Listener Owned: Celebrating Co-operative Success

2025 is the UN International Year of Co-operatives. To celebrate this event, we're launching Listener Owned: a new podcast that'll be exploring and learning all about positive success stories from across the co-operative sector. If you support the co-operative movement, shop with a co-operative business, or perhaps you work within one, this show will help you connect with others in the community who share those same values.

We'll have interviews, analysis and round-table discussions that delve into every aspect of running a successful co-operative. We'll be discussing news from retail businesses, mutual societies, agricultural producers, energy generators and much, much more.

If you're excited to become a part of a podcast that's both owned and run by its listeners, then join us each week on your favourite podcast player.

Host

Paul Robinson

My name's Paul, and I'm learning as much as I can about the co-operative movement during the UN International Year of Co-operatives in 2025. I want to explore what it takes to lead a successful democratically-run business, and how we can grow the sector by getting more people and more businesses involved.

I currently sit on the National Member's Council of the Co-op Group, representing member-owners across the East of England. And I also recruit and manage volunteers for a national animal welfare charity.