Business News Panel follows in the Pioneers’ footsteps
For more than 175 years the co- operative movement has believed that things work best when people have a voice, and when services are accountable to the people who use them. That is the philosophy that
Mayor Dan Jarvis is bringing to the Sheffield City Region (SCR), as he launched the region’s first independent Co-operative Advisory Panel. The panel met for the first time
on 1 July, as part of ‘Co-operatives Fortnight’, an annual event celebrating and promoting the role of the co-operative movement. The panel agreed that early priorities would be to focus on the Bus Review and the Local Industrial Strategy and make recommendations to the Mayor. Dan Jarvis, Mayor of
L-R: Ed Powell, Mayor Dan Jarvis, Cllr Kevin Rodgers, Emma Bridge, and Cllr Emma Hoddinott
the SCR, said: “When I was elected Mayor of the region I pledged to end the political and social status quo and put people back at the heart of decision- making across the region, and I’m doing just that. The philosophy on which the co- operative movement was founded was placing values above profit. By allowing our communities to share in the decision-making process, we can build a collaborative and sustainable economy, one that works for all our communities. “The aim of the Advisory Panel is
to work to overcome barriers and translate co-operative principles into practice. During my term as Mayor, I want a co-operative perspective on our entire
‘I want a co-operative
perspective on our entire
programme’ programme, including the on-going bus review, the development
of our Strategic Economic Plan and housing policy.” Cheryl Barrott, the Chair of the Sheffield City Region Co-operative Advisory Panel, said: “We’re pleased to see that the Mayor has established the region’s first Co- operative Advisory Panel. This gives us the opportunity to bring a co-operative perspective to Mayoral and wider Sheffield City Region policy agendas. We aim to inject fresh ideas and thinking in
key themes. The focus of the panel for the rest of this year will be the Bus Review and development of the new Local Industrial Strategy.” The panel, who will sit as an independent group, is made up of: • Cheryl Barrott – Sheffield Co- operative Development Group and Co-op Party NEC member for Yorkshire
• Emma Bridge - Chief Executive, Community Energy England
• Cllr Emma Hoddinott – Local Government Officer at the Co-op Party and Councillor in Rotherham • Ed Powell – Co-operative
Partnership Manager, The Co- operative Group
• Cllr Kevin Rodgers – Director of Community First Credit Union and Councillor in Doncaster. The co-operative party’s roots go
back to 1844, when the Rochdale Pioneers founded the first modern co-operative. Mayor Jarvis, continued: “As we
prepare for the future – and for life beyond Brexit – we must build an economy that leaves no one behind; this principle is as true today as it was all those years ago for the Pioneers.”
Coin nets a pretty penny for Bluebell Wood
Bluebell Wood Children’s Hospice cashed in when one of its eagle-eyed team sifted through a batch of coins from its collecting tins. Among the mini mountain of small change was a
Roman coin dating from c.330AD. How it got there remains a mystery. But as the coin is similar in appearance to a penny
piece, hospice fundraisers are now wondering if the coin - minted in the era of Constantine the Great - has been rattling around in circulation for centuries. Sue Brown, eBay Sales Administrator at the hospice,
said: “The coin was in a huge box of foreign and discontinued coins our volunteers had amassed from our collecting tins. We managed to sell it on eBay for £25. “To date we have also discovered an 1807 Spanish
Real, which we sold for £32, a number of Georgian cartwheel pennies which raised around £20 each and a number of commemorative £1, £2 and 50p coins which all went for more than their face value to collectors.”
Ebay sales bring the North Anston-based hospice a
profit of around £20,000 every year, which goes to help children and young people with life-threatening illnesses throughout South Yorkshire, North Derbyshire, North Nottinghamshire and parts of North Lincolnshire. Sue added: “Our shops pass on any
donations that look unusual and we have found lots of treasures that way. “I once listed a bottle containing a King
Cobra preserved in formaldehyde which was snapped up for £19.99, and a full-sized native American canoe with paddles which made us £400.” The most lucrative lot was a 1970s Hi-Fi
system, pristine in its original box, which sold for £1,000 to a buyer in Sweden. Other finds include a rare early 1880 Besson trumpet, windsurfing equipment and 20 sets of golf clubs, which were bought by a youth group.
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