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The Leeds Industrial Co-operative Society (Leeds Co-op) was a British independent co-operative society based in Leeds, West Yorkshire, which merged with United Co-operatives in 2007. Leeds Co-op was founded in 1847 as a Co-operative Flour Mill Society, workers at Benyon & Co's flax spinning mill raising funds through instalments to acquire some ...
Leeds University Union (LUU) is the representative body for the students at the University of Leeds, England. It is led by a group of student sabbatical officers known as the Student Executive, and supported by around 140 full-time staff members, with up to 500 student members of staff at peak times, as well as hundreds of dedicated volunteers.
Co-op Power was a renewable energy buying business which bulk purchased energy for a range of businesses and organisations. The business also provided energy consultancy services to clients. [131] The Co-op petrol station business was sold to Asda for £600 million in August 2022, to strengthen the group's financial position. The 129 petrol ...
Primrose High School closed in August 2011 and re-opened as The Co-operative academy of Leeds in September 2011.This school is near Shakespeare Primary School and Harehills Primary School. In September 2018 it was renamed Co-op Academy Leeds in line with Co-op Academies Trust new branding and naming strategy.
Co-operatives UK is a British co-operative federation described as "the central membership organisation for co-operative enterprise throughout the UK". [3] It was founded in 1870 as the Co-operative Central Board, changing its name to the Co-operative Union [4] before finally becoming Co-operatives UK following its merger with the Industrial Common Ownership Movement (ICOM) in 2001. [5]
In 2016, Community became the first trade union to affiliate to the Co-operative Party, [25] followed in 2018 by the Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers (Usdaw). [26] Co-operatives UK , Co-operative Press and a number of worker co-operatives and housing co-operatives are also organisational members of the party.
CRS expanded and opened up new co-op shops in the "co-op deserts" of the south-east and south-west of England where co-operative activity had historically been low. The CRS was also charged with rescuing failing societies and from the 1950s it began to an increasing number of loss-making co-ops, to the point where the CRS itself began to become ...
Co-op supermarket in Kirton, Lincolnshire in 1995. Co-op supermarket in Ackworth, West Yorkshire in 1990s–2000s branding. A Co-operative Food shop in Lawnswood, Leeds with pre 2016 branding. The "Co-op" brand is used by over 3,500 shops owned by various societies which make up the co-operative movement, including the Central England Co-operative.