2024 Leaders' Summit: Elevate! Our identity, impact, influence

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The Business Council of Co-operatives and Mutuals (BCCM) is the peak body for co-operatives and mutuals in Australia. Co-ops and mutuals are member-owned businesses that trade for surplus to fulfil their purpose. They are social businesses because they put people, not profit, at the centre of the enterprise.

Latest news

Kyloring Housing Co-operative
9 September 2024

Bunya Fund recipient makes video

Co-operation Housing, a Bunya Fund round two recipient, has produced a video to showcase the Kyloring Housing Co-operative to potential impact investors.
NSW Country Hour
20 August 2024

Protecting communities is life blood of co-ops and mutuals

Listen to Melina on ABC NSW Country Hour as she discusses how co-operatives and mutuals are ideal partners in disaster recovery and reconstruction.
16 August 2024

BCCM gives evidence to The Joint Select Committee on the NSW Reconstruction Authority

The Business Council of Co-operatives and Mutuals has appeared today before a parliamentary hearing into New South Wales’s disaster preparedness. In response to the major floods of 2022, the NSW.

International Year of Cooperatives in 2025

UN Resolution calls for a second International Year of Cooperatives in 2025.
Co-operatives and mutuals a key focus of Budget funding for aged care innovation

BCCM launches $7m social care program

The Care Together Program is Australia’s first co-operative and mutual enterprise support program in social care.
The Bunya Fund

The Bunya Fund

Find out how your co-op or mutual can help address the funding and advice gap for early-stage co-operative and mutual enterprises or initiatives.

Upcoming events & training

24 September 2024

Company Secretaries Forum

A forum for co-operative and mutual secretaries to raise and discuss contemporary governance issues and network with colleagues.
Blue snail illustration
30 September 2024

IYC2025 Campaign information session

We will hold an information session to discuss the BCCM’s two substantive communications campaigns for IYC2025 .
Chairs Forum
22 October 2024

Chairs’ Forum

The only cross-sector meeting for the Chairs of Australia’s leading co-operative and mutual enterprises.
2021 Honour Awards promo
22 October 2024

Taste of Australia Dinner and Honour Roll

The 2024 BCCM Taste of Australia Dinner and Honour Roll will take place in Perth.

Our members

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Australian Military Bank Logo
Australian mutual bank logo
Australian Unity Logo
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Bank of us Logo
Bank Vic logo
BCU logo
Beyond Bank logo
Capricorn Society logo
CivicRisk Mutual
Common Equity Housing Limited (CEHL) logo
Common Equity NSW Logo
Community First Bank
Defence Bank Logo
Futurity Investment Group Logo
G&C Mutual Bank logo
Geraldton Fishermans Co-operative Logo
Go Vita logo
Great Southern Bank logo
HCF logo
HIF logo
IMB Bank logo
Independent Liquor Group Logo
KeyInvest Logo
Kudos Services logo
Lawcover Logo
MakeItWithMBL
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Medical Indemnity Protection Society
NRMA logo
Newcastle Greater Mutual Group
Norco
P&N Bank logo
Peninsula Protect logo
People First Bank logo
Police Bank Logo
Queensland Country Bank Logo
RACQ logo
RapidClean logo
Royal Automobile Association of South Australia (RAA) logo
SGS Economics and Planning Logo
StateCover Mutual Limited logo
Teachers Mutual Bank Logo
Barossa Co-op
The Casino Food Coop, formerly The Northern Co-operative Meat Company Ltd
The Mutual Bank logo
RACT
The Royal Automobile Club of WA (RAC)
Unimutual Limited Logo
Unity Bank logo
Westfund Health Insurance logo
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