Beechwood College

Material relating to Beechwood College

Beechwood College was a national education and training centre for co-operative organisations based in Leeds. Beechwood was established in 1979 as a company limited by guarantee with workers control. The main functions of Beechwood were: 1. Offering residential conference centre for the north of England. 2. Running regular raining sessions covering a whole range of business skills, organisation requirements and legal issues, necessary for small and medium size co-operative development. 3. Offering special consultancy services for co-operatives and other organisations.

Beechwood College also ran regular co-operative fairs.

Open for Consultation

In October 2017, the National Co-operative Archive published a call-out for historic materials within the wider worker co-op community for Working Together , an Heritage Lottery Funded project seeking to record and preserve the heritage of the worker co-operative moment. This material was deposited in response to this call out.

Accruals expected.

Images of co-operative fairs held at Beechwood College, 1981/1982 available on the National Co-operative Archive Flickr.

Summary of oral history with Jim Brown, key figure involved in Beechwood College. Full interview available on request at the National Co-operative Archive.