• Description: A directory of cooperatives in the UK
  • What is good: There are so many with £38 bn to the UK economy
  • HQ Location and Country: Manchester
  • Operation locations: UK wide

A resource provided by Cooperatives UK to find local cooperatives 

How it shows

Just doing it; The network for Britain’s thousands of co-operative businesses, Co-operatives UK works to promote, develop and unite member-owned business worth £38.2 billion to the British economy.

Characteristics

Help and resources, wide engagement;  As the UK’s network for co-operatives, Cooperatives UK help new-starts get off the ground, provide specialist advice for growing businesses and lead major programmes to develop the UK co-operative sector.

Notes

Worth having as an explicit entry - add your postcode in full and be surprised and inspired by how much there is going on near you. The categories reflect the fact that this started life within The Coop and still reflects its internal organisation to some extent, though less than it did a dew years ago.