2024 Leaders' Summit: Elevate! Our identity, impact, influence
Tickets on saleThe 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.
Get a snapshot of the co-operative and mutual sector in Australia and globally in the 2024 National Mutual Economy Report.
Read the 2024 NME ReportLatest news
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.
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.
Explore building a compelling and tailored ESG narrative and strategies for getting the board’s buy-in for sustainability initiatives. Join our 2024-25 ESG Community of Practice Program.
Get your leading edge in ESGInternational Year of Cooperatives in 2025
UN Resolution calls for a second International Year of Cooperatives in 2025.
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
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.
Measure your mutual value with the Mutual Value Framework, designed to assist co-ops and mutuals in gauging their overall impact.
Find out howUpcoming 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.
30 September 2024
IYC2025 Campaign information session
We will hold an information session to discuss the BCCM’s two substantive communications campaigns for IYC2025 .
22 October 2024
Chairs’ Forum
The only cross-sector meeting for the Chairs of Australia’s leading co-operative and mutual enterprises.
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.
“We advocate for our members’ shared interests, contributing to informed and balanced public debate for a fairer and more inclusive economy for all Australians.”
– Melina Morrison, CEO, BCCM