News and Events

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).

Are you looking for youth work this summer that will really make a big difference to young people, communities, society and your future?

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

A fun new Green Schools app for iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch has been launched by The Co-operative Group.