Congratulations to all our friends at The Phone Coop for winning the Best Social Enterprise Award at the Enterprising Solutions Awards 2008 yesterday. (TTLLP is an agent and I’m a member personally too.) Longer report at Cooperatives-UK.
Comiserations to Barnsley Building Society, who are merging into Yorkshire Building Society after having £10m with collapsed Icelandic banks. Still, it survived further into the banking crisis than even the biggest of the demutualised building societies.