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South Yorkshire has a successful worker co-operative sector, employing nearly 200 people and having a combined turnover of £4-5 million.
Unlike many businesses worker co-operatives are locally owned and controlled.
A great variety of products and services is provided by South Yorkshire co-operatives including:-
Accountancy and Book-keeping
Boat Builders and Chandlers
Computing Services
Conservation work and management
Contract cleaning and property maintenance
General and Precision Engineering
Homecare provision
Nursery Day Care
Occupational Health Care
Pre-Cast Concrete
Printers and Typesetters
Theatre Groups and Actors’ Agents
Traffic Signal Engineering
Wholefood Suppliers
Woodworkers
WORKER CO-OPERATIVES IN THE UK
The history of the co-operative movement in the UK stretches back over 200 years. The High Street retail Co-operative Societies will be familiar to people, but there has also been a long tradition of successful worker co-operatives.
Many of the co-operatives in this country were started by people with little or no previous experience of running a business, and yet worker co-operatives have a better survival rate than new start-up businesses generally. This is often put down to the high level of commitment shown by the members of a worker co-operative and the assistance provided by co-operative support agencies, such as Sheffield Co-operative Development Group.
The Co-operative Sector in Britain unified in the United Kingdom Co-operative Council includes major businesses in the fields of Insurance, Banking, Wholesale, Retail, Farming and Building Societies.
It is the biggest business in many fields and is owned and controlled by many millions of members.
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