We are restructuring our approach to strategic planning and delivering work, this will mean changes to some of our working groups.
A separate communication will go about that at a later date. But this announcement is about one of the new “Strategy Groups” called “Co-operative Support and Development”.
We already had a member learning group, so this new group is an evolution of that one, expanding its focus and inviting new people to get involved.
The draft purpose is below, so if you are interested in helping us deliver against this sort of purpose you are welcome to attend, or just observe, this preliminary meeting.
The meeting will be online on Thurs 25th April 13.30 - 15.00 Launch Meeting - Zoom email me if you want a calender invite, or just turn-up.
Draft Purpose:
To be a member led space creating and delivering our co-operative support and development mission:
- Providing access to coop support services and specialist training
- Providing networking opportunities
- Supporting coops to identify and develop new trading and development opportunities
- Providing opportunities for those interested in cooperatives to connect to and learn from existing work coops
- Providing guidance and support for starting, converting to or growing working coops
Draft Domains
- Responsible for creating our co-operative support and development strategy and work plan based on the overall strategy and budget set by workers.coop
- Oversee the delivery of this strategy and work plan through commissioning projects
- Create a safe and genuinely egalitarian culture and space for supporters and worker members to explore, decide and oversee our strategy and delivery of work.
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The Co-op Support and Development group is meeting on Thurs 10th October 1pm to 2pm and we would welcome more members.
More details here.
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I have Thurs 21st Nov 2pm-3pm in my diary for another Co-op Support and Development meeting but nothing from workers.coop and I’ve just checked the workers.coop calendar and nothing in there. I’ve searched Workers.coop Hub and can’t find the minutes from the last one either. Not sure if this a @AthertonJohn or @samnord thing? Is this in your diary @Caleb @coopsmark ?
Sorry completely forgot. I can be free, not much to report back on other than we need to start work on the mentoring programme we got funding for. So we can chat through that if people want
I think that would be worthwhile. My concern is that we need to generate momentum as a group or it will die off/cease to have any capacity, and the business model of workers.coop is based on these groups. When you say “we need to start work” do you mean the Co-op Support and Development group?
Ok, I’ll send round an invite this afternoon and see who turns up. Although the Autumn Assembly was great, what it didn’t seem to do is get more names signing up for the two strategic working groups. Do we need to re-think the nature of how we get people involved. - Do we need to be evern more targeted/timebound with the asks to get involved.
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Sorry I’ve just not got the head space this week to do this properly so best to just leave it and book in a properly organised meeting that we can invite more people to.
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Do you want to pick a date you know you can do, maybe in 2 weeks, and hopefully enough food can make it? We can use that meeting to get the ball rolling in properly for the group