27th January, 2020 / Nicola, CCIN
27 January 2020 – A NEW report is calling for further support for co-operatives in Greater Manchester to ensure the city-region stays at the forefront of co-operative development and bring even greater economic benefits to the local community. Greater Manchester is home of the co-operative movement, with The Rochdale Society of Equitable Pioneers being established ...
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19th May, 2019 / Nicola, CCIN
In Newcastle, we believe social value – as well as financial value – is important, and should be considered in all our decisions, particularly where we are commissioning and procuring from partner organisations. We have made changes to our ways of working to make sure we consider social value in every part of our commissioning ...
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2nd March, 2019 / Nicola, CCIN
A strategic action plan to double the local co-operative economy in Plymouth by 2025. Plymouth City Council is the first council in the country to commit to doubling the size of its cooperative economy – helping local people to take more control of jobs, livelihoods and to keep more money in the city. There are ...
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3rd April, 2018 / Nicola, CCIN
There is a persistent gap between those young people from disadvantaged backgrounds and their more fortunate peers in economic opportunities and outcomes. Each year, a vote amongst young people in Salford schools consistently produces ‘learning for life’ as their top priority. Despite significant and continuing economic growth in Salford, far too many local residents have ...
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3rd April, 2018 / Nicola, CCIN
The Preston Co-operative Development Network (PCDN) was registered on the 27th July 2017 as a Community Benefit Society governed by co-operative values and principles. The constitution of the PCDN is an integral part of the ‘Preston Model’, and follows the recommendations of a report by the University of Central Lancashire to Preston City Council on ...
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3rd April, 2018 / Nicola, CCIN
Through its Knowsley Better Together Principles, Knowsley Council aims to prioritise spending, investment or recruitment locally to build social value. There is a strong commitment within the Council to raise the profile of high quality procurement and its role in delivering benefits to the local community. By prioritising social value outcomes in procurement activity, the ...
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29th March, 2018 / Nicola, CCIN
What is it? The Oldham Food Network… Is a community-led organisation – run by local people, for local people Brings together groups from communities across Oldham involved in food activity Engages members Borough-wide Read more: Oldham Food Network – Oldham Council
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28th March, 2018 / Nicola, CCIN
Funded with Food backs local people with local ideas. There are no complicated forms or long-winded processes, just real people with an inspiring idea for Oldham. Funded with Food is a crowdfunding event with a difference, aimed at local people with local ideas and funded by the community itself, it awards at least £250 in cash to one brilliant ...
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28th March, 2018 / Nicola, CCIN
The Thriving Communities (TC) programme is the bedrock of the Oldham Cares programme and central to the Oldham Model contained in the Oldham Plan. It focuses on creating the conditions for sustainable prevention, social action and change which are pre-requisites of achieving the overarching outcomes of the wider programme. It will do this through developing ...
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17th October, 2017 / Nicola, CCIN
Based on work by CLES and the Democracy Collaborative in USA, in 2013 we identified so-called ‘anchor institutions’, the largest purchasers of goods and services in the locality, who we saw as potential ‘community wealth builders’. Exploring how a change in the spend of existing anchors within the public economy could create a local economic ...
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