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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="https://www.workers.coop/membership-2/">Join workers.coop</a>
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  <h2>Why join us?</h2>

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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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        <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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        <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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    <h2>For collaborators</h2>

    <p>If you’re not yet a tech coop (or not yet ready to join our membership) but interested to see what we’re about, join our online discourse forum. Participate in our discussions or start your own thread. You’ll also be able to join our monthly online call from there.</p>

    <a class="btn" href="https://community.coops.tech/">Join our discourse forum</a>
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