Great news for Total Coverage as City Focus 2009, the publication that we design, copywrite and publish for Portsmouth City Teaching PCT has been awarded 3rd place in The Association of Directors of Public Health’s Annual Report Competition. Dr Paul Edmondson-Jones, Director of Public Health & Well-being at Portsmouth City Teaching PCT says:” I just [...]

Over 30 representatives from worker co-operatives around the UK, including Total Coverage delegates, got together for a day of workshops and discussions at the end of June. A wide range of sessions from ‘Promoting your way out of recession’ to ‘Dealing with human resources issues’ took place. The ‘Effective meetings and reaching consensus’ session led [...]

The Co-operatives magazine aims to build a greater awareness and understanding of the co-operative sector and the potential for co-operative solutions. Talking Heads is a new feature in the publication where three different types of co-operative enterprise are asked what they see as the greatest opportunities for their business in the coming year. On page [...]

Co-ops to work with RISE on Social Enterprise Mark criteria. A new working group has been set up to address issues that may apply to co-operatives wanting to apply for the Social Enterprise Mark. A joint statement has been issued by RISE and Co-operatives SW:“In recognition of the concerns raised by co-operative representatives about the [...]

Business leaders within co-operatives believe the time is right to push the ‘Co-operative Advantage’ a survey conducted by Co-operativesUK has revealed. The results, which were announced at Co-operatives 2009, show that chief executives of top co-operative businesses (representing an annual turnover of some £11.6 billion) also think the sector should work more closely with mutuals [...]

Everyone has heard of The Co-operative but not everybody knows what The Co-operative is all about so in July I was invited to be guest speaker at What’s in a name? – The Co-operative Explained an event organised by the Co-operative Group South West Region Membership Team. The aim of the event, held in Bournemouth, [...]

St. Swithin’s Day is 15 July, a day on which people watch the weather for tradition says that whatever the weather is like on St. Swithin’s Day, it will continue so for the next forty days.
There is a weather-rhyme is well known throughout the British Isles since Elizabethan times.
‘St Swithin’s Day, if it does rain
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To coincide with the Good Egg Awards and to celebrate all the winners that have switched to using only cage-free eggs, Compassion in World Farming are proud to launch our very first Bake with Compassion fundraising week!
From the 6th – 12th July get your aprons on and oven mitts out, to host your very own [...]