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Join us

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We’re a membership community for existing worker co-ops in tech, digital, creative or adjacent services. We’re also a hub for co-operatively minded individuals who are interested in what we do.

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For existing tech co-ops

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If you’re a worker-owned co-operative providing digital or technical services in the UK, we’d love you to join CoTech.

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Our membership is via the workers.coop federation. It costs 0.1% of your labour costs from the last financial year (min. £150 + VAT). You get all workers.coop benefits plus CoTech’s sector-specific ones.

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Why join us?

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More community

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  • A transparent, friendly group of mission-driven co-op founders and worker-owners
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  • Monthly online calls
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  • Twice-yearly in-person gatherings around the UK
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  • An active Discourse forum to share events, skills and work (with private channels)
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  • Peer-to-peer mentoring and shadowing
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More skills

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  • Develop business skills
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  • Share challenges of working in the digital/tech sector
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  • Swap tools, processes and experience
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  • Supplement your team with skills that you don’t have through collaboration and training
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More work

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  • Strengthen your co-op’s reputation and value proposition by association with CoTech
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  • Generate leads through the CoTech brand and presence at sector events
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  • Get referrals from other members
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  • Create collaboration opportunities on joint projects across the network
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  • Offer services you don’t have in-house
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diff --git a/join.md b/join.md deleted file mode 100644 index cb48ca9..0000000 --- a/join.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,58 +0,0 @@ ---- -title: Join -heading: Join CoTech -layout: default -append_email_form: true ---- - -Our vision is a fairer world in which wealth and resources are distributed to the people who need them rather than those best able to take them. - -Co-operative Technologists (CoTech) are part of [workers.coop](https://www.workers.coop/) — to join CoTech you need to first [join workers.coop](https://www.workers.coop/join/). - -## Why join CoTech? - -As an existing tech worker cooperative there are many [reasons why you might want to join, workers.coop](https://www.workers.coop/reasons-to-join/) and CoTech. - -### 1. More work and better business - -Joining the CoTech network will allow you to: -* get referrals from other members -* collaborate or partner on projects -* supplement your team with skills that you don’t have -* meet the needs of your own clients - -Being part of a larger network can increase your own reputation as a business and value proposition that will enable you to win work and grow your business. - -### 2. More skills and better knowledge - -You can tap into skills and experience from other cooperatives that will enable you to -* learn about better ways of working and -* solve common problems -* share your knowledge and experience on various aspects of your work -* promote your cooperative to potential partners and collaborators. - -Sharing skills and knowledge helps us all to be more efficient and reduce the likelihood of duplicating efforts. - -### 3. More support and a better network -You will join a friendly and welcoming network of co-operative businesses and people. We support each other through -* in person gatherings and workshops -* regular online drop-ins -* peer-to-peer mentoring and shadowing -* access to private threads on our community forum -* co-working opportunities - -Meeting like minded people is a crucial aspect of building trust and solidarity within the network and will provide a vital support network of like-minded individuals for your co-op. - -## Who can join? - -To join CoTech you need to be a worker owned co-operative providing digital or technical services in the UK, and become a member of [workers.coop](https://www.workers.coop/join/). - -Find out more about who can join and how to join on the following pages: - -* [workers.coop/reasons-to-join](https://www.workers.coop/reasons-to-join/) -* [workers.coop/join](https://www.workers.coop/join/) -* [wiki.coops.tech/wiki/Who_can_join_CoTech](https://wiki.coops.tech/wiki/Who_can_join_CoTech) -* [wiki.coops.tech/wiki/How_to_join_CoTech](https://wiki.coops.tech/wiki/How_to_join_CoTech) - -[about]: /about -[manifesto]: /about#manifesto