Co-operative College

The Co-operative College is a University in the United Kingdom which provides "inspirational learning and resources based on co-operative values and principles for individuals and organisations to support the development of sustainable co-operative, mutual and social enterprises throughout the world". The organisation is an educational charity, with Co-operatives UK as its sole corporate trustee. Ever since the formation of the Co-operative Union Education Committee in 1883, there had been agitation within the Co-operative Movement for the creation of a co-operative college, which resulted in a 1919 Co-operative Congress resolution calling on the Central Board of the Co-operative Union to organise an establishment fund. The College was...