Annual Report 2005

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Annual Report 2005

• Dame Pauline Green
• Chief Executive
• Co-operativesUK

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Vision Purpose

• Our Purpose
• To promote, develop and extend co-operative
  enterprise
• Our VisionTo be recognised as 
• The apex organisation for co-operatives
• The guardian of co-operative values and
  principles
• A strategic voice for co-operative enterprise 
• The centre of excellence for the provision of
  services to co-operatives

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Key Indicators

• 2000
• Members (57) ß
• Subs (5 years) ß 35
• Employees (18) ß 43
• Remit ß

2005 Members (441) Ý 673 Subs (5 years)
Ý 18 Employees (30) Ý 67 Remit Ý
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Modernising Relationships

• A new charitable Scheme Deed for the
  Co-operative College
• The incorporation of the Co-operative Party

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Guarding our Values and Principles

• Converting co-operatives
• the struggle in Musselburgh Fisherrow Society

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New consumer Co-ops
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Realignment

• Approx Turnover
• East of England 560m

Midcounties 575m
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Reduction in Subscription Income

• Cuts - 158 500
• Principles
• protect membership activity
• protect services and service growth
• scrutinise all expenditure

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The Conference People

• Congress organised by

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The Apex body for co-operatives

• Knowledge base
• 12 305 IPS organisations of which
• 3 030 co-operative enterprises of which
• 2 665 verified

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The Apex body for co-operatives

• Knowledge base
• 9 000 Individuals of which
• 5 178 co-operative directors and
• 1 500 co-operative managers

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Strategic Voice for the Movement

• Knowledge base
• Size of the sector
• Promise - definitive figures available in 2007!!
• 2005 verified figure

22.5 billion
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Strategic Voice for the Movement
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Strategic Voice for the Movement

• Financial Services Authority

I have been delighted to have been able to work
in partnership with Dame Pauline and her team to
replace the legacy system that the FSA inherited
from the Registry of Friendly Societies with a
modern up-to-date system. This is the result of a
lot of co-operation between the FSA and
Co-operatives UK and represents an important step
in our efforts to improve the service we offer
our mutual customers. Furthermore, this has
enabled us to offer, for the first time, an
electronic public register of all mutual
societies, which will be available on the
internet via the FSA's website. Philip
Robinson Director, Regulatory Transactions, FSA
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Service Excellence

• Roll out of
• Corporate Governance Code of Best Practice -first
  full report to Congress 2007
• Co-operative, Social and Environmental
  Performance first full report this year

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Service Excellence

• New Ventures Panel and Innovation and Development
  Fund
• Contributors
• Channel Islands
• Lincolnshire
• Midcounties

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Service Excellence

• New Ventures Panel and Innovation and Development
  Fund

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Service Excellence

• New Ventures Panel and Innovation and Development
  Fund
• www.co-openergy.coop

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Service Excellence
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Service Excellence

• Be a Co-operative Carbon Champion
• Increase knowledge of benefits from carbon
  management
• Allow members to
• Calculate carbon emissions
• Develop beneficial business strategies
• Establish systems for annual reporting

• Implement carbon reductions of 20 or even 60

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Service Excellence

• Childcare - with Co-operative Action
• Women and co-operatives - with the Dti
• Enterprise4Inclusion - with Defra
• and hot off the press
• Direct payment co-operatives - with the
  Department of Health

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Service Excellence

• New Member Service the Business Bulletin

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Service Excellence

• Legal Team
• Generated 100 000 income
• 171 organisations registered of which
• 63 co-operative enterprises
• Produced childcare model rules
• Produced Simply Legal an introduction to legal
  structures
• Numerous member rule changes and legal queries

(and 1 child!)
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Quote from our Chair

• Co-operativesUK is a small organisation with a
  small staff team. It does not seek to supplant,
  but to supplement the activity of its members. It
  does not speak for individual member
  organisations, but for the co-operative
  community. It works through partnership, advocacy
  and facilitation to drive innovation, new
  projects and service development. It works
  primarily through and with the co-operative
  family.

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Developing and extending the co-operative sector