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Fifty years of friendship and finance – meet Ed Powell
Today in our series of conversations with friends of ICOF, we meet Ed Powell, Director of Community Shares ICOF limited. ‘I’ve been involved with ICOF through Community Shares ICOF Ltd for the last two years. Before that, I’d worked for the Co-operative Group for around fifteen years, who helped to fund it originally, and came […]
Celebrating ICOF 50th birthday – looking back at our early loans – Paperback
London based Paperback are environmentally friendly paper merchants who have been selling recycled paper since 1983. We supported them through the 90’s to expand their stock selection. Today, they are still going, still specialising in supplying recycled papers wholesale, and they were the first paper merchant in the country to be awarded the FSC® Chain […]
Book NOW to attend our AGM online at 1pm on June 15th
The AGM will this year again be held online via Zoom, enabling members to attend remotely. Please contact Alain now if you’d like to attend, to secure your seat. All relevant paperwork including our Annual Report and AGM packs for LTD Members, PLC or ICC shareholders, is available online here.
Celebrating ICOF 50th birthday – looking back at our early loans – Total Coverage
In the 50 years that we’ve been lending, we’ve seen changes in the sorts of things people and organisations borrow for. In the early days, we supported industrial work like this gloveless welder in Wolverhampton. As technology and computing developed – even before smart phones changed everything for many of us – our lending kept […]
Fifty years of friendship and finance – meet Dave Hollings
As part of our 50th birthday, we’re chatting with people who have known us, worked with us and been supported by us over our fifty years so far. Today we meet Dave Hollings, Director at Co-operative & Mutual Solutions Ltd “I first got involved with ICOF when I was a coop development worker. My first […]
Celebrating ICOF 50th birthday – looking back at our loans – Mantra Publications
All kinds of businesses can be structured as a co-op or created to serve, and be owned by, their communities. In 1992, we worked with Mantra Publications, helping them refinance their operation and buy new equipment. Still going under a new name today, Mantra Lingua is a UK based publisher of award winning multilingual education […]
Fifty years of friendship and finance – meet Babs Nicgriogair
As part of our 50th birthday year, we’re speaking to people who have worked with us in a variety of ways since 1973. Today we speak to Babs Nicgriogair who is part of Greencity Wholefoods – a worker co-operative and wholesaler of fine food and drink based in Glasgow’s vibrant east end about how our […]
Celebrating ICOF 50th birthday – looking back at our loans – TSW
Employee buyouts are just one of the ways we’re glad to support more worker ownership. We supported training providers TSW in Wales in 2007 to take ownership of their business and we’re glad to say they are still providing training and development support today.
Finance secured as “Painters Pub” continues to develop and grow as a vital community asset
An historic village inn frequented by two of the most famous English landscape painters and now owned by its residents receives long-term finance boost. With an inn on its site going back all the way to 1305, The Lamarsh Lion Community Pub commands a superb view over the River Stour much loved and sketched by […]
Long-established relationship celebrated as loan secured for East End’s radical print and design co-op
A printing cooperative rooted in activism within London’s East End has secured finance as a returning borrower, 44 years after being the first co-op to fully repay its loan to Co-operative & Community Finance, back in 1979. Founded in 1977, Calverts is a design and printing workers’ cooperative based in Bethnal Green, East London. As […]