Archive for 'co-operatives'
Event – Kibbutz, Commune, and Co-operative: Can we learn from the Israeli experience?
Labour & Co-operative MP Louise Ellman and Labour & Co-operative Assembly Member Nicky Gavron are hosting an event on the Israeli co-operative movement. Danny Gavron in conversation Alternatives to the Market Society: Kibbutz, Commune, and Co-operative – Can we learn from the Israeli experience? Sponsored by Louise Ellman MP in partnership with Nicky Gavron AM [...]
Luciana Berger visits Brixton Energy co-operative
Luciana Berger visited Repowering South London’s award winning Solar projects in Brixton this month to find out how local co-operative community energy generation can be successful and what the Government should do to support it. The project in Brixton is one of the few community energy schemes that have found success despite this Government’s feed-in-tariff [...]
Co-operative Energy – demonstrating the co-operative difference
The Co-operative Energy, the co-operatively owned energy supplier, has announced it will be dropping its electricity prices by 2% just as other suppliers are raising their prices – British Gas increased theirs by 6% on the same day. Consumer-owned Co-operative Energy has shown it can buck the trend and put customers before profit. This price [...]
Power to the People: co-op energy event in Parliament
On 10 July SERA and the Co-operative Party held a joint event to explore co-operative and community energy. Here Ash McGregor of the Socialist Societies Executive reports on the meeting. Shadow Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, Caroline Flint spoke of the strong analogies between the energy and banking industries, with companies that [...]
Jonathan Reynolds MP: Co-operative Housing Tenure needs to be recognised
Co-operative housing models play an important role in the UK’s current housing crisis and have proven to be affordable alternatives. Housing co-operatives have helped many families that were struggling to get a foot on the housing ladder and we must be committed to providing them with the full backing of the law, says Jonathan Reynolds [...]
Power to the People: The energy co-operative with 42 million customers
Co-operative energy has become more popular in the United States and one particular company has emerged as a leader of the field. Ahead of tonight’s Parliamentary event on co-operative energy, Sharon Hou reports on Gareth Thomas MP’s recent visit. Last week, Co-operative Party Chair and Labour & Co-operative MP Gareth Thomas visited the National Rural [...]
David Drew: Rural Themes
Former Labour & Co-operative Member of Parliament David Drew – our candidate again in 2015 – considers what the Labour and Co-operative Parties need to do to connect with rural voters, using co-operative ideas. Since narrowly losing the Stroud Constituency seat in the last General Election I have been engaged in a passion of mine [...]
Sewn Up: a Co-operative Party international campaign
General Secretary Michael Stephenson announces our new campaign to support a women’s co-operative in South Africa – Sewn Up. During my trip to South Africa last summer, I visited a number of co-operatives in Ivory Park, a township near Johannesburg. The one that really inspired me was the Kopano Women’s Sewing Co-operative. Like the other [...]
Co-operatives Fortnight: Coalition’s record on co-operatives scrutinised
To mark Co-operatives Fortnight which runs until 9th July, Co-operative MPs secured a Parliamentary debate on ‘Co-operatives and Mutuality in the Economy’. The debate took place in Westminster Hall on 30th June and a video can be seen here or below. The debate celebrated the success of the co-operative movement, in the UK and globally, [...]
Co-ops Fortnight: Alex Baker’s top co-ops
Co-operatives Fortnight launched yesterday at Westminster Central Hall with a celebration of all things co-operative. Events are taking place across the country. Each day for the rest of the fortnight, our former Parliamentary Officer Alex Baker, now a Community & Membership Officer with the Co-operative Group, is tweeting about her favourite co-ops. For her first [...]
