News and Events

Fulston Manor School’s Young Co-operative has come up with an enterprising idea for Christmas presents: laminated bookmarks spelling out recipients’ names in hand signs.

Sara Palmer, Young Co-operatives co-ordinator at Fulston Manor School in Sittingbourne, Kent, is planning a 24 hour sponsored silence to raise money for Children in Need, which takes place on Friday 18 November.

Imagine a scenario in which you go to business school or university expecting to gain a co-operative education, you study participatory democracy alongside maths and English in school, social media sites function as members’ co-operatives and even national organisations such as the BBC are run as co-operatives.

This is the world in which Dr Rory Ridley-Duff from Sheffield Business School sets Enterprise Version 2.0, a short story reimagining the popular enterprise TV programme Dragon’s Den to coincide with the launch of 2012, International Year of Co-operatives (IYC).

The past, present and future of co-operation have been colourfully brought to life in a new, short animated film. Accrington-based Huckleberry Films used a combination of animated characters and archive images to trace the story of co-operation, starting with the Rochdale Pioneers opening the first successful co-operative shop in Toad Lane in 1844. The film goes on to show how co-operation grew and spread across the country and the diversity of today’s global movement of 1 billion members.

Would you like to have your Christmas card design sent to ministers and diplomats around the world?

If your Young Co-operative is doing anything for Global Entrepreneurship Week (14-20 November) we'd love to hear about it so we can feature it on our website.

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The developers of a new co-operative boardgame are looking for co-operative organisations and individuals to donate money so the game can be printed in time for the launch of 2010, the International Year of Co-operatives. Why not think about using some of your Young Co-operative's profits towards helping them meet their target?

Accrington-based creative film company Huckleberry Films is making a short animation that will bring the story of the Rochdale Pioneers to life. It will trace the history of co-operation from 1844, when the Pioneers set up their shop in Toad Lane, Lancashire, to the present day and use heritage to look forward to the future.

A final-year student at the University of Manchester is looking for young people's help with a fundraising project for the Red Cross.