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Ed Mayo, Secretary General of Co-operatives UK, writes about a new report by Alex Lawrie from our member Somerset Co-operative Services: The ‘fourth right of citizenship’, alongside rights such as participation, is advice and information. So declared the great social innovator and … [Read more...] about The Case for Co-operative Development Bodies

"Unleashed" - the Co-op Party Conference this year will be on October 12/13/14th at the Mercure Grand Hotel in Bristol The development.coop will be running a workshop on "Doubling the Co-op Economy - building a growth infrastructure" at 4.00pm on Saturday 13th Oct. To register for the … [Read more...] about Co-op Party Conference

Don't forget, you don't always have to pay for our services - sometimes there is such a thing a a 'free lunch". Many smaller start-ups, and some business development work can be delivered at no cost to you, via a range of free support packages. These range from Big Lottery funding to the Co-op … [Read more...] about Free Advice

Since the end of last year, I’ve been trying to register www.development.coop for this organisation, Development Co‑operative Ltd, the new consortium co-op of CDBs, and discovered it was a registered, but unused, domain name, owned by the National Co-op Grocers https://www.ncg.coop based in … [Read more...] about Our thanks to National Co-op Grocers in Iowa

The Development Co-operative Ltd has now completed its formal registration process with the FCA Registered Address:- 37 Cardiff Road Dinas Powys Vale of Glamorgan CF64 4DH Reg. No 32418R 029 2051 4034 alex@consultancy.coop … [Read more...] about Registration agreed by the Financial Conduct Authority

The Development Co-operative Ltd is a newly formed Co-operative Development Body (CDB) and a member of Co-operatives UK It is a consortium of smaller local CDBs formed to take on larger projects across the British Isles. Our official launch will be at the Co-operative … [Read more...] about The Development Co-operative launches