Allendale Co-operative Society

Allendale Co-operative Society is a small consumer co-operative in the village of Allendale, Northumberland, England, founded in 1874 as the Allendale Industrial and Provident Society. It is one of the few remaining British co-operative retail societies still operating from a single village store. Incorporated as a registered society, it is owned and democratically controlled by its member-customers, who elect a board of directors to oversee management. In 2021 it had 1,950 members, a turnover of 1.9 million pounds, assets of 2.1 million pounds and 26 employees, and besides its store it runs a rural delivery service and leases a second shop to a butcher. As an independent society it draws on the purchasing power of the national retail co-operative wholesaler, Federal Retail and Trading Services, while also sourcing from local and alternative suppliers.