Cooperatives and mutuals build a better world: Celebrating IYC 2025
IYC 2025: Highlighting how co-ops and mutuals create lasting impact, champion sustainable economic development and foster resilient communities across New Zealand.
Join us in showcasing the power of cooperation and mutuality to address local, national and global challenges and build a brighter future for all.

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Discover our NZ Coop Icons campaign: Celebrating New Zealand’s cooperative and mutual icons
2025 is a chance to shine a light on New Zealand’s cooperatives and mutuals, your history and the profound and meaningful impact you have had on your members and the communities you operate in.
The NZ Coop Icons social media campaign is a year-long celebration of the inspirational stories, achievements and impact of New Zealand cooperatives and mutuals.
Be a part of the NZ Coop Icons campaign – showcasing your member value.
Discover how co-ops and mutuals across New Zealand are driving positive change
Help us shine a light on how member-driven organisations like yours make a real impact.
“It’s about more than just paying out claims”
Two years ago, Cyclone Gabrielle and the Auckland Anniversary Weekend floods left devastation in their wake, creating one of the biggest...
Strength, Community, and Innovation – the rise of the Blackfern Co-operative
In 2014 in the heart of the Wairarapa, on a wet and cold Tuesday evening in August, a group of like-minded independent automotive workshop...
Honouring Brian Cameron: A pillar of New Zealand’s cooperative movement
It is with profound respect and gratitude that we reflect on the life and contributions of Brian Cameron, the inaugural chair of...
What is Cooperative Business New Zealand?
Cooperative Business NZ is the peak body for cooperatives, mutuals and member-owned businesses in Aotearoa New Zealand.
It independently represents them to government, regulators, educators and policymakers to increase awareness of the contributions they make to New Zealand, and ensure they continue to prosper and thrive for generations to come.
The turnover of cooperatives and mutuals is collectively equivalent to >18% of New Zealand’s GDP and they are critical to the nation’s economic success.
Cooperatives and mutuals build a better world.