Coops Wales

“All our educational work should be undertaken with the object of preparing people for social change” Joe Reeves, Secretary of the Royal Arsenal Co-operative Society‘s education committee (1918-1938)

Co-operatives and Mutuals Wales is the representative body and the National/Regional arm of Co operatives UK. This is the UK apex body for al types of co-operatives, democratically controlled by its members; and in its original form founded in 1869.

Self-financed, Co-operatives and Mutuals Wales relies on a small team of active co-operators, and from 2016, gradually re-inventing itself as a mutual support network for individual co-operative activists, and co-operatives.

For some, complexities of the Co-operative Movement can be off putting. We therefore aim to be good ‘sign-posters’ and inter-connectors between sectors, co-ops, co-operators and the public; and because it’s Wales, we reach out internationally, including Japan, Italy, Malaysia and the Philippines.

We record and edit our two annual events and these can be found on our YouTube channel.