fund and Co-operative & Community Finance. It is thought to […]
Rebike Cumbria is celebrating 10 successful years in business following a move to larger, better located premises earlier this year with support from Co-op Loan Fund. The business is now based in a 5,000 sq ft warehouse on an industrial estate near the centre of Carlisle. It has over twice as much space to store, […]
One of the UK’s more unusual new co-ops is getting ready to launch, with a little help from Co-op Loan Fund. The Security Professionals Support Co-operative (SPSC), based in Tyneside, aims to improve the working situations of all security personnel, from bouncers to bodyguards, by providing access to training, insurance, legal protection and accountancy. It […]
A new community-owned gym opened in one of the most deprived wards in the UK in August 2015 and by the end of its first day 175 local people had paid for six months membership. The Well IN gym in the Broughton area of Salford in Greater Manchester knows what is important to its local […]