Vision & Objectives
Our Vision
Where every community, no matter how remote or disadvantaged, has the opportunity through community ownership to access the goods it needs through co-operative action.
Our Mission
To promote and support sustainable community-owned shops.
Our Objectives
- To assist the creation and adoption of innovative ideas and solutions to the problems encountered by community-owned retailers
- To advance education in issues relevant and pertinent to community retailing
- To relieve unemployment though the creation of employment opportunities within the community retailing sector
- To seek to address the effect of rural isolation and problems of social exclusion
- To promote healthier choices through improved food access