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Rochdale Pioneers Museum - Visit us!

Our Museum is open to everyone Wednesday- Friday and alternative Saturdays, from 10:30-4pm. Visit us to learn about the history of the co-operative movement, with lots of interactive activities for both children and young people.

How and why our charity was formed.

The Rochdale Equitable Pioneers Society was started by 28 working class men who wanted to change society to make things better for other working class people. Theirs was not the first ever co-op...but it was the origin of the 'Rochdale Principles' which modern global co-op values and principles are still based on.

31 Toad Lane, Rochdale, OL12 0NU (our current site of their co-operative store) was first opened as a museum in 1931 by the Co-operative Union; now Co-operatives UK (the apex body for co-operatives).