- Fair Tax Declaration
- Living Wage Accredited
- Charter Against Modern Slavery
- Care Experience Protected Characteristic
Fair Tax Declaration
Councillors across the UK work hard to serve their local communities and help direct the delivery of essential public services. By signing up to the Councils for Fair Tax Declaration below, councils can demonstrate alignment with their values and encourage responsible tax practice through:
>leading by example on their tax conduct
>demanding to know who owns and profits from businesses the council buys from – UK and overseas – and their full financial reports
>joining calls for UK public procurement rules to change so that councils can do more to tackle tax avoidance and award points to suppliers that demonstrate responsible tax conduct.
Sign up here: https://fairtaxmark.net/supporters/councils-for-fair-tax/
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Co-operatives UK is the network for Britain’s thousands of co-operatives. We work together to promote, develop and unite member-owned businesses across the economy. From high street retailers to community-owned pubs, fan-owned football clubs to farmer-controlled businesses, co-operatives are everywhere and together they are worth £38bn to the British economy. Owned and run by their members, Co-operatives UK connects businesses that give people more control over the things that matter to them.
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Since 1993, GLL (Greenwich Leisure Ltd) have grown from operating venues in Greenwich, then to London and the South East in the 2000s, to the present day’s status as the UK’s largest leisure social enterprise – a national organisation operating over 250 leisure facilities, 100 libraries and 10 children's centres across England, Cardiff and Belfast.
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Real World Group is a UK-based leadership consultancy and psychometric tool publisher with expertise in empowering individuals, teams, and organisations to build inclusive, high-performing cultures. Grounded in cutting-edge behavioural science and research, we equip leaders with evidence-based tools to enhance innovation, collaboration, and resilience to drive superior performance. Guided by Chartered Occupational Psychologists, our proven leadership assessments improve performance, motivation, and wellbeing. With extensive expertise in local government, our approach supports leaders to transform culture, navigate complex challenges, and deliver exceptional public services. We help organisations enable thriving communities through inclusive leadership practices that create genuine and sustained impact.
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Unlimited Potential specialises in social innovation – creating new solutions to social and economic problems with local people and communities. We use our innovation process to respond to the challenges of large organisations. Engaging with the strengths of citizens and communities, especially those who are disadvantaged and marginalised, we also draw on research from a range of disciplines to enhance impact. We are happy to explore any challenge, and to see how it might be reframed and then addressed in different ways to create new low-cost solutions.
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Midcounties Co-operative t/a Your Coop Business Solutions is a dynamic and diversified cooperative organization headquartered in the United Kingdom. Founded in 2005, the cooperative operates across various sectors, including retail, energy, childcare, funeral, travel services, and telecommunications. Through the acquisition of the Phone Coop in 2015, Midcounties Cooperatives launched Your Coop Business Solutions. Integrating sustainable practices into its telecommunications operations, with a focus on reducing carbon emissions and environmental impact, Your Coop Business Solutions focuses on the provisioning of Fairphone Handsets, Mobile SIMs, Data Connectivity, and Digital Voice Services, strengthening partnerships and engagement with local communities to address their evolving telecommunications needs effectively.
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Living Wage Accredited
Living Wage accreditation is the best place to start for organisations wanting to demonstrate their commitment as a responsible employer. By paying the real Living Wage, employers voluntarily take a stand to ensure their employees can earn a wage that is enough to live on. That fundamental fairness is at the heart of what the Living Wage campaign is trying to achieve and why great businesses and organisations choose to go further than the government minimum. As well as it being the right thing to do, a growing body of evidence demonstrates the business benefits of becoming a Living Wage Employer.
Visit the Living Wage Foundation website and employer map.
Sign up here: https://www.livingwage.org.uk/accredit
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As a firm, we are driven by our purpose and see profit as a means, not an end. We seek to make sufficient profit to invest in the growth of the firm, which in turn furthers our purpose. We ensure that partners and staff are fairly and appropriately rewarded for their hard work. Everyone at Anthony Collins Solicitors is driven by our purpose and we work with clients who share that purpose. This shared drive, passion and vocation means we are all working to make a difference in the world.
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Co-operative Care Colne Valley, registered as Colne Valley Equitable Care Society Ltd is a multi-stakeholder co-operative established to provide both high-quality domiciliary care for older and disabled people in the Colne Valley, and fair and proper terms and conditions of employment for care staff. We are a community based small scale, caring co-operative which puts people before profit. People needing care and support, families, care workers and community volunteers will be treated with dignity and respect as equal members of a dynamic and democratic enterprise.
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Co-operative Futures is a business development consultancy specialising in co-operative, mutual and community-led businesses. Founded in 2000 it was set up to provide direct advice and support services and to engage in debates to find mutual solutions for challenges being faced by communities. Working with start-ups and existing companies we advise enterprises in a wide range of sectors including retail, leisure, community asset transfer, renewable energy, care and many more. We look for three things in the organisations we work with that there is a trading activity, they have a social purpose and there is some form of collective ownership.
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The Co-operative Heritage Trust CIO is an independent charity * which exists to preserve and share the heritage assets of the UK co-operative movement. 31 Toad Lane (Rochdale Pioneers Museum) is the site of the first successful consumer member society and the place where the Rochdale Principles of co-operation were created in 1844. We believe that by working together people can make a difference - We use archive and museum collections to engage modern audiences with the ways the co-op movement has shaped our society and can be a meaningful force for positive change.
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Co-operatives UK is the network for Britain’s thousands of co-operatives. We work together to promote, develop and unite member-owned businesses across the economy. From high street retailers to community-owned pubs, fan-owned football clubs to farmer-controlled businesses, co-operatives are everywhere and together they are worth £38bn to the British economy. Owned and run by their members, Co-operatives UK connects businesses that give people more control over the things that matter to them.
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Constellia are experts in professional services spend, operating the Consultancy Procurement Council – a collaborative group of professional services buyers across 150 public and private organisations. Constellia offer a professional services MSP solution to the public sector, with two Neutral Vendor Frameworks for Multi-Specialism Services UK-wide, free-to-join for companies to deliver their services to the public sector: the AEC Neutral Vendor Framework for Multi-Specialism Services, and the South East Wales Technical and Professional Services Framework (SEWTAPS). Both are UK-wide, a fully compliant route for direct awards or competitive tenders, giving more opportunities all within one Marketplace.
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Cwmpas is a development agency working for positive change in Wales and across the UK. We are a co-operative. Our focus is on building a fairer, greener economy and a more equal society , where people and planet come first. Established in 1982 as the Wales Co-operative Centre, we become Cwmpas in 2022. We’ve made it our mission to change the way our economy and society works. Our work includes dedicated business support to social enterprises, co-operatives and employee-owned businesses. We are an accredited Community Led Housing hub, advise on community share schemes, and support the digital inclusivity of citizens
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GCDA is a not for profit company established 30 years ago as a social enterprise support organisation serving the diverse communities of London. Co-operative Development Agency (GCDA) is a voluntary organisation established in 1982. We provide self-help, training and enterprise support for individuals and communities where people experience disadvantages. Our work programmes embed social, economic and environmental sustainability, and we focus on three areas: Everything About Food Supporting Healthier Lifestyles Community Enterprise and Trading
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Since 1993, GLL (Greenwich Leisure Ltd) have grown from operating venues in Greenwich, then to London and the South East in the 2000s, to the present day’s status as the UK’s largest leisure social enterprise – a national organisation operating over 250 leisure facilities, 100 libraries and 10 children's centres across England, Cardiff and Belfast.
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Locality is the national membership network for community organisations. We support community organisations to be strong and successful to meet the needs of their communities. They provide what’s needed most, including better health and wellbeing, housing, education, training, employability and more. We believe in the power of community to build a fairer society. Through our network of over 900 members we connect community organisations with the people, support and know-how they need to create spaces where everyone belongs and where lives are transformed. Together we motivate and inspire each other to unlock the power of local communities.
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Outlandish is a worker-owned tech co-operative. We build brands, digital solutions, and communities in collaboration with organisations that inspire us. We use agile methods to create user-centric web apps, data tools, and impactful campaigns. As a worker co-op, we reinvest surplus in new social projects. We co-founded CoTech, a UK wide tech co-op network. We also run a co-working project, SPACE4, and incubate other coops with support from Islington Council.
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POhWER was established in 1996 by a number of founders - all of whom had disabilities and were fighting social injustice and challenges in their lives. POhWER still operates with these roots at the heart of everything it does; supporting marginalised, vulnerable and socially excluded people through its charitable work.
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Power to Change is the independent trust that supports community businesses in England. Community businesses are locally rooted, community-led, trade for community benefit and make life better for local people. The 9,000 community businesses across England, own assets worth £890m, and employ 33,600 people. Community businesses create great products and services, provide employment and training, contribute to inclusive local economies and transform lives. We support them through investment; capacity building; research and policy; and market development with stakeholders including local authorities & many others. Power to Change received its endowment from the National Lottery Community Fund in 2015.
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Real World Group is a UK-based leadership consultancy and psychometric tool publisher with expertise in empowering individuals, teams, and organisations to build inclusive, high-performing cultures. Grounded in cutting-edge behavioural science and research, we equip leaders with evidence-based tools to enhance innovation, collaboration, and resilience to drive superior performance. Guided by Chartered Occupational Psychologists, our proven leadership assessments improve performance, motivation, and wellbeing. With extensive expertise in local government, our approach supports leaders to transform culture, navigate complex challenges, and deliver exceptional public services. We help organisations enable thriving communities through inclusive leadership practices that create genuine and sustained impact.
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Trueman Change is a bespoke consultancy helping public and third sector organisations change and transform their ways of working. We support you to think through your strategies, working with staff/stakeholders to design meaningful programmes of change, taking full responsibility for the delivery of the programme. We provide insight and diagnostics, combining the discipline of effective, pragmatic project management and implementation. We use change management techniques, working with your project team, mapping out the impact of the change on your staff and stakeholders… We believe that the key is designing a relevant change management plan with them, to understand their perspective.
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Unlimited Potential specialises in social innovation – creating new solutions to social and economic problems with local people and communities. We use our innovation process to respond to the challenges of large organisations. Engaging with the strengths of citizens and communities, especially those who are disadvantaged and marginalised, we also draw on research from a range of disciplines to enhance impact. We are happy to explore any challenge, and to see how it might be reframed and then addressed in different ways to create new low-cost solutions.
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The Active Wellbeing Society is a cooperative working to build happy, healthy communities living active and connected lives. We work, predominantly, with communities in areas of high deprivation to tackle inequality and promote community wellbeing. We are innovators and positive disruptors, grounded in communities, playing a part in creating a sustainable world, that benefits all. We empower communities, by working cooperatively with them to harness their potential and co-produce improvements in their resilience and wellbeing. We maximise opportunities to empower individuals to improve their wellbeing, by acting co-operatively to remove barriers and participate in a happy, healthy life.
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Charter Against Modern Slavery
Councils across England and Scotland are leading the way with a new Charter to ensure exploitation has no place in council supply chains. The Co-operative Party’s Charter Against Modern Slavery goes further than existing law and guidance, committing councils to proactively vet their own supply chain to ensure no instances of modern slavery are taking place.
The term ‘Modern Slavery’ captures a whole range of types of exploitation, many of which occur together. These include but are not limited to:
>Sexual exploitation
>Domestic servitude
>Forced labour
>Criminal exploitation
Sign up here: https://party.coop/local/councillors/modern-slavery-charter/
Care Experience Protected Characteristic
Considering Care Experience in Equality Impact Assessments will deliver a whole council approach to creating policy that takes account of how council services can support children in care, not only positively impacting on their lives but also breaking the cycle of stigma, disadvantage & potential cost to society (crime, anti-social behaviour etc) faced by those children.
This is about more than having a Corporate Parenting Strategy. If we can get this right, we’ll not only build a better world for those children who grow up in care, but we will also benefit from their experiences to support future generations who grow up in care.
Our ambition for #IYC2025 is that all #coopcouncils commit to making Care Experience a protected characteristic. Together, we can build a better world & break the cycle of disadvantage for young people in care.
To find out more contact Katie Flint – [email protected]
