Good afternoon, Karl from Cookiewolf, saying hello!
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Hello! Karl from Cookiewolf. Based in Bacton, Norfolk.
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Hello Karl! The next chance for an in-person meeting of members of the UK worker co-op federation will be in Glasgow on November 20th. There’s more details here! @Katja
Hello All!
Sam here (he/him) from Sheffield, we are currently in peak hectic set up mode for our new Tree Surgery workers Co-Operative
Excited to be bringing the ‘HI Vis’ and saw dust mess to the federation! and to meet everyone on here! Online for know, but looking forward to meeting people IRL over the coming months at events and so on!
Glad to see Cath’s comments above! Yorkshire legend that she is @leedscath
Also nice to see some Stirchley Dev people as well. From what I’ve read that looks super exciting/inspirational. Big up Birmingham!
Scrolling through there’s to many to give due chapeau’s to.
Looking forward to connecting with all and soaking up some wisdom.
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Hi @Sam I’m based in Sheffield, would be good to meet for a chat at some point! We also have a wiki for co-ops in Sheffield, let me know if you would you like an account to add your co-op.
Hey Chris
Ah nice yes a meet up would be brilliiant. Where and when abouts suits you.? Thanks
Yes a login would be great for that. I had discovered this wiki a while back while scouting around for collaborators
Very handy.
Ta
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Hello everyone,
I’m Nancy, based in Birmingham.
I’m a founding member of Birmingham Bike Foundry and Stirchley Co-op Development, former member of Loaf Community Bakery and have been living and working in co-ops in Birmingham for the best part of 20 years.
Since the beginning of April, taken on a role a workers.coop alongside @samnord to support general operations and the federation’s Movement Building activity.
I know some of you already and have met some of you over the last couple of weeks too, but wanted to say hello here. Looking forward to working together.
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Hi all, I am Lorenzo, based in Edinburgh.
I have been involved with both housing and stakeholder co-ops here in Scotland, and graduated from the Barefoot course last summer. I might have met some of you in Glasgow in November.
I am very happy to be supporting the federation as board secretary. Looking forward to get involved, and to meet some of you in Sheffield next month!
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Hi everyone,
I’m Sam, I’m part of Pandion Labs. We’re an environment and climate focused tech coop. We’ve been slowly starting up over the last year and currently have four members.
We specialize in data science, software engineering, remote sensing, community science and ecology. So far, most of the work we’ve been doing has been creating dashboards, designing field protocols, data analysis, and making tools to help with fieldwork. Currently we are working on an app to help beekeepers detect disease in their hives earlier.
We are in the process of establishing our legal entity. As our team is spread between the UK, USA, and Germany, its a bit complicated. If anyone knows of any lawyers or financial consultants who specialize in international co-ops, we would love to connect with them.
Lovely to meet you all!
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@kawaiipunk maybe the autonomic consortium model might be relevant here?
Have you spoken to the advice team at Co-operatives UK?