Co-op Fund (Kin Coop) - First Collaboration Discovery Meeting (IRL @ SPACE4 + ZOOM)
Registration here: https://lu.ma/snpeo8tc
For more info email rob@kin.coop
What are we doing?
Kin is a co-operative finance movement launched in December 2023 to empower communities, eradicate high-interest small loans and grow the co-operative economy.
We are building democratic financial institutions to support co-operatives collaborating to put capital in service of society rather than society in service of accumulating capital, which today drives wealth inequality, ecological catastrophe and violent ideologies.
Our team of over twenty volunteers and three worker-members is developing a new platform to support financial mutual aid collectives called ‘kins’, which enable members to pool money together for a community project or to support each other on an interest-free rotating basis.
Now, we are looking to partner with like-minded co-operatives to develop a democratic, member-controlled fund so that the general public can easily invest in co-operatives.
Why partner with us
We know you have thought of this too.
Mondragon (Euskadi), Coop57 (Spain), Legacoop (Italy), Shared Capital (USA) Seed Commons (USA) and more give us blueprints for how to speed up the cycle of co-operative development by bringing more people and community capital into direct contact with co-ops more often.
We know there is an appetite for ethical and local finance and more people understanding the links between capitalism, wealth inequality and ecological catastrophe. However, no mainstream co-operative funds exist in the UK with the same web of financial solidarity that we see in Mondragon or with the same ambitious regional community impact that we see in Coop57.
This is the perfect moment for new energy to swell the co-operative economy movement.
Let’s build it together.
Join us in person in London or online on August 9th for a few hours of getting to know each other, discussing our different projects, hearing a presentation of draft structures and areas of work and, we hope, forming a basis for collaborating together.
If you know of other co-operators who you feel would be interested in collaboration, please do not hesitate to let us know.
