Community Assets
The decline in the availability of rural services has been well documented, with pubs, shops and other services closing at a faster rate than ever before. Rural co-operatives and social enterprises are often the only viable alternative for rural communities looking to retain or re-introduce a service in areas of private or public market failure. We should establish a ‘community right to try’ in rural communities, which would give them the option and time frame of six months to consider taking over a service.
Latest articles on Community Assets
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London manifesto: Co-operative Communities (20 Jul 2011)
The Co-operative Party is consulting on its manifesto for the 2012 Greater London Authority elections. We would welcome your ideas and suggestions – please use the comment section below to let us know what you think. Strong communities are an essential ingredient of a successful city. Co-operatives encourage people to come together over common interests [...]
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Co-operative and low-carbon initiatives could help Labour win in rural constituencies (13 Jul 2011)
Co-operative and low-carbon initiatives could help Labour win in rural constituencies was the message coming out of last week’s SERA/Friends of the Co-operative Ideal parliamentary seminar, reports Melanie Smallman of SERA who chaired the meeting Titled ‘The Future of Rural Communities; jobs, services and community’, the seminar provided an opportunity for SERA and Co-operative MPs [...]
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ConDem betray co-ops #2 – Community-owned pubs dropped (9 Aug 2010)
Hot on the heels of last week’s announcement that the ConDem Government has U-turned on its interest in remutualising Northern Rock comes the news that community ownership of pubs is being dropped. Less than a month ago, in launching the Big Society, David Cameron put the idea that punters could save their local using co-op [...]
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MPs call for mutual canal network (8 Jul 2010)
Tristram Hunt MP, supported by Co-operative Party MPs, last night called an adjournment debate on the future of British Waterways. Tristram used the debate to highlight our policy, backed in Labour’s manifesto, for the organisation to be run along mutual lines with the property to be held in trust to prevent asset stripping. As Tristram [...]
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Alun Michael: The co-operative model offers governance for the internet age (11 Sep 2009)
Who owns the internet? Who manages the internet? Who governs the internet? And does it really matter? Well, yes it certainly does – and the answer has to be co-operative governance! Let me explain. Only the most naïve people – mainly on the so-called “libertarian right” – still propagate the myth that the internet is [...]
