January Council update
Christmas break over, Christmas jumper away and decorations back in the cellar, and ready to turn my attention to blogging the January National Members Council held in a wet and windy Manchester. Before I made the trek to Manchester, I represented the group at Exeter University, who had asked the Coop to pitch to their One World MBA students. Every year MBA students have to work with a company and produce a report for their client as part of their course. I, along with my Co-operative Engagement Advisor colleague, asked the students to consider our local co-operative forums. Whilst we are trialling these around the nations of the UK, it has become clear from initial feedback from the trials that a really enthusiastic and committed co-ordinator is vital to success. We asked MBA students to dig deeper into this and research and make recommendations on how we can support our members to make the forums a success. As part of the talk to the students I had a look for s