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Social platform aims to create a safe space for isolated professionals to connect and share experiences
Anita Cartwright explains why she left her fashion industry job and exhausting lifestyle to start ‘The Village’, providing a place where practitioners working on their own, particularly in rural surroundings, can find peer support, mentors, collaborators and suppliers.
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Pontypridd social enterprise to offer opportunities for creativity, literacy and learning for all with new community hub
Art In the Attic Co-operative CIC is set to be a cultural hub for art, music, crafts, literature and writing with a particular focus on community engagement.
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Clearing the air
COVID-19 shutdowns are helping tackle climate change, so let’s ‘follow the science’ and use renewable energy co-ops to keep our air clean, says Dan McCallum.
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Taking a co-operative approach to post-pandemic banking
Mark Hooper is leading on the development of a co-operatively owned, community bank for Wales. He tells us a bit about where they are with Banc Cambria, how Covid19 has changed things and where they go next.
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Giving social businesses a voice in the rebuild/recover agenda
Dr Sarah Evans, Independent Policy and Research Advisor for the social business sector, describes the work being done to ensure that co-operatives and social businesses play a central role in the re-building of Wales.
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Time for a radical rebalancing of the ownership models
Nisreen Mansour, Policy Officer for Wales TUC, looks at the role co-operatives could play in creating good or fair employment conditions.
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Growing our own and owning our grow
COVID-19 and Brexit require us to re-think food production, food security ad supply chains in Wales. Jon Parker considers the co-operative opportunities for the agri-food and fisheries sector.
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New website launched to encourage employee ownership in Wales
A new website has been launched for business owners in Wales thinking about employee ownership and business succession. The site, employeeownershipwales.co.uk, has been unveiled on Employee Ownership Day, a national celebration of employee ownership and all things employee owned in the UK.
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Increasing ownership at work
Now is the time for bold and innovative thinking about how we can put more business ownership into the hands of employees, writes Deb Oxley OBE from the Employee Ownership Association.
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Post COVID-19 blossoming: a co-operative call up
Post-COVID-19 can be a time where co-operatives and social enterprises will blossom and bear fruit for all of Wales, writes Dr Anthony Samuel. However, in order to do so, they will need to be carefully nurtured to reach their maximum potential.
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Camaraderie and collective purpose – why we need worker co-operatives
With many workers facing a precarious future and thinking about their employment options, Jess Davidson from Arfon Timber shows how a co-operative approach to self-employment offers independence and self-determinism without the isolation and risks of going it alone.
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The Credit Union Difference
Credit unions have been at the heart of many communities for decades, writes Sara Burch, but never have they played such as vital role as during the Covid-19 pandemic.
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