
Cooperation Town
@cooperationtown
A network of community food co-ops, organising for working class power on our streets and estates. Join us on cooperation.town/organise.
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Tomorrow is the deadline to apply for the Cooperation Town North East London Organiser role. Full time, good pay and lots of organising autonomy + a great workplace with brilliant colleagues :) More information on cooperation.town/work-with-us/


Instead of making supermarket execs richer (and ourselves poorer), Cooperation Town members save £££ every week by shopping with neighbours. Organising a community food co-op is easy and fun! Get in touch for tips on how to start a co-op on your street or estate today.


To start #CoopFortnight, check out what our brilliant organiser Kelly (Food Co-ops Plymouth) has been doing around Plymouth over the past year foodplymouth.org/plymouth-neigh…. Join the action wherever you are! Start a community food co-op on your street or estate today!


Shiri from Cooperation Town talks about the power of sharing food + how it helps to bridge gaps within #London communities. Do you know about food cooperatives? Learn about who City Harvest food supports: cityharvest.org.uk/people #foodcoop #cooperative #foodcharity #equality


cityharvest.org.uk/blog/cooperati… This month we shine the light on #CityHarvest community partner, Cooperation Town + how the food cooperative model positively impacts communities across London via sharing food, tackling #foodinsecurity + avoiding #foodwaste. #cooperatives

More exciting co-op news from Plymouth! Welcome to the new members in our Cooperation Town movement. If you live in Plymouth get in touch with Kelly (Food Co-ops Plymouth) and join your local community food co-op. Wanna know more? Visit cooperation.town

We are very excited to announce that Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust have awarded us £496K for 5 years! The grant will enable Coop Town to continue grow our movement of community food co-ops across the country. Here is what they wrote about us jrct.org.uk/cooperation-to…. Thanks JRCT for believing in us!


Cooperation Town gives neighbours the tools to buy affordable food and build collective power. “We have lots of people who say ‘But I’m just a mum’ which is crazy to me because nobody’s ‘just a mum’, [...] without mums there’s no community" -Shiri Shalmy jrct.org.uk/cooperation-to…
![Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust (@jrct_uk) on Twitter photo <a href="/CooperationTown/">Cooperation Town</a> gives neighbours the tools to buy affordable food and build collective power.
“We have lots of people who say ‘But I’m just a mum’ which is crazy to me because nobody’s ‘just a mum’, [...] without mums there’s no community" -Shiri Shalmy
jrct.org.uk/cooperation-to… <a href="/CooperationTown/">Cooperation Town</a> gives neighbours the tools to buy affordable food and build collective power.
“We have lots of people who say ‘But I’m just a mum’ which is crazy to me because nobody’s ‘just a mum’, [...] without mums there’s no community" -Shiri Shalmy
jrct.org.uk/cooperation-to…](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GVGYL1NW8AA2vGt.jpg)

Cooperation Town members just brought a pack of Take Back Water. leaflets to share with co-ops in our movement. We are proud to support this campaign. Water is a common resource, not a commodity for the rich to profit from.


The Sustainable Future programme has recently made six new grants to the following organisations, totalling over £1.5m: DeSmog The Restart Project Cooperation Town Decolonising Economics Drive2Survive campaign Moving for Change RadHR

Another week, another Cooperation Town Plymouth community food co-op! Welcome The Elm members to our movement!

FEARLESS CITIES S. YORKSHIRE- we're excited to see you in Sheffield 2-3rd November for this summit about municipalism and local democracy that we are coorganising with Opus Independents, Citizen Network & Steve Rushton #FearlessCities Register here fearlesscitiessy.org



