Co-Operatives Fortnight 2016 Standard Wording

Co-operatives Fortnight 2016 standard wording

About Co-operatives Fortnight

Short description / The sector’s annual campaign, Co-operatives Fortnight 2016 runs from 18 June to 2 July. Once again, co-ops everywhere will be organising Big Co-op Cleans, making a difference in their local areas and showing that we achieve more together than we do alone.
Longer copy / Running from 18 June to 2 July, Co-operatives Fortnight is the time when co-operatives up and down the country remind people why they should choose co-operative.
Once again, co-ops everywhere will be organising Big Co-op Cleans, making a difference in their local areas and showing that we achieve more together than do can alone.
Lend a hand. Join us for our Big Co-op Clean, or organise one yourself.
Tweet / Co-operatives Fortnight is going to be BIG! Lend a hand. Join us for the #bigcoopclean. 18 June-2 July. www.uk.coop/choosecoop

About the Big Co-op Clean

Short description / For Co-operatives Fortnight 2016, co-ops across the UK will be organising Big Co-op Cleans, from clearing up parks and public spaces to encouraging their customers to cleaning out cupboards for foodbanks. Lend a hand and join a Big Co-op Clean this Co-operatives Fortnight.
Longer copy / For Co-operatives Fortnight 2016 – from 18 June to 2 July – co-ops across the UK will be organising Big Co-op Cleans.
From clearing up parks and public spaces to encouraging their customers to clean out cupboards for foodbanks, co-operatives everywhere will be bringing people together to make a difference to their local area, showing that we can do more together than can alone and encourage people to choose co-op.
Lend a hand. Join us for our Big Co-op Clean, or organise one yourself.
Tweet / Co-operatives Fortnight is going to be BIG! Lend a hand. Join us for the #bigcoopclean. 18 June-2 July. www.uk.coop/choosecoop

About co-operatives

Short description / As businesses owned and run by their members, co-operatives give people – whether they are customers, employees, suppliers or local residents – an equal say in how it’s run and its profits are used.
Long copy / What if you had more control over the things that matter to you – your workplace, your football club, your mobile phone provider, your bank?
From the outside a co-operative might look like any other business. It is what happens inside that makes them different.
From Barca FC to the local pub, co-operatives are businesses that are owned and run by the people closest to them. Whether they are customers, employees, suppliers or local residents, the members of a co-operative have an equal say in what it does and decides how its profits are shared.
Tweet / What if you had more control over your workplace, football club or phone provider. Choose co-operative for Co-operatives Fortnight.

About the co-operative sector

Short description / From high street retailers to community owned pubs, fan owned football clubs to farmer controlled businesses, co-operatives work across the economy.
There are 7,000 co-operatives in the UK. They are owned by 15 million people right across the country and together they contribute £37 billion to the British economy.
Tweet / From fan owned football clubs to farmer controlled businesses, there are 7,000 #coops contributing £37bn to the UK economy.