Charitable Foundation

Supporting individuals and communities across our trading area The Co-operative Charitable Foundation is an independent charitable trust set up in 2000. The Foundation is solely funded by United Co-operatives which has trading interests within the North West, South Cumbria, Yorkshire, North Midlands, Northern Ireland and North Wales. United Co-operatives has donated £5.4 million to the Foundation to be invested to generate income to support the Foundation’s grant making programme.

The aim of the foundation

We are all part of a community, whether a geographical community or a community based on a common interest. Communities are made up of a wide range of people with different needs and views. The Co-operative Movement has existed for more than 150 years and has played a major part in supporting, developing and promoting community groups and activities and the people who make up those communities.

Today, The Co-operative Charitable Foundation is committed to promoting co-operative solutions to community challenges. Find out more about the foundation by visiting http://www.united.coop/Foundation.asp