Events

Our worker coop is 1 year old! Come and celebrate with us: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/research-for-action-tickets-43164664674

Congratulations Research for Action!

Happy birthday!

Sharing Oxford: Activating our Urban Commons

The Solidarity Economy Association is really excited to be hosting journalist, author and strategic partnerships director of Shareable Tom Llewellyn at a special event exploring activating Oxford's 'urban commons' at Makespace Oxford on Wednesday, 21st November, from 6:15pm.

The event will be in two parts - Tom will give a short presentation on his new book, Sharing Cities (read more here - https://www.shareable.net/sharing-cities) and then we'll be doing an interactive ‘World Café’ style discussion, working together to evaluate Oxford by exploring the state of things, the available resources, the needs of residents, and what the steps might be to meet those needs together.

This event is particularly relevant for anyone working in a local community organisation looking to link up with others in Oxford, to explore collaborative opportunities, as well as people working or interested in community wealth building, co-operatives, and network building.

If anyone in the group is around Oxford next week, we would really love for you to join us!

More information on the links below:

Our Facebook event page - https://www.facebook.com/events/763141670684511/
Our website - https://www.solidarityeconomy.coop/portfolio_item/open2018conference-2-2-3
Eventbrite - https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/sharing-oxford-activating-our-urban-commons-with-tom-llewellyn-tickets-52310039737

Please help us spread the word! :)

Worker Co-ops: How to Get Started

12 December , London, 10am - 4pm

Worth sharing with anyone you meet who has thought about starting a worker co-op.
It might be a good way to give your new recruits an overview of the worker co-operative way of doing things, or even be a useful refresher for your existing members. It is being facilitated by @sionwhellens from Calverts, who has also been involved with national and international worker co-op networks.
https://www.stirtoaction.com/workshops/worker-co-ops-an-introduction

Future Co-ops 2019 - Can co-op deserts bloom? 1/2nd Feb 2019, B'ham https://futures.coop/future-coops-2019/

"for everyone who works in or supports co-ops, mutuals and community enterprises. So it’s for you if you’re a supporter, member, board member or executive of co-ops of any form (eg retail, worker, producer), Community Benefit Societies of every stripe (eg energy, retail, sports club, charitable), mutuals, Community Land Trusts, and community and social enterprises of every type. It’s also for you if you’re from the co-operative party, or a supportive Local Authority, or a co-op development organisation, or if you’re a funder or a grant maker, or just someone who wants to see more co-ops and mutuals in the world."

We have open studios at Ceramics Studio Co-op in South London this Saturday, all welcome for some mulled wine and to get their presents https://www.facebook.com/events/341260583368923

Want to know how to drive production in a flat management structure? How to meet deadlines in a no boss co-op?! Join Co-op Connections for a FREE STUDY VISIT with Suma on Thurs 12 September 2pm-5pm. Ross Hodgson and the Suma team shed light on how they combine a successful vegetarian food operation with high egalitarian processes across their workforce. Limited places only so please BOOK NOW via https://www.uk.coop/uniting-co-ops/events-calendar/co-op-connections-study-visit-suma :slight_smile: We look forward to seeing you there!

Date for your diary July 4th 2020 Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire.

A day of celebration and propaganda around worker democracy - much exciting stuff in the programme pipeline.

From the politics around productive co-ops in the 19th Century to today where the gig economy returns with a vengeance.

Dear All - you might be interested in the Meaning Conference in Brighton on November 14th.

I know @aaronhirtenstein has been and I think @johnatherton?

It's probably a bit different from some of the true worker democracy events that come up from time to time. Maybe a bit of a different audience? While all such events can be a bit of echo chamber, I think Meaning tries to open up to a wider, more eclectic audience. Partly by running things in a fairly conventional format, but with a few twists (like a very successful Fringe).

The topics are things that I think many people here would be interested in - alternative models of business and governance to name just two.

This year the speakers include Sarah McKinley from the Democracy Collaborative (think the Cleveland model/the Preston model); Clare Farrell, one of the co-founders of Extinction Rebellion; and speakers from the World Fair Trade Organisation and the New Economics Foundation.

There's more detail here: https://meaningconference.co.uk/, including videos of past speakers (it's been going for seven or eight years) (Or see https://meaningconference.co.uk/the-business-case).

I really recommend it. But then I would because I have been involved since it started and am a (tiny) shareholder. It's not a currently a worker coop but IMHO acts like one (yes, I am trying to persuade them!).

There are group discounts available or I can provide a code that will give 20% off single tickets (SeeStep - case-sensitive). From my point of view it would also be brilliant to have a decent-sized group from worker coops (and also CoTech, Solidfund, Platform 6 etc) so we can influence proceedings more!

If you do decide to come please get in touch before-hand and perhaps we can arrange some kind of worker-coop meetup drink. Or if you have questions, please ask.