The Upper Columbia Co-op Council strives to benefit its members in the following ways:

• By providing members with full membership in the BC Co-op Association, while enabling them to pay their dues locally
• By facilitating credit unions and co-ops to promote their services to a dedicated market
• By promoting economic stability and growth in their communities
• By enhancing the development of regional co-op businesses
• By allowing co-ops and credit unions the opportunity to express their co-op values
• By raising public awareness of the region’s vibrant co-op sector, and promoting the connection of credit unions to this sector
• By providing a structure through which local co-ops and credit unions can share resources and best practices
• By supporting emerging co-ops to further strengthen the local economy
• By assisting co-op and credit union members to effectively present their interests at the regional, provincial, and national level
• By facilitating shared education and training for members and boards
• By providing credit unions and co-ops with an affiliation to a regionally active community development organization, with demonstrated broad-based support from their cooperative colleagues
• By providing a simple way in which credit unions and co-ops can adhere to the 5th and 6th Co-op Principles: Education, Training and Information; and Cooperation among Cooperatives