Loughborough University Cooperative Organisation Development Programme (LUCOOP), which was established in 2022 to bring together academics and cooperative development bodies to produce resources and hold meetings and events promoting cooperative organising.
An outcome of these meetings was the creation of the three pamphlets published on this website which were collaboratively written by participants and members of the project. These pamphlets act as a first step in linking academic approaches to cooperative members, owners and also development advisers.
The LUCOOP meetings were hosted in Loughborough University and included participants from the following organizations:
The themes that were chosen for the pamphlets were generated through open discussions in the workshops and collaboratively developed in the following months.
Funding for this stage of the project came from Research England via Loughborough University.