Co-operative Education – the crucial role of embedding the spirit of co-operation in all that we do

August 7, 2021 by David Smith

About David Smith

A lifelong co-operative activist. Former roles: Co-op Foundation Trustee; Co-op Group Main Board, Specialist Board & National Values & Principles Committee; Co-op Group Senate; Co-op Group Wales Regional Board, South Wales Area Committee. Public service includes Government Food Adviser; UK Healthcare Regulator. David directed the first EC funded Wales Anti-Poverty Programme; and pioneered co-operative & community initiatives: free legal services, community-based housing associations, care and repair, pre-school & adventure play, local Co-op Development Agencies, multipurpose Social Care Co-operatives. Founded: Cardiff Student Community Action, Welsh Food Alliance & Wales Progressive Co-operators. Board Member, Newport Credit Union; Robert Owen Memorial Museum Trustee. Former Lecturer, Gwent Tertiary College, Graduate Ruskin College, Oxford and UC Cardiff + PGCE, MA (European Human Resource Management) Keele; Professional Food & Management qualifications.
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One Response to Co-operative Education – the crucial role of embedding the spirit of co-operation in all that we do

  1. David Smith says:
    August 7, 2021 at 9:25 am

    Crucially, the Co-operative Movement is an economic way of tackling wide ranging issues. In this extract, from the first of five C&MW events in 2016, Peter Couchman explains why creating co-operators is central to our purpose. When we forget who we are the movement is diminished but when we learn who are, we are refreshed and become stronger.

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