CCIN Action Learning: Cooperation through Covid-19

The unprecedented impact of Covid-19 on communities throughout the UK has meant that councils have had to respond in swift and innovative ways. The government’s initial centralised, Whitehall driven response was insufficient in getting support to those people who needed it quickly and effectively. Local government mobilised quickly to fill that gap. For Co-operative Councils Read More …

CCIN Review of the Year 2019-2020

By the end of July 2020, we had 33 Full Council Members, 16 Associate Members (which included six Town and Parish Councils), 26 Affiliate Members and nine Supporters.  An increase from 19 councils in 2017 to 57 councils and organisations in 2019 and 75 councils and organisations in 2020.  Fourteen new members joined in the Read More …

CCIN Review of the Year 2018-2019

The CCIN has had another exciting twelve months.  By the end of July 2019, we had 26 Full Council Members, 10 Associate Members (which included two Town and Parish Councils), 19 Affiliate Members and two Supporters. We have continued to grow the CCIN’s profile and showcase the valuable contribution the Network’s Members are making to municipal policy Read More …

What if we had a stake in the global economy?

“What’s wrong about the global economy is that we don’t have a stake in it” says Ann Pettifor, Director, PRIME. Co-operatives give us a stake in the businesses we rely on. One of the UK’s leading economists, Ann Pettifor, discusses the growth of companies like Uber and asks what if there were more co-ops giving Read More …