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4OC supports change and transformation in public service delivery, helping organisations deliver more impactful, effective and better-integrated services. From service-level change through to organisation-wide transformation programmes, we have delivered over 500 successful programmes to date. Our experienced teams have managed large, successful operations and bring Local Government best practice, operational know-how and commercial expertise. 4OC provides the capabilities, capacity and competencies to ensure change happens, and that it sticks.
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Action Together CIO is the local infrastructure organisation for the Voluntary, Community, Faith and Social Enterprise (VCFSE) sector in Oldham, Rochdale and Tameside. Our charitable aim is to strengthen the VCFSE sector and enable positive social change and promote social justice.
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The Active Wellbeing Society is a cooperative working to build happy, healthy communities living active and connected lives. We work, predominantly, with communities in areas of high deprivation to tackle inequality and promote community wellbeing. We are innovators and positive disruptors, grounded in communities, playing a part in creating a sustainable world, that benefits all. We empower communities, by working cooperatively with them to harness their potential and co-produce improvements in their resilience and wellbeing. We maximise opportunities to empower individuals to improve their wellbeing, by acting co-operatively to remove barriers and participate in a happy, healthy life.
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As a firm, we are driven by our purpose and see profit as a means, not an end. We seek to make sufficient profit to invest in the growth of the firm, which in turn furthers our purpose. We ensure that partners and staff are fairly and appropriately rewarded for their hard work. Everyone at Anthony Collins Solicitors is driven by our purpose and we work with clients who share that purpose. This shared drive, passion and vocation means we are all working to make a difference in the world.
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Bates Wells is a law firm with a difference. Specialising in working with charities, social enterprises, and public service organisations, Bates Wells has advised countless organisations on everything from spinning out from local authorities to day-to-day governance, employment and real estate issues. As a values-driven firm is committed to making a positive impact on our clients, our people, the environment and society – and is the first UK law firm to achieve B Corp certification.
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Branding.coop provides hands-on support and guidance to organisations wishing to promote their cooperative identity. We believe that the co-operative business model should be mainstream. Since June 2016 we have managed the communications, governance, marketing, events and membership schemes for the Co-operative Councils’ Innovation Network. During that time the Network has grown from 19 councils to more than 100 members and supporters.
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We were born out of Public Services. We think differently. C.Co are the change management consulting subsidiary of CIPFA. Our role extends across all areas of public sector change and transformation, with a hands-on approach that adds value and insight to the sector. The C.Co team is made up of leading thinkers and practitioners, with unparalleled experience of the public, private and third sector. Creative, Curious and Analytical, we work with communities, businesses and public services to develop deep insights and develop new solutions.
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Co-operative and Mutual Solutions (CMS) is a workers co-op specialising in co-operative business support and advice. Founded in 2002 we have 3 member directors. Although based in the North West of England, we work all over the UK. We work with groups of people in start-up situations, trading co-operatives and with business owners/workers in succession situations. CMS works with the full range of co-operative types: worker (including self-employed), community, multi-stakeholder and have advised co-ops in a wide range of sectors. We have helped communities raise £30m in community shares over the last decade in order to save/create assets such as pubs, shops, music venues and renewable energy.
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Co-operative Care Colne Valley, registered as Colne Valley Equitable Care Society Ltd is a multi-stakeholder co-operative established to provide both high-quality domiciliary care for older and disabled people in the Colne Valley, and fair and proper terms and conditions of employment for care staff. We are a community based small scale, caring co-operative which puts people before profit. People needing care and support, families, care workers and community volunteers will be treated with dignity and respect as equal members of a dynamic and democratic enterprise.
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Founded in 1919, The Co-operative College is an educational charity based in Manchester that works across the world, using co-operative values to equip individuals and communities with the skills and knowledge to transform their lives for the better. As a membership-based organisation, the College delivers inspirational training, conferences, professional development and thought provoking workshops. The College’s life changing work includes projects in countries such as Rwanda, Sri Lanka and Malawi, as well as towns closer to home like Rochdale in Greater Manchester, the birthplace of the modern co-operative movement. More information is available at www.co-op.ac.uk/donate.
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Co-operative Futures is a business development consultancy specialising in co-operative, mutual and community-led businesses. Founded in 2000 it was set up to provide direct advice and support services and to engage in debates to find mutual solutions for challenges being faced by communities. Working with start-ups and existing companies we advise enterprises in a wide range of sectors including retail, leisure, community asset transfer, renewable energy, care and many more. We look for three things in the organisations we work with that there is a trading activity, they have a social purpose and there is some form of collective ownership.
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Co-operatives UK is the network for Britain’s thousands of co-operatives. We work together to promote, develop and unite member-owned businesses across the economy. From high street retailers to community-owned pubs, fan-owned football clubs to farmer-controlled businesses, co-operatives are everywhere and together they are worth £38bn to the British economy. Owned and run by their members, Co-operatives UK connects businesses that give people more control over the things that matter to them.
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Cooperatives West Midlands is the Regional Cooperative Council for the West Midlands region in England. Our aims are to promote the cooperative business model within the region and to practise the sixth cooperative principle by enabling coops to talk and network with each other. We are run by a management committee made up of representatives of all types of cooperatives within the West Midlands. Our sister organisation, the West Midlands Cooperatives Member Education Group, organises educational activities for cooperators across the region.
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Digital infrastructure is a powerful tool for transformation. For local economies, for public services, for opportunity. CBN has a unique approach to the development and promotion of transformational digital infrastructure, with cooperative innovations such as the cooperative neutral host (‘thin layer’) model, digital exchanges and dig-once trusts. CBN works with local authorities, businesses and NGOs, both in the UK and internationally. Our members and associates include some of the UK’s top experts in telecommunications strategy, business development, technical implementation and mutual structures
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Constellia are experts in professional services spend, operating the Consultancy Procurement Council – a collaborative group of professional services buyers across 150 public and private organisations. Constellia offer a professional services MSP solution to the public sector, with two Neutral Vendor Frameworks for Multi-Specialism Services UK-wide, free-to-join for companies to deliver their services to the public sector: the AEC Neutral Vendor Framework for Multi-Specialism Services, and the South East Wales Technical and Professional Services Framework (SEWTAPS). Both are UK-wide, a fully compliant route for direct awards or competitive tenders, giving more opportunities all within one Marketplace.
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Crystalisr is a platform and community of practice with a mission to build community wealth in South London sub-region (Croydon, Kingston, Merton, Richmond and Sutton). Crystalisr members support anchors who want to buy local, create solutions for fair work (including co-operative development), broker affordable land and property, and provide access to enterprise investment.
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Cwmpas is a development agency working for positive change in Wales and across the UK. We are a co-operative. Our focus is on building a fairer, greener economy and a more equal society , where people and planet come first. Established in 1982 as the Wales Co-operative Centre, we become Cwmpas in 2022. We’ve made it our mission to change the way our economy and society works. Our work includes dedicated business support to social enterprises, co-operatives and employee-owned businesses. We are an accredited Community Led Housing hub, advise on community share schemes, and support the digital inclusivity of citizens
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A consortium of ten Co-operative Development Bodies from around the UK, The Development Co-operative Limited (DC) aims to ensure there is a coherent and professional co-operative development and consultancy service available nationally, regionally and locally able to initiate the development of CDB infrastructure, respond swiftly to opportunities and systematically replicate success. The current DC members include CDAs serving Leicestershire, Somerset, Cornwall, Hackney, Tower Hamlets, and Greenwich, and established co-op consultancies CAN, Co-operative Solutions and United Diversity. They bring 150 years of co-operative experience, have raised over £5m investment in co-ops and have brought assets worth of £50m into common ownership.
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E3M is an initiative of Social Business International, supported by partners: Stone King Buzzacott and Zurich to share knowledge and develop thought leadership about the key ingredients for successful social enterprise innovation in public services and place-based social enterprise growth. E3M coordinates two networks: the Social Enterprise Leaders Club, a group of the UK’s most dynamic and innovative social enterprise leaders, running a diverse range of public services and the Bold Commissioners Club, a network of senior leaders in local public bodies, with a special focus on innovation and achieving maximum public benefit in the way commissioning is undertaken.
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eCulture Solutions a not-for-profit organisation is advancing development of a unique "Tech4Good" business proposition to aid, people, local communities, and business to come together on the delivery of social innovations and solutions in which more people are included, meaningful jobs are created, and our natural environment is protected and regenerated. With unique digital services and data solutions we aim to empower people through access to reliable data, technical support, and cooperative model of development and delivery, to facilitate an increase in the implementation of positive social change within their own communities and in the way, communities need it to happen.
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Governance International helps your organisation to co-produce better outcomes with citizens. We deliver tools, training, research and peer learning around the world to transform public services based on international good practice.
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GCDA is a not for profit company established 30 years ago as a social enterprise support organisation serving the diverse communities of London. Co-operative Development Agency (GCDA) is a voluntary organisation established in 1982. We provide self-help, training and enterprise support for individuals and communities where people experience disadvantages. Our work programmes embed social, economic and environmental sustainability, and we focus on three areas: Everything About Food Supporting Healthier Lifestyles Community Enterprise and Trading
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ICS.AI is rapidly growing to be the UK’s leading public sector supplier of Artificial Intelligence solutions. We are the largest supplier of Citizen Assistants to Local Government working with the likes of Southampton and Cheshire West and Chester. We focus on the Public Sector as we believe Artificial Intelligence can have a real impact by delivering better outcomes to Citizens. As the UK’s only Microsoft AI Inner Circle Partner, ICS.AI are their recommended Partner for Citizen Assistants for Local Government.
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The Ideas Alliance CIC promotes the benefits of collaborative, strengths-based and community driven approaches. We partner with local people, charities, businesses, councils and national bodies who want to change the way they work together and rethink the role of citizens. Our projects include communities of practice, community researchers, storytelling, rapid testing and co-produced commissioning and strategy development. We also host the Ideas Hub, an online platform championing people doing amazing things in their organisations and local communities. New articles go up each week and we are currently running a series of blogs with reflections on the Covid-19 crisis.
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In a competitive world, the Innovation Cooperative offers a collaborative approach by providing a trusted digital and human space for individuals and organisations to innovate, support each other, and grow businesses. By applying cooperative values to problem-solving and business development, the cooperative fosters an inclusive economy and community wealth. It creates a supportive framework for startups and established businesses, generating socially impactful enterprises focusing on people and planet. Collaboration becomes the default setting in the Innovation Cooperative.
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Lambeth GP Food Co-op is a co-operative of patients, doctors, nurses and Lambeth residents who grow food together. Since 2013, we have built gardens in GP surgeries designed to support patients with long-term health conditions to learn how to grow food and, by doing so improve their health and wellbeing. Our aim is to make a significant contribution to improving the lives of local people living with multiple long-term conditions (including long COVID) and the instability of the health and social care system.
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LocalGov Drupal is a collaboration between local councils across the UK and Ireland. Together we've developed a best-practice, open-source publishing platform that is freely available to all councils. It's a public digital asset created by councils for councils. We’re motivated by a desire to help other councils deliver the best possible digital experience for citizens and reduce the risks and costs associated with council websites. We want as many people as possible to benefit from this project.
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Locality is the national membership network for community organisations. We support community organisations to be strong and successful to meet the needs of their communities. They provide what’s needed most, including better health and wellbeing, housing, education, training, employability and more. We believe in the power of community to build a fairer society. Through our network of over 900 members we connect community organisations with the people, support and know-how they need to create spaces where everyone belongs and where lives are transformed. Together we motivate and inspire each other to unlock the power of local communities.
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Marks Out Of Tenancy is helping innovative Councils find rogue landlords, unlicensed HMOs, and understand what’s really happening in the private rental sector with a new digital service called ‘Vault’.We’re a social enterprise, a technology company, customer service platform and resource centre for renters all over the UK.Speak to us – find out how we’re using digital technology to improve renting -
Mutual Ventures are a management consultancy which specialises in public service reform. We are passionate about better, more sustainable public services. We work across all areas including children’s services, health and social care, culture services and more. We’ve worked with over 150 local authorities, government departments, NHS organisations and mutuals and co-operatives since 2011, including many members of the Co-operative Councils’ Innovation Network. Our wide range of expertise and experience includes: Strategy and options development, Design of new delivery models, Performance improvement, Business and transition planning/implementation, Organisational development and culture change.
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Outlandish is a worker-owned tech co-operative. We build brands, digital solutions, and communities in collaboration with organisations that inspire us. We use agile methods to create user-centric web apps, data tools, and impactful campaigns. As a worker co-op, we reinvest surplus in new social projects. We co-founded CoTech, a UK wide tech co-op network. We also run a co-working project, SPACE4, and incubate other coops with support from Islington Council.
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Oxygen Finance is a specialist provider of payment solutions and insight. Our early payment programmes and public sector spend analysis help innovative councils to drive savings, improve operational effectiveness and deliver against social value objectives. We are the leading provider of early payment programmes to Local Government in the UK with approaching 50 Local Authority clients. Oxygen provide a proven, value-based solution to the late payment challenge delivered using tried and tested processes, robust technology and expert resource. We have offices in the UK and US and work with a range of technology partners.
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Peopletoo provides support to organisations across Local Government and Health through the design and implementation of affordable and outcome-focused services.
We have a comprehensive and detailed understanding of frontline service delivery. Our team works alongside you as your transformation partner, offering 100% accountability for the delivery of real cashable savings, improved service performance, increased social value and a measurably better customer experience.
Our experience is extensive across the UK, having worked with over 100 local authorities and more than 40 health organisations to successfully deliver sustainable transformation.
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Plinth is a Community Impact Platform helping Councils to use data to work more closely with their community organisations. We provide a free platform to community groups that they can use to manage client details and case notes, take bookings for activities and analyse and report on their impact. Councils can use that data, in real-time, to help understand the impact of grant funding or commissioning, reach into more communities, and get a better understanding of support available in their local area.
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POhWER was established in 1996 by a number of founders - all of whom had disabilities and were fighting social injustice and challenges in their lives. POhWER still operates with these roots at the heart of everything it does; supporting marginalised, vulnerable and socially excluded people through its charitable work.
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Power to Change is the independent trust that supports community businesses in England. Community businesses are locally rooted, community-led, trade for community benefit and make life better for local people. The 9,000 community businesses across England, own assets worth £890m, and employ 33,600 people. Community businesses create great products and services, provide employment and training, contribute to inclusive local economies and transform lives. We support them through investment; capacity building; research and policy; and market development with stakeholders including local authorities & many others. Power to Change received its endowment from the National Lottery Community Fund in 2015.
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The Public Service Transformation Academy exists to build the capability for public services to transform themselves. We offer a range of Academies (real and virtual), around transformation, place-based leadership, and commissioning (the Cabinet Office Commissioning Academy), and a series of face-to-face and online training programmes, hack days etc.Public service transformation is complex, transdisciplinary, and the skills tend to fall ‘between the cracks’ of silos and expert areas – we bring expert speakers, action learning, peer and adult learning so you learn by doing. -
RedQuadrant is a radical ‘unconsultancy’ for public services – we believe our job is to do ourselves out of a job. We bring together service expertise, highly experienced people, cutting-edge methods and track record of delivering what you want and what you really need, with the skills to build the skills in your team to take over from us. We’ve been around for eleven years and worked with over 200 public bodies. We can call on over 1,500 expert, experienced consultants to meet needs from vulnerable looked-after adults to entire council target operating models and service, IT and accommodation change, and everything in-between.
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Refernet is a referral management solution that helps build local advice partnerships, and enables referrals to be made securely between agencies and their advice partners. Clients include Citizens Advice, LGA’s, Councils, charities, legal and money advice, healthcare and housing services across the UK. Over many years of service, it has become clear that Refernet’s unique selling point is in its simplicity of use, which enables it to have a very broad reach across multiple types of advice teams and organisations. Refernet is secure, GDPR compliant and provides reports on referral activity and outcomes.
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Stir to Action is a co-operative that builds a democratic economy through training programmes, strategic economic development, and a regular national magazine. We focus on the role of democratic ownership in creating the conditions to transform economic inequality, social exclusion, the climate emergency, mental health crisis, and our political culture. For nearly ten years we’ve been creating forums for democratic business practitioners and policymakers through residential, regional, and online learning experiences, festivals, conferences, and our quarterly publication.
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At TechResort, we work to tackle digital exclusion, and share digital skills for all in our community. On a day-to-day basis, this means running free to access drop-in sessions at our base and at community venues, alongside support organisations. We help people gradually build up their digital confidence in an informal environment, allowing them to increasingly start to interact with the online world. We also run a device donation scheme (donating over 185 devices in 2023) to help those with no access get online, and help local authorities and other third sector organisations increase their awareness of digital exclusion.
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The Co-operative Heritage Trust CIO is an independent charity * which exists to preserve and share the heritage assets of the UK co-operative movement. 31 Toad Lane (Rochdale Pioneers Museum) is the site of the first successful consumer member society and the place where the Rochdale Principles of co-operation were created in 1844. We believe that by working together people can make a difference - We use archive and museum collections to engage modern audiences with the ways the co-op movement has shaped our society and can be a meaningful force for positive change.
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Trueman Change is a bespoke consultancy helping public and third sector organisations change and transform their ways of working. We support you to think through your strategies, working with staff/stakeholders to design meaningful programmes of change, taking full responsibility for the delivery of the programme. We provide insight and diagnostics, combining the discipline of effective, pragmatic project management and implementation. We use change management techniques, working with your project team, mapping out the impact of the change on your staff and stakeholders… We believe that the key is designing a relevant change management plan with them, to understand their perspective.
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Two Generations CIC is an award-winning social enterprise tackling loneliness and fostering friendship between generations through Homeshare. We match people who live alone (typically older people or those with disabilities) and have a spare room, with younger people who can provide an overnight presence, companionship and some help with household chores. Our homeshares provide an affordable low to intermediate level support that is tailored to the needs of individuals. They reduce loneliness, falls and “front door” demand on GPs and adult social care; accelerate hospital discharge; and promote digital inclusion, all while providing affordable accommodation for the younger person. Safeguarding is at the core of what we do, and we actively manage all Homesharers throughout
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Unlimited Potential specialises in social innovation – creating new solutions to social and economic problems with local people and communities. We use our innovation process to respond to the challenges of large organisations. Engaging with the strengths of citizens and communities, especially those who are disadvantaged and marginalised, we also draw on research from a range of disciplines to enhance impact. We are happy to explore any challenge, and to see how it might be reframed and then addressed in different ways to create new low-cost solutions.
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The Urban Agriculture Consortium (UAC) brings people, ideas, expertise and organisations together across the UK to co-create the conditions for urban and peri-urban agroecology to thrive and build generative relationships. We're a small, grant-funded project that works as a catalyst to amplify, accelerate and add value to what is trying to emerge as we find ourselves deepening into times of vulnerability and transition. We work on areas like policy development, access to land through mapping, land use planning and food, regional city/town/county clusters, farm start feasibility and more. If you want to explore how to create edible city landscapes and enable citizens to meet their own nutritional needs, we'd love to talk with you.
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Midcounties Co-operative t/a Your Coop Business Solutions is a dynamic and diversified cooperative organization headquartered in the United Kingdom. Founded in 2005, the cooperative operates across various sectors, including retail, energy, childcare, funeral, travel services, and telecommunications. Through the acquisition of the Phone Coop in 2015, Midcounties Cooperatives launched Your Coop Business Solutions. Integrating sustainable practices into its telecommunications operations, with a focus on reducing carbon emissions and environmental impact, Your Coop Business Solutions focuses on the provisioning of Fairphone Handsets, Mobile SIMs, Data Connectivity, and Digital Voice Services, strengthening partnerships and engagement with local communities to address their evolving telecommunications needs effectively.