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Ownership Hub
Worker co-operatives are trading enterprises, owned and run by the people who work in them, who have an equal say in what the business does, and an equitable share in the wealth created from the products and services they provide. If you'd like to find out how to start a worker co-op or convert an existing business to worker ownership, visit our co-op support programme, The Hive.
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Start a new co-op
Content by Business support for co-ops
This section takes you through the start-up process for setting up a co-op.
Keep track of where you're up to, and look out for sign-posts if you need more support along the way. Finally make sure you use our quick and easy to use registration form…
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Worker co-op code
The Worker Co-op Code sets out anyone should expect and work together to achieve, as a member of a worker co-operative.
Ownership Hub
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The Ownership Hub is a joint project between Co-operatives UK and the Employee Ownership Association and supports the #1MillionOwners campaign.
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#1MillionOwners
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Join our campaign and pledge your support to create one million employee and worker owners in the UK by 2030.
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Ownership Hub prospectus
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The Ownership Hub raises awareness of the benefits of employee and worker ownership at a national level.
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Case studies
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Innovators making changes that matter: Animorph Co‑operative
Content by The Hive
The ingenious team at Animorph Co‑operative produce augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) solutions that create a positive social impact.
3 years 1 month
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Co-operative architects putting equality into action: Studio Skein
Content by The Hive
After operating as a limited company for nearly two decades, Plymouth based architecture firm Studio Skein – formerly McCaren Design – became an employee ownership trust on 1 June 2020.
3 years 2 months
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Serving up help, hope and hearty meals: Warehouse Café
Content by The Hive
Creating delicious vegan dishes, the Warehouse Café is a worker co-op situated in the Friends of the Earth Building in Birmingham. The café has been in existence for 35 years. And in early 2019, the…
3 years 2 months
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Flat pay and an equal say: Greencity Wholefoods
It’s 1978 and Glasgow’s Greencity Wholefoods co-operative is formed – born from the local activist movement with moral, ethical and environmental values at its heart.
3 years 4 months
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Why worker ownership works: Leeds Bread Co‑op
Content by The Hive
Using organic, locally sourced ingredients, Leeds Bread Co-op supplies local restaurants and other businesses – as well as delivering to a growing number of individual subscribers. An artisan bakery…
6 years 11 months
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Mayor of London Sadiq Khan commits to supporting worker co-ops and employee-owned businesses
Content by Ownership Hub
Sadiq Khan announces ground-breaking new partnership with Co-operatives UK and the Employee Ownership Association (EOA) to boost worker ownership and employee ownership in London.
1 year 1 month
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Co-operatives for a stronger, fairer, greener, everyday economy
A short paper, produced for the Labour Party Conference (2022) which presents new evidence and insights on the huge potential for co-operatives to contribute to a stronger, fairer and greener everyday…
1 year 4 months
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Worker co-ops and employee ownership to play key role in economic recovery, says Mayor Dan Jarvis
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Sheffield City Region is the first region to partner with the Ownership Hub to grow resilient and inclusive businesses through employee and worker ownership.
2 years 7 months
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Co-op Policy Blog #22: Hitting the ground running
Across the UK politicians from a range of parties have just been elected with commitments to support co-ops and a more democratic economy. We are already reaching out to offer our help, so politicians…
2 years 8 months
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Our analysis of the Spending Review 2020
The extent to which new funding announced in the 2020 Spending Review ends up boosting co-op development, largely depends on how much freedom local leaders and communities will have to direct…
3 years 2 months