A free, illustrated talk at the Working Class Movement Library in Salford will explore the co-operative movement’s use of film, from film of the Blackpool Emporium and a 1938 Stanley Holloway monologue to a short animation about the Rochdale Pioneers produced last year.
The talk will be given by Gillian Lonergan, Head of Heritage Resources at [...]
An article in Red Pepper magazine exploring the co-operative movement as an alternative to marketisation notes that adopting the co-operative model is a way for schools to avoid being ‘forced into an academy’.
The article’s author, Hilary Wainwright, discusses ‘alternatives that enable them to realise their public services values’, with input from Mervyn Wilson, Chief Executive [...]
Children, staff and parent volunteers travelled from Western Springs Primary School, Rugeley, to Moorhill Primary School, Cannock, to celebrate becoming The Chase Co-operative Learning Trust. Students took part in Science, D&T, Art, PE and Maths activities, presented in stimulating and exciting ways. They also had the opportunity to take time out to meet and greet [...]
Volunteers from The Midcountires Co-operative helped Sutherland, a co-operative Trust school in Telford, prepare its eco garden for the growing season.
Bubbles, glitter and a whole lot of fun went into making a short animation about working together at the Meet the Pioneers schools’ day at Rochdale Town Hall last week.
The film tells the story of animation through a shimmering fishbowl of delicately glittering fish, which are menaced by a bigger fish until the small fish [...]
Hundreds of Rochdale primary students helped push a wheelbarrow the distance from Manchester to Rochdale during a Pioneers-themed day at Rochdale Town Hall.
An International Programmes Manager is being recruited to manage the College’s projects in East and Southern Africa.
The Rochdale Pioneers Museum, which will be reopening this summer, has a new website featuring news and visiting details, co-operative history, resources and more.
A group of visitors from the Zambian High Commission and Ministry of Commerce, Trade and Industry recently visited the Co-operative College on a fact-finding mission.
Dr Linda Shaw, Vice Principal – Research and International at the Co-operative College, welcomed the visitors, giving an overview of the co-operative movement in the UK.
The guests then saw co-operative buildings [...]
Emma Willder, Vice Principal – Finance and Resources at the Co-operative College, has been finding out about co-operatives in Lithuania.
Emma was in Vilnius to give a presentation themed ‘From Rochdale to a Global Movement’ at a conference organised by the Lithuanian Co-operative Union. The conference was entitled Co-operative: International Experience and Prospects for Development in [...]
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