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Autumn news update
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Human chain helps radical bookshop move into old bank
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Over 250 people formed a human chain to help a long-established radical bookshop in Southampton to move its stock to its new premises. After an appeal to the local community some 20,000 books were transferred by volunteers 150 metres from the old shop in time for October Books to open for business on 3 November in its new shop, which …
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10 Co-op Pubs in Top 50
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The guide to the 50 Best UK Pubs, published in The Guardian on 27 October, devotes a whole section featuring 10 entries to community-owned pubs. This demonstrates how far the movement for community-ownership of pubs has come in a relatively short time. Ten years ago there were only four community-owned pubs in the UK. Now there are over 70, and …
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Better access for award-winning pub
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An award-winning community-owned pub in rural Oxfordshire is greatly improving the access and facilities for disabled customers with help from a loan arranged by Co-operative & Community Finance. The Abingdon Arms in Beckley won the 2018 Sawday’s Pub Guide award for Best Community Pub and is listed in the inews Top 50 Pubs for Sunday Lunch. It was bought by …
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The People's Crown
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A team of happy volunteers in an Oxfordshire village have started preliminary renovation work on their local pub which is now owned by the local community and saved from redevelopment. South Moreton, near Didcot, has not had a shop nor a village hall for several years so when the only pub in the village was bought by a property developer …
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Reach Fund extended for 3 years
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The Foundation for Social Investment (Access) and Social Investment Business have announced that the Reach Fund, the pioneering grant programme which supports charities and social enterprises to take on social investment, will continue for at least a further three years. Co-operative & Community Finance is one of 24 organisations in England to be approved as an Access Point for …
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