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Top 25 Cooperatives based in the United Kingdom
RevenueBase identified 117 cooperatives headquartered in the United Kingdom as of September 2026 and tracks 5,022 professional contacts across them, including 1,754 with verified work emails. London is the largest hub.
This list covers cooperatives headquartered in the United Kingdom, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 19, 2026.
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The 25 largest cooperatives based in the United Kingdom
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1,076 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “OurCoop is the UK’s largest independent co-operative Society, with more than one million Members and colleagues operating in communities nationwide.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 909 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We believe in doing things differently.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 719 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We got started because we felt there was a better way of doing business; one that would make a difference for its customers and the communities that we live in.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 587 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Lincolnshire Co-operative (known as Lincolnshire Co-op) is an independent consumer co-operative in the United Kingdom and is a registered Co-operative and Community Benefit…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 278 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Rochdale Boroughwide Housing (RBH) is the UK’s first tenant and employee co-owned mutual housing society, with over homes throughout the local area.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 124 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Welcome to Chelmsford Star.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 99 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “CCHA was established in 1996 and is a Cooperative and Community Benefit Society with charitable status.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 82 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Specialist distributors in vegetarian, organic, fairtrade, natural and fine foods in the UK and beyond.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 73 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At AF, we’ve been dedicated to buying better, together for over 30 years.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 67 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “As the voice of the UK’s co-operative movement, we empower and support co-operative enterprise with specialised knowledge and expertise, to grow the co-operative economy and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 67 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Established in 1894, BATA, known formally as Brandsby Agricultural Trading Association, was created as a farmer’s cooperative and retains this structure today.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 53 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We are one of the few truly independent co-operative retailers and sit at the heart of the communities in which we serve across the retail estate.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 49 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Shared Interest was set up in 1990 and brings together a community of over people in the UK with a shared goal of investing in a fairer world.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 41 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Camgrain is a farmer-owned co-operative, established in 1983.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 39 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “CDS is a charitable community benefit society and registered social landlord.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 38 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Leeds Credit Union is a financial cooperative with members that provides straightforward, affordable financial services.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 34 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We are a national charity supporting people in rural areas to set up and run successful businesses in community ownership.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 34 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We are the party of the co-operative movement, committed to building a society in where power and wealth are shared.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 21 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Woldmarsh is a leading farmers’ co-operative, with over 1,100 members.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 21 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Enterprise Credit Union is a financial co-operative that exist for the benefits of its members.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 20 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We believe the process of improving our homes to 2050 standards will be quicker, easier and cheaper if we work together, teaming up with friends and neighbours to share…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 17 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We're based in Greater London and provide accredited management services to housing co-operatives and other small resident-led housing providers.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 12 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “South Manchester Credit Union is a not-for-profit co-operative.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 12 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Fane Valley Co-operative Society Ltd was established in 1903 by a group of farmers who wished to improve the marketing of their butter which at that time was” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 12 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Newry Credit Union is a local financial organisation based in Newry.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: cooperatives. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names cooperatives.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of cooperatives, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name cooperatives. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Cooperatives based in the United Kingdom at a glance
As of Sep 19, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for United Kingdom, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for United Kingdom, over 117 companies.
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among cooperatives, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- What qualifies
- Companies headquartered in the United Kingdom whose own description of what they do matches “cooperatives”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names cooperatives), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among cooperatives, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside United Kingdom are excluded even when they keep an office there.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 1,754 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 19, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names cooperatives, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many cooperatives are there based in the United Kingdom?
RevenueBase identified 117 cooperatives headquartered in the United Kingdom as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
The Midcounties Co-Operative, headquartered in Warwick, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most cooperatives?
London leads with 13 headquartered companies, followed by Manchester (5) and Birmingham (4).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 1,754 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 117 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 19, 2026.
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About this data
RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.