Category Archives: Cooperatives

Cooperatives-SW

Happy International Day of Cooperatives

2009-07-04 by mjr

Today is the 87th ICA and 15th UN International Day of Cooperatives. There’s a PDF message from the United Nations secretary general. It’s also the start of the Tour de France, which runs for the next 22 days. There are … Continue reading →

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Small is beautiful or big is better? (#coop09 sw audio download)

2009-07-03 by mjr

There were several interesting conferences last week. An honourable mention to the Worker Co-operative Forum, but the most interesting for me was the Cooperatives-SW annual conference in Plymouth on Tuesday 23 June 2009. This free event was split into three … Continue reading →

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Digital Britain Report: first glance

2009-07-01 by mjr

The Digital Britain Report was published on 16 June 2009. I only got time to look at it quickly recently because this is one of the co-op AGM seasons. At first glance, it misses the mark. It doesn’t do anything … Continue reading →

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Heatwave!

2009-06-29 by mjr

Well, what passes for a heat wave in England: “an average threshold temperature is 30 °C by day and 15 °C overnight” according to the Met Office: Heat-Health Watch. So, I’ll be following HOWTO not melt – keeping cool at … Continue reading →

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BikeWeek 2009

2009-06-13 by mjr

Bike and Co-op It’s biiiiiiikeweeeeek!</noddy> Once again, I’m supporting BikeWeek. I generally use a bike as the first leg of my work journeys, although my company doesn’t have a “Green Travel Plan” yet. It’s mainly the time taken writing such … Continue reading →

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Enterprise Hubs, Societies, Newsletter and AGM

2009-05-08 by mjr

Cooperatives-SW (which I’m currently helping to direct) has been approved for Co-operative Enterprise Hub funding for 2009. Well done to Viv and the rest of the hard-working team who have been doing miracles for co-ops in this region with relatively … Continue reading →

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Bristol Social Enterprise Summit Consultation

2009-04-29 by mjr

Last Thursday, I went to the Social Enterprise summit regional workshop that I mentioned. Apparently, SEC are hoping that ministers Mandelson, Purnell, Byrne and Blears will be at the summit, along with people from various famous co-ops. I took along … Continue reading →

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What do you want to tell a Social Enterprise Summit?

2009-04-23 by mjr

There is a Social Enterprise summit in London in May with cabinetoffice.gov.uk/thirdsector. As part of representing TTLLP to Cooperatives-SW, I will be at a regional workshop this afternoon “to enable the sector to input the summit”(?). More detail is available … Continue reading →

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UK Budget Day 2009 and other days…

2009-04-22 by mjr

The UK Budget is out. I’m pretty disappointed for TTLLP – the headlines for business look rather unhelpful to our co-op. It supports loss-making businesses – keeping our unsustainable competitors in business for longer, it spreads business rate up-rating – … Continue reading →

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Switched over to LLU and ADSL-2+

2009-04-09 by mjr

A couple of months ago, I switched over to ThePhoneCoop’s LLU package. The new service is good so far. The ADSL is blazingly fast (I wonder if it will remain so good) and the main drawbacks so far are a … Continue reading →

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