Next Chorlton and District Co-ops regular members meeting Saturday 27 November 2021 10.30 - 11.30
In person! At Hardy Lane Co-op Rooms (and also on line via Zoom).
Pandemic: Information here on what's happening in Chorlton in response to Covid that you may find useful
Hardy Lane Rooms now open
The "cooperative hall" meeting rooms above the Co-op at the corner of Hardy Lane are one of the very few such places left in the UK.
Co-operative meetings have been held there for more than 90 years - including the Chorlton and District Coops meetings since 2014.
The rooms were closed because of the pandemic, but have now reopened.
They are available to community-focused groups and clubs. There is a large meeting room with tables, a kitchen, toilets and a chair lift.
If you'd like to use the rooms then get in touch: hello@cholrton.coop
Local projects poll
Thanks to everyone who took part in the poll to choose local projects to receive Co-op funding.
The poll is now closed
The Co-op gives 1% of what members spend on Co-op own-brand products to local community projects - that's a significant amount of money. Each area has three local projects that members can choose between to receive the 1% of what they spend during the year.
We're giving local Co-op members a chance to help choose which three causes should be on the list in Chorlton - the only place in the UK where this happens.
You can vote for up to 3. We'll add up the votes and then recommend the top three to the Co-op.
We closed the vote soon after 5pm on Wednesday 15 September.
Saving the former Gaumont Cinema
The Co-op is currently considering a bid led by the Chorlton Community Land Trust to buy the site that includes the former Gaumont cinema.
For the last few years this has been a Co-op funeral home. When it was a cinema, the Bee Gees famously first performed there, in public, as children.
The Co-op will be deciding soon whether to accept the community-led bid. If the bid falls through then the Co-op could sell to a developer that would raze the site to build expensive flats.
The community-led bid would create a shared asset for the community, including a food-hall with space for events and to attract Bee Gees fans.
Community Land Trust vision for the Picture House
Bee Gees first public appearance
The Picture House is known across the world by Bee Gees fans because it's where they first performed.
You can see them explain how in this clip from 'This is Your Life' 1991.
Thanks to Hazel Gibb for finding this.