The award, from grant-making body Co-operative Action, will enable Co-operatives UK and its partners to build an information bank. A development officer will also work across the UK with local projects.
Helen Seymour, national strategy co-ordinator for Co-operatives UK, said the project would provide information on all aspects of co-operative ownership.
"There have been childcare co-operatives operating successfully but with the Government's interest in promoting childcare in the last few years we have been able to look at it quite seriously," she said. "This money will enable us to push it much further."
Co-operatives UK plans to pilot a co-operative childcare consortium in London.
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