Directory of co-operatives in Rochdale Borough 2012

 Directory of co-operatives in Rochdale Borough 2012

Chair’s Foreword

We are proud that our town is known as the ‘birthplace of co-operation’ in honour of the Rochdale Pioneers opening their store at 31 Toad Lane in 1844 and starting today’s Co-operative Movement. We are prouder still that Rochdale was declared ‘World Capital of Co-operatives’, at the start of the United Nations International Year of Co-operatives 2012.  

To mark the International Year of Co-operatives, we have produced this directory of today’s Pioneers: co-operatives operating in the Borough in 2012. We are Rochdale Borough Social Enterprise and Co-operative Forum, an unincorporated co-operative ‘network’, run by our Members. We promote co-operatives and other businesses with a social purpose, working together to make the Borough - and the world - a better place.

You can be part of this by using Rochdale’s co-operatives and being actively involved, becoming a Member, having a say in what they do, and sharing the profits. Let’s make the Borough co-operative!

Rick Walker

Rick Walker
Chair, Rochdale Borough Social Enterprise and Co-operative Forum
October 2012

BARDOC

(Bury and Rochdale Doctors on Call)
Out of hours healthcare
0161 763 4242
rukhsana.haq@nhs.net
www.bardoc.co.uk

Cloverhall Tenants Association Co-operative

Management of Cloverhall estate
01706 350116

Community Engagement Pioneers

Work with communities
07976 267022
john.swallow@cepioneers.co.uk

The Co-operative Group

Food, finance, pharmacies, and funerals
(See below for trading outlets in the Borough)
0800 023 4708
membership@co-operative.coop
www.co-operative.coop/membership

Co-operatives North West

Co-operatives’ regional organisation
01706 812699
info@cooperatives-nw.coop
www.cooperatives-nw.coop

Everyday People

Creative activities with young people and communities
07885 228172
jackiemid56@hotmail.co.uk

Fair For All

Fair Trade products and supplies
Rochdale Inside Market
01706 648779
janhicks@btinternet.com

FCUM Radio
Internet radio station
07816 140344
steve.bewick.bewick@btinternet.com

Manchester Credit Union

Financial services
0161 231 5222
christine.moore@manchestercreditunion.co.uk
www.manchestercreditunion.co.uk

Maracuja

Catering and cafe/gallery
07862 279289
peggy@maracuja.coop

Metro Moneywise Credit Union

Financial services
01706 714579
metromoneywise@rochdale.gov.uk

Nationwide Building Society

112-114 Yorkshire Street
Rochdale
OL16 1XN
www.nationwide.co.uk

Peace Effects Media CIC

t/a Peace Unlimited
Conflict resolution
07870 951530
stevec@peaceunlimited.org

 Rochdale Borough Social Enterprise and Co-operative Forum

Jan Hicks
01706 648779
janhicks@btinternet.com

Rochdale Boroughwide Housing

PO Box 69
The Old Post Office
The Esplanade
Rochdale
OL16 1AE
04580 705170
rbh@rbh.org.uk
www.rbh.org.uk

Rochdale Hornets Rugby League Football Club

Spotland Stadium
Sandy lane
Rochdale
OL11 5DR
01706 648004

Rochdale Pioneers Museum

31 Toad Lane
Rochdale
OL12 0NU
01706 524920
museum@co-op.ac.uk

Rochdale Supporters Trust

Supporters’ trust
info@daletrust.co.uk

Skipton Building Society

103 Yorkshire Street
Rochdale
OL16 1DR
01706 350101
www.skipton.co.uk

Sunshine Care CIC

Home care services
MCA House
75 Kingsway
Rochdale
OL16 5HN
07761 545580
chris@sunshinecarecoop.com

Tanzeem Co-operative

Catering, sewing, interpreting, flower arranging, and home care
07817 556948
tanzeem@hotmail.co.uk

Town Taxis

Taxi owner/drivers
01706 750750

Unlimited Potential

Help for people to lead healthier and happier lives
0161 738 0081
info@unlimitedpotential.org.uk
www.unlimitedpotential.org.uk

Yorkshire Building Society

08451 200100
www.ybs.co.uk

Youth 21

Work with young people
07976 267022
john.swallow@youth21.org.uk

The Co-operative Group in Rochdale Borough The co-operative food Albert Royds Street, Rochdale Alkrington (Kirkway Precinct) Cutgate (Edenfield Road) Grosvenor Street, Castleton Heywood (Sutherland Road) Hopwood Petrol Station (Coronation Avenue) Kenyon Lane, Moorclose Littleborough Milnrow Norden (Edenfield Road) Norden (Petrol Station) Rooley Moor Road   The co-operative bank 110 Yorkshire Street Rochdale Call 08457 212212   The co-operative pharmacy Castleton Elizabeth Street Castleton Manchester Road Rochdale Edenfield Road (Cutgate Precinct)   The co-operative funeralcare F A Brierley (Milnrow) Owen Devaney (Rochdale) Johnston Brothers (Middleton) Kilpatricks (Littleborough) Clifford Oldham (Rochdale) Call 08000 289120   More about the Co-operative’s businesses at www.co-operative.coop

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Update on plans for 2012, including 'Welcome to Rochdale'!

Members attending the Forum's last meeting (7 March) updated other members with their organisations' news before discussing a wide range of actions to develop their plans for 2012:

• Website. A welcome page and updated blog are to be posted. (If you are reading this, they've both been done!).
• Commissioning and procurement. Meetings are being arranged with key people at the Council. If you want to know more about future opportunities for co-operatives and social enterprises, download 'A plain English guide to the Localism Act at www.communities.gov.uk and 'Public Services (Social Value) Act 2012: A brief guide' at www.socialenterprise.org.uk.
• Members trading with each other. Members are reminded that they can use the links here on the Forum's blogspot to explore services they can buy from each other.
• Sharing providers of services. Forum Chair, Rick Walker of Cartwheel Arts, has produced a comprehensive list of their suppliers and shared it with Forum Members. For more information, phone 01706 361300 or email rick@cartwheelarts.org.uk.
• Campaign for a community renewable energy co-operative. An expresion of interest had been submitted by the Forum to the Co-operative Community Energy Challenge. However, news has been received since that the bid has not been successful. Discussions have started on developing 'Plan B' and members will be updated at the Forum's next meeting.
• Develop a local buying and selling network. Ken Usman Smith of Castlemere Community Centre is scoping the potential for people to 'buy better together'.
• Create training and employment opportunities, especially for young people. Tom Carr of RTC-Training and colleague John Barnacott of TTD Ltd outlined the inappropriateness of training people for work in a period of economic stagnation and the need for an alternative approach to help people create their own oportunities for self-employment. Members have since met with Tom and John to discuss ideas further and are looking forward to seeing the proposals that emerge.
• Explore the potential for co-operatives and social enterprises in schools. Members are keen to raise awareness of co-operative and social enterprise business models in schools. How to go about it needs more discussion.
• Support staff and/or community mutuals to deliver public services. Members endorsed an initial document setting out the issues to be considered, if the Forum is asked to support the development of mutuals to deliver public services. A revised document has since been submitted to the Council for discussion.
• Explore the potential for managed workspace. Members deferred further consideration of this action to  a future meeting.
• Advocate for co-operatives and social enterprises to be a focus for local economic development. Consideration of this was deferred, as well.
• Promote ethical finance. Members got their momentum back for consideration of this item, deciding to mark 'Move your money month' (March) with an initiative to promote one of the Borough's ethical financial institutions. Contact has been made with Manchester Credit Union, that operates in the Borough, but whatever happens will be later in the year! In the meantime, you can move your personal account and your organisation's account! See how in a 'Little book about money' at www.uk.coop or by contacting us.

Members also discussed holding a 'Welcome to Rochdale - World Capital of Co-operatives' event during 'Co-operatives United' International Year of Co-operatives celebrations in Manchester at the end of October. The idea is to work with the Co-operative College which will be inviting
international visitors to the Rochdale Pioneers Museum.

And finally, members decided to hold the Forum's Annual General Meeting and next Management Meeting on 12 April, time and venue, to be confirmed. All members, and people and organisations interested in co-operatives and social enterprises in Rochdale, welcome.

Twelve for 2012

We are currently working on our ‘Twelve for 2012’ ideas to promote social business and celebrate the International Year of Co-operatives:

1. Set up a website
2. Produce a guide to procurement by the Council
3. Encourage members to trade with each other
4. Build up a list of providers of back office services
5. Campaign for a community renewable energy co-operative and fund
6. Encourage the development of local buying and supplying networks
7. Create training and employment opportunities, especially for young people
8. Explore the potential for co-operatives and social enterprises in schools and colleges
9. Support staff and/or community co-operatives and mutuals to provide public services
10. Explore the potential for managed workspace
11. Advocate for co-operatives and social enterprises to be a focus of local economic development
12. Promote ethical finance for people and businesses.