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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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