Head of Food Policy, Cathryn shares how and why we’re repurposing our funds to funnel money right to the heart of where it is needed.
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We’ve partnered with Social Enterprise UK to celebrate and increase support for social enterprises – businesses that trade for a social or environmental purpose. Ed Powell, Partnerships Manager, explains how you can get involved.
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We’ve raised over £10 million to tackle global water poverty thanks to Co-op Members and customers. CJ Antal-Smith, Trading Director, explains how this has changed 1.9 million lives in communities around the world.
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Future of Food 2030 plan: how we’ll source food with care, treat people fairly as well as learn and celebrate together.
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Today we’ve released our #TheCoopWay Report, our annual review of ethics and sustainability for 2017. For the first time we’re launching alongside our Annual Report giving the full picture our financial and ethical performance.
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On #WorldWaterDay, CJ shares stories of the communities we’ve helped bring safe clean water to #TheCoopWay, thanks to The One Foundation and Water Unite.
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I spent last night sharing a stage in Hamburg with Coldplay, Shakira, Pharrell Williams and Ellie Goulding. Thankfully for the 9,000 young social campaigners at the Global Citizen music festival, I wasn’t doing any singing. My role was to represent the Co-op and to call on our fellow retailers and bottled water producers to join […]
We’re proud to say that now, all bottled water does good from the Co-op. We’ve extended our commitment to tackling water poverty even further, by becoming the first pioneer partner of a new initiative called the Global Investment Fund for Water (GIFFW). GIFFW is a partnership with the bottled water sector to end water poverty. […]
We have just celebrated our 10th anniversary of our partnership with the One Foundation. We donate 3p for every litre of our Fairbourne Springs water sold, to fund clean, safe water projects in Africa. It’s the only charitable partnership of an own label water in the UK. To mark this special anniversary, we’re extending our 3p per litre […]