Cooperatives Yorkshire and Humber

Co-operatives Yorkshire and Humber e-newsletter January 2010

Hungry for Activism – a conference to inform, educate and inspire action on food politics.    Leeds, 20th February (Kindly funded by Leeds & Wakefield Co-operative Group Area Committee)

Join Hilary Benn MP, Secretary of State for DEFRA, Fairtrade Leeds, TIDAL and others for this one day event. The event, hosted in Leeds Civic Hall, is free to attend. Visit here for more information.

Fairtrade Fortnight
A regular in the calendar, Fairtrade Fortnight 2010 takes place from 22nd February to 7th March. This year the Fairtrade Foundation are asking people to join them in The Big Swap. For two weeks, they’ll be asking you to swap your usual stuff for Fairtrade stuff.

For information and events taking place across the region visit Fairtrade Yorkshire.

UnLtd Advantage Growth and Replication training programme
24th and 25th February 2010, Tiger 11, Leeds, LS11 8ND.
UnLtd Advantage are offering "The Ultimate Growth and Replication ‘Two Day Intensive Development Programme’ for Leaders & Senior Managers wanting to take their Social Business to the Next Level". This two day intensive training programme will be invaluable if you are seeking to diversify and increase your product range, to disseminate good practice or to franchise your enterprise or organisation. Click here for more information.

Co-operative Fortnight
This year plays host to the first ever Co-operative Fortnight. Running from 19th June to 3rd July the fortnight provides an excellent opportunity to showcase the co-operative movement and co-operatives within this region.
More information will be provided in the weeks to come.

InterAct 2010 ¬– being and belonging – 9th-10th July, Barnsley
CLADA is designing and delivering this year’s annual Co-operative Learning Conference at Northern College, Barnsley. The conference will explore Community and Citizenship from co-operative prospective. For more information click here. 

Yes we can! Create green homes and neighbourhoods
Building on the success of the ‘Eat sustainably’ workshops run by Leeds Permaculture Network, in partnership with the Co-operative Northern Membership team in 2009, the Cooperative Group membership team is now working with the National Permaculture Association to offer day long sessions. Details of the event, starting in this region in July, can be found here.

Stay connected
Should you have any questions or queries, or want something including in next month’s edition of this newsletter please contact Ian Adderley on: ian@cooperatives-yh.coop, or at Social Enterprise Yorkshire and the Humber on: 0845 257 8027. Additionally, if you have any feedback on this newsletter, or suggestions/improvements for future editions, please do get in touch.

Co-operatives Yorkshire & the Humber is funded by the Co-operative Enterprise Hub.