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Refurbishing community-run leisure centres
Co-operative & Community Finance is working with other funders to finance refurbishment at two community-managed leisure centres in Kent. Sencio Community Leisure is a community benefit society set up in 2003 to run three leisure centres and a golf course on behalf of Sevenoaks District Council. The transfer from local authority control has allowed access […]
A year of co-op success
On Friday 30 June come along to our presentation of our three campaign focuses this year, and be a part of our AGM at Co-operatives Congress 2017! AGMs and presentations programme Industrial Common Ownership Finance Group & ICOF Community Capital Unity Works, Wakefield 30 June 2017 Location Unity Works is located in the centre […]
The Cow That Changed Its Spots
A village pub in Derbyshire has re-opened after two years of closure, with new facilities and new owners – the local community. The Spotted Cow is now owned by a community benefit society with 225 members from the village of Holbrook and the surrounding area. They raised over £170,000 to finance the purchase, and Co-operative […]
Just Growth keeps growing
Just two weeks after winning the Citi Microentrepreneurship Award for Effective Partnership in recognition of its work with the Just Growth Fund, Co-operative & Community Finance has released another loan under this innovative programme for community-based food and farming projects. Sacred Earth, a community land project that is reclaiming and nurturing a 40-acre site of […]
We are an Access Point
We are helping to roll out a major initiative to support charities and social enterprises to access the investment they need to grow and diversify their income streams. Co-operative & Community Finance is one of just 10 organisations in England to be approved as an Access Point for the two-year, £4m Reach Fund which will […]
Award recognises Just Growth Fund
For the second time Co-operative & Community Finance has won an award at the Responsible Finance conference. On 28 March 2017, it won the Citi Microentrepreneurship Award for Effective Partnership for its work with the Just Growth Fund. The Just Growth Fund, launched in 2015, focuses on supporting businesses in community food and farming work. […]
Will you be our next treasurer?
Help us build a thriving co-operative sector Co-operative & Community Finance is looking for a Treasurer to support the Industrial Common Ownership Finance Ltd (ICOF) board and small staff team. Our well established organisation, which supports a range of co-operative businesses with loan finance is looking for a confident ‘numbers’ person to help us grow […]
First loan from new co-op pub support scheme
An ancient village inn, dating back to 1250, that had closed in December 2014, has become the first to benefit from a loan from a new scheme to support community ownership of pubs. On 28 February 2017 the Duke of Marlborough at Somersham near Ipswich was bought by a community benefit society with more than 230 […]
Post Carbon Co-ops – Future Co-ops 2017
We’re excited to let you know about another fantastic event that we will be sponsoring in 2017. ‘Post Carbon Co-ops – Future Co-ops 2017’ will address the Post Carbon landscape and explore co-operative solutions to post carbon challenges. We’re looking forward to working with Co-operative Futures again for what proves to be a great event. […]
Ways Forward 5 – Roads to a Democratic Economy
Here at Co-operative & Community Finance we are absolutely delighted to be sponsoring Ways Forward 5 – Roads to a Democratic Economy. This important conference aims to discuss and debate co-operative and radical alternatives to austerity and capitalism and help shape our shared vision of a prosperous, caring society based on a democratic economy. Speakers […]