Thanks to Rochdale Council for hosting Co-op Congress 2025 in their spectacular newly refurbished Town Hall. Can't believe the ceilings were once painted over! 🎨

@cooperativesuk.bsky.social #CoopHeroes #CoopFortnight #IYC2025 #Rochdale

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As #CoopFortnight wraps up, we’re spotlighting our visit to The Green Gram with Southern Co-op.

🔗 Learn more about our visit and partnership: plunkett.co.uk/community-business-visit...

Brian O'Hare - North West Housing Services Brian has been involved in co-operative housing in Liverpool since the 1980s. As a Labour Councillor, he played a pivotal role in the planning and build of Huyton…

🏠 Co-op Fortnight – celebrating our #coopheroes: Brian O’Hare 🏠

Brian has been a cornerstone of co-op housing in Liverpool since the 80's bringing vision, leadership, and compassion to every project he's touched. Watch!
#coopheroes #CoopFortnight #IYC2025 #CoopsBuildABetterWorld #coophousing

Margaret Cope – Paddock Housing Co-operative Margaret is a founding member of Paddock Housing Co-operative in Walsall. Together with her husband Leslie, she joined a local initiative to create better housing…

🏠 Co-op Fortnight – celebrating our #coopheroes: Margaret Cope 🏠

Meet Margaret a founding member of Paddock Housing Co-op in Walsall and a powerful voice in the co-op housing movement. 💚

#coopheroes #CoopFortnight #IYC2025 #CoopsBuildABetterWorld #coophousing

‘For our community, by our community’ embodies exactly what co-ops are about! Well done everyone at Wolvercote Mill for creating a vibrant community space that enhances the well being of local people 💚 Find them here: www.thewolvercotemill.org
#CoopFortnight #IYC2025

Charlie Baker - formerly Homes for Change Housing Co-operative Charlie Baker is a co-founder of Homes for Change in Manchester, where his path into architecture and housing activism began after leaving university in 1986. Living…

🏠 Co-op Fortnight – celebrating our #coopheroes: Charlie Baker 🏠

Charlie’s journey in co-op housing began in Hulme in 1986. His work has empowered communities, shaped policy, and reimagined how housing can—and should—be done.

#coopheroes #CoopFortnight #IYC2025 #CoopsBuildABetterWorld #coophousing

Richard Pearl - formerly South Camden Housing Co-operative and CCH General Council member Richard lived in South Camden Housing Co-operative from 1983 to 2022 and contributed to the co-operative in his roles as a Treasurer and Chair over the years.  He…

🏠 Co-op Fortnight – celebrating our #coopheroes: Richard Pearl 🏠

Meet Richard Pearl a dedicated member of the co-op housing movement for nearly 40 years living at South Camden HC from 1983 to 2022 and a worker at many others.

#coopheroes #CoopFortnight #IYC2025 #CoopsBuildABetterWorld #coophousing

Khalid Mair, Imani Housing Co-operative Khalid is a founder member of Imani Housing Co-operative, a housing co-operative dedicated to serving the Afro-Caribbean community in Wandsworth, London. Over…

🏠 Co-op Fortnight – celebrating our #coopheroes: Khalid Mair
Meet Khalid, a founding member of Imani Housing Co-op—a co-op dedicated to serving the Afro-Caribbean community in Wandsworth.
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#coopheroes #CoopFortnight #IYC2025 #CoopsBuildABetterWorld #coophousing #bmelondon

And #CoopFortnight is ‘live’, falling happily during the United Nations International Year of Co-operatives.

We’re proud to be a 40+-year-old workers cooperative (& a #notforprofit)

Which means we’re signed up to the 10 co-op values, emblazoned on this poster 🙂
@cooperativesuk.bsky.social

@emergerecycling.bsky.social & Touch Wood are proud to be a community cooperative (aka Community Benefit Society). Owned by our 130 members who are committed to building a fairer, more sustainable economy & environment.
Join us 👉https://www.emergerecycling.co.uk/share-offer/
#IYC2025 #CoopFortnight

Helen Russell - Two Piers Housing Co-operative Helen is a member of Two Piers Housing Co-operative in Brighton. After her early experiences in short-life co-operatives and squatting in Brixton during the…

🌟 Co-op Fortnight – celebrating our #coopheroes: Helen Russell 🌟

Meet Helen Russell, a dedicated member of Two Piers Housing Co-op in Brighton and a true champion of co-op living. 🏘️✨

#coopheroes #CoopFortnight #IYC2025 #CoopsBuildABetterWorld #coophousing

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😍It's #CoopFortnight ! From 23rd June - 7th July cooperative businesses and endeavours are celebrating the co-op principles and our #CoopHeroes. We are proud to be a worker co-op and also part of @workers-coop.bsky.social - building grassroots democracy in our homes and workplaces 💪

Maureen Corbishley - Mile End Housing Co-operative Maureen has been a member of Mile End Housing Co-operative in London since 1977, becoming involved with the co-operative movement through her experience as a squatter.…

🌟 Co-op Fortnight – celebrating our #coopheroes: Maureen Corbishley 🌟

Watch this great video of Maureen who's been a dedicated member of Mile End HC since 1977, helping shape the co-op for nearly five decades!

#coopheroes #CoopFortnight #IYC2025 #CoopsBuildABetterWorld #coophousing

🥳 Happy #CoopFortnight! For the next two weeks we will celebrate just *some* of our movements' #CoopHeroes 🫶
👋 WHAT CAN YOU DO?
⬇️ Download graphics and our fab We Can Be Heroes storytelling guide buff.ly/GXXJRmu
🦸‍♂️ 🦸‍♀️ Post about and tag your #CoopHeroes and share others' posts
#IYC2025

This is a graphic advertising the 2025 Co-op Fortnight campaign. On the right half is a photograph of two, female Village Greens workers smiling. On the left half, overlaid on a rouge background are the words 'We Can Be Heroes' which is the name of the campaign, along with the hashtag #CoopHeroes and the International Year of Cooperatives logo. It states the dates of the Fortnight campaign from 23 June to 6 July.

We start celebrating #CoopFortnight tomorrow 🎉

This year’s all about #CoopHeroes – the people who make co-ops brilliant places to work, live and grow.

Watch this space for stories that will inspire ✨
#IYC2025 #Coops #CoopHeroes

A graphic advertising the 2025 Co-op Fortnight campaign. Overlaid on a rouge background are the words 'We Can Be Heroes' which is the name of the campaign, along with the hashtag #CoopHeroes and the International Year of Cooperatives logo.

Countdown time (not the gameshow)
2️⃣ days to go!
#CoopFortnight begins on Monday! The theme is #CoopHeroes & we’ll be sharing inspiring stories of people powering co-ops in their communities.
📲 Join using #CoopHeroes #IYC2025
🎉 Use graphics/guides to highlight your CoopHeroes: uk.coop/get-involved...

Co-operation: a tool for the next government? Cliff Mills, a co-operative consultant with Anthony Collins Solicitors LLP, on how can co-operation contribute to change There is much in Labour’s manifesto – and some in others – to encourage those c...

It could be an exciting time for co-operation, with the prospect of a change in government raising hope of the possibility of real change in lives, communities, and society.
#coopfortnight www.thenews.coop/co-operation...

Post Office: next government urged to consider transferring ownership to operators Questions over future of state-owned business after victims of Horizon IT scandal receive compensation

“worker and employee-owned businesses are more productive, while community-based co-operatives are more resilient and sustainable as well, so it has to be looked at.” Rose Marley, Co-operatives UK #CoopFortnight
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Another case study for #coopfortnight demonstrating the help and support our own Alice Hemming provided for a fantastic community hub (and so much more) in #Oxford.
#CoopGrowth
🔗 www.uk.coop/case-studies...

A group of 8 people from a co-operative smiling with raised arms in front of a hardware store named York Supplies

Ahead of #GE2024 we’re backing Co-operatives UK's call to the next government to commit to #CoopGrowth Read how Jo (Co-op Futures) helped a group in Birmingham keep a much-loved shop & community hub alive through the Business Support for Co-ops programme. #coopfortnight

www.uk.coop/case-studies...