As the summer draws on, we would love to know what members are planning. Please send in news, progress, updates or photos. Over here, the workers.coop team has been busy planning for an Autumn Assembly - more below.

This Monday 31st, join our 'What you need to know about Marketing' training

Register here, running this Monday 10am-1pm. This interactive workshop aims to demystify marketing so Members can understand, test and influence their co-op’s marketing strategy.

We are looking for a Society Secretary

Are you an experienced Society Secretary for your own co-op? Want to earn a bit extra for them or yourself while helping us out? More info

Midday Member Meetups

Starting 15th August, and every third Tuesday thereafter, we're hosting the Midday Member Meetups for new members to get together and find out more about workers.coop, chat and meet each other. More info

New Member Inductions. Get to grips with how the federation operates and all you need to know to get onboard by booking in for a 15 minute Induction. You can book here.

Call to Action. Would you enjoy speaking with other worker co-ops in your area or beyond? To build power together as a movement, and to deliver our members the best possible support and benefits, we need to grow our capacity by growing our membership.

Do this by signing-up and choose to do phone banking, in person visits, hosting a meetup or other tasks.

Join a working group. Join forces with workers in other co-ops by participating in a working group. The Communications and Mobilising groups are especially seeking additional capacity, sign-up through this page.

Submit a case study for the website. If you or your worker co-op would like to submit one, contact john@workers.coop. We have an example format you can copy here.

Order a free stack of the new and updated edition of the Worker Co-op Code by emailing sion@calverts.coop - minimum 10 copies, no reasonable maximum.

Order a batch of these hard ceramic pin badges from sion@calverts.coop. They’re also free because our member Calverts donated the design, production and distribution - minimum order 5 pins, but you can ask for more.

Shout out to the Fruit Works Co-operative, a small co-op in West Yorkshire making and selling fruit trees, training people to grow fruit and working in schools and community groups. We've just had the pleasure of meeting them again through their recent member Induction, and they recently hosted a worker co-op meetup in Leeds.

Ceramics Studio Co-op in London took a big step by investing in a new, state-of-the art large kiln, which they’ve christened... The Large Kiln. Running a leading ceramic artists space and pottery school, the co-op only has a couple of spaces left on their Peoples’ Pottery Summer short course - "despite competition from some certified capitalist idiots who recently moved into the area." Thanks to Tatiana Baskakova for the update.

On the ceramics theme, Ceramica Noi in Umbria, Italy have earned a reputation for breakneck innovation in ceramic design and industrial energy reduction. The co-op formed through a worker buyout in 2019, after the legacy owners announced plans to shut down the factory and move abroad. Their motto translates as ‘All for one - a dream for all’. Read more

Award-winning Leading Lives’ 279 worker members provide high quality social care support for people with learning disabilities, autism and complex needs. The co-op recently participated in the round table ‘Social care solutions to fix a broken system’ alongside our friends Equal Care Co-op. Perhaps less importantly, LL has pre-ordered 200 workers.coop ceramic badges, to give to new joiners with their share certificate. Thanks to Lucy Humphrey for the update.

We were moved to hear that Wave Design has decided to call it a day. Wave produced great co-op creative and web development work, and in the words of founder member Felix Lozano, “achieved everything we set out to do”. Before workers.coop, Felix was an elected member of the Worker Co-op Council, helped animate Worker Co-op Weekend, CoTech and the Worker Co-op Solidarity Fund, and served us as a worker co-op Director on the board of Co-operatives UK. We thank you.