Stroud Branch Cooperative Party

09/05/2025

Thought provoking piece from in Are we going down the wrong path? Has the argument been hi-jacked by a cartel of very interested parties? Throwing the baby out with the bath water me thinks

I just wrote this about heat pumps for the Times, it’s a thorny issue for sure, but facts and figures matter more than sides and expectations. The way I see it heat pumps could be Kryptonite for Labour, if they get it wrong - read why.

https://www.thetimes.com/article/8b54a120-8674-4fb7-9fdf-5e79802943cc?shareToken=72b8edaf364abc19b475da2a4ede514c

01/03/2025

Stroud Cooperative Party Conversation on Cooperative Housing 15th March 2025 10:00-13:30 ( Free Ticketed Event )

Stroud Cooperative Party will be holding a conversation on the 15th of March 2025. We have invited local Cooperative housing providers to attend and explain their work in this area. David Drew will moderate the discussion and Simon Opher MP ( Stroud ) will attend to listen to the conversation and add information from his experience of work being undertaken in Parliament,

Representatives of Eastington Community Land Trust, the Ecological Land Cooperative, Horizon Cohousing, and Stroud Commons will attend.

Free tickets to attend and participate in this conversation can be obtained from Eventbrite.
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/conversation-on-cooperative-housing-solutions-tickets-1263753884889?aff=oddtdtcreator

10/02/2025

26/11/2024

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30/10/2024

The Rest Is Entertainment · Episode

26/10/2024

As with all investments, capital is always at risk.

20/10/2024

Says so much about todays priorities Will the world ever learn that money is the root of all evil Peace and justice are the real saviours

17/10/2024

Please share widely.

Join me for Michael Rosen Day!
12th November 2024.

Join us on Tuesday 12 November for a day of poetry, stories and creativity to celebrate 50 years since Michael’s first book.

13/10/2024

The power of Credit Unions and Cooperative Government illustrated by Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham. https://www.thenews.coop/andy-burnham-recruits-credit-unions-to-support-manchester-bus-pass/?fbclid=IwY2xjawF4a71leHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHc-4G9j5a0b10dr1_UsHwxBlbiDiOBynzDeKFUt3DBPB7ZN228yo_e-Mdg_aem_ebvAN0qZ1ZPKJzICHNLDjA

The region's Sound Pound credit union consortium will offer a loan that will allow passengers to save money during the cost of living crisis

07/10/2024

On the day that we cast ourselves back to the 7th of October 2023 Double Down News takes a look at the massacre and the propoganda that has followed. We in the West are I think complicit in the massacre on both sides and the subsequent destruction following. Truth again is a victim of war. War is never the answer.

The Video Israel Does Not Want You To See