Learning from history

What can Co-operative Development learn from history? As the Welsh Government considers a proposed ‘Co-operative Commission’ to help pave the way for innovative co-operative development in Wales, what lessons can history teach us?

With all the attention being…

A Co-operative Communities First Programme?

With the launch of UN International Year of Co-operatives 2012 in New York at the end of October 2011, what better opportunity to focus on this theme than the…

Medicines and Older People

£150m is spent annually on Community Pharmacy in Wales. The return of unwanted medicines to pharmacies confirms that large amounts of medicines are never taken. We also know that medicine maladministration is also a serious and potentially…

Elder Social Care: the Golden Thread of Co-operation

In recent weeks I experienced a lecture on legal rights and older people, received WCVA commissioning guidance on adult services, visited Swedish Co-operative care providers, and perused Health Ministerial statements and a press release on the First…

Collaboration, Co-operation and Care

International Co-operators Day, held every year on the first Saturday in July, involves 251 International Co-operative Alliance member organisations from 94 countries active in all economic sectors. Together they represent nearly one billion individuals worldwide.

On July 2nd, an event held at the UWIC School of Managements, Cardiff,  showed the Co-operative…