Co-op Party 100: The Future of Co-operation

With 38 MPs and 100s of representatives at all level of politics from the House of Lords to Town Councils, the Co-operative Party is having a growing impact, including the Labour Party’s pledge to double the size of the Co-operative Sector in its 2017 manifesto.

Topics and speakers include:

• Solent Credit Union and Cooperative banking
  Nicholas Ridge (Director of Solent Credit Union) and John Merritt (Director of Credit Union Support Org UK)
• Housing Cooperatives and the Housing crisis
  Lord Roy Kennedy (Co-operative Peer and Labour Spokesperson on Housing, Local Government & Communities in the Lords)
• Environmental Sustainability and Labour plans
  Alan Whitehead MP (Shadow Energy & Climate Change Minister)
• Councils and co-operative initiatives
  Cllr Simon Letts (Leader of Southampton City Council)
• Older People and cooperative change
  Cheryl Barrott (Chair of Change Agents workers cooperative)

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Concession tickets: £5.00 for Coop Members, Labour Members, Trade Unionists, benefits, senior citizens and students, and £7.50 for others. Refreshments will be included.

This event has been organised by the Hampshire, Isle of Wight and Dorset Co-operative Parties.