Co-operative Party Wales papers
Files of Karen Wilkie as deputy general secretary and the board secretary to the Co-operative Party; national organiser of the Co-operative Party in Wales; founder member of Co-operatives & Mutuals Wales; lead on policy in Wales; and close contact of the Co-operative Group of Welsh Assembly Members.
Co-operative Party Wales
Copies of published material, including various issues of 'NM: new mutualism, the magazine of the Co-operative Party', and literature relating to various campaigns. Also internal documents and resource packs, including copies of 'ABC of party organisation' (1977 and 1987), 'Co-op Party constitution 1990', report by Jim Sweeney, 'Co-operation and new mutualism : the Co-operative Party agenda for the twenty first century' (c.2002), and annual reports for 1995-1999 (missing 1997).
Subject files, mainly relating to the Co-operative Party in Wales, but including a few relating to the wider co-operative movement.
Co-operative Development Association start-up file
File containing information on starting and registering a co-op, including a copy of the memorandum of association of the Cardiff & Vale Co-operative Development Association Ltd, 1984.
The Co-operative Party in Wales = Plaid Gydweithredol Cymru
West Wales Co-operative Party correspondence
Rules and standing orders of the Co-operative Party, including model constitution/rules/standing orders of voluntary Co-operative Party societies.
The Co-operative Agenda for Labour
Copies of, and papers relating to the launches of, 'The Co-operative Agenda for Labour / Yr Agenda Gyd-weithredol i Lafur' (1995) and 'Enterprise, empowerment, accountability - the co-operative agenda for Labour 2' (2001).
Sponsored/official councillors
Various lists of Co-operative Party councillors in West Glamorgan, Aberdare, Cardiff, Swansea, Caerphilly, 1995-1997, and a union list of south Wales councillors, 1998.
Wales Council of the Co-operative Party = Cyngor Cymru y Blaid Gydweithredol
Papers of the Wales Council ('Wales Council of the Co-operative Party = Cyngor Cymru y Blaid Gydweithredol'), including attendance sheets, minutes, reports, correspondence, expences and other papers relating to ordinary and annual general meetings of the council. Many of the files mainly relate to a single meeting, and frequently include not only the minutes of the previous meeting, but miscellaneous papers relating to various other meetings.
South Wales Co-operative Party constitutions and reports
Monmouth parliamentary constituency selection
Preseli Pembrokeshire parliamentary constituency selection
Council constitution, standing orders etc.
Papers of the Wales Council extracted from a box-file (discarded), comprising inaugural meeting, 1996; councillors' nomination papers, 1998; standing orders, n.d.; constitution, 1996; and consultation, 1995-1996.
West Wales Co-operative Party meetings
South Wales Co-operative Party meeting papers
South Wales Co-operative Party correspondence