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May round-up
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- Bookings now being taken for our AGM and networking lunch in Bristol
- Celebrating Community Business
- Community Pub and Hub at heart of National Park
- From shops to coops - our team have more in common than we might have known
- All aboard the UnFound Roadshow
- And finally...
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Bookings are now being taken for our AGM and Networking Lunch on the 13th June.
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Celebrating Community Business Weekend
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While Community Pubs and Shops are often the poster children for Community Business, there are, in fact, a huge range of businesses, owned by and operated for the benefit of their communities.
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Read about some of the Community Businesses we’ve supported, including sports facilities, wood recycling, and even a circus here...
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Another Community Pub saved
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The people of a village in the heart of the South Downs National Park have prevented their only pub, which closed in 2017, being redeveloped as housing by buying it themselves.
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On 30 April the Blue Bell in Cocking, West Sussex, was purchased by a community benefit society set up to save the pub and create new facilities for the village.
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From shops... to co-ops
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Working in the co-operative and community sector, as a values led business, it’s probably not that surprising to find that our team have similar backgrounds, and shared histories.
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We’ve discovered recently just how similar some of them are – are we, perhaps, really a nation of shopkeepers. Read more here...
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All aboard the UnFound Roadshow
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In our first blog of the year, our Chair Jon wrote that
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…we’re expecting to see the continued rise of the tech co-op, and possibly even the fintech co-op. As CoTech gathers together tech co-operatives under one umbrella, the size of this part of the sector becomes clear – £10m revenue across 35 co-ops, just one year into its existence.
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Tim has been supporting the Co-op Foundation this month, with trips to Eastern Scotland and a community woodland in South West Wales. Ian has been out on lending visits to London and Sheffield, and Anne and Alain have been busy preparing for our AGM.
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