Establishing a national single cooperative market was the reason the Central Cooperative Union built a Trade and Logistic Center COOP. Construction began in 2010 the 120th anniversary of the cooperative movement in Bulgaria, and the Center was officially opened on the occasion of the EURO COOP General Assembly in June 2011. In attendance was […]
Coming soon: Organics Week on Stories.coop
The week of May 7th will feature cooperatives using organic production. Stay tuned! This week is Eastern Europe week and soon to come: media and communications, fisheries, Latin Amerincan coops, artisans, and more!
Hermon agri-cooperative
Hermon agri-cooperative was established by female refugee small holder farmers from Hermon village with the support of the Oxfam Livelihood programme. All members are involved in horticulture agri- business activities and participate in cooperative management and decision-making. Hermon cooperative members now also benefit from the cold storage facility established in neighbouring communities by Oxfam.
Member stories – Kitunda SACCO, Tanzania
Savings, loans and coaching Kitunda Savings and Credit Cooperative (SACCO) began in 2002 with the aim of providing financial access for people in the area of Kitunda, Tanzania. Located approximately 20 km outside the capital Dar es Salaam, residents of Kitunda have no bank and so depend on Kitunda SACCO for their banking. The SACCO […]
Lipson Community College: a co-operative Academy
Lipson Community College became a co-operative Trust school in 2009 and a Co-operative Academy in 2012, joining around 200 co-operative schools across England who have adopted a co-operative structure using a model developed by the Co-operative College. Situated in the city of Plymouth in Devon, it is a large, urban secondary school serving some of […]
Bicycle repair and renovation co-operative at Madras College
Students at Madras College in St Andrews, Scotland are involved in a co-operative enterprise that maintains and sells bicycles. Students source bikes destined for salvage for renovation and sale. The Madras Bicycle Business co-operative has been running for three years out of a workshop based in the school and is a member of the Co-operative […]
The Ruptors Street Dance Co-operative
The Ruptors is a street dance crew formed in 2008 by students at Lipson Community College, a co-operative school in Plymouth, Devon, south west England, and run as a Young Co-operative as part of the Co-operative Colleges Young Co-operatives scheme. The crew consists of eight students ranging from years 10-12. Since 2008 the Ruptors has […]
The Foster Care Co-operative
Foster Care Co-operative(FCC) is a not-for-distributed-profit Foster Care Agency, based in Malvern, Worcestershire, with regional offices in Cardiff, Bristol and Glasgow. The Co-operative provides an ethical and efficient model of spending public money, on an extremely vulnerable group in Society. Set up in 1999 by Chairman Laurie Gregory, FCC provides an alternative to commercially independent […]
The Foster Care Co-operative
FCC was formed after Laurie Gregory, who had worked in local authority management for many years, took early retirement and saw the opportunity to react to agencies who had been poaching local authority foster carers. “Quite apart from the morality of it, we see no point in poaching existing foster carers,” Laurie said. “We want […]
A society of shoemakers expands
Romania has a long history of co-operation. Indeed, the first producer and service cooperative The Society of Shoemakers was founded in Bucharest in 1879. And, Romania can also lay claim to being one of the founders of the International Co-operative Alliance. Nearly two decades after the Society of Shoemakers was founded, Dimitrie C. […]