Our new schools programme - 2022/2023

We offer traditional visits and bespoke workshops at the museum as well as digital engagements and visits to your school or Adult Education Setting even if this is outside of the Greater Manchester Area.

Primary School - Key Stage 1 and 2

* We are able to welcome school groups to the museum and offer Mondays for exclusive use of the building.

* Schools can borrow our new loans box to engage with objects that tell a story about our shared co-operative past.

* We can visit your school even if it is outside of Greater Manchester. Contact us for more details

Please download our informational brochure which details our educational sessions and costs - schoolsprogramme2023.pdf. 

To check availability, book a session or borrow our loans box email [email protected]

For Secondary School and Higher Education (KS3/KS4)

We offer digital visits by arrangement and visits to our museum, with an Introduction to Co-operation talk about the history of the movement and its impact on working class lives in the 19th and 20th centuries.

We also offer a session about Co-operative Citizenship which looks at the way co-operative values and principles are rooted in the concept of democracy and being an active citizen. This session focuses on politics, debate and activism in a group context.

For Adult learners:

We offer a range of sessions, from community team-building to working with our museum and archive collections. We can create bespoke sessions to complement adult literacy as well as lifelong learning and skills as well as sessions to introduce co-operative principles to those involved in co-ops, social enterprises and 'B-Corps'.

If your school is in Rochdale : Our organisation supports the Historic England 'Heritage Schools' programme which helps school pupils explore the history of the places they live. If you would like to be involved in the scheme or try some of the detective skills local children learned in the Rochdale Cluster, click this link for ideas and resources. Historic England's Heritage Schools