Leadership
Introducing partners from our £3m Carbon Innovation Fund
Our new £1.3m investment is helping to reduce carbon emissions all the way from Shropshire to the Galapagos Islands
Learning from those with lived experience
Nick Crofts, CEO of the Co-op Foundation recently visited Refugee Action in Bradford. Here’s what he learnt from his visit.
Laying the Foundations for an exciting 2022
Co-op Foundation CEO, Nick, blogs about our impact and learning in 2021 and looks forward to an exciting year ahead.
Flexible funding matters
We care deeply about how our funding can empower people. That’s why we made eight pledges to be a better funder in 2021 through IVAR.
Where there’s #iwill there’s a way
Our #iwill Fund partnership with The National Lottery Community Fund and the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) is our oldest such collaboration. We’re proud to have supported partners to engage young people in high quality social action since mid-2018.
As we mark #iwill Week 2021 – and as we launch our #iwill Fund interim learning report – we look back on this partnership and review what we’ve achieved and learned, particularly in the past year.
Acting fast and funding flexibly to help tackle the refugee crisis
Nick Crofts, CEO of Co-op Foundation, talks about our biggest single donation to Refugee Action in response to the Afghan Refugee crisis.
Building on the lessons of 2020 for a fairer future with a co-operative difference
Co-op Foundation CEO, Nick Crofts, blogs for the first time in his new to share our highlights and learning from a 2020 like no other.
We’re celebrating a record-breaking 12 months
Blog: 2018 was a year to remember for the Co-op Foundation. With the support of Co-op colleagues and members as well as major new funding partnerships, we almost trebled our income to help us make a bigger impact than ever.
How young people’s voices help us allocate funding
Blog: Listening to the communities we serve and ensuring they have a voice in what matters to them is one of our key commitments to democracy.
We’re recruiting four new Trustees
Blog: Bringing more diverse skills and backgrounds to our Board will help us prepare for the next phase of our charity’s development. Could you be part of this?
#ValuesinAction – the heart of our Co-op difference
In our final blog for Co-operatives Fortnight 2018, we look at how putting our values into action adds up to our #coopdifference …
#ValuesInAction – Helping young care leavers tackle loneliness together at the Co-operative College
In our penultimate blog for Co-operatives Fortnight on how our values guide everything we do, we look at how our funding for the Co-operative College is helping young care leavers come together to tackle loneliness …
#ValuesInAction – going the extra mile for honesty and openness
In our latest blog for Co-operatives Fortnight, we look at how our values of honesty and openness are helping us give a voice to the young people and communities we support …
#ValuesInAction – Giving young people a say in how we allocate our funding
In our third blog for Co-operatives Fortnight on how our values guide everything we do, we look at how communities and young people are having on say on how we allocate our funding …
#ValuesInAction – investing wisely to make a difference to society
In our latest blog for Co-operatives Fortnight on how our values impact on everything we do, we look at how our investments can combine financial returns with achieving great things for communities and the environment…