Co-op News

The International Cooperative Alliance and Fairtrade International signed a Joint Partnership Declaration at the ICA's Global Cooperative Conference last week. The organisations pledge to deepen collaboration in support of #cooperative and #fairtrade organisations. Read more about what this means for co-ops, fairtrade and sustainable development here 👉 https://bit.ly/3ZlJ7Uf #ICANewDelhi2024 #NamasteICA #CoopsYear #IYC2025

Meet ... P. Santosh Kumar, director of legislation at the International Cooperative Alliance and co-ordinator of the ICA’s 2024 Global Cooperative Conference in India! Santosh was raised in New Delhi and joined the International Cooperative Alliance Asia and Pacific Office (ICA-AP) in 2010, moving to the global office in 2019. What has his journey looked like ... and what are his reflections on the event? 👉 Read the full interview at https://bit.ly/49jL483 #ICANewDelhi2024 #NamasteICA #CoopsYear #IYC2025

Takeover of The Co-operative Bank plc by Coventry Building Society gets appproval from PRA and FCA, bringing it into mutual ownership on 1 Jan #coops #mutuals #banking https://lnkd.in/e48hETKn

The International Cooperative Alliance (ICA) wrapped up its global conference yesterday with the adoption of the New Delhi Action Agenda on the Future of Cooperatives. https://lnkd.in/eM7VdvCN

Report from the recent conference of the Confederation of Co-operative Housing, which discussed the potential of the #coops model to offer solutions in the face of the #housingcrisis, a growing problem for a world already facing #climatechange - as well as a political polarisation which is making #cooperatives look increasingly 'counter-cultural'. Delegates also looked internal issues for the sector, around tenant satisfaction, governance and regulation https://lnkd.in/efbjz3vW

The International Cooperative Alliance (ICA) has announced @Dr Udai Shanker Awasthi, of the Indian Farmers Fertiliser Cooperative (IFFCO) as the winner of the 2024 Rochdale Pioneers Award.

Scotmid Co-operative has announced two COO appointments, with Brian Boyle taking on the #retail division and Nick McLaughlin stepping into a newly created role at #funerals

Lincolnshire Co-op has reported a 6.1% growth in turnover but rising costs, including energy prices and the Living Wage, brought a 10.5% drop in trading surplus to £10.8m, in its annual results to September

The stresses and pressures of content moderation are a new labour rights issue in the growing platform economy. Can the #cooperative model offer an answer? It's just one of the issues debated at the Digital Africa Rising conference in Mombasa, organised by the The Platform Cooperativism Consortium - an event which highlighted the work of #plaformcoops such as Zenzeleni Wi-Fi, a care services platform in South Africa, Tanzania’s Enyorata platform which helps women build credit histories, and Kerala Food Platform in India. Consortium director Trebor Scholz writes from the event and shares his thoughts here https://lnkd.in/dprsma-9

The global #cooperative movement has today kicked off the 2025 International Year of Cooperatives (IYC) in New Delhi, India. The launch came at the start of the global conference of the International Cooperative Alliance, which has gathered 3,000 delegates from more than 100 countries Check our report from the event, with speeches from UN secretary general António Guterres, the leaders of India, Fiji and Bhutan, and leading co-operators. #coops https://lnkd.in/dyMgYhZJ