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📖 The report also announces the next chapter, with a new dedicated investment fund for community shares launching later this year. 🤩 🔎 Read the report 👉️ buff.ly/z2bOJJj #Comshares #CommunityOwnership #Coops #CommunityBusiness #BenComms
📍48% of investments supporting communities in England’s most deprived areas 🚀 £3.99 of community investment generated for every £1 invested by the Fund ➕ And much more… (4/5)
Highlights include: 📈 £5m invested in 98 community share offers 🤝 £20m unlocked from more than 26,000 community investors 🚀 184 development grants awarded to enable share offers to launch (3/5)
The Fund has given hundreds of communities the confidence, credibility and investment they need to create jobs, regenerate neighbourhoods and turn ambitious ideas into thriving community businesses. (2/5)
🎉 Read our new report celebrating 10 years of the @comshares.bsky.social Booster Fund’s huge impact in kick-starting community regeneration. The report shows how community shares have helped people across England save local assets, boost localities & build stronger local economies.🧵 (1/5)
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Save the date for Practitioners Forum 2026! Join us in Manchester on Thursday 26 November, for our flagship learning and development event, made for people working in co-operatives.
Why should public money for care end up as private profit? Following Andy Burnham's speech on social care reform this week, we're calling for a co-operative approach: buff.ly/nxNIvVd
It takes just one click, ☝️ a few minutes ⏱️ and the answers to some simple questions to share your thoughts on what worked – and how we can do even better next year. So let us know.👂️We’re all ears! 👉️ buff.ly/0EY5xp8 #CoopFortnight #Coops #BenComs (2/2)
📣 Co‑op Fortnight 2026 – have your say! 💬 We’re always working to improve what we do to better serve our members and support co‑ops. So we’d love to hear what you thought of this year’s Co‑op Fortnight – our annual celebration of co‑operatives 🎉 from 22 June to 5 July. 🧵(1/2)
From #CoopCongress to Downing Street! There's more to this particular journey of course... Congratulations to @andyburnham.bsky.social – the UK's first Labour & Co-operative Prime Minister. We're looking forward to working with the new govt to help deliver good growth in every postcode #coops
"Putting the power in the hands of communities." That's how our CEO @rosemarley.bsky.social described the opportunity facing the UK on BBC Radio 5 Live this morning, ahead of Andy Burnham becoming the first Labour and Co-operative Prime Minister. Listen (1hr26m) www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
What kind of Prime Minister will Andy Burnham be? Our CEO @rosemarley.bsky.social joined BBC Breakfast this morning to share her insight, drawing on nearly a decade of working closely with him. Watch from 9.31: www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis... #coops #andyburnham
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Two catastrophic earthquakes have hit Venezuela. Buildings were reduced to rubble in minutes. Now the survivors urgently need support.
🏆 Could your co-op be Co-op of the Year? 🏆 The UK @socialenterpriseuk.bsky.social Awards 2026 include a dedicated co-op category for the first time. But applications close this Sunday 12 July. Don't miss out. Apply today 👉 www.socialenterprise.org.uk/all-about-so... #coops #socentawards
👏 A huge thank you to everyone who shared their stories, celebrated their achievements & helped show the positive impact of co‑operation over the past fortnight. Let’s keep telling our stories long after #CoopFortnight has come to an end. 💚 #Coops #ComBiz #CommunityOwned (4/4)
💚 It’s the last day of #CoopFortnight – and what an incredible celebration it’s been! 🎉 Over the past two weeks, we’ve shared inspiring stories of co‑ops co‑operating to change the world 🌍 – from creating affordable homes 🏡 & supporting community health 🩺 to...🧵👇️ (1/4)
“When people understand the feelings and needs behind their different positions, it creates shared understanding – the foundation for peace.” #CoopsDay #Coops4Peace #SDG16 #BuildingBridges #Coops (6/6)
The co‑op began life as a charity during Northern Ireland’s troubles, to seek a peaceful way forward. They decided to become a worker co‑operative due to an increasingly tough funding landscape for charities, making the switch so they could carry on their valuable mission. (3/6)
🌍 Changing the world, one conversation at a time.🕊️ It’s International Day of Co‑operatives! This year’s theme is ‘Co‑operatives for a peaceful world,’ so we’re celebrating by shining the #CoopFortnight spotlight on our member, the Dialogue Practitioners Co‑operative. 🧵(1/6)
🌍 It’s the United Nations and @icacoop.bsky.social’s International Day of Co‑operatives! 🕊️ This year’s theme is “Co‑operatives for a peaceful world.” Inequality & exclusion can fuel conflict, but co‑ops tackle both by sharing ownership, creating livelihoods & strengthening local institutions.🧵(1/3)
📖 Read this blog: buff.ly/7qOKGEL to discover how these conversations are giving people confidence, reducing fear and encouraging communities to support one another through life’s most challenging moments. (4/5)
💜 This #CoopFortnight we’re celebrating Co‑op Group for co‑operating to change the world by helping people have compassionate conversations about subjects that can be difficult – like planning ahead, end‑of‑life wishes, coping with loss & protecting what matters most. 🧵👇️ (1/5)
Agile’s Simon Chapman said, “We felt a keen sense of duty to help fellow co‑operators in the most traumatic of situations. Our contribution was just a drop in the ocean of the support needed to help the people of Gaza who have suffered over many years.” #Coops #TechForGood (6/6)
🙏 Yalla’s Joe Friel said: “The Good Causes donation came at one of the hardest points for our co‑operative. The funding went directly toward the monthly financial support we continued to pay our members in Gaza throughout this period. (4/6)
👏 This morning’s #CoopFortnight shout out goes to our member @agile.coop – a worker‑owned agency that’s “co‑operating to change the world” 🌍 by designing, building and supporting websites for mission-driven organisations.🧵👇️ (1/6)
👏 Thank you, Grimsby Community Energy, for showing how co‑operation can put the power back into communities. #Coops #UpTheEnergy #LocalPowerPlan #CleanEnergy #ClimateAction
☀️ With solar already installed on 15 community buildings, the co‑op is now looking ahead to the opportunities created by the Government’s Local Power Plan. ⚡ (3/6)
⚡🌞 Today, as part of #CoopFortnight and #CommunityEnergy Fortnight, we’re celebrating our member Grimsby Community Energy – for co‑operating to change the world by helping community organisations cut their energy bills with locally generated, clean electricity. 💚 🧵👇️ (1/6)
