Rose Marley
@rosemarley.bsky.social
CEO Co-operatives UK Founder SharpFutures
Reporting record breaking figures coming out tomorrow on Co-operative and Mutual economy!
📻 All about people coming together to take ownership and control of the businesses and places that matter to them.
Our CEO @rosemarley.bsky.social was excellent on BBC Radio 4 this morning.
Listen back from 7.21am: bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
#Coops #CoopEconomy
Our CEO @rosemarley.bsky.social was excellent on BBC Radio 4 this morning.
Listen back from 7.21am: bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
#Coops #CoopEconomy
Radio 4 - Listen Live - BBC Sounds
Listen live to BBC Radio 4 on BBC Sounds
bbc.co.uk
September 22, 2025 at 7:22 AM
Reporting record breaking figures coming out tomorrow on Co-operative and Mutual economy!
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🧵 In Kobe, Japan 🇯🇵, you’ll find a replica of the Rochdale Pioneers’ original 1844 co-op shop.
A tiny monument to a big idea: that businesses should be owned and run by the people closest to them.
That idea changed the world 🌍 1of2
#FromRochdaleToTheWorld @rosemarley.bsky.social
A tiny monument to a big idea: that businesses should be owned and run by the people closest to them.
That idea changed the world 🌍 1of2
#FromRochdaleToTheWorld @rosemarley.bsky.social
July 14, 2025 at 10:36 AM
🧵 In Kobe, Japan 🇯🇵, you’ll find a replica of the Rochdale Pioneers’ original 1844 co-op shop.
A tiny monument to a big idea: that businesses should be owned and run by the people closest to them.
That idea changed the world 🌍 1of2
#FromRochdaleToTheWorld @rosemarley.bsky.social
A tiny monument to a big idea: that businesses should be owned and run by the people closest to them.
That idea changed the world 🌍 1of2
#FromRochdaleToTheWorld @rosemarley.bsky.social
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"Empowering local people" is crucial as Steve Coogan - interviewed at #CoopCongress - explains why he is championing #coops in this Manchester Evening News piece👇
manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater...
@rosemarley.bsky.social
manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater...
@rosemarley.bsky.social
Steve Coogan on Oasis, Kneecap and Co-ops and why he wants to change the world
Steve Coogan has recently become an ambassador for local co-op Middleton Co-operating. And after years of disillusionment with politics he tells Damon Wilkinson it has reinvigorated his belief in the ...
manchestereveningnews.co.uk
July 6, 2025 at 8:59 AM
"Empowering local people" is crucial as Steve Coogan - interviewed at #CoopCongress - explains why he is championing #coops in this Manchester Evening News piece👇
manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater...
@rosemarley.bsky.social
manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater...
@rosemarley.bsky.social
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That's a wrap! #CoopCongress has come to a close at Rochdale Town Hall (but lots more content to come). Huge thanks to all our speakers, exhibitors and of course
The Co-operative Bank - whose sponsorship is invaluable. We'll leave (today's) last word to
@rosemarley.bsky.social.
.
The Co-operative Bank - whose sponsorship is invaluable. We'll leave (today's) last word to
@rosemarley.bsky.social.
.
July 5, 2025 at 7:53 PM
That's a wrap! #CoopCongress has come to a close at Rochdale Town Hall (but lots more content to come). Huge thanks to all our speakers, exhibitors and of course
The Co-operative Bank - whose sponsorship is invaluable. We'll leave (today's) last word to
@rosemarley.bsky.social.
.
The Co-operative Bank - whose sponsorship is invaluable. We'll leave (today's) last word to
@rosemarley.bsky.social.
.
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Steve Coogan also featured on BBC Radio 4's Today programme ahead of #CoopCongress. It's a great interview.
"The establishment is failing people." And #Coops are a way to lift people back up. Fast forward to 2:24 via the link: bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... #IYC2025 #coops
@rosemarley.bsky.social
"The establishment is failing people." And #Coops are a way to lift people back up. Fast forward to 2:24 via the link: bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... #IYC2025 #coops
@rosemarley.bsky.social
July 4, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Steve Coogan also featured on BBC Radio 4's Today programme ahead of #CoopCongress. It's a great interview.
"The establishment is failing people." And #Coops are a way to lift people back up. Fast forward to 2:24 via the link: bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... #IYC2025 #coops
@rosemarley.bsky.social
"The establishment is failing people." And #Coops are a way to lift people back up. Fast forward to 2:24 via the link: bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... #IYC2025 #coops
@rosemarley.bsky.social
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📢 Our AGM 2025 is just around the corner – and it’s fully online 💻🌍
Our members must register in advance to vote on resolutions and ask the questions that matter to their co-operative.
🗓️ Thursday 12 June, 12:00 (midday)
🔗 Register now: buff.ly/oiVGcZ9
#Coops #AGM
Our members must register in advance to vote on resolutions and ask the questions that matter to their co-operative.
🗓️ Thursday 12 June, 12:00 (midday)
🔗 Register now: buff.ly/oiVGcZ9
#Coops #AGM
buff.ly
June 7, 2025 at 11:02 AM
📢 Our AGM 2025 is just around the corner – and it’s fully online 💻🌍
Our members must register in advance to vote on resolutions and ask the questions that matter to their co-operative.
🗓️ Thursday 12 June, 12:00 (midday)
🔗 Register now: buff.ly/oiVGcZ9
#Coops #AGM
Our members must register in advance to vote on resolutions and ask the questions that matter to their co-operative.
🗓️ Thursday 12 June, 12:00 (midday)
🔗 Register now: buff.ly/oiVGcZ9
#Coops #AGM
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Awesome to feel the Scottish coop sector get a bit more pumped about their own brilliance, and the global coop family. Helped along by @rosemarley.bsky.social
June 5, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Awesome to feel the Scottish coop sector get a bit more pumped about their own brilliance, and the global coop family. Helped along by @rosemarley.bsky.social
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"The world young people are inheriting, isn’t a fair world. And they know it."
Powerful piece from @rosemarley.bsky.social in the Manchester Evening News.
Challenging the higher education status quo and making the case for co-operation.
📖 Worth a read.
#Coops
🔗 Link in the next post
Powerful piece from @rosemarley.bsky.social in the Manchester Evening News.
Challenging the higher education status quo and making the case for co-operation.
📖 Worth a read.
#Coops
🔗 Link in the next post
April 15, 2025 at 9:08 AM
"The world young people are inheriting, isn’t a fair world. And they know it."
Powerful piece from @rosemarley.bsky.social in the Manchester Evening News.
Challenging the higher education status quo and making the case for co-operation.
📖 Worth a read.
#Coops
🔗 Link in the next post
Powerful piece from @rosemarley.bsky.social in the Manchester Evening News.
Challenging the higher education status quo and making the case for co-operation.
📖 Worth a read.
#Coops
🔗 Link in the next post
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🧵: Today's front page in the Manchester Evening News leads on how we're trying to build - through co-operation - a fairer future for younger people. 1 of 4. #OurHouse
April 14, 2025 at 9:48 AM
🧵: Today's front page in the Manchester Evening News leads on how we're trying to build - through co-operation - a fairer future for younger people. 1 of 4. #OurHouse
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It's the views of younger people that count. If you’re aged 13 to 25 and based in Gtr Mcr we want to hear from you (see link at end of article 👇)
www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/news-op...
www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/news-op...
Greater Manchester has always led the way — now it's time to do it again
Writing exclusively for the Manchester Evening News, Co-operatives UK chief executive Rose Marley gives an insight into a new idea that Andy Burnham has backed - halls of residence for apprentices
www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk
April 14, 2025 at 9:48 AM
It's the views of younger people that count. If you’re aged 13 to 25 and based in Gtr Mcr we want to hear from you (see link at end of article 👇)
www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/news-op...
www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/news-op...
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Here's that #CoopHeroes storytelling campaign and guide @rosemarley.bsky.social mentioned 👇
www.uk.coop/news/bold-mi...
#CoopRetail #CoopHeroes #Coops
www.uk.coop/news/bold-mi...
#CoopRetail #CoopHeroes #Coops
March 15, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Here's that #CoopHeroes storytelling campaign and guide @rosemarley.bsky.social mentioned 👇
www.uk.coop/news/bold-mi...
#CoopRetail #CoopHeroes #Coops
www.uk.coop/news/bold-mi...
#CoopRetail #CoopHeroes #Coops
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Welcome to everyone who’s joining us at #CoopRetail Conference 2025 – proudly sponsored by VME Coop.
A fab welcome from our CEO @rosemarley.bsky.social about being #CoopHeroes, owning being member owned and the incredible opportunity the #IYC2025 presents us 👏👏👏
A fab welcome from our CEO @rosemarley.bsky.social about being #CoopHeroes, owning being member owned and the incredible opportunity the #IYC2025 presents us 👏👏👏
March 15, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Welcome to everyone who’s joining us at #CoopRetail Conference 2025 – proudly sponsored by VME Coop.
A fab welcome from our CEO @rosemarley.bsky.social about being #CoopHeroes, owning being member owned and the incredible opportunity the #IYC2025 presents us 👏👏👏
A fab welcome from our CEO @rosemarley.bsky.social about being #CoopHeroes, owning being member owned and the incredible opportunity the #IYC2025 presents us 👏👏👏
‘How to stimulate inclusive growth in Scotland.’ Honoured to join the masters giving evidence in Scottish Parliament last week @cooperativesuk.bsky.social @fsbscotland.bsky.social @prosperscot.bsky.social @socialenterprise.scot
February 24, 2025 at 9:17 AM
‘How to stimulate inclusive growth in Scotland.’ Honoured to join the masters giving evidence in Scottish Parliament last week @cooperativesuk.bsky.social @fsbscotland.bsky.social @prosperscot.bsky.social @socialenterprise.scot
My daughter will not eat in various restaurants or shop in certain stores as she disagrees with their ethics. Why would that not naturally apply to her working life? #coops www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
Gen Z care more about work-life balance than salary, study finds
Generation Z workers value work-life balance above wages and four in 10 have considered walking away from companies they consider 'unethical, a survey has found.
www.dailymail.co.uk
January 22, 2025 at 7:02 AM
My daughter will not eat in various restaurants or shop in certain stores as she disagrees with their ethics. Why would that not naturally apply to her working life? #coops www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
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Was delighted to represent the Cooperative Councils Innovation Network at @casecooperative.bsky.social this afternoon. Was great to meet old and new friends alike, and catch-up with @rosemarley.bsky.social before our AGM in February.
Another exciting day at the 'Living History of Co-operatives' Exhibition!
Come along, visit and share your own co-op memories. Pop in to CAN HQ in Coalville and explore it for free until the 27th of January.
Thanks to @cllrstubbsnul.bsky.social and @rosemarley.bsky.social for visiting!
Come along, visit and share your own co-op memories. Pop in to CAN HQ in Coalville and explore it for free until the 27th of January.
Thanks to @cllrstubbsnul.bsky.social and @rosemarley.bsky.social for visiting!
January 16, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Was delighted to represent the Cooperative Councils Innovation Network at @casecooperative.bsky.social this afternoon. Was great to meet old and new friends alike, and catch-up with @rosemarley.bsky.social before our AGM in February.
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Amazing how a week at the International Co-op Conference with #coops & #cooperators can motivate & inspire. From @sarahdoc72.bsky.social to @rosemarley.bsky.social & from the amazing Debbie Robinson as CEO of Central Co-op to Rebecca & Anca coopnews.bsky.social - www.thenews.coop/internationa...
November 30, 2024 at 4:15 PM
Amazing how a week at the International Co-op Conference with #coops & #cooperators can motivate & inspire. From @sarahdoc72.bsky.social to @rosemarley.bsky.social & from the amazing Debbie Robinson as CEO of Central Co-op to Rebecca & Anca coopnews.bsky.social - www.thenews.coop/internationa...
Raising the UN year of the co-operative flag and the commencement of the Global conference #icanewdelhi2024 seems an appropriate first post on here. #coops
November 25, 2024 at 7:25 AM
Raising the UN year of the co-operative flag and the commencement of the Global conference #icanewdelhi2024 seems an appropriate first post on here. #coops
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Great to speak this morning at the GM Social Enterprise Summit to 150 Social enterprise leaders.
We want good growth, that benefits our people and our communities- with wealth that stays in GM. Our social economy is growing, and one of the best ways to do this!
We want good growth, that benefits our people and our communities- with wealth that stays in GM. Our social economy is growing, and one of the best ways to do this!
November 18, 2024 at 5:51 PM
Great to speak this morning at the GM Social Enterprise Summit to 150 Social enterprise leaders.
We want good growth, that benefits our people and our communities- with wealth that stays in GM. Our social economy is growing, and one of the best ways to do this!
We want good growth, that benefits our people and our communities- with wealth that stays in GM. Our social economy is growing, and one of the best ways to do this!