Georgia Horsfall

It was great to speak at the Restitch conference today in Coventry about the co-operative approach to revitalising our town centres.

Decentralising energy is vital to creating greater resilience in our communities as the impacts of the climate emergency become manifest.

The Budget could have been the moment Britain began investing in its co-operative, mutual and wider social economy – seizing on the ambition of the co-operative sector to double in size over the next five years.
Unfortunately, this has not been the case.

I will be writing, along with my Co-op colleagues and members of our Inverclyde Labour Group, to our MSPs to ask that they support Rhoda Grant’s Right to Food Bill by 20 March and would urge all MSPs to do the same.

If the Government ceases to continue the Household Support Fund, it will have a huge impact on our ability to care for the most vulnerable in our city.

Drawn first in the Private Members Bill ballot, Sunderland Central MP, Julie Elliott has introduced a bill to modernise the legislation for Building Societies. Her bill will level the playing field between banks and building societies, an important step towards doubling the size of the co-operative sector, and to supporting first time buyers.

The findings of the new Unleashing Community Ownership report provides a blueprint for creating the environment for community ownership to thrive.