News and Events
The Fair Traders Co-operative's Keepy Uppy Challenge
How long can you keep up a Fairtrade football? Help Fairtrade football stitchers in Pakistan and have fun at the same time by stepping up to The Fair Traders Co-operative's Fairtrade Keepy Uppy Challenge during Fairtrade Fortnight (27 February-11 March).
Jobs with a difference: National Citizen Service opportunities
Are you looking for youth work this summer that will really make a big difference to young people, communities, society and your future?
Young Co-operative to team up with designer outlet centre
Watford Community Garden has something very special planned for Young Co-operators during 2012, International Year of Co-operatives – a link up with the local shopping and designer outlet centre!
The Glasgow Academy sells Oromo coffee
The Young Co-operative at the Glasgow Academy is now selling fairly traded Oromo coffee from Ethiopia, and is one of the first outlets in Scotland.
Young Co-operative on Prezi
Damian Etherington from the Glasgow Academy has put together a presentation of his school's Green Schools, Eco-Schools, Fairtrade and Young Co-operatives programmes, including photos and videos of the students' activities.
Lesotho Youth and Student Co-operatives Forum
Two men went out into the Australian outback to sell shoes. One came back and said to his boss: “There are no opportunities here, no-one wears shoes…” The other returned and told his boss: “There are massive opportunities here – no-one wears shoes!”
How young people can generate successful co-operative business opportunities in financially poor communities in sub-Saharan Africa was the challenge on the table at this year’s Youth and Student Co-operative Forum held in Maseru, Lesotho, in December 2011.
The Rochdale Pioneers film
Classic 1944 co-operative filmMen of Rochdale, which was made in 1944 to celebrate the centenary of the Rochdale Pioneers opening their first in Toad Lane, Rochdale, is the inspiration for a new film being made about the Rochdale Pioneers by young people from the Co-operative’s British Youth Film Academy.
Make your New Year’s resolution a Green Schools Revolution
Green Schools Revolution is an inspiring, sustainability education programme from The Co-operative. This FREE programme is for UK primary and secondary schools and provides easy and rewarding ways to implement three key sustainability themes into the classroom: energy, water and healthy living.
Caribbean school co-operatives in the 1960s
Members of Young Co-operatives belong to a global family of co-operators, and are part of a long history of co-operative education. A recently discovered snippet from the Co-operative News, the newspaper of the co-operative movement, published in June 1960, describes a visit to the UK of a representative of school co-operative societies in the Caribbean.
Free Green Schools app
A fun new Green Schools app for iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch has been launched by The Co-operative Group.
