Latest STIR magazine focuses on community wealth building “There is a growing range of local agents who are driving the community wealth building movement, with organisations developing co-operatives and economic alternatives, and a greater acknowledgement of the public pound – democratised money.” – Neil McInroy, Chief Executive, CLES. Read more…
RIPESS marks 20th anniversary of Lima Declaration The first meeting of the globalization of solidarity was held in Lima, Peru, from the 1st to the 4th of July 1997, as part of GRESP, the Peruvian network for the solidarity economy. From this meeting and declaration, the desire to internationalize Read more…
We’re excited to announce that we are officially relaunching ourselves today as the Solidarity Economy Association. The Solidarity Economy Association (SEA) is a not-for-profit, multi-stakeholder co-operative working to support the Solidarity Economy movement in the UK – a grassroots movement that is building a fair and ecological alternative Read more…
To mark National Volunteers Week we’re joining over 650 charities and voluntary organisations in pledging not to participate in any government workfare schemes, which force unemployed people to carry out unpaid work or face benefit sanctions. Keep Volunteering Voluntary is a campaign launched in April 2014 in response to the Read more…
“In the face of hate, walls and borders, we’ll build global networks of solidarity and hope.” Fearless Cities is a summit for the international municipalist movement which will take place 9-11 June in Barcelona, Spain. Around the world, towns and cities are standing up to defend human rights, democracy and Read more…
Dear friends, We were very sad to hear of the death of Robin Murray this week. He was known to many of us at the Solidarity Economy Association, in different guises – as a teacher, co-researcher, activist and a friend. It was one of our directors, Jane Grindey, who first Read more…
SEA’s Matt Wallis was recently invited to spend a week in Italy with an international community of people working to map the Solidarity Economy. All over the world economic activity is taking place challenging the idea that making as much profit as possible is the only logical way of exchanging Read more…
Open2017-data-handout A month ago we joined around 300 others at Open:2017, the UK’s first multi-day conference dedicated to platform co-operatives, organised by The Open Co-op LLP. As one of the early sponsors of the event, we were so excited to help make it happen, and to contribute to what became Read more…
We’re really excited to say that the Winter issue of STIR magazine is now available to buy! We’ve been collaborating with the team at Stir To Action on the edition which is all about Solidarity Economics, including some really inspiring examples of solidarity economy initiatives around the world, interviews, and Read more…
Friday 20th January 09:30 – 16:30 Central Hall, Oldham Street, Manchester On Friday 20 January we’ll be heading up to Manchester for the Ways Forward 5 Conference: Roads to a Democratic Economy. We’re one of the key sponsors of the conference, which is about discussing co-operative and radical alternatives to Read more…