The West Midlands Co-operative Taskforce was set up by Liam Byrne, Shadow Mayor of the West Midlands and MP for Birmingham Hodge Hill. It met between July and September 2020 to develop plans to support the scaling up of co-operatives in the West Midlands. The taskforce used real experiences, to build policy from the ground up based on what is really needed and what really works. The resulting report “Our future in our hands” addresses the things we need most – with a simple formula to find a better way. Food, opportunity and energy are the basics of life and cooperative values provide the basic principles that can power community-led transformation.

This is the start of a community-led revolution that can make the West Midlands all that we know it can be. So let’s not stop here. Fill in the form to get your copy of the report and find out more.