Phone Banking 2025
Notes for the people doing the phone banking in early 2025.
The aim of this phone banking is to...
Have a nice chat with coops peple of course. But also...
Get them to join workers.coop (and therefore CoTech), if they haven't already
- Explain the benefits:
- Twice yearly workers.coop gatherings, the workers co-op weekend (near Bakewell, Derbyshire 16-18 May 2025) and the autumn assembly
- Twice yearly face-to-face gatherings CoTech gatherings (next one is Friday 14th March 2025 at SPACE4, Finsbury Park London)
- Monthly CoTech Calls
- Access to private forums on the CoTech Discourse forum and the workers.coop Discourse forum
- Listing on the CoTech website
- Explain that CoTech membership now required workers.coop membership, talk to them about:
- Joining workers.coop and also the 50% discount for joining Co-operative UK.
- The cost, The subscription fee is one thousandth (or 0.1%) of your labour costs in your last financial year. The minimum level is £150+VAT., more details on the join page
See info about subscriptions below.
Update their info on workers.coop CiviCRM and CoTech Members Wiki
- Who are the main contacts in the coop?
- Review all the relationships in CiviCRM - are they still relevant?
- What is their legal structure?
Info about subscriptions...
Workers.coop subscription
The subscription fee is one thousandth (or 0.1%) of your labour costs in your last financial year. The minimum level is £150.
For example: If last year your total wage bill came to £500,000, your subscription would be £500 . If you distribute £200,000 a year to your self-employed members, your subscription would be £200. If your total labour costs are less than £150,000 we would still need you to contribute £150. We think this is the lowest cost for which workers.coop can sustain a member resource.
Dual membership with Coops UK
What is the Dual Membership Offer with Co-operatives UK?
Any worker co-ops that are members of workers.coop are eligible for a 50% discount of Standard membership of Co-operatives UK. That's about £55 off.
What do you do if you are member of Co-operatives UK and have already joined workers.coop:
Although we do make Co-operatives UK aware, it is worth being vigilant. If you are on a Direct Debit with Co-operatives UK please notify membership@uk.coop as soon as possible that you are a member of workers.coop and wish to receive the discount. If they do not apply the discount or you are late in contacting them, still email the team and they may reimburse you.. If you pay by invoice or card when you receive the membership renewal make sure to "tick the box" that you want the dual offer, if this isn't cleary email membership@uk.coop before paying for the renewal.
What to do if uou are a member of Co-operatives UK but haven't joined workers.coop by the time they send you the renewal:
Before you renew your membership with Co-operatives UK, just fill in our application form: https://www.workers.coop/join/ as we count memberships being processed.