In the days leading up to Christmas members of the Cooperative Care Colne Valley team were busy organising gift hampers for all of the people that we care for. Thanks to a generous grant from local business Dark Woods Coffee (a fellow accredited Living Wage employer), and led by our …
Please meet one of our User Members. Mr H is in our spotlight for the amazing way he has taken his new lifestyle in his stride. And as someone with early dementia, we wanted to celebrate him in general and his 2-course breakfast, made by the one and only Mr …
Our vision as a community social care co-operative is to blend a quality home care service with a vibrant volunteer-based community programme which will allow people using our service to live life better. We have now received a tremendous endorsement from people in the Colne Valley with our Community Share …
A big welcome and thank-you to all of our new investor members. We are proud to be able to announce that with your help our Community Share Offer has been a great success. We have reached our target and now have the start-up capital we need to launch our innovative …
Yesterday evening we hosted a special Zoom conference call and invited supporters, investors and most importantly potential investors to join in, meet a few of our board members and get their questions answered about our vision and plans for the business, and about our Community Share Offer. We had a …
A small number of investors in our Community Shares Offer have been in touch to let us know that when making their payment they’ve been alerted by their bank that our account “can’t be verified” or words to that effect. In somer instances we understand that their bank has informed …
Our Community Share Offer is live. We have published our Business Plan and Share Offer Document. We had originally planned to hold local events in Marsden, Slaithwaite, and Milnsbridge to enable more people to learn about the Community Share Offer, and get answers to their questions. Because of Covid-19 we’re …
About three weeks or so ago we kicked off a campaign to build local awareness of our plan to raise all-important start-up finance using a community share issue. We asked people to give a pledge and specify an amount that they would invest once the share issue went live. It’s …
The problems facing the adult social care sector will be painfully familiar to readers of care agenda. People receiving care and their families left feeling disempowered and frustrated. Social isolation and loneliness. A crisis of staff morale and high staff turnover caused by low pay and insecure working conditions. Yet …