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Principles met

  • Enterprise and social economy

    We will promote community-based approaches to economic development that focus on supporting the creation of jobs, social enterprises and other businesses and providing an environment for co-operative and mutual enterprises to thrive.

  • Innovation

    We will embrace innovation in how we work with local communities to drive positive change.

  • Learning

    We will capture and ‘expand’ the experience and learning from individual projects and approaches in order to encourage broader application of co-operative principles within individual member Councils and across the Network.

  • New models of meeting priority needs

    In exploring new ways of meeting the priority needs of our communities we will encourage models, such as co-operatives and mutuals, which give greater influence and voice to staff and users. in designing and commissioning public services and in determining the use of public resources.

GLL’s worker-owned cooperative and charitable social enterprise works with several cooperative councils across the UK—including Cardiff Council, Royal Borough of Greenwich, Hackney Council, Manchester City Council, Newham Council, and Preston City Council—to deliver affordable and accessible public services, including leisure, libraries, children’s centres, and cultural facilities.

Constantly looking to scale up with innovative partnerships, we’re talking to several cooperative councils in 2025 to explore new ideas. 

We started life in Greenwich in 1993, providing a new cooperative solution to “under-threat” public services. A meeting of determined minds and cooperative ambition between Greenwich Councillors, Officers, and our staff identified a cooperative that would boost local community outcomes, meet service needs, and, importantly, at the time, deliver cost savings. The number of leisure centres and services has increased since formation.

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