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title: Join us
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<h1>Join us</h1>
<p class="large">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.</p>
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<h2>For existing tech co-ops</h2>
<p>If you’re a worker-owned co-operative providing digital or technical services in the UK, we’d love you to join CoTech.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<a class="btn" href="#">Join workers.coop</a>
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<h2>Why join us?</h2>
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<h3 class="title">More community</h3>
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<li>A transparent, friendly group of mission-driven co-op founders and worker-owners</li>
<li>Monthly online calls</li>
<li>Twice-yearly in-person gatherings around the UK</li>
<li>An active Discourse forum to share events, skills and work (with private channels)</li>
<li>Peer-to-peer mentoring and shadowing</li>
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<h3 class="title">More skills</h3>
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<li>Develop business skills</li>
<li>Share challenges of working in the digital/tech sector</li>
<li>Swap tools, processes and experience</li>
<li>Supplement your team with skills that you don’t have through collaboration and training</li>
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<h3 class="title">More work</h3>
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<li>Strengthen your co-op’s reputation and value proposition by association with CoTech</li>
<li>Generate leads through the CoTech brand and presence at sector events</li>
<li>Get referrals from other members</li>
<li>Create collaboration opportunities on joint projects across the network</li>
<li>Offer services you don’t have in-house</li>
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title: Join
heading: Join CoTech
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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/) &mdash; 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