The Committee for the Promotion and Advancement of Cooperatives (COPAC) is a multi-stakeholder partnership of global public and private institutions that champions and supports people-centred and self-sustaining cooperative enterprises as leaders in sustainable development.
In recent months co-operative organisations have one by one quit Twitter, something we at Co-op News are also considering. Those still on the platform continue to post but their co-op content is not controversial enough to make it into users’ feeds.
The Business Support for Co‑ops programme, a partnership between Co-operatives UK and the Co-op Bank, has given direct support to 500 co-ops in nine years, a report reveals.
The co-op is looking to raise £700,000, with members of the community invited to invest from as little as £50 for a stake in the co-operative. NLCE says the offer has an expected return of 5%.
The International Cooperative Alliance (ICA) hosted its Global Cooperative Conference in New Delhi, India, in the last week of November, with the theme Cooperatives Build Prosperity For All.