Topic: Community Support

Over 100 Co-op Members and Co-op Academy students turned their hand to product design to help us give Crumbs – our gingerbread person – a summer makeover in support of our charity partner, Barnardo’s. To celebrate bringing communities together to raise £7m to support positive futures for 1million young people, Co-op is donating £10,000 to…

In recent conversations, Co-op Members asked us to help them reduce their impact on the environment. So, throughout June, our Member Activators brought their communities together to help them protect nature and take action on climate change. Here Stefan Klueter, Member Activator for Greater Manchester Central and West, tells us about all the activities he…

This year is the United Nations’ International Year of Co-operatives, and to mark it, our Co-op and Co-operatives UK – which represents thousands of independent co-ops across the country – recently welcomed world-wide co-operators to special events hosted across Rochdale and Manchester.   The Festival of Co-operation saw the largest gathering of international co-operatives leaders in over a…

To celebrate our partnership with The Big Lunch, we brought Co-op Members and local communities together in June to share food and connect with each other.  Mimi Lung, Member Activator for Lewisham, Southwark, Croydon, Bromley and Sutton, attended the Eden Project’s annual The Big Lunch in London. It was a great opportunity to meet local…

Together, we’re going to go even BIGGER and raise £7m to support positive futures for 1 million young peopl

2025 is a special year for Coop Fortnight as it falls in the United Nations International Year of Co-operatives and this year’s theme is #CoopHeroes.   We know co-operation is key to making a difference to local communities, so we want to take some time over Co-op Fortnight to celebrate and highlight some of our inspiring Co-op…