🏡 Housing co-ops work. The problem is that UK law doesn't have a home for them.
Without a proper co-operative housing tenure, co-ops have to work to legal structures built for something else, making them harder to set up, harder to scale, and harder to access. Let's change that.
On the 7th of May, over 1,100 Co-operative candidates will stand across the UK, contesting more than 1 in 5 seats up for election, in over 120 councils.
Vote Labour and Co-operative on 7 May.
Great to see support in place for grassroots venues - helping them stay open, host live music, and keep local culture thriving 🎤
Supporting the independent spots that make Peckham a cultural hub.
Local venues, check if you’re receiving your 15% relief.
I hear from many constituents who see the value of Peckham and London’s nightlife to our local economy and culture 🌃
If you care about licensing and supporting our venues, have your say in the @london.gov.uk survey.
£5 million investment to Peckham Rye Station - thank you to our amazing councillors and constituents who pushed for this investment 👏🏾
A poster reading "JOIN THE CO-OPERATIVE PARTY" against an abstract purple background.
Last week, we launched the Local Power Plan with the Government, ushering in a new era of community-owned energy.
We rely on our members to be able to do what we do. If you want to be a part of our movement, join our Party today. party.coop/join
Over the last year, we've been investing in local organisations, working to keep our borough greener - with over 56,600 volunteer hours done through funded biodiversity partnerships.
Read our annual Biodiversity Report below.
You’re invested. So are we.
www.southwark.gov.uk/culture-and-...
Join us for the launch of the Southwark Council Older People's Housing Strategy
Friends, family and carers welcome
Monday 23 February, 2pm to 3.30pm, Appleby Blue Almshouse, SE16
engage.southwark.gov.uk/en-GB/projec...
Ramadan Mubarak to Muslims across Southwark, the UK and worldwide.
May this sacred time be a period of reflection, joy, and happiness for all.
Happy Pancake Day! 🥞
Reduce food waste by measuring ingredients carefully to make only what you'll eat 🍽️
you can also use overripe bananas in your batter 🍌
Don’t forget that your food waste caddy loves eggshells and banana peels, it’s a match made in the kitchen ❤️
Ramadan Mubarak, from the Co-operative Party.
We're wishing all those celebrating a blessed and peaceful Ramadan.
As Ramadan begins, I want to extend my warmest wishes to Muslim communities across our country at this special time of faith, family and charity. Ramadan Mubarak.
Great to be in Hastings where we announced 40 more neighborhoods will benefit from Pride in Place.
Communities like this are the backbone to our society - that’s why we’re backing them to deliver the change they want to see.
This week we gave approval for land at New James Court, Scylla Road to be used for the borough’s first community-led housing pilot scheme.
This project will deliver 12 affordable homes, replacing 27 garages.
Find out more via the link below.
www.southwark.gov.uk/news/2026/so...
In today's Daily Mirror, @roswynnejones.bsky.social hears directly from young people about the value youth clubs bring to local communities.
We visited with her, because shared spaces go the heart of our Community Britain campaign.
Youth clubs are an early opportunity for young people to experience community in their local area.
They're shared spaces, which is why we're focused on them as part of Community Britain.
Hear from young people at the Damilola Taylor Centre on the importance of youth clubs.
youtu.be/Cii8CrxhB2M
Huge congratulations to former Southwark Council Leader Peter John OBE and former councillor Peter Babudu on their appointment to the House of Lords.
Also we congratulate Brenda Dacres, Mayor of Lewisham, on her appointment to the House of Lords.
Great to be at the Southwark Stands Together event last night. Inspiring to see the strength, solidarity and support across our community.
We're pleased to unveil, in partnership with the NLA, the winning design from the ‘Hope in the Square’ design competition for Peckham Square.
www.southwark.gov.uk/news/2025/wi...
There is hope in our communities, and it's the same hope we have for Britain.
Miatta Fahnbulleh from our Community Britain: Co-operative Party Conference 2025.
As we start to close Day 2 of our Community Britain: Co-operative Party Conference, Douglas Alexander has a message for our supporters and members. 🐝
The answer is power. 💭
We asked Rachel Blake MP what we need to fix to ensure growth in the economy translates to growth for our communities.
Read our new report, released today, to learn more about how co-operative and community solutions could unlock growth up and down the country. party.coop/community/gr...
A Britain with a future that feels hopeful: more than points on a chart, but people in your community thriving together again.
That’s what we all deserve, and that’s what an economy powered by inclusive growth can deliver. 📈
🐝 @miattafahnbulleh.bsky.social is the Minister for Devolution, Faith and Communities - she’s helping put power and wealth in people’s hands through community ownership and co-operative growth.
Congratulations to Co-operative MP Lucy Powell on her election as Deputy Leader of the Labour Party.
Mainstream’s Interim Council sends its congratulations to Labour’s new Deputy Leader, Lucy Powell, whom we endorsed after a ballot of our members. Lucy ran a positive campaign advocating for pluralism, democracy and a cultural course correction, pledging to bring members, affiliates and communities into Labour’s decision-making. Ending the two-child benefit limit, which we campaigned for at this year’s party conference, was also central to her campaign. Lucy’s victory today is a win for Labour’s mainstream. It shows that the majority of our movement wants Labour to be open, participatory and inclusive. Members have rejected the hyper-factional, top-down culture culpable for the missteps of our first year in government. The failed experiment in political centralisation being pursued by a tiny group at the top of the party must now end. The low turnout in this contest is a sign of the disillusionment and plummeting morale that this culture is provoking. The result of the Caerphilly by-election, where Labour went from first to third place, is a straw in the wind of what will happen next May and in the 2029 General Election unless the party has a major reset. This result must mark a shift toward a broader, bolder politics within Labour. Only then will we be able to construct a transformative, democratic socialist programme for the country. Mainstream will organise to make this a reality. The alternative is a Reform-led government.
🌹Mainstream's Interim Council sends its congratulations to
@lucympowell.bsky.social, whom we endorsed after a ballot of our members.
This result must mark a shift toward a broader, bolder politics within Labour - so that we can build a democratic socialist programme to inspire the country.
Helen Hayes and Lucy Powell
Huge congratulations Lucy Powell, elected Deputy Leader of the Labour Party today.
I know Lucy will be a strong and collegiate voice for the whole of our Labour movement right across the UK 🌹
The Pride in Place Programme does something totally different - it ushers in a new era of community ownership.
A photo of housing across Southwark and a caption related to a home condition survey being carried out
🏘️ We are starting the UK’s biggest survey of council homes in Southwark.
This is part of our work to become a good landlord which includes a £250m investment in council homes.
More details www.southwark.gov.uk/housing/majo...
