Hi everybody from a New Co-op (needing help)!
Hi People!
Our names are Manlio Pertout and Martha Stephens, we live in Fife and we are founders and directors of a new Workers' Co-operative Company called The Human Exploring Society. We established the co-operative at the end of 2020 and at the moment we are just undertaking our first activities (official website and social media channels).
The purpose of our activities is to create instruments and spaces for a Community of People working in the Arts, Science, Journalism and Business who want to offer Energy and share Ideas about worldwide issues related to the Rights of Human Beings and the Rights of the Planet, making them universally understandable, and encouraging people to spread passionate messages and take practical action. Maybe the closest "label" to our project is a media-co-op.
We would love to share experiences and ideas with other Workers Coops and receive suggestions about professionals (accountants, lawyers) who have knowledge about the coops' needs and can help along the way.
We are really happy having found such a big community like this, and specifically we are interested in having a contact with a media coop to better understand how to set some contracts.
We would really appreciate if you could give us some help.
Thank you very much!
Manlio and Martha
www.thehumanexploringsociety.life
Deleted account Sun 9 May 2021 10:18AM
Hi @Dave Hollings !
Thank you for this contact. We will get in touch with them; they seem to be very appropriate for our case. Have a nice Sunday! :-)
craigm Mon 10 May 2021 12:24PM
There are a couple of people from the media coop on the Scottish forum.
Deleted account Tue 11 May 2021 8:57AM
Co-operative and Community Interest Scotland?
Simon Ball (Blake House) Fri 7 May 2021 10:44AM
Hi Manlio + Martha,
If you're looking for an accountant, Third Sector Accountancy are pretty amazing + a coop: https://www.thirdsectoraccountancy.coop/
There's also the book by Radical Routes on how to set-up a workers coop, which is pretty comprehensive with regards to technicalities: https://www.radicalroutes.org.uk/publicdownloads/setupaworkerscoop-lowres.pdf
If you have any specific issues that you may want to email about, I've been a member of a small media (maybe a simplistic label..!) coop for several years and maybe our origin has similarities with yours, going by your website. I'm on [email protected]
Deleted account Sun 9 May 2021 10:24AM
Hi @Simon Ball (Blake House Coop) !
Thank you very much for your suggestion about the Accountancy Firm.
We'll also get in touch with you privately soon.
Thank you for the offer.
Deleted account Tue 11 May 2021 9:05AM
Hi @Simon Ball (Blake House Coop) !
Unfortunately Third Sector Accountancy are not taking on new clients at the moment.
Can you suggest any other name or firm, please?
Thank you for your help!
Manlio
Andrew Woodcock Tue 11 May 2021 9:10AM
Hi Manlio,
it depends what level of Accounting support you need, but Catalyst
Collective, do end if year accounts, book-keeping etc.
cheers
Andy
Deleted account Tue 11 May 2021 9:20AM
Very good, @Andrew Woodcock! I'll contact them to see if they can help Scottish co-ops too.
Thank you very much!
Graham Fri 7 May 2021 10:54AM
Sounds interesting. What's your business model? Took a look at your website, but I don't understand who your clients will be or what it is that you will be providing in terms of services?
Dave Hollings · Fri 7 May 2021 10:16AM
There’s the long established Media Co-operative in Glasgow:-
406 White Studios, 62 Templeton Street, Glasgow, G40 1DA | 07587 347 726 | [email protected]
Thanks
Dave