Turning Strategic Plans into Art
- January 2025
We use cookies to help you navigate efficiently and perform certain functions. You will find detailed information about all cookies under each consent category below.
The cookies that are categorized as "Necessary" are stored on your browser as they are essential for enabling the basic functionalities of the site. ...
Necessary cookies are required to enable the basic features of this site, such as providing secure log-in or adjusting your consent preferences. These cookies do not store any personally identifiable data.
Functional cookies help perform certain functionalities like sharing the content of the website on social media platforms, collecting feedback, and other third-party features.
Analytical cookies are used to understand how visitors interact with the website. These cookies help provide information on metrics such as the number of visitors, bounce rate, traffic source, etc.
Performance cookies are used to understand and analyze the key performance indexes of the website which helps in delivering a better user experience for the visitors.
Advertisement cookies are used to provide visitors with customized advertisements based on the pages you visited previously and to analyze the effectiveness of the ad campaigns.
The Co-operative Economy, published annually by Co-operatives UK, is the nation’s only comprehensive report on the UK’s co-operative sector. It reveals turnover, membership and employee figures for thousands of businesses across the UK. Data is tracked to provide historical context and trends, as well as broken down into sectors and geographic areas. For increased transparency all the numbers can be explored via an open data platform, while a detailed breakdown of the methodology used in the datasets is also provided. But just as co-operatives are about more than the bottom line, this report is about more than the numbers. Through case studies, identification of emerging trends and latent needs, alongside relevant data analysis, we make the case for a more co-operative United Kingdom – a nation that is more inclusive; promotes a fairer distribution of wealth; and offers solutions to some of the UK’s most pressing issues.
There are now 7,226 independent co-operatives operating across the UK, with a combined turnover of £36.1 billion – up more than £800 million on 2017 levels. The sector is also a significant employer, with almost 235,000 people earning their livelihoods directly through co-operatives.