Middleton Cooperating
@MiddCooperating
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Where are we? Middleton! What are we doing? Co-operating! Why? Cos that's how to change the world - starting here, starting now. Find out more - https://t.co/h6tSRFq3Gx
Middleton, England
Joined January 2021
“This is a chance to do regeneration differently... that means using co-operative principles, so people feel genuinely involved in shaping the town’s future. Middleton deserves investment that works for its residents, not around them.” says @RoseMarley1. https://t.co/R5I79FVhzY
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Here's a brilliant article about the continuing campaign of Middleton branch of @gmtenantsunion against big local/national landlord Riverside, highlighting issues of ownership and the conditions in Riverside properties on the Langley estate in Middleton.
tribunemag.co.uk
Landlords are allowing precarious, uninhabitable living conditions right across the UK — but as an assertive local fightback by tenants in Manchester shows, major victories can be won through...
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A huge week for UK #coops saw the the @CooperativesUK Congress in Rochdale - part of a global festival for #IYC2025, with voices from around the world. Here's our report from the event @icacoop @coopuk @midcountiescoop @mycoopfood @MiddCooperating 👇 https://t.co/fJ7wTSS03X
thenews.coop
This year's UK Co-op Congress, held in Rochdale, formed part of a week-long global co-op festival to mark the International Year
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Greater Manchester's 2025–2035 Strategy sets out a bold vision for the next decade driven by new devolution powers, inclusive growth, and action on housing, transport, health & climate. I’m proud to be representing Oldham on this document. ✊️
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The best way to save billions from the benefits system? Launch the biggest council home building programme the UK has seen since the post-war years.👇🏻
If ministers want to see how welfare reform can be done, come see us in Greater Manchester | Andy Burnham
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About bloody time Midd got a night bus! Gassed with this news tbh
Finally, to help people who work into the early hours, or start early shifts, we are expanding the night bus pilot to Prestwich, Bury, Middleton and Rochdale later this year. 👍🏻 4/4
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"Focus all that £39 billion on social housing" 🙌
"Are you in favour of a wealth tax?" @SophyRidgeSky asks Manchester Mayor @AndyBurnhamGM "There is a clear case for one", he says. Adding, "The extremes of wealth are huge" in the UK. 📱 https://t.co/xkAlVP3z6f 📺 Sky 501, Virgin 602, Freeview 233 and YouTube
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We're working with @MayorofGM to establish a Mayoral Development Corporation in Middleton to drive further regeneration & Steve Coogan will be chairing it, alongside Rose Marley, CEO of @CooperativesUK Here's Steve chatting about why the Middleton MDC is so important:
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'Maybe you can’t change the world from the top – but you can change the world from the bottom' We chat to Steve Coogan, who spoke at the UK Co-op Congress, about why he is backing the Middleton Co-operating project #coops @MiddCooperating 👇 https://t.co/ohgvEnvmsj
thenews.coop
The actor and comedian grew up in the Greater Manchester town and says it's time for communities to work together
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👏Great stuff from Steve Coogan at #CoopCongress, talking about how feeling ‘politically homeless’ led him to co‑operativism and supporting @MiddCooperating, which is making a huge difference in its community! #IYC2025
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Andy Burnham backs living income campaign for Greater Manchester https://t.co/BHUVzz7LaK via @leftfootfwd @AndyBurnhamGM
leftfootforward.org
“If you set people up to succeed, they will succeed. We are saying to the government, let us here in Greater Manchester rethink the entire benefits system and turn it from a negative deficit model...
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One of @gmtenantsunion’s best branches 👇👇 Over the last few years they’ve gone toe to toe with Riverside, winning tens of thousands of pounds compensation for our members. Follow to stay up to date!
🏘 Middleton Tenants Union is here! We’re standing up to mould, disrepair & being ignored. Tenants deserve safe, dignified homes — and we’re stronger together. ✊ #MiddletonTenantsUnion #HousingJustice #SafeHomesNow
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Mould, leaks, rats — this is what @RiversideUK tenants are living with. We’ve reported it. We’ve waited. Still nothing. We deserve safe homes. Fix it now. 🏚✊ #RiversideHousing #HousingCrisis #FixOurHomes #TenantsDeserveBetter
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Why wont @RiversideUK meet with us as a tenants union? Tenants are living with mould, damp & rats! And we’ve come together to demand action. Housing associations across the UK are working with unions. Why not Riverside? #MiddletonTenantsUnion #RiversideHousing #HousingJustice
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🏘 Middleton Tenants Union is here! We’re standing up to mould, disrepair & being ignored. Tenants deserve safe, dignified homes — and we’re stronger together. ✊ #MiddletonTenantsUnion #HousingJustice #SafeHomesNow
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1/ 🧵 Greater Manchester is taking bold steps to fight poverty. A new Living Income campaign wants to show that a better safety net is possible—and essential. Here’s what you need to know ⬇️ #LivingIncome #GreaterManchester #UBI
Campaign for living income pilot launches in Greater Manchester, UK. The pilot would assess the impact of support on the health, wellbeing, education, employment and community participation of those involved. Read the full article here:
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This is a great letter! Open Letter to All Greater Manchester MPs Regarding the Government’s Green Paper on Benefits: https://t.co/95Q0pOFSk4
gmdisabledpeoplespanel.com
Open Letter to All Greater Manchester MPs Regarding the Government’s Green Paper on Benefits 20 May 2025 To the Members of Parliament representing Greater Manchester, We are writing to you as membe…
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The final moments of this clip are extraordinary. What humanity and courage. "You don't ask the perpetrator of genocide their opinion on whether they are committing a genocide".
Thank you, thank you, thank you Dr @Tanyaalih for your courage, passion and eloquence. Watch EVERY MINUTE of this extraordinary interview about the grotesque murder of 9 siblings in Gaza. I just don't know how she holds it together. /1
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Over 280 people gathered in Manchester last week to launch the Greater Manchester Living Income campaign. Our event with @AndyBurnhamGM
https://t.co/4alYKUdKXL
thenews.coop
Middleton Cooperating and the New Economics Foundation are among the organisations leading the campaign
Everyone deserves a life that is about thriving, not just surviving. A packed house to attend the launch of the Greater Manchester Living Income campaign, with @AndyBurnhamGM We are fighting to transform social security so that it works for all of us, whenever we need it.
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We're proud and privileged to be part of this campaign. What an amazing launch - choir, food, passion, love, hope. https://t.co/eXRXFGxmrh Join us.
Greater Manchester Living Income campaign launches with support from @MiddCooperating alongside @NEF, @mama_poverty and Our Agency CIC #costoflivingcrisis #livingincome #neweconomy 👇 https://t.co/YsnO2RBN5q
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