hi folks, I don’t even know if this is something CoTech can do, but the “Ways Forward 7: Cooperative Collaboration” conference is looking for sponsorship and also has a limited number of stalls available for exhibitors. As an organiser, i’m keen to get max info value out of each stall, which CoTech obviously brings. It looks like CoTech as an entity doesn’t have funds for this, but maybe a consortium of the members would be interested? Here’s the blurb:
Ways Forward 7, 5th April 2019, Methodist Central Hall, Manchester
Where co-operators and friends share knowledge and explore how we create the next economy: co-operative, by the many, for the many.
A partnership between Cooperative Business Consultants and Platform 6 Development Co-operative http://www.cbc.coop https://platform6.coop/
Ways Forward 7 will openly explore cooperative challenges and opportunities, including new ways for people to work together to take back control of our economy - and how government can help with that. We need alternatives to an obviously broken system, increasingly characterised by food banks, homelessness, disaster capitalism, rampant inequality and climate chaos.
We’ll look at the challenges laid down by the New Economics Foundation’s report ‘Cooperatives Unleashed’, have space to consider the impacts of Brexit and hear from colleagues around the world about state responses to the cooperative sector. We’ll host a ‘getting-to-know-you’ evening on the Thursday night, and report to the conference from Thursday’s Coop College/UK Society for Coop Studies research day, also in Manchester.
Ways Forward 7 will focus on collaboration, hearing from allies beyond the formal cooperative movement. These are essential discussions that need to take place involving co-operators, trade unionists, social justice activists and all who want to see a sustainable, just and democratic economy by the many, for the many.
The sponsorship package (£900 or negotiable based on what elements you want) includes:
- Your logo on conference publicity (widely circulated in co-operative, labour and social justice movements)
- An invitation to facilitate or speak in a workshop
- An exhibition stall
- Two delegate places, for the Friday and Thursday’s pre-conference evening networking event/food
We have also approached Rebecca Long-Bailey to be a keynote speaker and to meet sponsors at a briefing session during the preceding fortnight. If that comes off, we’ll obviously include that invitation in the sponsorship package.
As soon as you confirm your sponsorship and send your logo, it will be added to conference publicity.
A contribution of £900 would help keep the individual delegate fee to £45, and subsidise multiple bursary places including for people under 24.
The £150 exhibition package alone gives you stall space and one delegate place for both the conference and the pre-conference networking event/food .
